Cromwell Tower, Shakespeare Tower and Lauderdale Tower on the Barbican Estate, City of London, with the roof and a corner cupola of Smithfield Market in the foreground Architect/Designer Chamberlin Powell & Bon Jones, Sir Horace (1819-1887) Artist/Photographer Borland, David Country UK: England City London Subject Date 1982 Image Date 2009 View Exterior Style Brutalist Medium Digital image Library Reference RIBA45223 Orientation Portrait Colour Info Colour Credit David Borland / RIBA Collections Subject Domes ; Skyscrapers ; Markets ; Roofs ; Flats ; Towers ; Housing
NOTES: This complex of arts buildings and housing covers seven acres in the City of London. Built between 1971 and 1982, it regenerated an area which had been badly bombed during World War II. The estate has three residential towers: Cromwell Tower, completed in 1973; Shakespeare Tower, completed in 1976, and Lauderdale Tower, completed in 1974. The complex was Grade II listed in 2001. Smithfield Market was designed by Sir Horace Jones.
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