Designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon and completed in 1982, the Barbican in London epitomizes brutalist urban planning. The massive residential and cultural complex includes housing, theaters ...

In the architecture world, it's all about the re-appreciation of brutalism. The revival has ... In 2003, the Barbican was voted “London's Ugliest Building.” These days, however, you would ...

And the public was no more forgiving of the capital’s greatest brutalist project, the Barbican. The complex of more than 2,000 homes, which opened on the fringes of the City in 1969, was widely ...