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The Barbican – Concrete Community

A photo journey

The Barbican Estate, Barbican Centre

and Golden Lane Estate

street view towards Barbican Station

City of London Coat of Arms

concrete architecture

Barbican Estate and Lake City of London Brutalist architecture

Barbican Lake

brutalist london estate the Barbican

roof tops of brutalist London

Garden by Lambert Jones Mews

The Residents Garden

brutalist architecture

Great Arthur House, Golden Lane Estate

roman wall city of london

Roman Wall

barbican greened

barbican estate london

Barbican Estate aerial view

image Howard Morris

Barbican Centre

Image Howard Morris

Barbican Centre internal walkway

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Chiesa San Paolo Apostolo (1972) in Gallarate, Ita

Chiesa San Paolo Apostolo (1972) in Gallarate, Italy. Originally conceived as a project of the Commission for Sacred Art in 1968, architect Mariarosa Zibetti Ribaldone’s beautiful building was dedicated on October 7 1973.
Photo with thanks to @stepegphotography

Just a quirky example of novelty architecture? The

Just a quirky example of novelty architecture? The Teacup Dome gas station is an anything but kitsch reminder of a nasty scandal, declared the ‘high water mark of cabinet corruption’.

When architect Jack Ainsworth designed a petrol station as a teapot with a handle and spout in 1922 he wasn’t just nodding to a rock formation, a ‘geological structural uplift’ to be precise described before its erosion as having a ‘handle’ and ‘spout’, located close to important navel oil reserves in Teapot Dome, Wyoming. He was reminding everyone of its connection to a criminal trial and Senate investigation that gripped the nation and said to be of the magnitude of the Watergate scandal.

It saw Albert Fall, the Interior Secretary of President Warren G Harding’s administration sent to prison after awarding two of his friends leases to extract oil from Teapot Dome oil fields which held crucial naval oil reserves (alongside a bunch of other sites), and brought the Harding government down.

Today the teapot sits protected in the Memorial Park of the City of Zillah, Washington, after taking a bashing and caving in after being hit by car in the 1970s. It’s now restored and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Photo with thanks to @modtraveler

Niš Durlan, Serbia, architects Josip Osojnik and

Niš Durlan, Serbia, architects Josip Osojnik and Slobodan Nikolic. Completed 1981. Photo with thanks to @robthartfot

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