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The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London, England, and the largest of its kind in Europe. [1] The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions .
London's Barbican Centre has revealed initial plans to renovate three of its most well-known spaces. The Grade-II listed cultural destination is publicly consulting on proposals to restore and ...
The Barbican Estate, or Barbican, is a residential complex of around 2,000 flats, maisonettes and houses in central London, England, within the City of London.It is in an area once devastated by World War II bombings and densely populated by financial institutions, 1.4 miles (2.2 km) north east of Charing Cross. [1]
The Barbican Centre, which was built in the 1970s, is grade two listed but the local authority secured an exemption for the Museum of London and Bastion House in 2019.
On 19 May 2022, the production broke the Barbican Centre, London's box-office record for ticket sales in one day, previously held by the 2015 production of Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch. [17] It premiered at the Barbican previewing from 8 October, [9] with an official press night on 18 October and running until 21 January 2023. [18]
Barbican Centre: Barbican Estate: City of London: North East: Art: Arts centre and gallery Barnet Museum: Barnet: Barnet: North: Local: Local history, costumes, domestic items, lace Battle of Britain Bunker: Uxbridge: Hillingdon: West: History: Museum and restored underground operations room at formerly used by No. 11 Group Fighter Command ...
Barbican Estate and Barbican Centre for the Arts, London EC2 (Listed G II) Vanbrugh Park Estate, Blackheath, London SE3, completed 1963 Two Saints (later Geoffrey Chaucer) School, Harper Road, London SE1 (Listed II* but substantially demolished by Southwark borough council in 2007 for the creation of Globe Academy ) [ 5 ]
The Barbican Conservatory is the second largest conservatory in London, [2] after the Princess of Wales Conservatory at Kew Gardens. [3] Located at the Barbican Centre, [2] it houses more than 2,000 species of plants and trees, as well as terrapins and koi carp. [4]