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APRIL 16, 2024

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features an installation by Ibrahim Mahama that covers London's Barbican Centre. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Commenters discussed the project, with one remarking, "It's a truly great way to waste resources, money, and labour."

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JANUARY 19, 2022

Climate activists in the UK are set for another round of high-stakes international climate meetings as London has just been announced as host of the 2023 Ecocity World Summit. Representatives from all walks of life across the city will gather in the Barbican Centre for the three-day event when it begins on June 6th.

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Archinect

JANUARY 28, 2022

An aging financial relic in London’s Canary Wharf is about to become the capital city’s next high-profile retrofit project thanks to a new plan from WilkinsonEyre. The decision on Citigroup’s part is being framed as a significant victory for AR proponents across the country.

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Archinect

MARCH 4, 2022

The Barbican’s important birthday comes ahead of next month’s revealing of the winner of the City of London Corporation-sponsored redevelopment contest. The Centre is celebrating with a weekend of special programming including a guest DJ’d after party.

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MAY 7, 2024

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has wrapped the Barbican Centre in handmade pink fabric, transforming the iconic concrete exterior of the lakeside building in London, United Kingdom.The installation, named Purple Hibiscus, represents the first large-scale UK public commission real.

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Deezen

MARCH 23, 2023

Interdisciplinary design studio Resolve Collective talks to Dezeen about its community-focussed designs ahead of the opening of its exhibition at the Barbican Centre later this month, in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen. Partnership content This video was produced by Dezeen for the Barbican Centre as part of a partnership.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This thought has spurred a growing band of architects and building firms to look at how to re-use the huge range of materials already hiding within our built environment, from concrete and wood to the metallic bounty within electronic waste Architecturally-rich cities are both a fount of reusable materials and a way of circumventing the awful cycle (..)

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The Architect's Newsletter

JANUARY 11, 2022

The City of London Corporation has revealed five finalist teams in the running to helm a major planned revamp of the Barbican Centre, a beloved Brutalist icon and multidisciplinary arts [.].

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The Architect's Newsletter

JANUARY 11, 2022

Between the unveiling of five shortlisted teams vying to revamp London’s iconic Barbican Centre, the launch of a competition to helm sensitive transformations of both the International Slave Museum and the [.].

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Colourful tiling, wooden details and tactile textiles as well as an abundance of green plants were used to create inviting living rooms, bathrooms and even workspaces in these brutalist buildings, which include the Barbican in London and Riverside Tower in Antwerp. Barbican flat, UK, by Takero Shimakazi Architects.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Continuing our review of 2023 , we round up the top 10 Dezeen videos of the year, which include exclusive interviews with Ai Weiwei and Sou Fujimoto, as well as collaborations with the Barbican Centre and the Serpentine Galleries.  During the interview, Weiwei told McGuirk that the exhibition explores design in a multifaceted way.

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Deezen

MARCH 8, 2023

The Museum of London and the Channel 4 headquarters by Richard Rogers are among the UK's top 10 under-threat buildings, according to architectural charity Twentieth Century Society. The Museum of London building could be totally demolished. The Barbican Action Quarter campaign is currently fighting for them to be retained.

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Deezen

AUGUST 22, 2022

Curator Luke Kemp discusses the role of design and technology in reshaping our views of the natural world as part of the Our Time on Earth exhibition at London's Barbican Centre , in this video produced by Dezeen. Read: Isamu Noguchi a "pioneer of social sculpture" says Barbican curator.

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Deezen

APRIL 13, 2023

In this exclusive video produced by Dezeen, Resolve Collective discusses its latest architectural installation at the Barbican , which takes the form of an interactive landscape to be used for community organisation. The installation is housed in the Barbican Curve Gallery. Find out more about Dezeen's partnership content here.

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The Spaces

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But 2022 threw a curveball, blanketing parts of the country, including southern England and London , in snow – and shutting schools, roads and transit in the process. Here are our favourite atmospheric shots of London in the snow. Barbican Centre. A post shared by Elena | London (@elensham). Hopton’s Almshouse.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

London's former City Hall, which was designed by British studio Foster+ Partners , is set to be renovated and extended as part of an overhaul by US architecture studio Gensler. Gensler is set to overhaul the former City Hall in London. Our proposal offers a diverse array of amenities for all to appreciate."

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APRIL 27, 2022

A winning entry has been announced in the highly-publicized Barbican Centre redevelopment contest , signaling an end to the open competition first announced in September of last year by the City of London Corporation.

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Dwell

JANUARY 31, 2023

You’ll find it around the world—from the famed Barbican Centre in London to the Yale Art and Architecture Building in New Haven, Connecticut. Love it or hate it: Brutalist architecture is hard to ignore. These are buildings that command attention, and hark back to a midcentury movement that isn’t remembered for its subtlety.

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e-architect

OCTOBER 16, 2023

They will tell the story of London and Londoners in new and innovative ways. Smithfield Market, covering almost ten acres in the heart of the City of London, was originally designed by City Architect Sir Horace Jones, and completed in November 1868. It was once the country’s most important meat and poultry market.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

"During the Open House Festival you can visit London's most iconic historical and contemporary architecture and on the very same day," explained Cave, who is chief curator of this year's Open House Festival. London's Open House Festival is embarking on its 13th anniversary. A flat at the Barbican Estate is on the curator's dream list.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In February 2021, the Policy and Resources Committee of the City of London Corporation committed to a major renewal of the Barbican Centre as part of its commitment to embedding culture at the centre of the Square Mile’s post-Covid recovery. Photo © Max Colson. Photo © Max Colson. Photo © Max Colson.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The studio recently designed its own headquarters in London. "We They will lead the studio, which has offices in London and Hong Kong, with the support of the Conran and Partners board members. Studio is known for work on London buildings. Recently, it designed an open-plan office in London to be its own headquarters.

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The Spaces

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It’s 20 years since Matt Clark founded United Visual Artists , and to celebrate this momentous milestone, the London-based arts collective is back at 180 The Strand for a bumper exhibition of its immersive audio-visual works. View this post on Instagram A post shared by 180 Spaces (@180.spaces)

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MAY 10, 2023

Work has now begun to build an impressive layered concrete staircase in the General Market to connect the social spaces of Our Time (dedicated to displays exploring London in living memory) with the spectacular underground spaces of Past Time. The museum will reopen at Smithfield under a new name – The London Museum.

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2024

While events take place across the city, the festival's hub is Fernán Gómez Centro Cultural de la Villa, a cultural centre in Madrid 's Salamanca district. Other global editions of Frieze Art Fair take place in New York City, Seoul and London. Hammock (part of 4 Hammocks), 1999-2003 by Solange Pessoa is on display at the exhibition.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: London Design Festival. Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis has used the brutalist Centre Point building and the drab concrete jungle around St Giles Square as inspiration for her chunky public seating installation called Swivel. Sketch London. Photography: London Design Festival. Rendering: London Design Festival.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The structure was designed to celebrate and reference London's migrant communities. Vally took cues from iconic cultural spaces such as the Four Aces Club in Dalston, one of the first London music venues to showcase black musicians. Isamu Noguchi exhibition at the Barbican. Bamboo ring installation by Kengo Kuma .

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Deezen

MAY 31, 2023

3 Days of Design , London Festival of Architecture and Design Shanghai are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this June. Photo by Luke O'Donovan London Festival of Architecture 1 to 30 June, UK The 16th edition of the London Festival of Architecture takes place during the month of June in London.

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Deezen

JUNE 3, 2022

To mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee this weekend, we looked back at the most significant buildings the regent has opened , including Coventry Cathedral, the Barbican Centre and the Sydney Opera House, alongside parliament buildings in Scotland, Wales, Australia and New Zealand. The Gehry House featured in our deconstructivism series.

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Deezen

MAY 16, 2022

With the highly anticipated Elizabeth Line railway project opening in London on 24 May, Dezeen rounds up the 10 new central section stations , including designs by WilkinsonEyre and HawkinsBrown. The opposite entrance at the foot of the 1960s Centre Point tower is bright and well lit with extensive white and red glass.

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Deezen

MARCH 9, 2022

Jack Young's book The Council House aims to capture the beauty of London 's council estates, which he photographed to "look like they could be perched on an Italian hillside". Read on for Young's selection of iconic London council homes: Trellick Tower, by Ernö Goldfinger, built 1968-72. He chooses 10 favourites for Dezeen.

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Deezen

JUNE 29, 2023

Projects under Long's direction include the overhaul of a post office in Houston into a mixed-use venue for arts , French cultural institute Centre Pompidou's first North American outpost in Jersey City , the conversion of a bakery into a community arts hub in Detroit and a raised garden over Washington DC's Anacostia River.

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Deezen

MAY 19, 2022

In February 2021, plans for Diller Scofidio + Renfro's pyramidal Centre for Music in London were axed, following plans for a "major renewal" of the nearby Barbican estate. Elsewhere, AL_A revealed its plans to design a concert hall in Belgrade that will be covered in a draped canopy.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Since it began in 1992, many of London 's most significant buildings have opened their doors during the festival. The festival , which aims to engage people living in London with the buildings surrounding them, has seen thousands of landmarks and homes open their doors since it launched. Here are 30 of the most interesting.

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Deezen

MARCH 29, 2022

Site-specific installations and galvanised-steel sculptures are among artworks by artist Isamu Noguchi currently on display at London's White Cube gallery. Read: Isamu Noguchi a "pioneer of social sculpture" says Barbican curator. Noguchi was recently also the subject of a large exhibition at the Barbican cultural centre.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 26, 2022

But for this lookbook, we collected 10 interiors – including a home in London's Barbican building – that use textiles, plants and colours to soften monolithic concrete spaces making them warm and inviting. Ten homes centred around bright interior courtyards. See more homes centred around bright interior courtyards ›.

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Deezen

JUNE 6, 2023

London's Barbican Centre has launched a digital platform to publicise its vast collection of drawings, photos and never-before-seen material that tell the story of the brutalist icon. Among the collection are architectural drawings, photos and objects collected from when the Barbican was designed through to today.

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