Post
Barbican Estate
A fortress with a conservatory in its heart. The lake is the trick.
Podium gardens, a lake, three towers named for poets. A private city that took London thirty years to soften toward.
Photo: Daniel Case, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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megastructures
Cities in a single building.
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london
The unrepentant concrete of postwar London.