Exceedingly lucky to get to tour the interior of this architectural gem. Despite the condition it’s in, it’s still structurally sound and I hope they find a way to restore/rennovate it — would be a shame to just let it crumble.

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

Chamberlin Powell and Bon - architects.

Formerly known as the Bank One Tower and One First National Plaza, it was renamed Chase Tower in 2005.

The sloped design made me think it was designed by the same architect as the W.R. Grace Building in NYC (Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill), but its architects were C.F. Murphy Associates and Perkins and Will.

Edit: I goofed on the title

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

That’s my kind of ceiling! This place is amazing to look at

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

📷 = https://www.instagram.com/murray\_tiptop/

Situated on the length of Avenue Fouad Chehab in Tripoli, this brutalist building dominates its surroundings, perhaps less by its height than by the highly inventive composition of its facades. In order to distinguish a building that was condemned to anonymity by a very sharp triangular site, the designer, Selim Sabouneh, scattered round and oval bays along the flanks of the rectangular cells. The effects of projections and protrusions are multiplied to create an irrefutably brutalist division of the space. In parallel with a more formal trend inspired by Victor Bisharat, following the example of the Obeid Al-Mazru'i Building, built in AbuDhabi in the late 1970s and which presents itself as a simple artistic exercise, the structure of the Tripolitan building is avantgarde and constitutes an eloquent statement of Metabolism and as much of a triumph as the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo.

Text by Guillaume Excoffier

Picture 1: By Nathan Lopez

Picture 2: Unknown

Would this count? Interesting design..