Modern English Architecture, Modernism England, Projects, Examples, Houses, Architects

Modernist Architecture England : English Modernism

Modern Buildings & The International style in Great Britain

post updated 6 Nov 2020

Key British Modern Buildings

Major UK Modernist Architectural Designs, alphabetical:

Bata Shoe Factory, Tilbury, east London

Design: Vladimir Karfik Architect

Boots D10 Factory, Nottingham, England

Design: Owen Williams Architect
Classic Modern British building – a simple expression of structure & techonology

Central London Electricity Board – Regent St Showroom, London

Design: Max Fry Architect

The Circles, Long Ditton, Surrey, England
Date built: 1930s
Design: Wells Coates Architect

Columbia Road flats, London
Date built: 1964
Design: Berthold Lubetkin

Coychurch Crematorium, Bridgend, South Wales

Design: Max Fry Architect

Daily Express Building, London

Design: Owen Williams

Daily Express Building, central-east Manchester, England

Design: Owen Williams

Finsbury Health Centre, Finsbury, northeast London
Date built: 1938
Design: Berthold Lubetkin
Finsbury Health Centre
photo from JW
Finsbury Health Centre

Gorilla House, London Zoo, Regent’s Park, London
Date built: 1934
Design: Berthold Lubetkin

Hallfield Estate, Paddington, west London
Date built: 1954
Design: Tecton ie Lubetkin + Lasdun et al

Highpoint I, Highgate, north London
Date built: 1935
Design: Berthold Lubetkin
Modernist Housing
photo © Adrian Welch
Modernist Housing

House B, Whipsnade, nr Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England

Design: Tecton – Berthold Lubetkin

Impington Village College, Cambridgeshire, England

Design: Gropius & Fry

Kensal House, Ladbroke Grove, London
Date built: 1938
Design: Max Fry with Elizabeth Denby
Modern housing

Labworth Café, Canvey Island, Essex, southeast England

Design: Christiani & Nielsen

Lawn Road flats – Isokon, Hampstead, north London
Date built: 1934
Design: Wells Coates
Isokon
photo © Robin Lambert
Lawn Road flats

Levy House, Old Church St, Chelsea, London

Max Fry

Paddington Maintenance Depot, northwest London
Date built: 1968
Bicknell & Hamilton
Modernist railway building

10 Palace Gate, Kensington, west London
Date built: 1937
Wells Coates
Modern highrise

Penguin Pool, London Zoo, Regent’s Park, London, England
Date built: 1934
Berthold Lubetkin

Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham, south London
1935
Owen Williams

Priory Heights Housing, Finsbury, northeast London, England
1951
Berthold Lubetkin

Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, England
1931
Joseph Emberton

Spa Green Estate, Finsbury, northeast London, England

Berthold Lubetkin
RIBA Gold Medal 1982

Sun House, Frognal, Hampstead, London

Max Fry

Village College, Impington, Cambridge, England
1936
Walter Gropius

Wood House, Shipbourne, Kent, England

Walter Gropius

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