The penultimate video tour published in collaboration with Open House London documents Salters' Hall, the white brutalist livery hall near the Barbican Estate.
Filmed by Jim Stephenson, the video is one of a series of short documentaries being published on Dezeen during the festival to spotlight unusual and overlooked places in London.
Salters' Hall's pick-hammered concrete facade
In the video, tour guide Valerie Wilson Trower sheds light on the building's late brutalist style, which is characterised by its white exterior crafted from textured and fluted concrete. This is an unusual design for a livery company's hall, leading Historic England to grant it Grade II-listed status in 2010.
"Salters' Hall is a great example of late brutalism constructed of white concrete moulded in situ, and then pick-hammered for surface interest," explained Wilson Trower.
"It has easy spaces that link to each other, four floors of office space, and then the three floors of The Salters' Company above that."
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