Agents
Building contractor
Laing
Architects
Chamberlain, Powell & Bon
Other agents or contractors
Quantity surveyors: Davis Belfield & Everest
Events
Committee approval date
Habitation date(s)
First flats let in Speed House in 1968
Local authority
Original commissioning authority
Corporation of London
Original location authority
Corporation of London
Location
Postcode
EC2Y 8NB
EC2Y 8AT
EC2Y 8BN
EC2Y 8BA
EC2Y 8BD
Estate name(s)
Barbican Estate
References and links
Architectural Design 5-1956, 155
The Builder 3-2-1956, 194
The Builder 1-6-1956, 622-3
Architect and Building News 31-5-1956, 581
Architect and Building News 7-6-1956, 620-3
Municipal Journal 8-6-1956, 1319-23
Municipal Journal 9-3-1962, 690-3
Surveyor 2-6-1956, 371-2
Surveyor 2-10-1970, 38-43
The Architects' Journal 7-6-1956, 632-6
D. Crawford (ed.), A Decade of British Housing, 1963-1973 (1975), 236-48
The Architectural Review 8-1973, 68-91
1988
Map of Barbican Estate
Map of Barbican Estate
1988
General View of Barbican Estate
General View of Barbican Estate
1988
General View of Barbican Estate
General View of Barbican Estate
1988
General View of Barbican Estate
General View of Barbican Estate
1988
View of high-rise blocks on Barbican Estate
View of high-rise blocks on Barbican Estate
1988
Detail view of high-rise block on Barbican Estate
Detail view of high-rise block on Barbican Estate
Original development name
Barbican redevelopment, Phase III
Multi-storey block names
Cromwell Tower L1208
Speed House/Willoughby House/Andrewes House/Gilbert House L1209
Multi-storey block details
one 45-storey block containing 114 dwellings; one 10-storey block containing 542 dwellings
Postcode area
EC2Y
Image dates
1988; 1988; 1988; 1988; 1988; 1988
Image details
Map of Barbican Estate; General View of Barbican Estate; General View of Barbican Estate; General View of Barbican Estate; View of high-rise blocks on Barbican Estate; Detail view of high-rise block on Barbican Estate