Construction started in 1960 and concluded with the opening of the Barbican Centre in 1982. The Barbican was designed by the architectural practice of Chamberlin, Powell and Bon. View of the three concrete residential towers of the Barbican estate, London. They built the colossal 43 metre diameter dome of the Pantheon in Rome, still standing today. Over 1,900 years ago, the Romans also employed a type of cement, which included using volcanic ash.
Source: Creative Commons.Ĭement, a key constituent of concrete and its historic forebear, has been used for thousands of years in various forms, including in Ancient Egypt and Greece.Īlmost 2,500 years ago, merchant tribes in the deserts of Arabia were using deposits of silica mixed with lime to create cement to build water channels and cisterns for collecting scarce rainfall. Interior of the Pantheon’s dome today, Rome, Italy. Concrete is the most commonly used man-made substance on the planet, second only to water as the most utilised resource.
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