Modernism in Metro-Land
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Art Deco, Modernism and Brutalism in London's suburbs and beyond.
Bessborough Road, Roehampton 1938 Connell, Ward & Lucas buff.ly/5vDecdQ
95 Salisbury Road, Worcester Park 1937 Connell, Ward & Lucas Image from Conway buff.ly/kRzu0j5
66 Frognal, Hampstead 1938 Connell, Ward & Lucas buff.ly/bnM00Jo www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/66-frognal.h...
New Farm, Grayswood, Surrey 1932 Amyas Connell and Basil Ward Image from Conway buff.ly/kRzu0j5
97-10 Park Avenue, Ruislip, Hillingdon 1935 Amyas Connell and Basil Ward buff.ly/IyiTBOw
Sudbury Town Underground Station was opened on this day in 1931. It was the first of Charles Holden’s “Sudbury Boxes”, a brick ticket hall with a concrete roof, a form he would reuse with some of his most famous stations. Read more about the station and its design here buff.ly/63h5x3Z
St Mary's Church, Barnes 1983 Edward Cullinan Architects buff.ly/f0M1sLg
Highgrove Estate, Hillingdon 1977 Edward Cullinan Architects Image from Cullinan Architects
13 Bartholomew Villas, Kentish Town 1964 Ted Cullinan buff.ly/BAPPA3q
1a Greenholm Road, Eltham 1966 Edward Cullinan Architects Image from RIBApix
62 Camden Mews, Camden Town 1963 Ted Cullinan buff.ly/t16rtp3
Ticket Hall, Euston Railway Station 1968 British Rail London Midland Region Architects Dept. buff.ly/uyX9nJv
Harlow Town Railway Station 1960 British Rail Eastern Region Architects Dept. Image from Conway
Barking Railway Station 1961 British Rail Eastern Region Architects Dept. buff.ly/YxR1Kkf
Richmond Railway Station 1938 James Robb Scott Image from RIBApix
Surbiton Railway Station 1937 James Robb Scott buff.ly/zlhtDAI
Sunday morning at Bounds Green station, opened as part of the Piccadilly Line extension of 1932. Designed by C.H. James, in a Charles Holden-style, the ticket hall has windows at each corner, turning it into an octagon shape www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/bounds-green...
Former Electricity Showrooms, Cannon Street 1936 Maxwell Fry and Walter Gropius buff.ly/cv0MdPA
Staircase, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea 1935 Erich Mendelsohn & Serge Chermayeff
Gilbey House, Camden Town 1937 Erich Mendelsohn & Serge Chermayeff buff.ly/Zl03WoN
Sea Lane House, East Preston, West Sussex 1936 Marcel Breuer and F.R.S. Yorke Image from RIBApix
On this day in 1936, the Royal Agricultural Show in Bristol opened, with a Show House, designed by Marcel Breuer for furniture manufacturer Crofton Gane on display. It is the subject of our latest Anatomy of a House blog. Read all about it here buff.ly/00W34Et
64 Old Church Street, Chelsea 1936 Erich Mendelsohn & Serge Chermayeff buff.ly/Wg4Y26S
Canteen, Hoover Factory, Perivale 1938 Wallis, Gilbert and Partners buff.ly/HemJHcm
Henlys Car Showroom, Great West Road, Brentford 1937 Wallis, Gilbert & Partners Image from RIBApix
Bowling Green Close, Putney Heath 1935 Wallis, Gilbert & Partners buff.ly/mSKao78
Victoria Coach Station 1932 Wallis, Gilbert & Partners Image from RIBApix
Daimler Hire Garage, Bloomsbury 1928-31 Wallis, Gilbert & Partners buff.ly/nssjazu
Polish Cultural and Social Association, Hammersmith 1974 M.F. Grzesik buff.ly/IHV9XKT
Finnish Seamen's Mission, Rotherhithe 1958 Cyril Mardall Image from RIBApix