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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 .
Silk Street is a street in the City of London, England. It runs north–south, and then west–east, from the junction with Beech Street (west), Chiswell Street (east) and Whitecross Street (north, continuing the street), to Moor Lane .
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 ]
Guildhall's Silk Street building from inside the Barbican Estate. The new site, designed by the architect Sir Horace Jones, comprised a common room for professors and 45 studios, each surrounded by a one-foot thick layer of concrete to "deaden the sound". Each room contained both a grand piano and an upright piano. Additionally, there was an ...
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On 18 March 2020 the street became the UK's first "zero emission street", only allowing access to pedestrians, cyclists, and zero emission vehicles. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This remained in effect until September 2021, and in December that year members of the City of London corporation voted for a public consultation into making the scheme permanent.
When the Barbican Estate and Barbican Centre were reconstructed after the war, the section of Whitecross Street south of Silk Street was swallowed up by the new construction. The short section between Silk Street and Chiswell Street/Beech Street became part of Silk Street. St Giles Cripplegate, mentioned by Strype, is now within the Barbican ...
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 ]