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• Into the Void: the four-storey Barbican shell set to become a £3.5m home

  08-01-2023 16:00
  Having bought the space in 2006 for £200,000, a former solicitor aims to sell the one-off 3,097 sq ft brutalist space to developersFor years, every day on his way home from work, Christian Keesing passed a vast empty unit within the foot of the Grade II-listed Barbican tower block he lived in.“I’d probably gone past it at least a thousand times, until I had the idea,” Keesing said. The idea was to buy the four-storey space – which had lain empty for almost 50 years
  
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• Horror in the Modernist Block review – to the dark side

  08-01-2023 12:00
  Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
  Creepy minimalist interiors, brutalist tower blocks at night – 20 artists go in all directions exploring architectural modernism and horror, starting with Birmingham…The idea that modernist architecture brings horrors – that its utopian dreams beget dystopia, that its striving for sunlight breeds nightmares – has been around for decades. There has also been a gathering rediscovery that modern buildings can be beautiful and humane and sometimes lo
  
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