Modernism London Style

In the 1920s, London was changing. In contrast with London’s ageing Victorian structures, the bright and colourful architecture of modernism – from the Hoover Factory to the Ideal House by Raymond Hood, who later designed New York’s Rockefeller Center – communicated the city’s aspirations as a thriving, modern metropolis. Today millions of visitors admire the old headquarters of the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Express, take in the elegance of Eltham Palace, or sip a martini at the Savoy. London’s busiest, yet often overlooked Art Deco treasure, the London Underground, boasts a series of Art Deco and modernist stations, designed throughout the 1920s and 1930s by noted architect Charles Holden.