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The Concrete Menagerie: Tecton at Dudley Zoo

4th August 2024
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Aylesbury Estate In Three Pieces

15th June 2024
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Levy House, Chelsea

1st March 2024
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Cohen House, Chelsea

29th February 2024
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7th January 2024
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13th October 2023
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13th October 2023
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24th June 2023
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Birkin Haward

13th May 2022
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6th November 2021
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Whitecross Street, steeped in London history.

11th September 2021
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Berthold Lubetkin modernist behaviourist design

Penguin Pool, London Zoo Berthold Lubetkin

23rd June 2021
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slovak brutalist architecture in london
12th June 2021
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31st May 2021
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30th May 2021
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29th May 2021
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29th May 2021
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29th May 2021
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29th May 2021
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2nd May 2021
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john lewis partnership modernist architecture

John Lewis Department Store, Oxford Street, London 1960

25th April 2021
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Robbie the Robot at Whitechapel Gallery

This is Tomorrow

5th November 2020
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front view from side east beach cafe

East Beach Cafe, Littlehampton, England

22nd August 2020
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entrance to Isokon flats and gallery

The Isokon Company and Lawn Road Flats

2nd August 2020
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4th February 2020
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24th February 2019
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24th February 2019
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28th December 2018
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25th November 2018
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25th October 2018
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24th October 2018
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24th October 2018
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14th September 2018
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8th September 2018
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9th August 2018
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6th August 2018
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17th May 2018
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17th May 2018
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17th May 2018
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26th March 2018
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18th January 2018
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18th December 2017
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17th December 2017
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13th November 2017
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13th November 2017
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24th October 2017
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‘Opposite Places, Common Traces’ at the Barbican

29th May 2024
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view up towards the walkways carradale house
1st September 2020
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London Wall West, IMPORTANT UPDATE

A lot of voices were heard – but weren’t listened to – NEWS UPDATE.

23rd October 2022
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view of concrete in barbican conservatory

Barbican Conservatory

4th August 2020
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London Estates; Modernist Council Housing 1946 – 1981

3rd March 2024
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brutalist czech embassy west london

Embassy of the Czech Republic in London Slide Show

12th June 2021
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Barbican by Joe Gilbert

Barbican|Urban Poetry by Joe Gilbert

21st October 2018
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Gingerbread City at the Museum of Architecture; How buildings made of sugar and spice help us understand the challenges ahead

 

2nd December 2023
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Cromwell Tower, Barbican, concrete spiral vent

The Barbican’s curious brutalist Fibonacci Spiral

8th September 2018
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John Walmsley: ‘photographing ordinary people and the interesting things they do’

16th November 2023
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Brutalist elegance, Frobisher Crescent, Barbican

Is Frobisher Crescent, perhaps, the most curious part of the Barbican?

10th August 2018
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Calling time on Dial House

8th August 2018
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Richard Davis’ Backstage Pass to Madchester’s Cultural Explosion 

8th June 2023
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Roof Terrace of the German Hospital Bruno Court Dalston London

The 1936 Modernist wing of the German Hospital in Hackney

A story of the best and the worst of the 20th Century

28th December 2018
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Lea Lund and Erik K, ‘a story about love, a photographer finding her muse and a subject claiming his identity’

 

1st September 2023
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My Brutal Life Transmitting the Power of Art

13th October 2023
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Barbican Lake on the iconic brutalist barbican estate

The Barbican Estate built by Chamberlain, Powell and Bon took a dream and a vision conceived on a bomb shattered piece of land in the centre of the City of London.

10th July 2017
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Image credit: Courtesy of University of East Anglia, Pritchard Papers

Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain, a British Modernist Masterpiece; home to Agatha Christie, spies and centre of an intellectual circle

24th February 2019
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Emigre architect Erich Mendelsohn's Modernist De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea

De La Warr Pavilion, how a German and a Georgian created something so quintessentially British

10th July 2017
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At First Ignored and Now Lost, London’s Welbeck Street Car Park

 

13th November 2017
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Czech Embassy roof

London’s Czech Embassy – Brutalist and Proud

6th November 2021
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David Hoffman ‘the riot photographer’s riot photographer’

2nd November 2022
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Not simply a brutalist, concrete BT office block but a Cold War relic
27th June 2018
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Barbican Open Air Cinema, Daughters of the Dust -Beyonce’s inspiration

29th August 2022
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concrete architecture

Looking back Looking forward: What has been lost and what can still be saved

31st December 2021
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Reclaiming Public Space WXSP: One of the best reasons to take a detour if you are heading over to the Barbican this weekend

5th July 2022
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Platinum Jubilee Flypast Over the Barbican

2nd June 2022
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The Barbican Centre, Happy Happy

3rd March 2022
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A temporary city has sprung up in London made entirely from Gingerbread

8th December 2022
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60s pop band Unit 4+2 singing on the building site

Concrete and Clay, Unit Four Plus Two, the Barbican’s First Music Video Unit Four Plus Two

29th December 2019
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slovak brutalist architecture in london

Virtual Tour of the Czech and Slovak Embassies in London | Brutal Beauty

12th June 2021
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Alison and Peter Smithson

Alison and Peter Smithson

A-Z Lexicon of Architecture and Design

13th November 2017
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If you have a hankering to experience the vigour, invention and imagination of world-class street art a short walk from the Barbican Centre then head for Whitecross Street.

11th September 2021
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Futuro House: If you spotted a Futuro Pod in need of some serious care, could you just walk on by?

4th June 2021
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the first modernist house in britain

High and Over Britain’s First Modernist Country House

30th June 2021
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Jos art history podcast

Jo’s Art History Podcast with Greyscape | The Barbican Living in an Architectural Experiment

1st June 2021
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street view towards Barbican Station

The Barbican – Concrete Community

17th May 2021
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Lacket

New Brutalists’ “Japanese” Pavilions: The Smithsons and Theo Crosby

27th April 2021
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einstein tower renovated

Erich Mendelsohn, Architect and Modernist

 

24th October 2017
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24th October 2017
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A window of opportunity

6th March 2021
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chamberlin Powell and bON

Chamberlin, Powell and Bon’s other spot; Vanbrugh Park

10th July 2019
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SaveTrellickHallOfFame

Trellick Tower 2021 Campaign #SaveTrellickHallofFame

 

18th February 2021
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Berthold Lubetkin Bevin Court above buried Lenin bust

Very nearly called Lenin Court, Lubetkin’s Modernist Icon Bevin Court in the ‘Socialist Republic of Finsbury’

17th March 2019
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goldfinger with astrakan hat on in front of brutalist Trellick

Erno Goldfinger

Architect, furniture and toy designer who hung out with Man Ray in Paris

Lexicon A-Z of Architecture

24th October 2017
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street art london sam kerridge

Sam Kerridge: Processing Cityscapes, grab your camera and follow the geotags

5th December 2020
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corbusier's family home in Lausanne image at sunset towards the lake

#TheViewFromMyWindowPhotoProject

A Global Photo Project Documenting Self-Isolation In The Age Of Covid-19

7th November 2020
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barbican video shoot for 'Dreams'

Singer-songwriter Genevieve offers a Dreamy insiders view from the 42nd floor of the Barbican

 

10th November 2020
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Architect John Bancroft

John Bancroft

24th October 2017
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long exposure shot of london eye lit in red

Night photography. Recording a city against a velvet blue backdrop

19th October 2019
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walking around the barbican estate

Off the béton track: The Barbican Archive Residency: 19-20 October 2019

10th October 2019
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preston brutalist bus station

Happy Birthday Preston Bus Station!

21st September 2019
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brutalist social housing in london borough of camden

Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate British Brutalist Architecture Through Russian Eyes

4th September 2019
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Robin Hood Gardens Brutalist masterpiece demolition

Imperfect Beauty: photographing a city’s life-cycle

24th July 2019
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