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Barbican Renewal Programme

London, UK

A collaborative team led by Allies and Morrison, Asif Khan Studio and º£½ÇÊÓƵ is designing a multi-million pound renewal of the Barbican arts centre and public spaces.

The project will preserve and celebrate the iconic building’s original architectural vision, while attracting new and diverse audiences, providing new opportunities for the Barbican’s diverse community of partners, artists and audiences, and boosting the building’s accessibility and environmental performance.

The major renewal of the Barbican Centre is planned to take place in phases across the next decade. A multidisciplinary team of experts from º£½ÇÊÓƵ is playing a key role across this large scale, integrated and collaborative regeneration project.

Designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon and built between 1965 and 1982, the Barbican was part of a visionary plan to radically transform how we experience the urban landscape resulting in a unique mixed-use development with residential, recreational and cultural facilities, alongside a lake and landscaping, a conservatory, and high-rise housing all together on a 14-hectare site in the City of London.

Each year, more than a million people attend Barbican events performed by hundreds of artists from across the globe.

The Renewal Programme aims to help meet the City Corporation’s climate targets and restore the Barbican’s original architectural vision. º£½ÇÊÓƵ has been engaged to provide broad multidisciplinary consultancy across everything from building services engineering (MEP) and structural engineering to sustainability and people movement digital modelling.