The Historian · Charlotte · London
The Barbican — Silk Street Entrance & Lakeside
I know people who've lived here for forty years. They understand their building's history in ways most Londoners don't understand their own streets.
The largest surviving Brutalist housing complex in Europe, built on a City neighbourhood entirely destroyed in the Blitz. The concrete is a monument to postwar planning ambition.
— Charlotte, The Historian
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