Modern English Architecture, Modernism England, Projects, Examples, Houses, Architects
Modernist Architecture England : English Modernism
Modern Buildings & The International style in Great Britain
post updated 6 Nov 2020
Key British Modern Buildings
Major UK Modernist Architectural Designs, alphabetical:
Bata Shoe Factory, Tilbury, east London
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Design: Vladimir Karfik Architect
Boots D10 Factory, Nottingham, England
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Design: Owen Williams Architect
Classic Modern British building – a simple expression of structure & techonology
Central London Electricity Board – Regent St Showroom, London
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Design: Max Fry Architect
The Circles, Long Ditton, Surrey, England
Date built: 1930s
Design: Wells Coates Architect
Columbia Road flats, London
Date built: 1964
Design: Berthold Lubetkin
Coychurch Crematorium, Bridgend, South Wales
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Design: Max Fry Architect
Daily Express Building, London
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Design: Owen Williams
Daily Express Building, central-east Manchester, England
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Design: Owen Williams
Finsbury Health Centre, Finsbury, northeast London
Date built: 1938
Design: Berthold Lubetkin
photo from JW
Finsbury Health Centre
Gorilla House, London Zoo, Regent’s Park, London
Date built: 1934
Design: Berthold Lubetkin
Hallfield Estate, Paddington, west London
Date built: 1954
Design: Tecton ie Lubetkin + Lasdun et al
Highpoint I, Highgate, north London
Date built: 1935
Design: Berthold Lubetkin
photo © Adrian Welch
Modernist Housing
House B, Whipsnade, nr Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England
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Design: Tecton – Berthold Lubetkin
Impington Village College, Cambridgeshire, England
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Design: Gropius & Fry
Kensal House, Ladbroke Grove, London
Date built: 1938
Design: Max Fry with Elizabeth Denby
Modern housing
Labworth Café, Canvey Island, Essex, southeast England
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Design: Christiani & Nielsen
Lawn Road flats – Isokon, Hampstead, north London
Date built: 1934
Design: Wells Coates
photo © Robin Lambert
Lawn Road flats
Levy House, Old Church St, Chelsea, London
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Max Fry
Paddington Maintenance Depot, northwest London
Date built: 1968
Bicknell & Hamilton
Modernist railway building
10 Palace Gate, Kensington, west London
Date built: 1937
Wells Coates
Modern highrise
Penguin Pool, London Zoo, Regent’s Park, London, England
Date built: 1934
Berthold Lubetkin
Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham, south London
1935
Owen Williams
Priory Heights Housing, Finsbury, northeast London, England
1951
Berthold Lubetkin
Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, England
1931
Joseph Emberton
Spa Green Estate, Finsbury, northeast London, England
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Berthold Lubetkin
RIBA Gold Medal 1982
Sun House, Frognal, Hampstead, London
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Max Fry
Village College, Impington, Cambridge, England
1936
Walter Gropius
Wood House, Shipbourne, Kent, England
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Walter Gropius
Location: England, UK
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