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    Isokon Flats, also known as Lawn Road Flats and the Isokon building, on Lawn Road in the Belsize Park district of the London Borough of Camden, is a reinforced-concrete...
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    houses and flats, and furniture and fittings for them. Originally called Wells Coates and Partners, the name was changed in 1931 to Isokon, a name derived...
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  • wife lived in the famous Lawn Road Flats, also known as the Isokon Flats. They later retired to a house also named Isokon on Dunwich Road, Blythburgh, Suffolk...
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    Hospital, now the Royal Free Hospital, at 2 Belsize Avenue Residents of the Isokon Flats: Agatha Christie, writer Naum Gabo, sculptor Walter Gropius, architect...
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    London Humber Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire / North Lincolnshire Isokon Flats, Hampstead, London King's College London Chapel, London Liverpool Cathedral...
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  • to London. While in London, Breuer was employed by Jack Pritchard at the Isokon company; one of the earliest proponents of modern design in the United Kingdom...
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  • School for Girls, Richmond, North Yorkshire Wells Coates – Lawn Road Flats (Isokon Flats), Hampstead; Embassy Court, Hove, East Sussex; 10 Palace Gate, London...
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    draftsman for over eighteen months when the office was developing the iconic Isokon Flats. In September 1931 he received a job offer from Serge Chermayeff (whose...
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  • Camden, London, 1933 Hillfield Court, Belsize Park, Camden, London, 1934 Isokon Flats, Hampstead, Camden, London, 1934 London Forum (formerly the Town & Country...
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  • England, the most notable of which is the Modernist block of flats known as the Isokon building in Hampstead, London. The oldest of six children, Wells...
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    undeveloped to become the nature reserve. The Grade I listed 1934 modernist Isokon Flats is adjacent to the site in Lawn Road. In 1938, the modernist landscape...
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    after the Second World War. He was for many years a resident in the Isokon flats in Lawn Road, London, and retired in 1965 before moving to Austria in...
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  • Zoo, designed by Berthold Lubetkin and Ove Arup. July 9 – Isokon building (Lawn Road flats), Hampstead, London, designed by Wells Coates. July 17 – Circular...
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    Underground station (1907), the deepest station on the Underground network Isokon building (1932) Hillfield Court (1932) 2 Willow Road (1938) Swiss Cottage...
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  • After leaving Germany, Breuer spent 1935–37 working in London for the Isokon company, and in partnership with Yorke. At this time Crofton Gane was the...
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    and vintner Sir John Seymour Lucas RA - portrait painter Jack Pritchard - Isokon designs Martin Shaw - hymn music Peter Harold Wright - World War II Victoria...
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    ended up as far afield as Kenya, Mexico, and Sweden. Others left for the Isokon Project and other projects in England, then eventually to the United States...
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  • Harben was invited to manage the Isobar restaurant in the Isokon building, a modernist block of flats in Hampstead, and he subsequently took over as its chef...
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  • Ludwig Franck Arthur Korn Denys Lasdun Francis Skinner Ernő Goldfinger Isokon MARS Group Constructivist architecture "Berthold Lubetkin / Designing Modern...
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    houses and flats including Ridge End at Wentworth, Surrey and Club House at Sittingbourne, Kent 1933–34 R. E. Sassoon House (workers' flats), St. Mary's...
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    was originally based out of Barber and Osgerby's flat in Trellick Tower. The studio moved to the Isokon workshops in Turnham Green, Chiswick and worked...
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    forms." During World War II, Christie moved to London and lived in a flat at the Isokon in Hampstead, whilst working in the pharmacy at University College...
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    the Kollektivhuset in Stockholm a sociological project and the London Isokon Building an experiment in collective living. The conceptual debate in the...
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    community associated with Herbert Read in Hampstead, London, as part of the Isokon group. Gropius arrived in the United States in February 1937, while their...
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    re-assembled in Britain during the mid-1930s and lived and worked in the Isokon housing development in Lawn Road in London before the war caught up with...
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  • for espionage work in England. In the mid-1930s, Deutsch occupied Flat 7 of the Isokon building in Lawn Road, Hampstead, north London. The writer Nigel...
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    minimalism. The style is characterized by modular and rectilinear forms, flat surfaces devoid of ornamentation and decoration, open and airy interiors...
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  • by Berthold Lubetkin and Ove Arup (completed in May), and Isokon building (Lawn Road flats), Hampstead, designed by Wells Coates (9 July). Also, the terraced...
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  • involved in the design and drawings of Gropius's commissions including: Isokon 3 medium density project, Windsor; the E. W. Levy House, Chelsea; the Donaldson...
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    architect responsible for the striking Isokon building in London earlier that year, to design a block of luxury flats as a speculative development. Embassy...
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