Main entrance, Hoover Factory, Perivale

1932

Wallis, Gilbert & Partners

https://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/cleaning-up-the-opening-of-the-hoover-factory

#artdeco #modernism #metroland #factory #architecture #London

Kingsley Court, Willesden Green

1934

Peter Caspari

https://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/architect-of-the-week-peter-caspari

#architecture #modernism #metroland #London #suburbs #brick

Happy 10th anniversary to OMD’s album, ‘English Electric’. Released this week in 2013. #omd #orchestralmanoeuvresinthedark #petersaville #englishelectric #metroland #dresden #thefuturewillbesilent #nightcafe #petersaville

Belvedere Court, Hampstead Garden Suburb

1938

Ernst Freud

Moderne style apartment block formed of three long ranges with circular staircase towers, designed by Ernst Freud, son of Sigmund. Intended as rental apartments for Jewish families from Europe, internally the flats were ultra modern with central heating, fitted kitchens and waste disposal chutes.

#modernism #metroland #streamlinemoderne #artdeco #bauhaus

Belvedere Court, Hampstead Garden Suburb

1938

Ernst Freud

Moderne style apartment block formed of three long ranges with circular staircase towers, designed by Ernst Freud, son of Sigmund. Intended as rental apartments for Jewish families from Europe, internally the flats were ultra modern with central heating, fitted kitchens and waste disposal chutes.

#modernism #metroland #streamlinemoderne #artdeco #bauhaus

The concrete train shed of Cockfosters station, designed by Charles Holden and opened in 1933. Seen early on a Sunday morning thanks to a rail replacement service.Holden repeated the design a few years later at Uxbridge at the western end of the Piccadilly Line.

#modernism #metroland #charlesholden #tube

Our recent Speculative Suburban Houses 1928-38 Mini Guide has plenty of houses with detailed histories with designs by storied architects like Lubetkin, Goldfinger or Coates. But some of the houses are more obscure like this semi-detached in Claremont Park, Finchley, which is a great example of the developer art deco of the 1930s.

https://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/spec-houses-mini-guide.html

#modernism #metroland #architecture #artdeco #London #suburbs