Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro the London Centre for Music at the Barbican will be "a concert hall for the 21st century", within a twisted pyramid-shaped tower.
Estimated to cost £288 million, the venue for the Barbican, London Symphony Orchestra and Guildhall School of Music & Drama, will have a state-of-the-art concert hall, along with performance, education and rehearsal spaces.

The tapering tower designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro will be built where the Powell & Moya-designed Museum of London currently sits, on the southern edge of the Barbican Centre. The museum is moving to a new site designed by Stanton Williams and Asif Khan.
It's one of the first major UK projects for the American architecture practice, which won a competition to design the major concert venue in 2017. The studio is also designing a building on the Victoria & Albert museum's V&A East site. The practice, who delivered New York's High Line, are working on a similar project for the Greenwich Peninsula site.

An outdoor stairway that doubles as an amphitheatre will lead up to one of the entrances and connect the venue to the Barbican highwalk network ? the elevated pedestrian route that traverses the estate.

"A vital public space seamlessly connects to the foyer and extends a welcome to everyone, with or without a performance ticket," Elizabeth Diller, founding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro said. Diller was recently named the world's most inf...