After locating the blueprints in a drawer, two siblings learn that their Ontario home was updated by a famed British architect who went on to design London’s brutalist Barbican Centre.

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The Barbican Centre was, and remains, a place where utopian ideas are made tangible. Designed by young architecture firm Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, the labyrinthine complex symbolised a corner of ...

You’ve been developing Bab-Khaneh: Gatehouse of Memory since 2023. Could you walk me through the concept for the piece? SF: 'All the elements of the sounds [in Bab-Khaneh: Gatehouse of Memory] are ...

Design studio HATO has developed a brand identity for the Barbican and Golden Lane Neighbourhood Forum that takes cues from the area's distinctive brutalist architecture. The forum was set up in ...

The City of London Corporation has revealed the five teams shortlisted for the £150m overhaul of the grade II-listed Barbican Centre. Adjaye Associates with Benedetti Architects and PUP Architects, ...

For the second year running, the AJ in collaboration with VELUX, held a half-day conference focusing on daylight in ...

Some of the world’s greatest architects are competing to lead the £150 million overhaul of the Barbican Centre. The five-strong shortlist includes Bjarke Ingals, who designed Google’s US HQ ...

The Barbican development is an outstanding architectural achievement but the building is beginning to show its age. There’s a pressing need to ensure its spaces are welcoming for audiences, that it is ...

Architectural historian Elain Harwood described the Barbican arts and housing complex as “the greatest piece of combined urban planning and architecture in Britain in the 21st century”.