Modernist architecture
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about modernist architecture
Project • By buerger katsota architects • Apartments
One Athens Apartment
One Athens residential complex at the foot of the Lycabettus hill constitutes a legendary building for Athens and its architecture. The modernist building -designed in 1957, by the prominent Greek architect Constantinos Doxiadis (1913-1975) and fully completed in 1971- served as the Doxiadis Associates headquarters till the late 1990s. The 2014 transformation of the listed office complex to a residential development introduced a new building type and scale to the city dominated by the ‘polykatoikia’ typology.
Yiorgis Yerolymbos
Yiorgis Yerolymbos
Yiorgis Yerolymbos
The complete renovation of the double aspect 5th-floor ‘L’-shape apartment aspires to accommodate the contemporary needs for living, by pa... More
News • News • 29 Nov 2023
Pricegore revitalizes a 1960s brutalist terrace in London’s Chelsea district
London-based architectural practice Pricegore has revitalized a modernist terrace townhouse in London’s Chelsea district. Drawing on the site’s Victorian past in order to maximize spatial potential, the studio stripped back and upgraded the 1960s brutalist dwelling, creating a contemporary family home.
Johan Dehlin
Originally a five-bedroom house, Pricegore was tasked with reconfiguring the residence into a three-bedroom home with living spaces more suited to modern-day requirements. “We admired the rational design of this brutalist terrace and its formal expression, however the interiors needed retuning to contemporary life and of course it required a total renovation in terms of thermal performance and en... More
Project • By Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects • Concert Halls
The Radio House
The Radio House on Rosenørns Allé is one of Vilhelm Lauritzen's most famous and esteemed architectural works – internationally as well. Since the elegant building with its distinctive fan-shaped concert hall was completed in 1945, it has provided the setting for life and music, and continues to do so to this day. For music lovers, students and staff of the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Rasmus Hjortshøj
Rasmus Hjortshøj
The materials used in the Radio House are exclusive both inside and out. The facades are made of Greenlandic marble, and the furniture and furnishings are designed in materials like dark mahogany. The ceiling in the foyer is divided into sections of oxhide, stretched directly over... More
Project • By Wittehaus • Private Houses
Gerendák
A couple steeped in the Charlotte, NC, art scene had approached their architect Toby Witte of Wittehaus with images of the Netflix series “The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes”.
With the need for soaring cantilevers, a desire to enjoy the home when climbing stairs might be at issue, and big eyes and open ears about the process of design, they were ready for their own modern home.
Amanda Anderson
Together they went on a tour to understand themselves and their needs, dreams, and desires as well as their site, and the potential inherent in the art of architecture itself. Over the course of eight months they talked, sketched, explored, flushed out a long laundry list of practical concerns, and inched ever so careful thr... More
News • News • 15 Feb 2023
A short history of Le Corbusier
Famed Swiss architect and city planner, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris – better known by his pseudonym Le Corbusier - was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, October 6, 1887, and died in Cap Martin, France, August 27, 1965.
Image by Alexander Coles from Pixabay
He is considered to be one of the most important architects of the 20th century and his monumental influence can still be felt today. Back in 2016, seventeen of his architectural works were named World Heritage sites by UNESCO. His world-renowned oeuvre combines functionalism from the modern movement with bold sculptural expressionism.
Ricardo Gomez Angel
Le Corbusier had no formal training as an architect. At thirteen he left... More
News • News • 27 Sep 2022
Naso refurbishes an exemplary modernist structure as a hub for art and sustainable dining
Located in the heart of Bosque de Chapultepec in Mexico City, Lago/Algo is a cultural hub managed and created by OMR Gallery and Corporacion Mexicana de Restaurantes (CMR). The project is a refurbishment of an existing 1964 modernist building, formerly designed by Leónides Guadarrama and Alfonso Ramírez Ponce, later renovated by Javier Sordo Madaleno in 1998. Redesigned by Mexican firm Naso, the project seeks to revitalise the original building to its former glory.
Maureen M. Evans
The project aims to revamp the second section of the building by introducing a new program that integrates a sustainable restaurant, a public art gallery and a workplace, thereby establishing new connections with the park’s existing cu... More
Project • By Jackson Clements Burrows Architects • Private Houses
Carnsworth House
Perched on a hill overlooking parklands, the Carnsworth House was originally built in the 1960s and exemplifies residential architecture of the period.
JCB’s brief was to refurbish and sympathetically breathe new life into its old modernist bones, while extending its capacity to accommodate a growing family.
Bathrooms, kitchen and living areas have been replanned and re-finished with a range of materials and colours that enhance the building’s natural setting.
Burnt orange carpets, rich timber ceilings, dark terrazzo floor tiles, tailored cabinetry, period lighting and Florence Broadchurch wallpaper all combine to dramatic effect in the rejuvenation of this much loved Sixties home. More
News • News • 26 Aug 2020
Casa Atibaia pays tribute to Brazilian modernism
Casa Atibaia is an ethereal residential project that pays tribute to Brazilian modernism. Designed by Charlotte Taylor in collaboration with Nicholas Préaud, the found of Maison de Sable, the house inhabits the forest by coexisting around and in-between the landscape rather than imposing on nature.
Credit: Charlotte Taylor
With its light facades and ramps gently swirling around a central tree, the designers explain the house embodies the feeling of living inside with the illusion of being outside.
Credit: Charlotte Taylor
The structure of the home follows geometric modernist principles yet opens up onto an expansive organic inner courtyard that curves and responds to the surrounding vegetation, bridging a gap between outs... More