Like a great multi-faceted jewel lifted on elegant columns of concrete and steel, the sparkling addition to the venerable Port House building speaks of Antwerp’s ambition, confidence, history and prosperity

The gifted and, sadly, late Zaha Hadid’s Port House, Antwerp. While preserving, respectfully, the original fires station Hadid added a bold addition that provides beautiful views of and from, every direction. #urban #urbanview #urbandesign #masterarchitect

With my dear friend and master Campo Baeza. #CampoBaeza #NunoMontenegro #Lisbon #MasterArchitect #Poetry #Light

Brilliant white, external staircase at one end leading to each of three long balcony walkways in front of the apartments

Wells Coates’ Lawn Road Flats, the Isokon, for the Pritchards, a design for living radically different for middle
class England #masterarchitect #modernism #modernist #midmod #modernistarchitecture #midcenturystyle #modernarchitecture #midcenturyarchitecture #modernistfacades #mouvementmoderne

In the centre of a spiral staircase a slender silvered light descends several storeys with a white ball at its end containing the bulbs and above a series of silver saucer shaped disks rising up its length

A trademark spiral staircase and light in the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill. Named for the communist Earl De La Warr and designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff #masterarchitect #modernism #modernist #modernistarchitecture #midcenturystyle #modernarchitecture #midcenturyarchitecture

In Lobau in Germany’s East is this modernist house resembling a great ocean liner. It has two decks, a winter garden and stands out as one of the great modernist houses

Haus Schminke, designed by Hans Scharoun akaThe Noodle Steamer because of its resemblance to an ocean liner and Schminke made a fortune supplying the Wehrmacht with dried pasta. Post-war Schminke was imprisoned. #masterarchitect #modernism #modernist

Lozenge shaped “kiosk” at Dudley zoo, about 4 metres long, windowed enclosure and larger lozenge roof supported on pillars

And back to Tecton, a kiosk at Dudley Zoo. Following Lubetkin’s success at Regent’s Park Zoo, Tecton designed a suite of buildings for Dudley. What was it about modernist design that so attracted zoos in Europe? #masterarchitect #modernism #modernist #midmod #modernistarchitecture #midcenturystyle

Gerard Grandval’s Les Choux de Créteil, organic, humorous, human and humane. The vision of the balconies being festooned with growing vines, wasn’t realised but this is a masterpiece #masterarchitect #modernism #modernist #postwar #20thcenturymodern