ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Thu, 2 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/790453/ad-classics-barbican-estate-london-chamberlin-powell-bon Tue, 12 Jul 2016 04:00:00 +0000 Bart Bryant-Mole https://www.archdaily.com/790453/ad-classics-barbican-estate-london-chamberlin-powell-bon On the 29th December, 1940, at the height of the Second World War, an air raid by the Luftwaffe razed a 35-acre site in the heart of the City of London to the ground. The site was known as the Barbican (a Middle English word meaning fortification), so-called for the Roman wall which once stood in the area. Following the war, the City of London Corporation—the municipal governing body for the area—started to explore possibilities to bring this historic site into the twentieth century.

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