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Details at the Barbican Estate, London, 2025

A sunlit shot of balconies covered with shutters on a curved building at the Barbican Estate. Most of the shutters are closed, but on the floor which is in the middle of the shot, several of them are open to differing degrees.

A sunlit ground-level shot of the corner of one of the towers at the Barbican Estate. In the centre of the image, the inflecting shape of the concrete balconies is captured. Several floors in the middle of the bulding are visible.

A ground-level shot of one of the concrete towers at the Barbican Estate. Many floors repeat up towards the top of the image, with the shapes of balconies visible.

Close up of 4 concrete balconies, with blue metal and glass balustrades. Behind each, are some rectangular brown windows and bright red doors. The shot is taken from ground level, looking up at the balconies, filling the image geometrically.

A shot of the Barbian Estate, with multiple parts of it visible. In the foreground, on the left, the edge of one of the buildings with corridors and stairways visible, as well as a concrete ventilation shaft on the right. Across the middle of the shot, a covered glass walkway. In the back, another concrete shaft and the conservatory.

A multi-coloured contraption for holding bike locks, mounted against a red wall. It has several sections, all of different colours, with labels in different fonts and of different ages. Some have bike locks attached to them.

Front-on close up of the Seddon House at the Barbican Estate, focusing on the ground floor and the 4 floors above that.

Heatwave at the Barbican Estate, 2025

A wide geometric shot of flats at the Barbican estate. In the background, more modern glass buildings of central London. In the foreground, a fountain with water flowing into the pool beneath.

Wide shot showing many features of the Barbican estate. From left to right: Guildhall School of Music and Drama, an algae-green pool, a tall tower, a shorter tower with view of its balconies, and the main Barbican library building.

A shot from one of the balconies at the Barbican estate. In the very front of the shot, the concrete balcony is out of focus. Further out, there is a tree, a pool green with algae, and even further back, one of the apartment buildings and the modern glass buldings of the City of London in the background.

A shot of the Barbican estate, featuring greenery in the very foreground, followed by Barbican buildings further back, and the glass buildings of the City of London in the very background.

A shot of balconies, mostly covered with wooden shutters, at the circle-shaped building at the Barbican estate. In the foreground, concrete planters.

A ground-level shot looking up at one of the buildings at the Barbican estate, showing 6 floors of balconies full of plants.

A shot of one of the covered walkways of the Barbican. It is fairly dark, with light only coming in at the back of the image, where silhouettes of two people can be seen standing.

Commercial Union House in the sharp summer sunshine, London, 2025

A close up of 3 storeys of windows, with a little bit of the sky visible in the top right corner. The building itself is clad with different shades of brown tile. The windows span the width of the building at equal intervals, and are darkened. Behind them are dishevelled vertical blinds.

Show me a darkened window and I’ll be there.

Aldersgate Court, City of London, 2025

An angular brick 90's housing block. A dark shadow is cast across the rightmost side of it by taller buildings out of view.

This 90’s housing block is by no definition modernist, but the shadows cast in this narrow alleyway were impossible to resist.

Once-futuristic signage, London, 2025

A sign reading Zero Seven London Dental Practice set in a wide, bold sans serif font. The words Zero and Seven are separated with a colon and feature a thick solid border above and below. They are on one line, with the word London in a much smaller font, inset into the border underneath. Underneath that, it says Dental Practice and the phone number, in a larger font across 3 lines.

Bonus points if you recognise the building in the background.

Patrick Coman House, Finsbury Estate, Clerkenwell, London, 2025

A shot of a 9 storey housing estate building shot at an angle of about 30 degrees to the face of the building. Each storey is fronted by a rough textured concrete walkway, and at equal intervals ribbed balconies made of an opaque white material, possibly also concrete, curve outwards. Residents' satellite dishes cast shadows in the spring sun. In the foreground, a leafy tree covers most of the first set of balconies.

Entire societies have lived and died in the time I have prevaricated over whether to post this, but… I don’t know, something about this one just catches my eye.

Balconies of Wells House, Spa Green Estate, Clerkenwell, London, 2025

Ground level shot looking up at an 8 storey building, focusing on the balconies. These alternate with tiles at the sides and latticed fencing in the middle, and vice versa. The balconies are inset into the building and either side of them is a grid of clean, PVC windows.

Brunswick Centre in the sunset, London, 2025

A photo of the Brunswick Centre taken at a 45 degree angle. It is a concrete ziggurat-style structure, painted white, with small conservatory-like glass balconies on each floor. The sun is setting, and people are crossing the zebra crossing on front of the building.

A detail photo of the Brunswick Centre. It is a concrete structure painted white, ziggurat-style, about 6 stories. The photo shows a front-on view of 4 glass conservatories coming out the face of the building on each floor.

A detail photo of the Brunswick Centre, showing two concrete columns rising a few metres above the top storey of the building. They appear to be used for cooling, with vents in the top section of the column.

Retro signage in Islington, London, 2025

An aged sign above a shop with closed battered metal shutters. The background is cream and in various fonts it reads BEST FLIGHT - Travel Agency and Taste Byte offering Internet & Indian food, as well as other text. The sign has aluminium edging around it.

The Internet and Indian food — I would never need to leave.

Concrete ramp, London Euston station, 2025

A ramp with short sides made of concrete. In the sky, the sun is breaking through the clouds. There are trains either way of the ramp, as well as other central London buildings in the background.

As the train snaked its’ way through outer London, I thought to myself “how long until I find some concrete to photograph” – turns out, I only needed to wait until it pulled into Euston and I caught glimpse of this ramp, once used for British Rail’s Red Star Parcels service, in the moody summer sundown.