The Barbican Estate in the City of London. How it came about. How it is today. Menu Skip to content. Conception. The dramatic Barbican story; ... The Abercrombie plan; The Forty plan; The Holden-Holford plan; The Kadleigh plan; The Martin-Mealand plan; Golden Lane Estate; Influences. The Adelphi; Hans Bernoulli; European cities; London squares;

There were originally 2,014 flats in the Barbican Estate. In recent years, 69 new flats were created on the top three floors of Frobisher Crescent, and 74 flats have been created from converting the former YMCA Building in Fann Street, now Blake Tower.

Chamberlin Powell and Bon's initial (1955) plan for the Barbican included a step pyramid in the middle containing a swimming pool, squash courts, and an exhibition hall. By 1956 the step pyramid had morphed into a huge glass pyramid dwarfing much of the rest of the estate.

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Type 1A is the main Barbican flat type found on the ‘A’ side of Cromwell and Lauderdale Towers in the Barbican Estate. Flats of this type have flat numbers ending in ‘1’. Type 1A has a living room, a dining room, a breakfast room, three bedrooms, (5/6 rooms) a kitchen, a utility room, a bathroom with WC, and a shower room with WC.

There’s a huge amount of detail in our Barbican Living website about each block and every type of flat – there’s well over 120 different flat layouts and we cover them all. Perhaps there is so much detail that it is almost possible to get a handle on what the Barbican Estate has to offer.

Barbican Giving Layout of the estate Chamberlin Powell and Bon provided this diagram and notes as an explanation of the layout and composition of the Golden Lane Estate.

1959 plan of North Barbican showing standing and then new buildings. The 4 phases of building works proposed for building the North Barbican. Proudly powered by WordPress

The Barbican area stopped well short of London Wall. The Martin-Mealand plan took in both sides of London Wall and then carried on down into the City and up to the St Paul’s area. The Martin-Mealand plan was adopted for those areas and it governed …

Type 34 is a one-bedroom penthouse flat. The Type 34 penthouse has a living room which takes advantage of the side and end wall of windows (on the church side). Further back, there’s a single…