Although the post-war London acutely felt the lack of housing, homes could be built and away from such an expensive area of ​​the city center. But the Barbican was to be the embodiment of social-utopian thought, which later grew out of the Soviet city of gardens, and everything a modern city planning, and largely socialism itself.

Then, in the postwar years, democracy reigned British society that has overcome the Nazi Germany and dreamed to establish their understanding of democratic ideals in life.

That appeared chance to revive the dream of Owen and Fourier, and a phalanx of central London district at 6500 inhabitants, which would embody all the latest achievements of modern architecture and technology. And it was not easy to do.

We had to hide under the ground a few miles of railway and subway lines, laying rails on special rubber gaskets that reduce noise levels.

There were first introduced small-sized apartments and small kitchens, light furniture and all kinds of plumbing and electrical innovations.

Finnish designers have been invited, and with them three British architects Chamberlain, Powell and Bon were to draw the image of this unprecedented zhilmassiva.

The result was something unique. Along the perimeter of the quarter were built hundred-meter houses, on the upper floors of which - Gardens of Babylon, landscaped courtyards.

The architecture of these houses was far from the images of low-cost housing and absorbed the ideas of not only Le Corbusier, who at the same time building such a dwelling unit in Marseille, and Frank Lloyd Wright, the mysterious and mystical Democrat in the U.S., designed the skyscraper, built not on rectangular and a triangular module.

In the center of the quarter were built low houses for families that are closer to the ground and trees. In the same center was set up a kind of Venice - with canals, and even waterfalls.