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The 'lipstick' at The Barbican - sometimes referred to as the 'whippy turd' 💩

Chamberlin Powell and Bon - architects.

Are these known as 'floating stairs'?

I love to wander round all areas of The Barbican. Most pictures seem to be external shots of the architecture, but the colours inside the public areas make for wonderfully photogenic interior snaps too.

Pixel 4 - 2020.

Barbican Centre Architects - Chamberlin Powell and Bon.

City of London - completed in 1982

My autumnal snap of Denys Lasdun's UCL, Institute of Education, Bedford Way, London from a few years back.

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The 25-storey Penta Hotel (renamed several times, most recently Holiday Inn - Kensington Forum) on Cromwell Road, was designed by Richard Seifert and partners and built in 1971-72. Currently being refurbished, I believe.

The Architectural Review: "What the passer-by sees is an apparently chaotic pile forcing its way upwards through successive layers of low level impediments."

Pretty harsh!

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Chalkwell House, part of the Pitsea Estate, Commercial Road. London. Noel Moffett for GLC (1966)

My pic from a sunny Saturday in 2020.

Dunbar House in New Malden, SW London - an Owen Luder Partnership gem.

Completed in 1972.

Concrete office block with cantilevered bays.

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Wonderful external staircase around the back of Eros House in Catford. Owen Luder with Rodney Gordon.

Trellick Tower - a 31-storey Grade II-listed Brutalist residential block in Kensal Town, West London, designed by Ernő Goldfinger and completed in 1972.

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A mobile phone snap from a lunchtime walk 5 or 6 years ago.

I saw the solitary chap walking in the distance and thought he looked so small within the massive architecture.

Blake Tower (formerly the Barbican YMCA) at 2 Fann Street, EC2Y 8BR.

It was designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon who also - a decade before - designed Great Arthur House and the Golden Lane Estate in the background.

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The Fire's Origin: The blaze started on September 2, 1666, in the bakery of Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane. A plaque on the wall of Faryners House - just visible in my snap - marks the approximate location, though archaeological evidence suggests the specific oven was slightly east on Monument Street.

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Denys Lasdun's National Theatre on London's Southbank. The sheer scale of the place is amazing - a beautiful Brutalist behemoth.

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