Architects who have outdone themselves (32 photos)

To be honest, most of the buildings that surround us in everyday life are boring and similar to each other. But some buildings are simply impossible to take your eyes off! This selection of outstanding modernist buildings contains many striking examples of this.





"Wave", La Baule, France, architect Pierre Doucet, 1979



Riley House, USA (1954), Eduardo Catalano





Museum of Contemporary Art Niteroi, Brazil, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, 1991



Sanatorium “Druzhba”, Ukraine (1978-1985), Igor Vasilevsky



Johnson Administration Building, Frank Lloyd Wright



Institute of Foreign Languages, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Vann Molyvann, 1965



Radio House, Berlin, Hans Poelzig 1931, staircase near the Great Broadcasting Hall



Renovated University of Michigan Law Library Building, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Gunnar Birkerts (1981). The modern extension is mainly underground



Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India, designed by B. Doshi, 1977



Verdi Tower, 1975, Paris, France



Graham House, West Vancouver, British Columbia. Arthur Erickson, 1962. Erickson was a master of working with difficult rocky areas



Waterfall House, USA (1936-1939) Frank Lloyd Wright



Garcia House, USA (1964-1966). Written by John Lautner



Great Refuge Temple in Harlem, USA, designed by Costas Mahlouzaridis in 1966



McGregor Convention Center, Detroit, Michigan. Designed by Minoru Yamasaki in 1958



Impero Cinema, Eritrea (1937), Mario Messina



Catton House, West Vancouver, Canada. Designed by Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey in 1967



Notre-Dame de Royan, France, designed by Guillaume Gillet and Marc Hébrard in 1955



William Lescaze House, New York, USA, designed by Lescaze himself in 1934



Eames House in Palisades



Noyes Hall at Vassar Eero Saarinen College, Poughkeepsie, New York (1958)



Villa Sayer, Normandy, France. Designed by Marcel Breuer in 1972



Interior of the General Motors technical center. Eero Saarinen (1956)



Olivetti showroom, Venice, Italy, design by Carlo Scarpa, 1958



Stahl House, Los Angeles, California, USA (1957). Author Pierre Koenig



Warner House, New Canaan, Connecticut, designed by John Johansen in 1955



House of architect Agustin Hernandez, 1975



Ciccillo Pavilion Matarazzo, Brazil (1955-1957) By Oscar Niemeyer



Bremen Arena, Bremen, Germany, designed by Roland Rainer, 1961



Kodak Training Center, Henrietta, New York, 1971



Atelier Jespers, Brussels, Belgium, Victor Bourgeois, 1928