Modernist architecture

From Vertigo to Psycho, how Hitchcock changed the role of architecture in film

Tour West Vancouver’s considerable cache of midcentury modernist homes

As Vancouver’s real estate wars ravage the city’s heritage housing, including its considerable cache of midcentury modernism, the West Vancouver Museum’s West Coast Modern Home tour offers a beacon of hope on the architectural horizon. Coinciding with the close of...

Jean Prouvé architecture goes on show at Marseille sculpture park

This summer sees the third open-air exhibition of lightweight architecture and sculpture at the Friche d’Escalette in Marseille. The park (a former lead mine) and its exhibits are privately owned by Éric Touchaleaume, a collector and dealer of the Fab...

London’s finest brutalist architecture

Wallpaper* July 2018 (W*232) opens an enquiry into what’s coming up in this new age of brutalism. We investigated the renewed interest in brutalist structures’ architectural heritage in London and wider Europe where neglected behemoths are being rebooted and given new life...

Mews house in Battersea gets facelift by Groves Natcheva Architects

London-based architects Groves Natcheva have completely transformed a run down, 20th-century mews house in West London’s Battersea into a stylish contemporary residence. The authors – a team headed by Adriana Natcheva and Murray Groves – are no strangers to creative reinventions in...

Brutalist cathedral in the UK opens to the public following renovation

Architecture buffs might recognise the brutalist cathedral in Clifton, Bristol by its distinctive, irregular, elongated hexagonal floorplan. What many don’t know however, is that the iconic building has been suffering from water leakages for years, due to its large, striking lead...

Brutalist icon Preston Bus Station gets facelift by John Puttick Associates

You’d be hard pressed to find a British brutalist icon outside London that is as instantly recognisable as Preston Bus Station. The project, originally completed in 1969 to a design by BDP, is Grade-II listed, but was in need of a...

Retro revival: Mark Janson’s 1960s weekend home gets a modern twist

Mark Janson is no stranger to good design. After graduating from Parsons School of Design in 1982, Janson joined architect Steven Holl on a number of projects like the ‘Bridge of Houses’, a kind of a precursor to New York’s...

Modernist-inspired residential gem Stradella completes in Bel Air

South African architects Saota are an established force in the market for upscale, contemporary, single family houses. They are popular for their modernist-inspired approach, which fuses strong connections between indoor and outdoor living. Now the Cape Town-based practice has just...

The Smithsons’ Economist Plaza renovation by DSDHA is revealed

One of London’s most beloved architectural icons, the Economist Plaza by Britain’s brutalist pioneers Alison and Peter Smithson, is being given new lease of life after a loving restoration by architects DSDHA for commercial real estate specialists Tishman Speyer The...

Vancouver exhibition celebrates mid-century architecture photographer Selwyn Pullan

The West Vancouver Museum’s ‘Selwyn Pullan: What’s Lost’ – their third exhibition of the work of Canada’s answer to Julius Shulman in a decade – is as much about the loss of chemical photography as it is about Vancouver’s vanishing...

Inside Mies van der Rohe’s only UK design

The Real foundation’s head Jack Self and Yulia Rudenko’s newest book is the stuff architecture enthusiasts’ dreams are made of. Produced by the foundation and born out of meticulous research, painstaking restoration and a hefty dose of passion for modernist...