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The Barbican's red shutters are its warmest gesture — the one element that consistently surprises visitors who arrive expecting nothing but grey. Chamberlin, Powell and Bon chose a deep terracotta for the louvered window panels, and that color has become as synonymous with the building as the aggregate concrete itself. Here, one shutter breaks from the others — thrown open at a diagonal while the rest stay flat — introducing a single line of movement into a surface otherwise committed to the parallel. The grey holds its position. The red insists on its own.
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