Finding your way around the Barbican
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Harold Shand
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I take Ariadne with me when I go there.
Wonderful place, seemingly out of date when it was built, but far more appreciated now. Go and look at the concrete close up. It's beautiful. And look at the saw-shaped balconies on the flats. Stunningly beautiful.
Wonderful place, seemingly out of date when it was built, but far more appreciated now. Go and look at the concrete close up. It's beautiful. And look at the saw-shaped balconies on the flats. Stunningly beautiful.
pianistenvy
Cycling for Sanity
Donna Ferentes said:
Makes me feel like a lab rat trying to negotiate my way around Barbican...
Cloo
Banana for scale
I still intend to do my 'Barbican Highwalk Safari' (probably plus bits of the City)London walk at some point, but I can't guarantee free weekends until next year due to moving house, but I can use my lunch hour in the meantime to try and find my way around it a bit better.
I think it might make a good short-ish winter walk, so when I have some more time I'll think about a date.
I think it might make a good short-ish winter walk, so when I have some more time I'll think about a date.
Donna Ferentes
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Yeah. And you don't even get a bit of cheese or anything.pianistenvy said:
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Dear lord, it can't be that difficult!
Are you sure you lot are allowed out on your own, without a nurse to supervise?
Are you sure you lot are allowed out on your own, without a nurse to supervise?
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
maestrocloud said:Yes we should do that soon
do you even know where you are now?
Donna Ferentes
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I had a girlfriend once who was doing a PhD. I tried to persuade her to change her surname to Pussycat on the grounds that they would have to put a plaque on her office door saying Doctor Pussycat.maestrocloud said:In MY office
<creates little name plaque for door - Prof Cloud>
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I've just remembered a great view...on the roof of International House in Brixton...don't know how you'd get access though. I only did because I was training people (disability awareness) and that was the venue.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
wrong thread completely sorry I'm not very compos mentis today.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
OOPSY!
back on-topic. I used to work top of aldersgate st so i know this patch of land pretty well, it can be navigated but you'll need a lot of time to spend on trial and error.,.
on the other hand, there's a good pub flogging belgian beer opposite-ish barbican tube, so that'd start cloo's walk nicely!
back on-topic. I used to work top of aldersgate st so i know this patch of land pretty well, it can be navigated but you'll need a lot of time to spend on trial and error.,.
on the other hand, there's a good pub flogging belgian beer opposite-ish barbican tube, so that'd start cloo's walk nicely!
pianistenvy
Cycling for Sanity
laptop said:You obviously haven't finished learning the maze
you can't teach an old lab rat new tricks. i think my brain has reached maximum learning capacity
Donna Ferentes
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Well, I got out successfully today, all the way from the library to Moorgate without hesitiation (though getting in was harder). No cheese though.laptop said:You obviously haven't finished learning the maze
maximilian ping
Grrrrr
the barbican is a fucking hellhole. stupidly decided to see L'enfant (good film) at its cinema on friday and it's the most useless venue in britain. ages to find the barbican in the first place from the station. when got there signs for cinema led to basement. then find out it's the wrong cinema and the right one is at the top. only way of getting there is one lift which the whole building using. when eventually get in it the buttons give you no idea of what is on what floor - que lots of jumping in and out of lift to see if on the right floor or not. then when on the right floor a right job finding the screen. feezing cold cinema, then when we come out there is nowhere to drink in the barbican apart from a desolate palce with a few stand up tables. c*nts.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
On the subject of the amenities - anyone else been to the RSC theatre there? It HAS to be the most uncomfortable theatre EVER.
Reno
The In Kraut
I love the Barbican and think it's an amazing building, but then 60's and 70's architecture and design is a passion of mine. I often go there just to walk around the place and I would love to live there if I could afford it. Never found it that difficult to find my way around there, especially as it has yellow lines on the floor that take you to the centre. The tropical indoor garden is like something out of the sci-fi film Silent Running.
Strolling around the Barbican on a summers day can be wonderful, it's quiet and relaxing and around the ponds in the middle it does seem like utopia.
On a windy day when it's pissing around and you can't find the right way out it's hell.
I've never got too lost there mind, but I think the general complexity of its design does make signposting difficult and the lines are just too logical and not intuative enough.
If I click your link I get
Some kind of ironic joke?!?!?!
On a windy day when it's pissing around and you can't find the right way out it's hell.
I've never got too lost there mind, but I think the general complexity of its design does make signposting difficult and the lines are just too logical and not intuative enough.
Donna Ferentes said:
If I click your link I get
Some kind of ironic joke?!?!?!
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