Centre Point
Pop Art Design, Barbican Art Gallery
As part of the Pop Art Design exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, these walking tours will explore Pop architecture of the 1960s. The tours will include Centre Point, designed by architect Richard Seifert.
Seifert is known for designing modern concrete buildings that influenced sixties and seventies London architecture. Centre Point, which was built in 1966, has been called the original Pop Art skyscraper. The building, on St Giles Circus, was listed in 1995.
Other examples of Seifert’s work in London include King’s Reach Tower, built in 1972; London Euston, built in 1968; NatWest Tower on Old Broad Street, built in 1980; Space House on Kemble Street, built in 1962-65, and Tolworth House on the Kingston bypass, built in 1960.
A tour of the Pop Art Design exhibition with architecture writer Dominic Lutyens will take place on Friday 8 November at 7pm. The exhibition runs until 9 February. For more information visit www.barbican.org.uk.
