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The Barbican Estate is one of the largest examples of the Brutalist style and represents a utopian ideal for ... The post-war complex was designed in the 1950s by British firm Chamberlin, ...
Completed in 1976 in London, United Kingdom. On the 29th December, 1940, at the height of the Second World War, an air raid by the Luftwaffe razed a 35-acre site in the heart of the City of ...
Chamberlin took the Barbican Committee to see the best examples of contemporary architecture in Europe ... Inside the Barbican Estate, £30 from barbican.org.uk/shop. Share this article ...
Completed in 1982, the Barbican Centre forms part of the Barbican Estate that was designed by British studio Chamberlin, Powell and Bon in the 1950s.
London’s best example is, of course, the Barbican Estate, designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon in the Sixties as luxury housing. Many of the themes in the Barbican, however, ...
Designed by architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, the Barbican complex was built during the 1960s and 1970s. The estate contains an arts centre, and a public library. The flats cost between £ ...
London’s Barbican Estate is revealed through a social lens by writer Stefi Orazi and photographer Christoffer Rudquist on the advent of the 50 year anniversary of when residents first arrived.
Designed by architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon and built over more than a decade in the late Sixties and early Seventies, the Grade II-listed Barbican Estate is a titan of post-war architecture ...
Designed by architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon after the Blitz destroyed most of the site, the Barbican estate is now Grade II listed (part of a statutory list of buildings of special ...
A major row has broken out on the Barbican Estate over Nicholas Hare Architects’ plans for a school expansion, which residents claim will be ‘a major threat to the architectural heritage’ of the ...
The Barbican as muse: composer Shiva Feshareki on bringing the brutalist icon to life through music. For the last two years, British-Iranian experimental composer and turntablist Shiva Feshareki has ...
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 ...