Centre Point, New Oxford Street 1961-66 Richard Seifert & Partners modernist-london.weebly.com/centre-point...

Sunlight Laundry, Brixton 1937 F. E. Simpkins www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/interwar-ind...

Bentalls Depository, Kingston on Thames 1931-6 Maurice Webb www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/kingston.html

Former Odeon Cinema, Welling 1934 George Coles www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/george-coles...

Alaska Factory, Bermondsey 1932 Wallis, Gilbert & Partners www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/interwar-ind...

St Olaf’s House, Tooley Street 1931 H.S. Goodhart-Rendel modernist-london.weebly.com/st-olafs-hou...

Lichfield Court, Richmond upon Thames 1935 Bertram Carter and Sloot www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/speculative-...

Highfield Court, Golders Green 1935 A.V. Pilichowski Image from RIBApix

Taymount Grange, Forest Hill 1935 G.B. Carter www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/speculative-...

Highpoint I, Highgate 1933-35 Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton Image from RIBApix

Cholmeley Lodge, Highgate 1935 Guy Morgan and Partners www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/speculative-...

Walthamstow Town Hall 1937-42 P.D. Hepworth www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/walthamstow-...

Wembley Town Hall 1940 Clifford Strange www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/brent-town-h...

Greenwich Town Hall 1939 Clifford Culpin & Partners

Hornsey Town Hall, designed by Reginald Uren, was officially opened OTD in 1935. It was one of a number of suburban town halls opened in London in the 30s, and its design was influenced by Dutch architect Willem Dudok, Read more on this building here www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/hornsey...

Havering Town Hall 1937 Herbert R. Collins and Antoine Englebert O. Geens

Grand Union Canal Houses, Camden Town 1988-90 Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/anatomy...

Arlington Road, Ham, Richmond upon Thames 1987 David Chipperfield buff.ly/YzEZt9g

Camden Square, Camden Town 1985 Peter Bell and Partners www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/66-camden-sq...

Orleans Road, Twickenham 1985 Evans and Shalev buff.ly/ZXkDPZ3

Church Crescent, Hackney 1981 Colquhoun and Miller modernist-london.weebly.com/church-cresc...

West End Police Station 1940 Sir John Burnet, Tait & Lorne and G.M. Trench modernist-london.weebly.com/west-end-pol...

Bishopsgate Police Station 1939 Vine and Vine bit.ly/4mSccjG

South London friends: the developer handling the National Sports Centre refurb is holding a drop-in event this evening to reveal its plans for the dilapidated Grade II*-listed building (including the pool and diving board, out of action since the pandemic).

Leyton Police Station 1941 Julian Leathart www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/leyton-polic...

Tooting Police Station 1939 Gilbert Mackenzie Trench bit.ly/4mUZtNc

Bow Police Stables 1937-8 G.M. Trench modernist-london.weebly.com/bow-police-s...

This shop frontage in Belmont, near Harrow needs a local listing. It's a precious example of 1930s style. @c20society.bsky.social @londonmuseum.bsky.social @modinmetro.bsky.social

Architect James Gowan was born OTD in 1923. Our latest Anatomy of a House blog explores the house he designed in Hampstead for businessman Chaim Schreiber, an austere yet precise home overlooking the Heath. Read more on the house and its design here www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/anatomy...

South Chingford Library 1935 Essex County Council Architects Department

New Malden Library, Kingston upon Thames 1939-41 A.R. Goldthorp and F.C. Otton bit.ly/472v2in

Leytonstone Library 1934 J.A. Dartnell

Belsize Library, Camden 1937 Hugh Gold and Rowland de Winton Aldridge bit.ly/46S9aGg

Kenton Library, Harrow 1939 Curtis and Burchett for Middlesex County Council www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/kenton-libra...

46 Ailsa Road, Twickenham 1935 Couch and Coupland www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/ailsa-road.h...

Holthanger, Wentworth, Virginia Water 1935 Oliver Hill Image from RIBApix

Norwich Road, Northwood, Hillingdon 1935 Robert de Burgh www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/norwich-road...

Architect Serge Chermayeff was born on this day in 1900. His most assured design during his time in Britain was Bentley Wood, his own house in Halland, East Sussex. It was called a "Rolls Royce of a house", read more about it here www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/the-rol...

Torilla, Nast Hyde, Hatfield 1935 F.R.S. Yorke Image from RIBApix

Lytton Close, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Barnet 1935 G.G. Winbourne www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/lytton-close...

South Row, Blackheath 1963 Eric Lyons www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/south-row.html

Eric Lyons was born on this day in 1912. He was the architect of Kensington and Chelsea's stunning World's End Estate: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/t...

Architect Eric Lyons was born OTD in 1912. He worked as an assistant for Maxwell Fry and Walter Gropius and later set up his own partnership. He would design over 2000 homes for the Span development company, spread around the suburbs of London www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/eric-lyons.h...

Over Minnis, New Ash Green, Kent 1967 Eric Lyons and Partners bit.ly/4pues3k

Westrow, Putney 1961 Eric Lyons www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/eric-lyons.h...

Corner Green, Blackheath 1960 Eric Lyons and Partners bit.ly/4mrKjil

Only two weeks after the death of Nicholas Grimshaw, his former partner, Terry Farrell has passed away. Although much more of a post modernist, Farrell produced a couple of striking ventilation towers for Blackwall tunnel with the GLC modernist-london.weebly.com/ventilation-...

Cavendish Court, Cardigan Road, Richmond upon Thames 1952 Eric Lyons www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/eric-lyons.h...

Electricity Substation, Portsmouth Road, Kingston upon Thames 1935 J.E. Franck and Percy George Bentham

Some wonderful images; here's the cover of the special "Electricity" issue of the Architectural Review from November 1933 #electricity flic.kr/p/2nzKgbk