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In prime position in Stratford upon Avon on a High

In prime position in Stratford upon Avon on a High street which has more or less given itself over to mass tourism, is the splendid, listed, Barclays Bank building. Originally known as Market House, it features a 1640 building refronted in 1821 converted to a bank in 1908. Its style, its elegance presages some of the great architectural developments of the modernist movement.

Vila Hasek (1930-31) in Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech

Vila Hasek (1930-31) in Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic. A three-storey, Functionalist L-shaped family home designed by German architect Heinrich Lauterbach for costume jewellery exporter Jaroslav Hásek. Jablonec nad Nisou is sometimes referred to as the City of Glass, a nod to its long and successful history of manufacture and exporting of glass and jewellery worldwide.

Enthused by the 1929 WuWA exhibition in Breslau (today’s Wroclaw), Hásek commissioned Lauterbach having seen his house at the Wohnungs und Werkraumausstellung, Workplace and House Exhibition- usually known as WuWA. The exhibition on a large site showcased 32 modernist buildings and a nursery surrounded by well thought out public spaces, all built in 3 months by leading modernist architects. Here was an inspiring blueprint for how a modern home in a modern town could look and function, conceived as a creative response to the post WW1 housing shortage. Lauterbach, who had studied under Hans Poelzig was influenced by the Bauhaus movement, and his own home in Breslau, Haus Lauterbach is recognised as an important example of his architectural vision.

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Sitting on Krakow’s Vistula River is Hotel Forum

Sitting on Krakow’s Vistula River is Hotel Forum. Its striking brutalist design by architect Janusz Ingarden was conceived in the 1970s at a time when the city wished to develop its potential as an international historical destination.

Krakow, one of Poland’s oldest cities in the country, was made its Medieval capital in 1038. Polish kings were crowned at Wawel Castle and its impressive medieval architecture has survived. At national level, Poland had began its application to list several cultural assets of the city. This included nearby Auschwitz-Birkenau as a UNESCO World Heritage site in the mid-1970s, shortly after UNESCO established the World Heritage Convention in 1972. Poland was one of the early signatories to this convention and took steps to nominate Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kraków’s medieval Old Town and the Wielicza Salt mine.

From conception to completion things did not run smoothly and Hotel Forum was hit by so many delays it didn’t welcome its first visitors until 1989 as profound changes were happening in Poland. By 2002 with overwhelming operating costs and international hotel groups opening in Krakow, it closed its doors and hasn’t been operating as a hotel since.

It did take on a second life as local creative groups used it officially and unofficially for events.

Today it remains a huge presence crying out for an imaginative developer.

Photo with thanks to @modarchitecture

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