Ibrahim Mahama Collaborates with Hundreds of Ghanaian Seamstresses to Envelop the Barbican in Purple Fabric
Before the Blitz in 1940, the area of London that the Barbican now occupies was home to fabric retailers, tailors, furriers, and dressmakers. Following the war, architects devised a plan to create a monumental Brutalist building that would support their utilitarian, socialist vision for the future and designed the hulking concrete structure we know today.
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