A day in Nowa Huta, Krakow, Poland
I was initially drawn to Nowa Huta for the Brutalist Architecture. During the visit I found so much more. Nowa Huta (which translates as The New Steel Mill) is a planned secular socialist realist settlement….
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Ilirska Bistrica Memorial, Slovenia
On a road trip to the Croatian coast I hoped to see lots of Spomenik, I managed a few, Ilirska Bistrica being the most interesting. Spomenik are memorials built between 1960s-1980s during Tito’s Republic of…
Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden, Italy
The French artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002) was inspired to build the Tarot Garden (or Il Giardino dei Tarocchi) after visiting Antoni Gaudí´s Parc Güell in Barcelona. In 1979 she purchased a plot of…
Villa Aalto, Helsinki
On a recent visit to Finland a destination I wanted to visit, even more then Moominland, was the home of the architect and designer couple Aino and Alvar Aalto. The house designed by the Aalto’s…
Salvador Dalí House Portlligat Spain
In 1930 Salvador Dalí purchased a small fisherman’s hut in Portlligat. Over thirty years Salvador and Gala built and expanded, acquiring more land and huts. They lived there until Gala’s death in 1982. As a…
Tiles in T-Centralen Station Stockholm
It was one of those rare occasions when missing the train becomes a blessing. As the train pulled away from the platform in Stockholm’s T-Centralen Station it revealed these wonderful mid-century tiles.
Arne Jacobsen’s pre-fab summer house
Arne Jacobsen unveiled his prototype pre-fab summer house in 1970 and named it Kubeflex. It comprised of 10 square meter cubic modules which could be combined and added to as necessary. Unfortunately it was considered…
Pula Post Office, Croatia
Among Pula’s celebrated architecture, mostly Roman, stands it’s modernist Post Office. It was designed by Angiolo Mazzoni in 1933 while he was employed by the Italian Ministry of Communications. The stunning red colour in the…
Stonehaven Open Air Swimming Pool
The Art Deco building and entrance with click-through gates hint at what’s to come at Stonehaven’s heated open air swimming pool. The changing rooms and old signs are beautiful too and then there was the…
Glass – in domestic building (a book of ideas)
It’s national book day. I love books with a mild obsession. ‘Glass in domestic building’ is a recent purchase from Janette Ray books in York. Published in 1957 by Pilkington Brothers it promotes modern glass…
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