The Barbican Arts Centre was built on a bomb site, a relic of the Second World War. Construction started in the 1960s. The completed complex is packed with shops, restaurants, cinemas, a concert hall, theatres, a public library and an art gallery. The small recital room in the original planning evolved into the magnificent Barbican Hall.
Barbican Cinema is one of the leading art house cinema complexes, not only in London, but also in the UK. It hosts regular international film festivals as well as...
The Barbican Hall, situated in the heart of the City of London, is the home of the internationally-renowned London Symphony Orchestra. It hosts concerts many nights of the week...
The Barbican Library is the largest public lending library in the City of London. Like most of the Corporation of London’s facilities it is extremely impressive and well-run....