Take a look inside the Barbican’s boiler room before the Big Upgrade

When the Barbican Art Centre was being constructed in the late 1970s, a boiler room was needed to provide all the mechanicals for the building, but soon, a lot of that 40+ year old equipment is to be stripped out.Down several flights of stairs, through an unmarked door into a staff corridor, you come to a locked door that takes you into the beating heart of the Barbican — a huge boiler room.
Barring some upgrades as needed, most of the equipment down here dates back to when the art centre