Cromwell Tower, Barbican Estate – Miniature Concrete Model

Cromwell Tower, Barbican Estate – Miniature Concrete ModelModel 068_Cromwell Tower, Barbican Estate Miniature Concrete ModelHand cast in fine concrete. Shaped by memory. Some towers become part of how we see a city. Cromwell Tower, completed in 1973, was the first of the three residential towers at the Barbican Estate. Designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, it rises 43 storeys above the City with a distinct profile of recessed balconies and vertical concrete fins. Together with Lauderdale and Shakespeare

This model captures that tension between motion and stillness

Rising above the City of London

that lends itself beautifully to concrete

I’ve looked up at this building all my life

it rises from the city like a bold concrete monolith

it remains a standout example of Glasgow’s late-1960s Brutalist housing

studied it

register of historic monuments

the Futurist was also the first place in Birmingham to show talkies in March 1929

Its horizontal profile and long

where vaulted roofs

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