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Post-war ambition
Housing, schools, libraries and hospitals built at speed and at scale. The period that produced most of the buildings people live in today.
Worth seeing
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1959 · Modernism
Villa Shodhan
1951 · Ahmedabad
S.R. Crown Hall
1956 · Modernism
Maison de la culture de Firminy-Vert
1956 · Firminy
Finlandia Hall
1971 · Modernism
Museo del Tesoro di San Lorenzo
1956 · Modernism
Maison du Brésil
1959 · Paris
860-880 North Lake Shore Drive
1951 · Modernism
Duggregnet 5
1957 · Stockholm
Heidi Weber Museum/Centre Le Corbusier
1963 · Zurich
Berlin Philharmonie
1963 · Berlin
S:t Görans gymnasium
1960 · Brutalism
Skatteskrapan
1959 · Stockholm
Baker House
1949 · Modernism
Villa Veritti
1961 · Contemporary
Neue Nationalgalerie
1968 · Berlin
Skövde kulturhus
1964 · Skövde
Västmanlands-Dala Nation, Uppsala
1965 · Modernism
Läkarhuset Odenplan
1964 · Stockholm
House of World Cultures
1957 · Modernism
Kunsten Museum Aalborg
1972 · Aalborg
Kronprinsen
1964 · Modernism
Kantonsschule Rämibühl
1970 · Brutalism
Post-war ambition city by city
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- Churches and chapels 1,463
- Parks and gardens 1,395
- Built this century 1,192
- Older than the maps 1,108
- Housing 805
- Museums and galleries 792
- Public art 775
- Stone and mortar 762
- World Heritage 489
- Castles and palaces 484
- Local traditions 430
- Legally protected 420
- Town halls 391
- Schools 349
- Squares 297
- The functionalist turn 284
- National romanticism 262
- Monuments 261
- Concrete 193
- Stations 170
- Bridges 166
- Industrial architecture 142
- Award winners 141
- Glass towers 128
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