We’ve rented a few houses like that up there for holidays, and they work really well for a week or so. Open plan, nice and bright and often with lovely views.
Long term they’d drive me nuts, nowhere to hide away from the kids/wife, the whole house smells of cooking (despite the obligatory industrial grade extractor hood). I dare say all the glass would be disastrous for hifi.
Barbican was something of a pilgrimage for me, being from t’midlands. Have told myself one day I will live there. Dream on in the words of Steve Tyler.