Modernist Pilgrimage

I’ve written before about Ernő Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower, which I visited during Open House in 2015, and Balfron Tower, which I encountered on an RIBA architecture walking tour in 2019 so it seemed only fitting to complete the trio with a visit to Glenk…

On a recent visit to Amersfoort in The Netherlands, I visited the Rietveld Pavilion, one of the last buildings designed by Gerrit Rietveld and a rare example of an exhibition pavilion that survived long after it was ever intended to.

Whilst visiting Bangkok, I paid a visit to the Atlantic Hotel on Sukhumvit Road, one of the city’s few surviving mid-century landmarks.

On a recent trip to Bangkok, I visited the Nai Lert Park Heritage Home which was neither a mid century nor modernist building but somehow had the look and feel of one through its use of natural materials, its connection with its surroundings and pared-bac…

This beautiful house occasionally pops up during Open House weekend for tours but tickets are usually snapped up in seconds.

I was fortunate enough during last year’s Open House festival to attend a tour of The Stanley Picker House, a mid century modern marvel on a substantial private estate in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey.

Updated January 2026 Looking at the stats for this blog, my most viewed post every year is usually the round-up of mid century shelving systems that I compiled all the way back in 2017 so for my first post of 2026, I thought I’d do an update.

During a recent trip to Stockholm (which unlike neighbouring capitals Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhagen seemed to have a dearth of mid century/modernist attractions), I decided to make the long journey north to visit Lilla Hyttnäs, a late 1800s cottage and the

If we were ever to move on from Great Brownings, it would likely be to Woodhall Drive, another Austin Vernon and Partners estate just down the road.

Having visited the Rietveld Schröder and Van Ravestyn houses in Utrecht, we moved on to Amsterdam.

Tucked into a small triangular plot a few minutes down the down from the Rietveld Schröder House was the intriguing Sybold van Ravesteyn house.