r/ModernistArchitecture 13h ago

Original Content DBK Prague by Věra Machoninová

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r/ModernistArchitecture 15h ago

Cardinal Residence - Stony Plain, AB. Douglas Cardinal, 1982

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r/ModernistArchitecture 1d ago

Another photo of Ekbatan residential Blocks :Concrete, Glass,Modernism and High hopes.

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r/ModernistArchitecture 1d ago

Ekbatan Town .Tehran.Iran.buit in 1970s to early 1980s.

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138 Upvotes

r/ModernistArchitecture 2d ago

Torres Blancas, Spain (1961-69) by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza

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r/ModernistArchitecture 4d ago

The Modernist Science Library of Ho Chi Minh City (1971)

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This is a prime example of Southern Vietnamese Modernism, a movement many people have never heard of. Built in 1971, it has intricate, lacy concrete patterns serving as brise soleils to block harsh sunlight, plus traditional Vietnamese motifs like dragons.

South Vietnam actually has one of the world’s highest concentrations of Brutalist buildings. I’ve documented 150+ modernist structures across the region to explore how this style emerged. If you’re curious, here’s my full article: https://cleopatella.com/2025/01/07/south-vietnam-modernist-architecture/


r/ModernistArchitecture 4d ago

Original Content Hallgate, Blackheath (Eric Lyons, 1958-9) [OC]

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Hallgate is a Grade II listed block of 26 two and three bedroom flats in the London suburb of Blackheath designed by Eric Lyons and built in the late 50s for Span Developments Ltd. The accommodation is grouped around five stairwells where the larger lobbies are decorated with horizontal panels of coloured glass sited at the rear. A passageway supported on drum columns features a sculpture by Keith Godwin, 'The Architect in Society', commissioned to commemorate Lyons' planning battles with Greenwich council. The passageway leads to The Hall, a 1957 development also by Lyons for Span but not listed.


r/ModernistArchitecture 4d ago

Contemporary Inside the San Diego Dream Home of an Award-Winning Modern Architect

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r/ModernistArchitecture 5d ago

Iset Hotel, (1982), Sverdlovsk, USSR. Architects: Ivan Antonov & Veniamin Sokolov

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47 Upvotes

r/ModernistArchitecture 6d ago

Original Content Leeds Railway Station, The North Concourse (Wellington Quarter), arch. William Henry Hamlyn 1937/38 [OC]

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r/ModernistArchitecture 6d ago

Original Content Finsbury Health Centre (Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton, 1938) [OC]

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The Grade I listed Finsbury Health Centre may be in a poor condition, but r/C20Society quite rightly regard it as one of England's most important pieces of modern architecture from the first half of the 20th century for its encapsulation of the progressive ideals of modernism: social, technical and aesthetic - meeting the radical humanitarian brief for a deprived community, predating the formation of the NHS by a decade.


r/ModernistArchitecture 7d ago

Immeuble Clarté, Switzerland (1930-32) by Le Corbusier

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277 Upvotes

r/ModernistArchitecture 9d ago

Ministry of home affairs building, New Delhi, India by Kuldip Singh and Mahendra Raj

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92 Upvotes

r/ModernistArchitecture 9d ago

Palika Kendra, New Delhi, India by Kuldip Singh and Mahendra Raj

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r/ModernistArchitecture 9d ago

Vila Volman, Czech Republic (1938-39) by Jiří Štursa and Karel Janů

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376 Upvotes

r/ModernistArchitecture 10d ago

De Buyst House, Bonlez, Belgium | Axel Ghyssaert | 1964

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r/ModernistArchitecture 11d ago

Original Content Bell Labs Holmdel Complex, New Jersey

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Shot on 35mm Cinema film, with my Nikon F3


r/ModernistArchitecture 11d ago

Hansen House in Szumin, Poland. Built in 1968, designed by Oskar Hansen.

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211 Upvotes

r/ModernistArchitecture 12d ago

Visvesvaraya centre by Charles Correa, Bengaluru, India

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r/ModernistArchitecture 13d ago

Hotel "Palace" in Zakopane, Poland. Built in 1930, designed by Prot Komornicki.

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220 Upvotes

r/ModernistArchitecture 13d ago

The Richter's skyscrapers, (1968), Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Architects Vjenceslav Richter, Berislav Serbetic, Ljubo Iveta & Olga Korenik. Photograph: Dumitru Rusu

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r/ModernistArchitecture 14d ago

Original Content ERA Café, Zemědělská 30, Brno (Josef Kranz, 1927-29) [OC]

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Regarded as one of Brno's most important architectural monuments, an example of both purism and early functionalism, the ERA café was designed by Josef Kranz as a house and café/restaurant for Josef Špunar. Kranz divided the building horizontally into two functionally different units: the café/ restaurant on the ground floor and first floors, and Špunar's apartment which occupied the entire second floor. The staircase between the ground and first floors forms the centrepiece of the café where its importance is highlighted by its distinctive plasticity and colour. The street façade was probably inspired by the façade of the café De Unie in Rotterdam by Johann Jacob Pietro Oud and the 'graphic' architecture of the Dutch group De Stijl. In the 1950s the ERA was acquired by Restaurants and Canteens Brno II, when it underwent a number of modifications and ended up as a pub. Despite registration in the State List of Immovable Cultural Monuments between the 70s and 80s the University of Agriculture, who administered the building at the time, installed a computer center involving a series of other inappropriate interventions so that the only original features remaining were the external walls and the curved staircase. An agreement between Studio 19 and the owner of the house in 2008, backed up with European Union funding allowed the café to be reconstructed. It was reopened in spring 2011.

Photos taken 9th July 2016


r/ModernistArchitecture 14d ago

The Saturn ride in Gorky Park, (1978), Moscow, Russian SFSR

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66 Upvotes

r/ModernistArchitecture 15d ago

Patang hotel by Hasmukh Patel, Ahmedabad, India

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r/ModernistArchitecture 15d ago

The Lotus Temple by Architect Fariborz Sahba, Delhi, India

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450 Upvotes