Wells Coates, Architect, Architecture, Building, Image, Housing, Thirties, Modernism

Wells Coates Architect : Architecture

Key 20th Century English Architect & Designer



Wells Coates, Architect
1895-1958

Wells Coates - Major Building

Lawn Road flats, Belsize Park, London, UK
1934
Lawn Road flats
photo © Robin Lambert
Lawn Road flats, Hampstead

Wells Coates - Key Projects

Featured Wells Coates Buildings, alphabetical:

BBC Studios, London
1931

The Circles, Long Ditton, Surrey, England
1930s

Cresta Silks factory, England
1928

Cresta Silks shop, Brompton Road, west London
1929

Lawn Road flats - Isokon, Hampstead, north London
1934

Palace Gate flats, Kensington, west London
1939

Sunspan House, England
1934-35

Wells Coates' flat, Yeoman's Row, Knightsbridge, west London
1935

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Wells Coates was also a proficient industrial designer

Wells Coates' Buildings in more detail

Isokon
Lawn Road flats was influenced by Le Corbusier's housing proposals

First Client: Jack & Molly Pritchard of Venesta Plywood - Isokon building, London
Four storey white block with clean styling, deck access
29 apartments

Walter Gropius stayed here from 1934-37. Over famous residents include the artist Moholy-Nagy, write Agatha Christie and architect Marcel Breuer.

When we visited in the late 1990's the place was not only decrepit but quite scary, with signs of squatting and drug use. It has since been completely refurbished.

Isokon stands for Isometric unit construction.

The Circles, Long Ditton, Surrey
1930s
Wells Coates
2006 - refurbishment:
John Winter Architect
Private house

10 Palace Gate, Kensington, west London
1937
Refurbished lobby 2003 by John McAslan & Partners
Modern highrise

Exhibition project
Sunspan house, Ideal Home Exhibition
1934

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Wells Coates architect - Information

Wells Coates co-founded the MARS group
born in Tokyo
1895-1958
Canadian parents

Isokon:
Isokon
photograph © Nick Weall

Education:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada : M&E Engineering
University of London, UK : Diesel Engine Phd, 1924

Worked for a time as a journalist for the Daily Express newspaper

Architect practice started in 1929, in England

Designing Modern Britain - Design Museum Exhibition
2006

Well-known architectural assistants to Coates: Denys Lasdun; Patrick Gwynne

Wells Coates : Modern Architect



Modern Architecture

Wells Coates : English Architect

London Architecture

Wells Coates assistant : Denys Lasdun

Architecture Studios

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