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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Barbican Arts Centre
		The Barbican Arts Centre is an arts venue at the eastern edge of the Barbican Estate in the City of London, UK.
		The Barbican Centre was also voted "London's ugliest building" according to a BBC poll in September 2003.
		Despite public opinion, the Minister of State for the Arts, Tessa Blackstone, announced in September 2001 that the Barbican complex was to be Grade II listed.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Barbican_Arts_Centre (473 words)

	Barbican Arts Centre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Barbican Arts Centre opened in 1982, after a long and at times painful gestation which dated right back to the area having been badly bombed during World War II.
		The Barbican is owned, funded and managed by the City of London, the third largest funder of the arts in the UK.
		The Barbican Hall is noted for its attractive warm acoustic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbican_Arts_Centre (352 words)

	Barbican Arts Centre
		The Barbican Arts Centre opened in 1982, after a long and at times painful gestation which dated right back to the area having been badly bombed during World War II.
		Situated in the heart of the City of London, UK, near the Barbican Estate, it contains a major concert hall, a theatre, a public library and an art gallery.
		It is the permanent home of the London Symphony Orchestra and was until recently the London home of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/b/ba/barbican_arts_centre.html (187 words)

	History
		The original Barbican of this period was probably situated somewhere between the northern side of the Church of St Giles Cripplegate and the YMCA hostel on Fann Street.
		The Barbican site includes the Barbican Centre, which was opened by Her Majesty The Queen in March 1982.
		Indeed, the only part of the Centre which is visible is the fly tower for the scenery from the theatre and the conservatory which surrounds this at podium level.
	www.cityoflondon.gov.uk /our_services/barbican_estate/history.htm (1326 words)

	Barbican Arts Centre in general - Sightseeing National Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		The Barbican Arts Centre is an arts venue in the centre of the Barbican Estate in the City of London, UK.
		Barbican Arts Centre in general : Beware the Ides of March
		The Barbican’s an enormous concrete housing estate on the Eastern edge of the City of London.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /sightseeing-national/barbican-centre-in-general (347 words)

	Barbican Centre, London E2: tourist information from TourUK
		Above the the arts centre, surprisingly, is a well-stocked conservatory.
		A barbican is a watchtower projecting from a fortified place and the architects of this community may have been trying to live up to the name when they created the centre's formidable defences against the outside world.
		The Barbican's resident orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, is one of the finest in Europe, and until 2002 the centre was also the London base of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_sights/barbicancentre1.htm (265 words)

	Panoramic Images of the World: Barbican Centre - London
		This photo of the Barbican Arts Centre in London is part of one of the panoramic images found on the PanoramicEarth.com Tour of London.
		The nearst tube is the Barbican, and the Museum of London and St. Paul's Cathedral are also nearby.
		The full panoramic image showing the outside of the Barbican Centre and the fountain terraces can be found on the London tour by PanoramicEarth.com.
	panoramicearth.blogspot.com /2006/10/barbican-centre-london.html (447 words)

	art, design, tech blog with alotta more inbetween
		The new "signage" at the Barbican Arts Centre is a fascinating study in providing wayfinding orientation.
		Some may argue that the wayfinding signage at the Barbican Arts Centre is overpowering and invasive.
		I've never been to the Barbican Arts Center, but judging from photos of the site, the architecture seems to follow the monolithic concrete style quite popular in the 1960s.
	www.unlikelymoose.com /blog/index/P487 (680 words)

	Barbican Estate architects Chamberlin Powell and Bon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At one point there were 60 architects all working on the Barbican Arts Centre (and presumably each one of them thought someone else was designing the route to the library).
		The firm received the bronze medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1956 and 1957, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government medal in 1965, the Civic Trust commendation in 1973, and the RIBA Architecture Award in 1973 and 1974.
		It is said to be due to him that the The Barbican is much heavier and more monumental than the Golden Lane Estate in construction, and that he was influenced in this by the later work of Le Courbusier, such as the Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles.
	www.barbicanliving.co.uk /history/estate/chamberlins.htm (1188 words)

	London Choice - Information About Barbican
		Barbican is nestled between the City, and the trendy, arty areas of Old Street and Hoxton and is perfectly placed for many major tourist attractions.
		The cultural jewel of the City, owned, funded and managed by the Corporation of London, the Barbican Centre is a modern building of some complexity.
		Opened in 1982, the arts complex is part of a major development covering 20 acres and flanked by 42-story blocks of flats.
	www.londonchoice.com /neighbourhood_view.asp?id=6 (675 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Barbican to get listed status
		The concrete-clad Barbican Centre, a complex of buildings in the City of London that is notoriously difficult to navigate, is to become a listed building.
		When it opened as the Barbican Arts Centre in March 1982, the Queen described it as "one of the wonders of the modern world".
		The idea is to return the centre to its original state rather than to alter it structurally.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/1529364.stm (341 words)

	Tribe03 \| SPACE
		The Barbican is a large estate of well-designed and built apartments on the north-west edge of the City of London, the capital's financial district.
		A 'barbican' is a gate, and at one time the City of London was enclosed by a wall, only accessible through a small number of gates, at which taxes were collected.
		It also encloses the Barbican Arts Centre, one of the busiest cultural venues in Britain, and a greenhouse second in size only to that at Kew Gardens, in the West of London.
	www.hollandfonts.com /tribe/tribe03/local/L041.html (234 words)

	The Barbican means business
		Emerging from the fume-choked tunnel that connects the Barbican Centre to the nearest public transport, the eye is greeted by a completely reconfigurated façade.
		The Barbican was universally unloved: a concrete warren driven into a hole in the ground and riddled with walkways and sub-levels that made the maze at Hampton Court seem comparatively penetrable.
		For every £10 spent on arts in the City area, another £6.50 is generated back into the general economy by way of spending on food and services.
	www.scena.org /columns/lebrecht/060920-NL-barbican.html (1263 words)

	Barbican Centre, London
		The chief attraction, however, is undoubtedly the arts and conference center, the largest of its kind in Europe.
		The Barbican Hall (for concerts and conferences), which has 2,026 seats and simultaneous translation equipment, is the permanent home of the London Symphony Orchestra; the Barbican Theatre with 1,166 seats is the London base of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
		In addition there is a studio theater ("The Pit") holding 200, the Barbican Art Gallery for temporary exhibitions together with a sculpture court, a municipal lending library, rooms for seminars, three cinemas, two exhibition halls (the Blue Exhibition Hall and the Red Exhibition Hall on the other side of Beech Street), a conservatory and restaurants.
	www.planetware.com /london/barbican-centre-eng-l-bc.htm (364 words)

	Barbican Centre Given Listed Status - The Concrete Centre
		The Barbican has been made a Grade II listed building in a move warmly welcomed by English Heritage.
		On announcing the decision, Tessa Blackstone, Minister for the Arts, stated that the complex should be celebrated as being "of special architectural interest for its scale, it plan, its cohesion and ambition." 19 years previously in 1982, George Perkin, the then editor of Concrete Quarterly, visited the Barbican.
		Leaving aside the vexed question of whether the Barbican as a concept is your cup of tea or not, the first thing that the visitor will realise about the arts centre once the entrance has been safely found - is that it is very large indeed.
	www.concretecentre.com /main.asp?page=542 (298 words)

	Archive: Case Study: Bristol Royal Hospital for Children: Biographies: Ray Smith
		His most recent solo exhibition was at the Barbican Arts Centre in London (1997) where he showed sixty new paintings.
		In Britain, he participated in the Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts Fourth National exhibition (1983-84), the 'As of Now' show in Liverpool (1983-4), the British Art Show (1983-4), the Scottish Arts Council 'One City a Patron' exhibition (1985), the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 15 (1987) and 16 (1989).
		He was a prizewinner in the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 16 (1989-90) and received a Royal Society of Arts: Art for Architecture Award in 1993.
	www.publicartonline.org.uk /archive/casestudies/brch/biog_smith.php (1131 words)

	Guardian \| Christoph Bon
		The pressures of the Barbican made it increasingly difficult for the practice to take on new work, and clients became reluctant to entrust projects to such obviously overstretched architects.
		The Barbican was a unique experiment which successfully applied the principles of modernist town planning to a large urban redevelopment.
		Many of its faults - the inaccessibility of the podium, the burying of a major arts centre in a residential quarter - resulted from changes to the brief during construction.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3921451-103684,00.html (890 words)

	Wikinfo \| Barbican Arts Centre
		Situated in the heart of the City of London, UK, in the Barbican Estate, it contains a major concert hall, a theatre, a public library and an art gallery.
		The Centre stands next to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Barbican_Arts_Centre (228 words)

	Childrens Film Festival at Barbican - London Childrens Films
		Barbican Arts Centre is playing host to this special event that highlights and celebrates the differences between adults and kids films.
		As part of the childrens film festival at Barbican there are two separate schools programmes that will show a variety of education films alongside the more creative and story based ones.
		The educational programmes will be running at a variety of cinemas as well as the Barbican throughout London and are divided in the primary and secondary age groups.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /whats-on-details-1413.html (284 words)

	SGI Quarterly January, 2001 - Around the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		"Art is to the spirit what bread is to the body: a necessity without which it cannot renew itself.
		This was chaired by Graham Sheffield, artistic director of the Barbican Arts Centre in dialogue with Prof.
		In the following three weeks, Power of the Arts partnered with the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London to present a series of talks on the idea of "a Play Ethic." Pat Kane held dialogues with prominent sociologists, asking what would be the effect of an artful, creative spirit unleashed in society.
	www.sgi.org /english/Features/quarterly/0101/world7.htm (699 words)

	What do Fred Astaire, Jacqueline du Pre and Noel Coward Have in Common?
		Cynics have protested that the Barbican Arts Centre is just another piece of civic surgery, an artificial transplant, trying to prove that London's money markets, which built the place, have a soul after all.
		Fewer still pay attention to high art and low show business, and it is rare indeed, perhaps unique, for a school to produce so many outstanding virtuosi while not neglecting those solid professional performers who have no ambitions to be soloists.
		The Guildhall School is trying to redress the balance to ensure that the arts in the brave new world of tower blocks and unyielding concrete do not lose their contact with the deep wells of human experience that originally brought them into being.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1987/april/ar6.cfm (2250 words)

	A rarely seen grandeur
		Built from a hole in the ground with materials that looked obsolescent by opening night, the arts centre's layout proved more convoluted than the Hampton Court maze, and its concert hall resounded in pp passages to the noise of car exhausts and loo-flushings.
		The Barbican, in grim surroundings, seems younger and livelier than the Centre Pompidou in Paris and Washington's Kennedy Center, its near-contemporaries.
		This is going to cost another £12 million, but one of the Barbican's key successes has been to turn the Corporation of the City of London into the nation's third-largest arts benefactor, pumping in £70 million a year.
	www.scena.org /columns/lebrecht/020307-nl-colossus.html (948 words)

	Arts Management Network :: Culture Management, Arts Administration, Cultural Policy, Arts and Business
		All students study the public, commercial and legal framework surrounding the arts, as well as the principles of managing people, resources and finances, and policy and decision making in the arts.
		Students are expected to have an honours degree or equivalent, and to have work experience in arts administration or an allied field.
		It may be possible to accommodate a limited number of senior professionals wishing to transfer to the arts sector from other areas.
	www.artsmanagement.net /index.php?module=Education&func=display&ed_id=105 (241 words)

	A vision in concrete \| Art And Architecture \| Arts \| Telegraph
		As attention moves from retrofitting major Victorian museums for their 100-year overhauls to dealing with problems of post-war museums and arts centres, this is becoming a growing issue.
		The South Bank Centre, the Museum of London and the Barbican are all high profile examples, but the recent reopening of the Poole Arts Centre, now known as Lighthouse, reminds us that this is not just a metropolitan problem.
		That was certainly the case at Poole, which had one of the largest, and certainly one of the ugliest, arts centres outside London.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/02/12/baconc12.xml&sSheet=/arts/2003/02/12/ixartleft.html (792 words)

	In praise of... the Barbican centre \| Theatre story \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		There was a time when the Barbican arts centre was defined by the concrete stairs and walkways surrounding it.
		The art gallery was then hosting a startling show of 20th-century European photography; this autumn it will run an X-rated show.
		Nicholas Kenyon, the controller of the BBC Proms who is now set to be the Barbican's next director, inherits a building where there is always something rich and strange going on.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /theatre/news/story/0,,2020494,00.html (318 words)

	Gabion: Concrete comeback: return to the Barbican. 2/3
		That’s 50 years since the first designs for what was a 35-acre bombsite were published, 40 years since construction began on a revised design, and 20 years since the whole thing was finished with the opening of the Barbican Arts Centre, when the Queen described it as “one of the wonders of the modern world”.
		At the Barbican’s own anniversary exhibition, “This Was Tomorrow”, you are struck at once by the certainty that pervaded everything: not least in the quality of the original drawings.
		The Barbican was built pretty much exactly the way its architects wanted it, all influences intact: complete with serrated triangular-plan skyscrapers - inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright - and concrete barrel-vaulted flats, in homage to Le Corbusier, and lots - though not enough - good landscaping.
	www.hughpearman.com /articles3/barbican2.html (317 words)

	Plymouth City Council - Arts Venues
		The four Space for Sport and Arts facilities in Plymouth were built not just for the schools to use but as a way of encouraging people in local communities to get more involved in sport and art.
		Plymouth Arts Centre was established in 1948 and is the long-time home of contemporary arts in Plymouth, Plymouth Arts Centre now focuses on contemporary visual art.
		Plymouth College of Art and Design seeks to be a dynamic institution in the pursuit of excellence that forges strong links in the fields of art, design, crafts and media.
	www.plymouth.gov.uk /homepage/creativityandculture/artsmap/artsvenues.htm (814 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 3 \| 1982: Queen opens Barbican Centre
		The centre, which has been 15 years in the making, is the largest arts centre in western Europe and covers five-and-a-half acres of Cripplegate, which was destroyed by Nazi bombers in World War II.
		The centre also houses a concert hall for 2,000 people, two theatres, a cinema, a library, a conference centre and several galleries.
		Plans for a new arts centre at the Barbican were originally given the go-ahead in 1971 when it was proposed that construction would cost £17m and would take six years to complete.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/3/newsid_4249000/4249605.stm (293 words)

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