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I’ve written before about Ernő Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower, which I visited during Open House in 2015, and Balfron Tower, which I encountered on an RIBA architecture walking tour in 2019 so it seem…
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On a recent visit to Amersfoort in The Netherlands, I visited the Rietveld Pavilion, one of the last buildings designed by Gerrit Rietveld and a rare example of an exhibition pavilion that survived…
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Whilst visiting Bangkok, I paid a visit to the Atlantic Hotel on Sukhumvit Road, one of the city’s few surviving mid-century landmarks. Atlantic Hotel, lobby Opened in 1954, the hotel dated from a …
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On a recent trip to Bangkok, I visited the Nai Lert Park Heritage Home which was neither a mid century nor modernist building but somehow had the look and feel of one through its use of natural mat…
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This beautiful house occasionally pops up during Open House weekend for tours but tickets are usually snapped up in seconds. I managed to get in via an alternative route: a paid-for tour via C20 an…
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I was fortunate enough during last year’s Open House festival to attend a tour of The Stanley Picker House, a mid century modern marvel on a substantial private estate in Kingston upon Thames, Surr…
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Updated January 2026 Looking at the stats for this blog, my most viewed post every year is usually the round-up of mid century shelving systems that I compiled all the way back in 2017 so for my fi…
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During a recent trip to Stockholm (which unlike neighbouring capitals Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhagen seemed to have a dearth of mid century/modernist attractions), I decided to make the long journey…
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If we were ever to move on from Great Brownings, it would likely be to Woodhall Drive, another Austin Vernon and Partners estate just down the road. I’ve admired it for some time and sometimes cycl…
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Having visited the Rietveld Schröder and Van Ravestyn houses in Utrecht, we moved on to Amsterdam. Western Garden Cities A short tram ride west from the centre of the city was Westelijke Tuinsteden…