The Barbican estate - what's your verdict?
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Yeah but look at the size of it! Lovely
755 sq ft for £585k?
Yeah but look at the size of it! Lovely
It is and if money was no object and stuff but still....
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I just meant the living room tbf, and yes it's very expensive.
stethoscope
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I think it still looks great, but a real maze to navigate around - I've spent many an hour wandering around the estate in the past.
I've only been inside a flat on the estate a couple of times when I worked for an organisation and one of the directors owned a flat there - as Sunray says above, I was really struck by how quiet it was.
I've only been inside a flat on the estate a couple of times when I worked for an organisation and one of the directors owned a flat there - as Sunray says above, I was really struck by how quiet it was.
Dude!
Here is a flat at the foot of Boxhill -- an insanely expensive area in its own right in the Surrey Hills.
It's located in this:
For £595k, you get 1335 sq ft, including a drawing room that would swallow the Barbican flat's whole reception area whole without noticing and a kitchen in one of those beautiful bay windows.
Personally, I'd still view that flat as massively overpriced but by comparison to the Barbican flat, it's a bargain!
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I would go back down to The Jam Factory in SE1 and for that money get one of the 2,000sqft duplex apartments
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
Holy pelmets, martha.
A Dashing Blade
Takes horses to water but can't make donkeys drink
I live there. It's f*cking fantastic.
Lots more info here
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? Silk Street is the main entrance for the arts center
Correct about it's conception but pretty sure it was originally council (well, Corporation Of London). Certainly there are a (very) few original tenants around + you'll occaisionally see a Corporation short-term let come on the market.
Have an original kitchen, absolutely superb layout and totally love my Garchey!. . . We have heard many interesting tales about the Garchey vacuum-powered waste-disposal system and other such engineering marvels
Pound per square foot it's actually on the cheap side for the area, factor in the stupendous build quality (not a stud wall in sight) and it's a bargin.
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kittyP
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Not by the original design intent. The foyer, box office, lifts and staircases all face the lake, which has multiple entrance doors. The Silk Street entrance is sandwiched between the backstage entrances for the two main performance spaces and was never intended to be the main entrance. The City Highwalks were intended to be the main access to the complex - pedestrians weren't expected to arrive via the street.
Excellent info there, thanks
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Well worth doing.
ska invita
back on the other side
I went there the other weekend for the first time in years, and for the first time really enjoyed it, and got it as a building. Its confusing to get around, but thats quite fun if youve got time to spare, which I did. Even going to the toilets was an adventure - you go through the door and theres a curved passage which eventually leads to a urinal.
my friend was telling me that lots of the fixtures in the flats are listed (as is the building), so you cant just fit a new kitchen or what not.
my friend was telling me that lots of the fixtures in the flats are listed (as is the building), so you cant just fit a new kitchen or what not.
A Dashing Blade
Takes horses to water but can't make donkeys drink
Yup, it's grade II listed, you can't change the skirting boards without planning permission for example as they are deemed to be integral to the structure.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
I think the original plan for all that vaguely Piranesian brickwork above the Barbican Tandoori was that it was going to support a bridge across Aldersgate Steeet. The west side of the street would also have been rebuilt in Barbican style with walkways through to St Bartholomew the Great.
trashpony
Hag
I've got a friend who lives there. It's not very pushchair friendly I do love it though but the rooms are all tiny.
fM - the Museum of London also has a book listing deaths in London. It's open to a page in the 16th century (I think) and the causes of death are very interesting. You can kind of work out what the people actually died of (instead of faded away (cancer?), dropped down dead (heart attack) etc)
I do love it though but the rooms are all tiny.fM - the Museum of London also has a book listing deaths in London. It's open to a page in the 16th century (I think) and the causes of death are very interesting. You can kind of work out what the people actually died of (instead of faded away (cancer?), dropped down dead (heart attack) etc)
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Some new photos:
www.urban75.org
Empty floors, open spaces and unused stairs: a look around a deserted Barbican Centre – in photos -
Owned, funded and managed by the City of London Corporation, the Barbican Centre performing arts centre was officially opened to the public by Queen Elizabeth II on 3 March 1982, and is renown for its striking brutalist architecture. I paid a visit earlier this week, and it was sad to see that...
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ElizabethofYork
Old Crone
I lived very close to the Barbican when I was a kid. When the flats first opened, my mum took me and my sister to view one of the show flats. It was really lovely, but the rent was too high for my parents to be able to afford, so we stayed in our high rise flat on a nearby council estate.
stethoscope
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Coincidentally I past this on Friday as we were out for works drinks in Farringdon and wondered what it was! I thought it ought to belong in a theme park or Beamish.Was reminded to post some pics of 'The Cottage' in Barbican, after it was mentioned on Robert Elms 'Notes & Queries' earlier in the year. So I decided to take a look - despite the amount of time I've spent around here, I never noticed it over the years.
Some more history here.
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