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The Barbican Centre. Brutalist architecture, London #150924635
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The architects of the Barbican created the estateââ¬â¢s mottled façades by hammering away at cast concrete, and enlivened the structureââ¬â¢s cantilevered balconies with plants. The massive multi-use complex contains an arts center, cinema, restaurants, and schools, as well as some 2000 apartments that began as council housing, intended to make inner-city living desirable to middle-class professionals. Built on a site razed by World War II bombings.
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