The City of London is now officially seeking proposals for its Barbican Centre revitalization
A decades-old Brutalist icon in the UK is gearing up for a revamp according to a just-released competition announcement from the City of London Corporation.The proposed plan would provide much-needed 21st-century upgrades to Central London’s Barbican Centre, a Grade-II listed structure comprised of several arts venues in the middle of a famed housing estate where apartments routinely sell for up to £4 million. The Centre was declared “one of the wonders of the world” by Queen Elizabeth at its unveiling in 1982 and has since fallen victim to time and the aging process that has befallen similar exposed concrete structures such as the Barbican. The project’s website points to a “pressing need” for the Centre to adapt to the “urgent challenges of today’s world” and sets a targeted price range for the project numbering between £50 and 150 million ($69–207 million USD).Read the full post on Bustler
A decades-old Brutalist icon in the UK is gearing up for a revamp according to a just-released competition announcement from the City of London Corporation.
The proposed plan would provide much-needed 21st-century upgrades to Central London’s Barbican Centre, a Grade-II listed structure comprised of several arts venues in the middle of a famed housing estate where apartments routinely sell for up to £4 million.
The Centre was declared “one of the wonders of the world” by Queen Elizabeth at its unveiling in 1982 and has since fallen victim to time and the aging process that has befallen similar exposed concrete structures such as the Barbican.
The project’s website points to a “pressing need” for the Centre to adapt to the “urgent challenges of today’s world” and sets a targeted price range for the project numbering between £50 and 150 million ($69–207 million USD).Read the full post on Bustler
