{"id":133613,"date":"2023-01-08T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/into-the-void-the-four-storey-barbican-shell-set-to-become-a-3-5m-home\/"},"modified":"2023-01-08T22:08:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T15:08:32","slug":"into-the-void-the-four-storey-barbican-shell-set-to-become-a-3-5m-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/into-the-void-the-four-storey-barbican-shell-set-to-become-a-3-5m-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Void: the four-storey Barbican shell set to become a \u00a33.5m home"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHaving bought the space in 2006 for \u00a3200,000, 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.\u201cI\u2019d probably gone past it at least a thousand times, until I had the idea,\u201d Keesing said. The idea was to buy the four-storey space \u2013 which had lain empty for almost 50 years \u2013 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…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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