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4 unusual facts about Modern architecture


Duiliu Marcu

Initially his designs followed the French academic trend, later changed to the Neo-Romanian style, and finally in the 1930s joined the modern movement, becoming one of its main representatives in Romania.

John Yeon

He is regarded as one of the early practitioners of the Northwest Regionalist Style of Modernism.

Tara, Chertsey

The house was semi-transparent, minimalist modern style pioneered at the time across the globe by public galleries and the recording studios (such as Tittenhurst Park), and included futuristic appliances and labour-saving devices.

Washoe County Library

The Washoe County Library, at 301 S. Center St. in Reno, Nevada, is a public library and is a historic Modern-style building listed on the National Register of Historic Places.


Boulder Towers

The Boulder Towers are the 6th-tallest modern style skyscrapers in the city, behind the Cityplex Tower, the First Place Tower, the University Club Tower, Cityplex West Tower and the Liberty Towers complex.

Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations

In the 1950s, it achieved a high profile by hiring well-known modernist architects like Ralph Rapson, Harrison & Abramovitz, and Gordon Bunshaft.

Cohen House, London

Although less successful than the De La Warr Pavilion, the house was a prominent Modernist building in a city still then largely untouched by Modern architecture.

Eames House

The Eames House (also known as Case Study House No. 8) is a landmark of mid-20th century modern architecture located at 203 North Chautauqua Boulevard in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Edward Lifson

His particular interests include public space, transportation and art; street furniture, landscaping, parks, civic buildings, sustainability, housing, historic preservation, China, modern architecture and Japanese architecture.

Eldon Davis

Eldon Carlyle Davis (February 2, 1917 – April 22, 2011) was an American architect, considered largely responsible for the creation of Googie architecture, a form of modern architecture originating in Southern California.

Ely Jacques Kahn

In this period his work alternated Beaux-Arts with cubism, modernism, and art deco, of which examples are 2 Park Avenue (1927), using architectural terracotta in jazzy facets and primary colors, the Film Center Building in Hell's Kitchen (1928–29) and the Squibb Building (1930), which Kahn considered among his best work.

Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza

Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza (Cáseda, 12 October 1918 - Madrid, 18 July 2000) was a Spanish architect and influential practitioner of the modernist movement in Spain.

Gorbals

More recent phases, masterplanned by Piers Gough, have employed noted modern architects such as Page/Park, Elder & Cannon and CZWG, resulting in more bold and radical designs, accompanied by innovative street plans and high-quality landscaping.

Holyrood estate

Owen Hatherley describes the estate as a "straightforward scattering of low and medium-rise Modernist blocks, using the soft-Brutalist vernacular of stock-brick and concrete."

Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

The modern style structure was designed by the architectural firms of Pietro Belluschi, Inc. and Jung/Brannen Associates and ground was broken November 10, 1978.

New Century House

It is considered one of the finest modernist towers in the United Kingdom alongside the CIS Tower (1962, Grade II), the Arts Tower in Sheffield (Grade II*) and Euston Tower (1970) in London.

Polak and Sullivan

From a stylistic standpoint their output is extremely varied including at various times Romanesque Revival buildings, Gothic Revival buildings, Colonial buildings, Modern buildings and even a few buildings in International Style, which was rarely used for Roman Catholic churches.

Silver End

The village includes some noteworthy early examples of Modernist architectural design; the distinctive white, flat-roofed houses on Frances Way and Silver Street are the work of influential Scottish architect Thomas S. Tait, a leading designer of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings in the 20th Century who is also credited with designing the concrete pylons on Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Somalian architecture

In the cities of Garowe, Bosaso and Hargeisa, construction firms have built hotels, government facilities, airports and residential neighbourhoods in a modernist style, often utilizing chrome, steel and glass materials.

St Andrew's House

Tait's design incorporates elements of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne and is noted for being a rare example of sensitively designed modern architecture in Edinburgh.


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1984 Louisiana World Exposition

Despite its problems, the fair is fondly remembered by many New Orleans residents, particularly for its noteworthy post-modern architecture, such as the groundbreaking Wonderwall designed by noted architect Charles Willard Moore and his partner William Turnbull.

Banner Health

The building, designed by noted Chicago architect Bertrand Goldberg (best known for his iconic Marina City complex) featured his signature ultra-modern architecture, which made the tower a Phoenix architectural icon.

Brooklin Novo

On display are various icons of modern architecture in the city, like the Centro Empresarial Nações Unidas business complex where some of the largest buildings in the country are located.

Cardiff Bay Opera House

The project was also said to have been destroyed by conservatism and provincialism in relation to the modern architecture, and by Cardiff Council's support for the Millennium Stadium.

CIAM

Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne, the International Congress of Modern Architecture

Edward Cullinan

His Father, a doctor who served as senior physician at St Bartholomew's Hospital, had no great interest in the arts - though he was a brilliant amateur conjuror- but his mother (Slade-trained painter and daughter of the royal physician, Lord Horder) was an enthusiast for modern architecture and filled the nursery with Aalto furniture.

Farnsworth House

In the 21st century, Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critics Paul Goldberger and Blair Kamin have both declared the house a masterpiece of modern architecture.

Juha Leiviskä

Malcolm Quantrill, Juha Leiviskä and the Continuity of Finnish Modern Architecture.

Kasturbhai Lalbhai

He commissioned world-renowned architects such as Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier, B. V. Doshi and Charles Correa to design some of these institutes and bring modern architecture in Ahmedabad.

Kenneth John Conant

In 1929, Conant compiled a study guide for Harvard students which was the first academic work devoted exclusively to modern architecture, also remarkable for the inclusion of American modernists who would later "fall out of the canon", notably Bertram Goodhue.

King Street, Melbourne

The street has many examples of modern architecture, some designed by Yuncken Freeman who also had their offices located on the street.

Liljevalchs konsthall

While the indoor courtyard was also used at this time by Ragnar Östberg at the "Blue Hall" in the Stockholm City Hall, at Liljevalch Bergsten managed to combine traditional details with the newest concrete construction technique, and the art gallery was thus a forerunner to the modern architecture still to come.

Malcolm Quantrill

He was the first person to write critical monographs in any language on three individual Finnish modernist architects, Alvar Aalto - Alvar Aalto: A Critical Study (1983) - Reima Pietilä - Reima Pietilä: Architecture, Context, Modernism (1985) - and Juha Leiviskä - Juha Leiviska and the Continuity of Finnish Modern Architecture (2001).

Maniowy

The present village has a modern architecture of houses with several large buildings (for example Saint Nicholas Church and the gym hall) and is inhabited by over 2000 people.

Mortonhall

It is perhaps best known for its crematorium, designed by Sir Basil Spence, which is considered to be an outstanding example of Scottish modern architecture.

Robie House

Designed by the Uruguayan-born architect Rafael Viñoly and completed in 2004, the building both respects the scale of the Robie House and contains elements that echo Wright's contributions to the vocabulary of modern architecture.

Royal University of Phnom Penh

With the growth of Cambodia's economy and an assertion of its historical role, modern buildings for that time were constructed in the style of the New Khmer Architecture, which has influences of Bauhaus, European post-modern architecture and traditions from Angkor.

Sofia Metro

Evidence of antiquity can be clearly seen at the Serdika Station which exhibits a wealth of unearthed Thracian and Roman ruins and modern architecture.

Water Eaton, Milton Keynes

The GLC was very proud of the Lakes Estate, declaring it to be the finest in modern architecture for a working class estate, based on the design concept pioneered in Radburn, New Jersey.