Brutal reality of living in the Barbican | Letter

Forty years after the development of the centre, William Edmead remembers life in the block wasn’t quite how it was conceived to be I rented a one-bedroom flat in the Barbican between 1972 and 1977 (‘A brutalist hanging gardens of Babylon’ – the maddening, miraculous Barbican hits 40, 1 March). The rent was fixed for those five years at £1,000 per annum (I think I was earning £4,000 around then). I was the first person to live in the flat, and at the time the