Barbican Arts Centre and lakeside terrace
Interior - concert hall foyer; library and gallery above The Barbican Arts Centre is an arts venue at the eastern edge of the Barbican Estate in the City of London, England. The London Symphony Orchestra is based in its concert hall. Image File history File links Barbican-arts-centre-large. ...
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A small part of the Barbican, showing flats and café area Shakespeare Tower, one of the residential towers The Barbican Estate is a residential estate in the City of London, in an area densely packed with commerce and finance. ...
The City of London is a geographically-small city within Greater London, England. ...
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The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom. ...
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It opened in 1982 after a long and, at times, painful gestation which dated right back to the area having been badly bombed during World War II. It is owned, funded and managed by the City of London, the third largest funder of the arts in the UK. It was built as 'the City's gift to the nation' at an historical capital cost of £161 million, equivalent to almost £400 million today.[1] Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ...
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The City of London is a geographically-small city within Greater London, England. ...
The Barbican Centre was voted "London's ugliest building" in a BBC poll in September 2003.[2] Despite this expression of public opinion, the Minister of State for the Arts, Tessa Blackstone, announced in September 2001 that the Barbican complex was to be Grade II listed. It has been designated a site of special architectural interest for its scale, its cohesion and the ambition of the project.[3] A younger generation increasingly admires the brutalist architecture of its designers, Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, who also designed the Barbican housing complex and the adjacent Golden Lane Estate. The Project architect was John Honer, who later worked on the new British Library. Tessa Ann Vosper Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone, PC, is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
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Chamberlin, Powell and Bon were one of the most important modernist architectural firms in post-war Britain. ...
Barbican in Kraków Barbican (from mediæval Latin barbecana) - a fortified outpost or gateway, such as an outer defence to a city or castle and any tower situated over a gate or bridge which was used for defence purposes. ...
The Golden Lane Estate is a 1950s housing complex in the City of London. ...
British Library main building, London The British Library (BL) is the national library of the United Kingdom. ...
The theatre was built as the London home of the Royal Shakespeare Company, who were involved in the original design, but they left in 2002 to develop their own touring performances after a series of poor seasons. The theatre now stages a wide range of performances by visiting theatre and dance companies. Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a British theatre company. ...
The centre was designed with a complex multi-level layout, making circulation difficult. In the mid-1990s a controversial scheme of 'improvement' in a folksy arts & crafts style was implemented to the designs of Theo Crosby of Pentagram (design studio). This achieved little and in 2005-6 a major refurbishment by architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris was completed in stages erasing most of the Crosby scheme and improving cicrculation and signage in a style redolent of the origianal 1970s brutalist architecture by, for example, making a feature of the dramatic rough concrete surfaces. introduced and a new internal bridge has been added linking the Silk Street foyer area with the lakeside foyer area. Also, a more generous pedestrian entrance from Silk Street, which had previously been dominated by an entrance for vehicles, was provided. Pentagram is a design studio that was founded in 1972 by Alan Fletcher, Theo Crosby, Colin Forbes, Kenneth Grange and Mervyn Kurlansky in Needham Road, West London, UK. They now have offices in New York, San Francisco, Austin and Berlin. ...
The Museum of London is also within the Barbican Estate, being at Aldersgate. Interior showing the Mayors state coach The Museum of London documents the history of London from the Palaeolithic to the present day. ...
A small part of the Barbican, showing flats and café area Shakespeare Tower, one of the residential towers The Barbican Estate is a residential estate in the City of London, in an area densely packed with commerce and finance. ...
Aldersgate was a gate in the London Wall in the City of London, which has given its name to Aldersgate Street, a road leading north from the site of the gate, towards Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington. ...
Performance halls and facilities - Barbican Hall, a 1,949 seat concert hall. It is the home of the London Symphony Orchestra.
- Barbican Theatre, a 1,166 seat theatre.
- The Pit, a flexible 200-seat theatre venue.
- Barbican Art Gallery and the smaller horseshoe shaped, Curve.
- Barbican Cinema, 3 cinemas seating 288, 255 and 155 people.
- Informal performance spaces.
- 3 Restaurants.
- 7 Conference and 2 Trade Exhibition facilities.
The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Barbican Library, both under separate management, are also part of the site. The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom. ...
Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in the City of London, UK. The first Guildhall School was housed in an old warehouse in Aldermanbury, but these premises soon proved too small. ...
Outside, its main focal point is the lake and its neighbouring terrace. The fly tower of the theatre has been surrounded by glass and made into a spectacular high-level conservatory. The Barbican Hall's acoustic is also controversial, being praised by some as attractively warm, whereas others find it too dry for large-scale orchestral repertoire.
References and notes - ^ History of the Barbican Estate (City of London) accessed : 11 January 2007
- ^ BBC News accessed 11 January 2007
- ^ Listing of the Barbican complex (City of London) accessed : 11 January 2007
Nearby railway stations Barbican tube station Barbican is a London Underground and mainline rail station serving the Barbican Centre in the City of London. ...
Moorgate station is a tube and mainline station in the City of London, located on Moorgate, the street of the same name, north of London Wall. ...
Liverpool Street station Liverpool Street station, also called London Liverpool Street, is a mainline railway station in the north eastern corner of the City of London, in the heart of the financial district, with entrances on Bishopsgate and Liverpool Street itself. ...
See also A Concert hall is a cultural building, which serves as performance venue, chiefly for classical instrumental music. ...
A small part of the Barbican, showing flats and café area Shakespeare Tower, one of the residential towers The Barbican Estate is a residential estate in the City of London, in an area densely packed with commerce and finance. ...
Interior showing the Mayors state coach The Museum of London documents the history of London from the Palaeolithic to the present day. ...
External links - The centre's home page
- Classical Music and Opera global listings events site
- The history of the Barbican Estate
- "Martin Kettle, "Good Old Barbican", The Guardian (London), 2 March 2002 Analysis of the Centre after 20 years.
Coordinates: 51°31′11.65″N, 0°05′38.45″W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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