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Modern building designs

Modern buildings designs and architects

e-architect select Modern building designs around the world. Discover Modernist buildings information, news and pictures. Source examples of 20th Century structures, such as works in the International Style. Find Corbusian architecture projects of the best globally.

We feature a selection of the most interesting 20thC architectural projects globally and post frequently.

The website features a selection of the best Modern building designs around the world, by respected designers.

In addition, we post information and images of significant contemporary Modernist architecture projects on this international website.

Pathfoot Building at University of Stirling

November 4, 2020August 8, 2016 by Adrian Welch
Pathfoot Building at Stirling University aerial image

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.

Categories Scotland architecture designs Tags Modern building designs, University building designs

Teatro Popular de Niteroi, Brazil: Niemeyer

March 28, 2024August 7, 2016 by Isabelle Lomholt
Teatro Popular de Niteroi,

Teatro Popular de Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro building, Brazil – by Oscar Niemeyer, famous Brazilian architect – Popular Theatre in Niteroi, Modern architecture

Categories Brazil architectural design Tags Modern building designs, Theatre building designs

Getty Foundation Keeping it Modern: Post-war

July 18, 2020July 31, 2016 by David McManus
Villa E-1027, Cap Moderne

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.

Categories Awards architecture news Tags Architecture awards prizes, Modern building designs

Keeping It Modern 2016 Architectural Grants

July 18, 2020July 29, 2016 by David McManus
Casa de Vidro São Paulo

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.

Categories Awards architecture news Tags Architecture awards prizes, Modern building designs

Villa Cavrois: House by Robert Mallet-Stevens

June 24, 2023July 20, 2016 by Houzz
Villa Cavrois

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.

Categories Paris architecture design Tags House designs property, Modern building designs

Post-war Buildings: Modernist Architecture

March 28, 2024June 29, 2016 by David McManus
Tugendhat Villa Brno Modern house

Post-war buildings, Modernist architecture – 20th Century built environment + The International Style – Post-war architecture: Modernist building photos

Categories Awards architecture news Tags Architecture awards prizes, House designs property, Modern building designs

Seagram Building New York City, Manhattan skyscraper

March 5, 2025June 19, 2016 by Adrian Welch
Seagram Building New York

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.

Categories New York buildings design Tags Modern building designs, Skyscraper building designs

The Opal in Copenhagen Offices

August 9, 2023June 8, 2016 by Isabelle Lomholt
The Opal in Copenhagen

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.

Categories Copenhagen buildings design Tags Modern building designs, Office building designs

Florey Building in Oxford

August 31, 2020May 27, 2016 by David McManus
The Florey, 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.

Categories Oxford architecture: buildings Tags Events architecture news, Modern building designs, Redevelopment building

Patrick Hodgkinson Architect, UK

November 3, 2020April 18, 2016 by David McManus
Brunswick Centre

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.

Categories Architects offices studios Tags Modern building designs

George Washington Bridge Bus Station Renewal

January 13, 2021April 15, 2016 by David McManus
George Washington Bridge Bus Station

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.

Categories New York buildings design Tags Bus stations buildings, Modern building designs, Transport building designs

Louis Kahn Building in Fort Wayne: Arts United

January 3, 2024April 8, 2016 by David McManus
Louis Kahn Building in Fort Wayne

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.

Categories America architecture news Tags Masterplan building designs, Modern building designs

Sydney Opera House: Jørn Utzon Australia Building

March 11, 2021March 30, 2016 by Isabelle Lomholt
Le Corbusier tapestry Sydney Opera House

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.

Categories Australia architecture designs Tags Concert halls buildings, Marine building designs, Modern building designs

Met Breuer New York Building, USA

February 13, 2025March 29, 2016 by David McManus
Met Breuer Building Manhattan

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.

Categories New York buildings design Tags Art galleries buildings, Modern building designs, Museum building designs

Modern American Houses, US 20th Century Homes

August 2, 2024March 17, 2016 by David McManus
Norman Lykes home in Phoenix by Frank Lloyd Wright

Modernist American Houses: an article in The Guardian about sales of 20th Century residences in the US by revered Modernist architects,

Categories America architecture news Tags House designs property, Modern building designs

Mackintosh Building Main Tender

March 29, 2024March 16, 2016 by Isabelle Lomholt
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.

Categories Architects offices studios Tags Interior designs architects, Modern building designs, Restoration building designs

James Goldstein House in Beverly Hills, California

February 24, 2024February 23, 2016 by David McManus
James Goldstein House in California

The owner of John Lautner’s Beverly Hills space-age masterpiece – James Goldstein – has promised the estate and its contents to Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Categories Los Angeles building designs Tags House designs property, Modern building designs
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