This building stands between 19th-century tenement houses, halfway up the main street of Gliwice. It looks phenomenal and surprising at the same time. Not all connoisseurs of architecture know that this is actually an early work by Erich Mendelsohn. The building was built before the great Bauhaus exhibition and was one of the first Modernist buildings in Europe.
January 3, 2022
Michigan City, Indiana
These five houses were built for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair.
Buzescu, Romania
Roma who struck it rich in the 1980s built extravagant mansions in this small Romanian town.
Ballintoy, Northern Ireland
Being surrounded by typical buildings just makes this uniquely modernist house stand out even more.
Dumfries, Scotland
After playing in this house and its gardens as a child, J.M. Barrie credited it for helping inspire the story of Peter Pan.
Manila, Philippines
A century-old ancestral home was home to some of the key figures of the Philippine Revolution.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A notable example of Prairie School architecture that disregarded Victorian concepts about room divisions and featured a long, narrow floor plan.
Henderson, Nevada
Clark County Museum has created an entire street of historically important buildings relocated from various other locations within the county.
Palm Springs, California
With beautiful views and every detail perfectly considered, one of the geniuses of modern architecture built himself the perfect home.
