The City of London Corporation has given its backing to a second phase of upgrade work at the Barbican that will see the brutalist landmark’s podium refurbished and re-landscaped.

Proposals from multidisciplinary design and engineering firm Atkins will remove existing tiled hard surfaces, membranes and soft landscaping on the podium – which covers an area greater than two football pitches – for replacement with a watertight scheme.

Members of the City of London’s Planning Applications Sub-Committee were told at their meeting on Tuesday that water ingress from the podium was affecting structural elements of the grade II-listed complex, designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon.

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