John Honer, Theo Crosby, John Honer and other various architects designed the Brutalist Barbican Centre, which opened in 1982 north of the City of London, England.
The complex includes music halls for the London Symphony Orchestra and other groups, exhibition halls, restaurants, movie theatres, and residential. The concrete ziggurat design with lavish green gardens has been called ugly. It is. But it is an evolving complex that looks better with each new layer.
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