MeTheRob Glad you enjoyed the music - I actually cut this one to the music which I don't usually do. Not sure I do know that garden, is it the sunken one with sculptures just off Gresham St. I'll check it out just in case - watch out next week for the video
John Rogers Small and tucked away somewhat. You'll find it no trouble - heh. Google Barber Surgeons' Garden. This comment box thingy doesn't seem to allow you to leave links.
Loved the video. I have to confess I have a long term love affair with the Barbican, I've been pursuing a rather obsessional photo project over the last 6 years, taken over 2000 pictures of the place during different seasons and weather conditions. Its brutalist architecture always reminds me of parts of George Lucas's film THX1138. Thanks again for the great video.
Reading the Mick Herron 'slow horses' novels, I saw that the office the characters work in is near the Barbican. This video fleshed out my view of that area of London. Thanks!
Would you please do another walk at/around Barbican please....be interested to see how it is today ...I remember going on a school trip years ago to the Museum of London and when we stopped and had our packed lunch it was overlooking the Barbican and estate and i was fascinated by it...at least i am pretty sure it was the Barbican!! That Brutalist Architecture...you either love it or hate it...and i'm still undecided lol!!! Be interested to see if non-residents can still access the conservatory too....x thanks Roger
i am just reading up about the barbican, as it has been a point of blankness in my topographical knowledge of london. - have you ever visited st giles cripplegate, john? apparently it's at the centre of the complex. hm, the barbican idea reminds me of the doctor who episode, paradise towers, for some reason - i must re-view that, as i haven't seen it since it first aired!
I tend to have a deep dislike for Brutalist architecture, and yet somehow, from afar, I'm fascinated with The Barbican. perhaps because as you point out it tries, and seems to often succeed, at being so many things.
Two thirds of the Barbican's architects, Christoph Bon and Geoffry Powell, died at the end of the millenium 1999 on the dot! Apposite to say the least. Utopian outdoors, distopian indoors: actually a beautiful, terrifying, claustrophobia themed nightmare indoors.
@@JohnRogersWalks I know, perhaps terrifying claustrophobic architecture shouldn't be fascinating or beautiful, but it is here in EC2Y . Why? Arrogant Brutalist utopian aesthetic or ... fuck knows. ; ]
I love the Barbican. Has its own unique feeling of peace and serenity. There is nowhere else like it.
Love the music!
Used to bunk off school and go there, planning to explore it extensively soon.
The music made that a riveting watch.
Do you know the Barber Surgeons' Garden nearby ? A hidden gem, to coin a cliché.
MeTheRob Glad you enjoyed the music - I actually cut this one to the music which I don't usually do. Not sure I do know that garden, is it the sunken one with sculptures just off Gresham St. I'll check it out just in case - watch out next week for the video
John Rogers Small and tucked away somewhat. You'll find it no trouble - heh. Google Barber Surgeons' Garden. This comment box thingy doesn't seem to allow you to leave links.
MeTheRob Thanks for that - I'll go for a look
Looks like 'silent running' has been remade. What we're all those trays? And the people converging?...Strange place, thoroughly enjoyed the video.
Thanks. Can't exactly remember but it was some kind of corporate function
Loved the video. I have to confess I have a long term love affair with the Barbican, I've been pursuing a rather obsessional photo project over the last 6 years, taken over 2000 pictures of the place during different seasons and weather conditions. Its brutalist architecture always reminds me of parts of George Lucas's film THX1138.
Thanks again for the great video.
+kadathsmith thanks for the lovely comment. There's something about that place isn't there - deep and long history around that area.
Reading the Mick Herron 'slow horses' novels, I saw that the office the characters work in is near the Barbican. This video fleshed out my view of that area of London. Thanks!
What a fascinating place, and it's ok to just walk around!? I must get in there with my camera.
Would you please do another walk at/around Barbican please....be interested to see how it is today ...I remember going on a school trip years ago to the Museum of London and when we stopped and had our packed lunch it was overlooking the Barbican and estate and i was fascinated by it...at least i am pretty sure it was the Barbican!! That Brutalist Architecture...you either love it or hate it...and i'm still undecided lol!!! Be interested to see if non-residents can still access the conservatory too....x thanks Roger
So there's me thinking the Barbican was just a concert venue! Do folk live there too? Must take a look in the new year. Thanks again John 😊
There are flats in the complex as well as the public facilities.
GREAT music.
i am just reading up about the barbican, as it has been a point of blankness in my topographical knowledge of london. - have you ever visited st giles cripplegate, john? apparently it's at the centre of the complex. hm, the barbican idea reminds me of the doctor who episode, paradise towers, for some reason - i must re-view that, as i haven't seen it since it first aired!
It’s on my London Wall walk but I’m also going to include it in the next City Churches walk
I tend to have a deep dislike for Brutalist architecture, and yet somehow, from afar, I'm fascinated with The Barbican. perhaps because as you point out it tries, and seems to often succeed, at being so many things.
Two thirds of the Barbican's architects, Christoph Bon and Geoffry Powell, died at the end of the millenium 1999 on the dot! Apposite to say the least. Utopian outdoors, distopian indoors: actually a beautiful, terrifying, claustrophobia themed nightmare indoors.
That’s a fascinating fact Tracy
@@JohnRogersWalks I know, perhaps terrifying claustrophobic architecture shouldn't be fascinating or beautiful, but it is here in EC2Y . Why? Arrogant Brutalist utopian aesthetic or ... fuck knows. ; ]
Silly me, next video up was about the Barbican so now I know it's a middle class housing estate lol 😂
Another part pf London I have not explored -- all I ever knew of it was that Arthur Scargill of the NUM lived there ....useless fact of the day!