Built on a site devastated by the Blitz, the Barbican is a vast landscaped post war housing estate-come-theatre complex in which three towers rise out of the seven-storey blocks of flats below. A fine example of so-called brutalist architecture, the Barbican isn't too everyone's tastes, but it is an absorbing anomaly in an area dominated by glass and steel office buildings.
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The bell tower of St Giles' Cripplegate Church faces an arc of apartments in the Barbican
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The Barbican's three towers soar high above the rest of the complex
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