notes.husk.org. tagged barbican.

2012-04-23

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barbicancinema:

A lovely photo of car park space 1982, which sits underneath where the new cinemas are being built. 1982 was the year the Barbican Centre was built.

A lovely photo of car park space 1982, which sits underneath where the new cinemas are being built. 1982 was the year the Barbican Centre was built.

“ In 1957 London County Council and the City of London Corporation agreed to modify plans for the commercial development of the area surrounding the Barbican. There were to be only three new office blocks so as not to overshadow the estate and the raised walkway was to be extended into the commercial area. ”

24 January 1956: Plans unveiled for homes in Barbican, from On This Day site at BBC News.

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“ As she unveiled a plaque commemorating the opening of the Barbican, the Queen said: “What has been created here must be one of the wonders of the modern world. ”

3 March 1982: Queen opens Barbican Centre, from On This Day at BBC News (via diamond geezer, who correctly points out that this “was probably overdoing it even for 1982”).

2010-09-01

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“Top People”, a Rank newsreel about crane operators, complete with some gorgeous shots (like the woman looking out of her top-floor Golden Lane flat at a passing tower crane). (Again, via that Phil Gyford.)

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“The BBC look at the development of The Barbican area in London and the future of housing and town planning.” Looking at London Wall (aka Route 11) as the 1960s start, complete with a mention of the highwalks. (via Phil Gyford)

2010-05-07

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iamdanw:

Here’s what the Barbican conservatory looked like in 1980

… looking even more like something out of Silent Running than it does now.

2009-11-06

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“ if you trace at night the Barbican walkways all the way past the Museum of London, you get to a junction of four buildings, one by Farrell, one by Foster, one by Eric Parry and one Rogers. Only the the latter would get a second glance from me during the day, but on a cold night, with the walkways leading their almost arbitrary paths through them, they become positively fascinating, their nasty stone, their formal ineptitude and their general lumpen blandness being effaced, and the promises of transparency and a city of light and suspension seems tantalisingly close to being fulfilled - though there is of course nothing to actually see but hundreds of rapidly emptying offices. ”

Owen Hatherley, in Neon Lights, Shimmering, on the night-time vistas from the London Wall Highwalk.

2009-08-15

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“ Ironies and politics pile up in Agnes Denes’s 1982 work Wheatfield - A Confrontation (below). Denes planted wheat on New York City real estate worth billions. Spot the twin towers in the dense urban fringe - and note the harvest was fed to New York police horses. Trying to recreate the work on a scrap of forgotten land in industrial east London, however, only underlines the monumental scale Denes worked with - and the large vision. ”

Liz Else, in the New Scientist review of Radical Nature at the Barbican (previously).

2009-08-09

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iamdanw:

The point where I am told off for taking photos of plants in the Barbican. Copyright concerns apparently

I’ve tagged this photo at Flickr with “barbican ‘radical nature’”. I’d lay good odds that within two days the official group will have issued an invitation, unless Dan does something to put them off. (I remember this happening before, but I can’t find the photo now.)

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