Haus am Horn in Weimar: First Bauhaus Building
The Haus am Horn in Weimar is the first architectural example from the Bauhaus, and the only one in the city where the school was founded.
Modern building designs
Modern buildings designs and architects
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Pathfoot Building at University of Stirling
An outstanding example of post-war Modernist Scottish architecture, of international significance. This is a 20th Century tertiary education building in a parkland landscape setting. The highly flexible plan form that influenced Norman Foster’s Willis Faber Dumas Building In Ipswich.
Teatro Popular de Niteroi, Brazil: Niemeyer
Teatro Popular de Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro building, Brazil – by Oscar Niemeyer, famous Brazilian architect – Popular Theatre in Niteroi, Modern architecture
Getty Foundation Keeping it Modern: Post-war
The Getty Foundation award $1.3m in architectural conservation grants for exemplary 20th century buildings as part of its Keeping It Modern initiative: nine projects in nine countries.
Keeping It Modern 2016 Architectural Grants
Getty Foundation Keeping It Modern 2016 Architectural Conservation Grants – the nine buildings in more detail…including Casa de Vidro (pictured) by Lina Bo Bardi, a leading practitioner of the modern movement, designing many of the country’s most iconic buildings.
Villa Cavrois: House by Robert Mallet-Stevens
The 1930s French Villa Cavrois, a key piece of modernist architecture, almost disappeared. Take a tour of its now lovingly restored rooms. Article first published on Houzz.
Post-war Buildings: Modernist Architecture
Post-war buildings, Modernist architecture – 20th Century built environment + The International Style – Post-war architecture: Modernist building photos
Seagram Building New York City, Manhattan skyscraper
Design: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect; Philip Johnson. Classic International Style design – this building exhibits clean Modernist lines. The Seagram Building faces the podium and tower of Lever House by architects Skidmore Owings & Merrill across Park Avenue.
The Opal in Copenhagen Offices
Design: Dorte Mandrup Architects. The building is named “The Opal”, which refers to the oval gemstone that reflects all colours of the spectrum. The reference is evident in both form and structure.
Florey Building in Oxford
Florey Building Oxford proposal by Avanti Architects approved: the Grade II-listed design is a key Modernist building, a rare surviving work of architect James Stirling. The building setting is improved through removal of a car park and enhanced public realm.
Patrick Hodgkinson Architect, UK
Patrick Hodgkinson, architect – new photos. The architect, who recently died aged 85, is celebrated for his design of the futuristic Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury, completed in 1972, after he had resigned in protest against the contractor-developers, McAlpine.
George Washington Bridge Bus Station Renewal
Original Design: Dr. Pier Luigi Nervi. Construction on the terminal has been further delayed, pushing the opening date to December of 2016. GWBBS opened in 1963, designed by the noted Italian engineer-architect of the 1960 Olympic Stadium in Rome.
Louis Kahn Building in Fort Wayne: Arts United
Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne hopes to transform downtown Fort Wayne’s arts campus into a “boldly accessible, connected and welcoming creative space” that provides excellence for local non-profit arts groups, their patrons and the community.
Sydney Opera House: Jørn Utzon Australia Building
Le Corbusier’s tapestry Les Dés Sont Jetés (The Dice Are Cast), commissioned by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, now hanging in the Sydney Opera House building, NSW, Australia.
Met Breuer New York Building, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art on Madison Avenue. Occupying the old “Whitney” in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The former museum closed in 2014 to relocate to a new building designed by Renzo Piano in Lower Manhattan that opened in May 1, 2015.
Modern American Houses, US 20th Century Homes
Modernist American Houses: an article in The Guardian about sales of 20th Century residences in the US by revered Modernist architects,
Mackintosh Building Main Tender
Mackintosh Milestone: Invitation to Tender for the Main Contractor issued. Calibre of specialists and traditional skills training are key aspects of the ITT brief GSA releases 3D visualisations of the Mackintosh Building post fire created by the Digital Design Studio.