Sunday 7 February 2016

The Physical Future Of The Barbican Estate (1990)

Here is another document from the paper archive:  "The Physical Future Of The Barbican Estate".

The 51 page document is not explicitly dated, but the introduction on page 3 says that it was recommended that the report be created in a Feb 1990 meeting of the BRC, so the document itself probably dates from a few months after that.

The document is really nicely written and covers areas which are the topic of much angst today, such as concrete, roofs and drainage.

Click on image to open the document

p.s. I have created an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) version of the document here.  Note that the 'original' document is a scan, so it's like a photograph of each page.  The OCR document is the result of some clever Google software which picks out text from the image of each page.  OCR is not perfect:  if you want to read the document then use the scan, but if you want to find if a word is used in the document the OCR version may help.

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