Property News · January 8, 2023

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


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 – and transform it into a vast and unique home at the bottom of the 43-storey Cromwell Tower in the 1970s brutalist complex. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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