Soon, the artist explains, they will be draped over London’s Barbican. The 2,000 square metres of purple-pink cotton will be stitched together by hand, before the whole is shipped more than ...

The Barbican is a bonafide London icon. So it’s good news that the 50-year-old brutalist behemoth’s Barbican Centre is getting a massive renovation, so it will be enjoyed for generations to come.

Engineering work in the bowels of the Barbican, four stories below the conservatory, is also urgently needed. There lies a room a third of the size of London's 90,000-seat Wembley Stadium.

The Barbican’s Into the Unknown: A Journey Through Science Fiction exhibition is an ambitious undertaking. How to present a history of science fiction that honours its foundation in the written word, ...