Modern Period– post WWI. This period was all about function over form, and in the rational construction. Bloomsbury was the first place that we visited today. This place was full of abstract, Bohemian references including the Brunswick Center. This place was built between 1959-1972 and the architect was Patrick Hodgkinson. The place was built to be a monumental, awe inspiring for all of London to see. It was mega-structure that was uncompromising as yo
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The next place we went, University of London, which was built between 1965-1975 by Lansden, is one of the biggest universities in London.
The Senate House was established by 1931 and the architect was Charles Holden, the same that did 55 Broadway. It was a large, brand new building for the University of London in a traditional style with a mix of some arts and crafts movement along with some modernism.
The renowned British Museum which is in a few scenes of The Mummy Returns, was established in 1907 by King Edward VIII and the architect on the job goes by the name of Robert Smarke.
The part below became the British Library in the great courtyard.
Computer technology created the opportunity to input the roof, which paper and pencil would never be able to compute where the glass and bars would be placed.
In Finsbury, Charles Rohan House was established during the war. It was the poorest and most politically driven location. It provided housing, health care and welfare during the war. It was inspired by arts and crafts and Queen Anne movements along with being Dutch modernist styles with dramatic rooflines.
The Finsbury Health Centre is the most famous modernist building in the country of England. It was built between 1935-1948 and was one of the first health care state sponsored. The national health services expanded from here for people that provided free health care to the public.
Saint John’s Square was our next location. Here’s Saint John’s Monastery.
Bert Lubetkin was into amphipimorphic works in city scapes with random old churches with yards placed inside of tall buildings and random restaurants and bars.
The Haskins Company was established in the 1880s, and built as a warehouse with facades created entirely of glass.
The Golden Lane Estate was a post-war housing almost destroyed from The Blitz in 1941. The city authorities had to rebuild after the war for residents to reside. Golden Lane was built for cheap housing in the 1950s. The strong, expressed structure with heavy color was done by Couvouisever.
The Barbican Estate is a collection of apartments where the area is stretched with the same mega structures on a podium level. There is a motor tunnel underneath Professor Garrard’s abode.
The Broadgate Estates and Broadgate Circle were done by the Aroup Associates from 1985-1987 to create a commercial finance ground for the boom that deregulation of stock market created. Everything is a machine cut granite in corporate sponsored style.
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Lloyd’s Building was built between 1976-1986 by Richard Rodgers and Partners as a HiTech Inside Outside Exoskeleton with aluminum panels. The Gherkin was created in 2004 by Norman Foster and Partners with a clean and elegant streamlining.