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Elain Harwood's new monograph for the RIBA traces the story of Chamberlin, Powell & Bon - the practice behind the Barbican's Lauderdale, Cromwell and Shakespeare towers - from its establishment in 1952, through to the seemingly endless rounds of negotiations and redesigns that came to characterise the Barbican job, some three decades in the making. Pictured here from the book is the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Barbican