Modernist Estates: The buildings and the people who live in them

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He continues: "In this magnificent and ghostly world, the structures of our cities would be titanic, gobble the human, the product of our fears and hopes for an organization of the city. The bathroom in Marie-Louise Sjogren's apartment has a double shower and sauna opposite a bathtub by Waterworks with vintage stools alongside it. If I could change anything about the original design, it would be to have a window in the bathroom for natural light and ventilation. I was influenced by my experience in China where I lived for six months in 2008, where I also discovered photography" he tells Creative Boom. It was during one of her rambles in the early days of the pandemic that Stefi Orazi came up with the idea for a walking guide to help people beat the sheer boredom of lockdown.

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We also kept the dining table that the previous owners had used in the flat for the past 20 years, so that was nice. In 2010, as Laurent was walking in Courbevoie, he discovered a tiny little street where he felt time had stopped for 50 years. Aptly titled Perambulations, the series of handy folded guides feature a map, charming illustrations by Jay Cover and informative text about the Modernist buildings along each route, ranging from post-war developer Span Developments’ influence on Blackheath in south-east London, to Patrick Hodgkinson’s Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury.

Pretty much all we can do at the moment is go for a walk, so I think people have appreciated having something to do with a bit of a purpose,” she says. The Unesco-listed building’s glazed facade and “rectilinear volume” inspired a thousand UK factories, not to mention tower blocks and state schools.

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Without Bauhaus, neither Hansa-style social housing nor modernism as we know it would have happened. I painted all the door and window frames black — a key feature of the designs — I put ply flooring in, and a new kitchen that was sympathetic to the original.We had lived in the better-known Isokon building for six years and dreamt of living in Berthold Lubetkin’s Highpoint in Highgate but couldn’t afford it, so it had to be a 1930s building of architectural merit. A metal staircase, lit from above by a large skylight, leads to the first floor, where there are two double bedrooms with a Jack and Jill shower room — the main bedroom also benefits from a large bathtub. However, in a pointed introduction, the author makes it clear that the European approach transcended geographical boundaries as evidenced by the inclusion of high quality estates in both Birmingham and Edinburgh. It explores, with fascinating interviews and contemporary photography, what it’s like to live on a modernist estate today. Built in 1963, it was designed by local architects for a sea captain who retired to this landlocked corner of East Sussex.

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There are other property sites with devoted followings – Cheap Old Houses, for instance, the Instagram celebration of largely US doer-uppers; sites dedicated to French chateaus and Tuscan farmhouses, all of which offer a diversion from the drudgery of our daily existence.

Commissioned by the city, it was designed by Gropius and built in 1925-26 to house the various departments of a school that taught everything from furniture design to architecture to typography. But Dessau is getting a new museum later this year: Bauhaus Museum Dessau opens in September, with plenty of space to show the 49,000-plus objects in its collection. There is ample storage including floor-to-ceiling built-in cupboards, as well as a hallway with additional storage including room for bikes. I was literally absorbed by the atmosphere of the megalopolis and by its astounding mix of futurism and tradition. We did keep the Brutalist architecture of the building and the period when it was built in mind when choosing our furniture and that meant there were some compromises.