Home Prototypes in Los Angeles
Design: Lehrer Architects. Located in a challenging neighborhood, and built on a low budget, these prototypes for affordable homes provide amenities and spatial qualities not usually found in this type of housing.
Modern building designs
Modern buildings designs and architects
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Tree Top Residence Los Angeles
Design: Belzberg Architects. The Tree Top Residence celebrates the site’s complex landscape, merging seamlessly and emerging from atop the canopy of trees that surround it.
ESSEX Architecture Weekend: Buildings
Essex architecture news – Radical Essex present events celebrating county’s pioneering role in 20th century architecture: Modernist architecture & experimental community models
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.
Pathfoot Building at University of Stirling: RMJM
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.