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
Lauderdale, Cromwell and Shakespeare, the three towers of Barbican by Chamberlin, Powell & Bon
A perspective from 1956, suggesting the intended vibrancy of Barbican, but with very different elevations from those realised later
The first Barbican scheme, from 1955, pyramidal block of flats to rear left
The Cooper Taber Seed Factory, Withan, C. 1957. An early example of work by Chamberlin, Powell & Bon
Churchill College Competition, persepctive by Gordon Cullen
