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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.

Buckminster Fuller Architecture, US Buildings

January 19, 2025February 17, 2023 by Adrian Welch
Buckminster Fuller Spaceship Earth Exhibition

Buckminster Fuller, American architect famous for geodesic dome designs – Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895-1983), major figure in 20th Century US architecture

Categories Architects offices studios Tags Modern building designs

Mountbatten House, Basingstoke listed building

September 1, 2023January 24, 2023 by David McManus
Mountbatten House, Basingstoke listed building

Mountbatten House Basingstoke building news – large grade two listed building, cited as one of the 15 most important modern listed buildings in the UK, is set to be restored to its former glory as part of an extensive refurbishment of the property and its terraced gardens

Categories England architecture design Tags Modern building designs

Century 21 theater rehabilitation, San Jose, California

February 14, 2024January 10, 2023 by Adrian Welch
Century 21 theater rehabilitation, San Jose, California

Century 21 theater rehabilitation, San Jose, Northern California, by TEF Design: giant domed movie building from 1963 by architect Vincent G Raney, USA – considered the first of its kind

Categories California architecture design Tags Cinemas building designs, Modern building designs

Starship House in West Vancouver, Arthur Erickson

January 22, 2025November 11, 2022 by Adrian Welch
Starship House in West Vancouver, Arthur Erickson

Starship House in West Vancouver, by celebrated Canadian architect Arthur Erickson, at $4.3 million, this is one of the most significant architectural sales in Western Canada

Categories Vancouver building designs Tags House designs property, Modern building designs

High Sunderland, Galashiels, Scotland

August 9, 2022August 3, 2022 by Adrian Welch
High Sunderland house Scotland

This Modern Scottish property is one of 29 winners of the 2022 RIBA National Awards for architecture: High Sunderland is a 1957 Category A-listed modernist icon designed by architect Peter Womersley

Categories Scotland architecture designs Tags House designs property, Modern building designs

Niemeyer Guest House Renovation, Tripoli

March 23, 2024July 12, 2022 by Adrian Welch
Renovation of Niemeyer Guest House, Tripoli, Lebanon

Designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer but abandoned when civil war erupted in Lebanon, the Rachid Karami International Fair was added to UNESCO’s World Heritage tentative list

Categories Lebanon architecture designs Tags Modern building designs

Peter Womersley architect, building designs

December 15, 2024June 22, 2022 by Adrian Welch
Bernat Klein Studio in by architect Peter Womersley

Rowan Moore discusses “one of the best British architects of the 20th century”, yet largely unknown around the world: “His buildings are adventurous but poised; lucid, brave in conception and considered in their detail.”

Categories Architects offices studios Tags Modern building designs

The Paper Project Grants 2022, Getty Foundation

December 20, 2022June 12, 2022 by Adrian Welch
The Paper Project Grants 2022, Getty Foundation

The Paper Project Grants 2022 – Getty Foundation awards over $1 million to fund curatorial innovation at 15 art institutions. Among projects is a $53k grant to support an architectural project in Sweden

Categories Awards architecture news Tags Modern building designs

Peter and Alison Smithson Architects, London

January 19, 2025June 11, 2022 by Adrian Welch
Robin Hood Gardens London by Peter and Alison Smithson

They met while studying architecture at Durham University, north east England, UK. The couple married in 1949. They initially worked for the London County Council architecture department. They founded their architecture partnership in 1950

Categories Architects offices studios Tags Modern building designs

Cumbernauld Town Centre public consultation

May 19, 2022May 19, 2022 by Adrian Welch
Cumbernauld Town Centre public consultation

Cumbernauld Town Centre public consultation: Historic Environment Scotland asks public for views on this 20th Century Scottish megastructure, as HES consider listing the building

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

Kellogg Doolittle House, Joshua Tree, California

April 25, 2022April 25, 2022 by Adrian Welch
Kellogg Doolittle House, Joshua Tree, California

Kellogg Doolittle House, Joshua Tree, California, designed by architect Kendrick Bangs Kellogg – exceptional home made to appear as though it naturally existed among surrounding rock landscape

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

Danish National Bank Building by Arne Jacobsen

June 16, 2023March 11, 2022 by Isabelle Lomholt
Copenhagen Danmarks Nationalbank

The Danmarks Nationalbank building was designed by the Danish architect Arne Jacobsen and completed in 1978. Located in the centre of Copenhagen it is regarded as one of his major works.

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

Paul Rudolph architect: Modern US architecture

December 15, 2024February 11, 2022 by Adrian Welch
Visualization of Paul Rudolph’s Gatot Subroto Jakarta

Paul Rudolph’s undiscovered buildings: Eric Wolff has been researching the Modern architect’s Asian works. Scholars refer to them as “seven completed buildings including a couple of villas”

Categories Architects offices studios Tags Modern building designs

National Gallery Berlin Modern Architecture

May 25, 2024January 30, 2022 by Isabelle Lomholt
National Gallery Berlin Modern Architecture

New National Gallery Berlin building: Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum is a museum for modern art in Berlin, with its main focus on the early 20th century. The museum and its sculpture gardens were designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, opening in 1968

Categories Berlin architecture designs Tags Art galleries buildings, Modern building designs

Weissenhof Stuttgart open ideas competition

February 18, 2022January 19, 2022 by Adrian Welch
Weissenhofsiedlung Stuttgart modern building

Weissenhof Stuttgart open ideas competition, Germany, in cooperation with the Internationale Bauausstellung 2027 – IBA’27, when the Modern estate will be 100 years old

Categories Stuttgart buildings design Tags Design competitions news, Modern building designs

Serge Chermayeff Architect, Modern Buildings

July 5, 2022January 12, 2022 by David McManus
De La Warr Pavilion building design by Serge Chermayeff Architect

Serge Chermayeff Practice Information, born 1900 in Grozny, North Caucasus, Russia (now Chechnia). This Modern architect died 1996 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, USA.

Categories Architects offices studios Tags Modern building designs

Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Studio

May 2, 2025September 10, 2021 by David McManus
Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Studio/residences Los Angeles

Neutra VDL Studio and Residences will reopen after a year and a half of closure to the public in Los Angeles. The Modern house will once again hold public events, cultural exchanges, and architectural tours

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