London's best brutalist homes — from the Alexandra Road Estate to the Barbican
The Smithsons are best known for their late-Sixties Robin Hood Gardens social housing project in Poplar. Demolition of the ...
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Chamberlin Powell & Bon Christmas cards
Chamberlin Powell & Bon, the architecture partnership behind the design of the Barbican estate, were prolific in designing and sending their characteristic Christmas cards for over twenty years. They ...
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Beautiful brutalism: Barbican’s Blake Tower debuts its first show apartment
the fourth high-rise that completes the brutalist Barbican Estate, was to be converted into 74 luxury residences comprising two and three bedroom apartments, studios and two penthouses. Purpose ...
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Allies and Morrison and Asif Khan unveil Barbican revamp plans
Allies and Morrison and Asif Khan’s much-anticipated proposals for ‘restoring and enhancing’ the Barbican Centre’s most ...
'Concrete hellscape' London attraction to get biggest overhaul in its 42 year history
The £230 million plan will be its biggest overhaul since it opened 43 years ago and, subject to planning permission, work will begin in 2027, with the first phase set to be completed by the Barbican’s ...
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Brutalist Barbican unveils plans for biggest renewal since it opened in 1982
The Barbican Centre has unveiled a £230 million ... The centre, designed by architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, was constructed on London’s biggest post-war bombsite and hailed by Queen ...
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Great Arthur House
Originally designed in 1956 as part of the Golden Lane Estate by Chamberlin Powell and Bon for the City of London Corporation, this iconic Grade II Listed Building was a hugely influential postwar ...