Fall in Love With Modern Architecture in Tel Aviv
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Fall in Love With Modern Architecture in Tel Aviv

Modern architecture is difficult to love. It is not so much the concept that is the problem here: all of us can easily agree that its principles are fine and noble – simplicity (less is more), an appearance of elegant restraint (ornament is crime), transparency of structure (form follows function). But while this theory has…

Modernist Architecture in London – Part 1
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Modernist Architecture in London – Part 1

A walk through Skyscraper National Park: the world’s most exciting collection of modern architectural masterpieces There are many good reasons to visit London: for its world-class theatres, its magnificent pubs, or to pay a visit to the Queen. Here is another one: the town’s unique collection of modernist architecture. This has not always been so….

Barcelona has a Secret
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Barcelona has a Secret

Barcelona has a Secret In the shadow of Barcelona’s Palau Nacional, near the former bullring of the Plaza Espanya, you can find one of the city’s best kept architectural secrets: Ludwig “Less is More” Mies van der Rohe’s celebrated “Barcelona Pavilion” The pavilion, one of the masterpieces of modernist architecture, was constructed in 1929 for…