Still standing: Schindler House, 1922
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-12-21T15:39:40+00:00Once the epicentre of Hollywood’s nascent artistic and architectural scene, Rudolph Schindler’s extraordinary home was a stepping stone to Los Angeles’ great leap into modernity.
Still standing: Fondazione Querini Stampalia, 1963
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-12-21T15:34:14+00:00The astonishing renovation of the lower level of a centuries-old palazzo seduced a whole generation of architects and helped Carlo Scarpa to acquire a cult status that haunts Venetian architects today.
Still standing: Stockholm Public Library, 1928
Peter Songi2023-12-21T15:33:51+00:00Ian Volner revisits Gunnar Asplund's eccentric Stockholm library, which showcases the competing impulses of an architect who embraced Premodernism, Modernism and even Postmodernism – decades before the term came into popular use.
Still standing: Bank of China Tower, 1990
Peter Songi2023-12-21T15:33:44+00:00Overcoming numerous site challenges and political controversies, this iconic project by I.M. Pei is a testament to the architect’s ingenuity and foresight.
Still standing: Casa Luis Barragán, 1948
Peter Songi2023-12-21T15:33:38+00:00Luis Barragán’s most famous work, originally designed for a client in Mexico City in 1937, then occupied by Barragán himself, harnesses the power of opposites as well as referencing his devout Catholicism.
Still standing: Centrosoyuz Building, 1933
Peter Songi2023-12-21T15:33:30+00:00Designed for a street plan that was never realised and an occupant that ceased to exist, Centrosoyuz is a symbol of a dysfunctional state and Le Corbusier’s thwarted ambitions to become the standard-bearer for modernism in the USSR, writes Ian Volner.
Still standing: Denver Central Library, 1996
Peter Songi2023-12-21T15:33:21+00:00Confident and serene, Michael Graves' Denver Library stands as a riposte to the notion of postmodernism as a mish-mash of populism and pizazz. Ian Volner assesses the enduring appeal of a building that has survived a quarter of a century with dignity and grace.
Still standing: Lloyd’s of London, 1986
Peter Songi2023-12-21T15:33:12+00:00Is the Lloyd’s building a monument to reason or just a wilful mess? Contributing editor Ian Volner hazards an irreverent guess as to the motives behind Richard Rogers’ inscrutable design.
Still standing: Seagram Building, 1958
Peter Songi2023-12-21T15:33:06+00:00In the first of a series of revisits, Architecture Today’s new contributing editor Ian Volner assesses the significance of an instant icon that has stood the test of time, beginning with Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building.