RED BANNER TEXTILE FACTORY

ERICH MENDELSOHN | SAINT PETERSBURG | 1926

Pionerskaya Ulitsa, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia.

Power Station of the Red Banner Textile Factory in Saint Petersburg. Photography Florstein. Wikimedia Commons

“The design for the Red Banner Textile Factory was drawn up by the architect Erich Mendelsohn in his Berlin office on direct order of the Leningrad Textile Trust and was sent to Leningrad in March 1926 for implementation. Owing to the high architectural quality of the design and numerous publications of photographs of its model (Welt-Spiegel 1926, Mendelsohn 1930; fig. 1), this project soon became one of the recognized symbols of modern European architecture.” More: Erich Mendelsohn’s Red Banner Factory in Leningrad 1926–1928: Laboratory for Early Concrete Works in the Soviet Union by Sergej Fedorov University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Bibliotheca Mechanico Architectonica

CASA DE VIDRO

LINA BO BARDI | SÃO PAULO | 1950

R. Gen. Almério de Moura, 200 – Vila Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil.

Photography Lucas Medeiros. Wikimedia Commons

“Considerada ícone da arquitetura moderna no Brasil, a Casa de Vidro foi o primeiro projeto construído da arquiteta ítalo-brasileira Lina Bo Bardi. O loteamento da antiga Fazenda de Chá Muller Carioba, na região do Morumbi, em São Paulo foi o local escolhido para construção, iniciada entre 1950 e 1951.” More: INSTITUTO BARDI – CASA DE VIDRO

DANMARKS NATIONALBANK BUILDING

ARNE JACOBSEN | COPENHAGEN | 1965

Havnegade 5, 1093 København K, Denmark

Danmarks Nationalbank from north. Photography gcbb. Wikipedia

“The Danmarks Nationalbank building is centrally located in Copenhagen and is a distinctive presence in the urban landscape. The building, which was built in the period 1965–78, was designed by internationally renowned Danish architect Arne Jacobsen. It is considered to be one of his principal works. In 2009, it became the youngest building in Denmark to be listed as a historical site.” More: THE DANMARKS NATIONALBANK BUILDING – DANMARKSNATIONALBANK

EINSTEIN TOWER – EINSTEINTURM

ERICH MENDELSOHN | POTSDAM | 1919

Albert-Einstein-Straße, 14473 Potsdam, Germany.

Photography Jean-Pierre Dalbéra. Flickr

“Built between 1919 and 1922, the Einstein Tower is a solar observatory located on Telegraph Hill within the Albert Einstein Science Park in Potsdam. It was built as part of a collaboration between the architect Erich Mendelsohn and astrophysicist Erwin Finlay Freundlich and the Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein, which the building is named after and whose bust by Kurt Harald Isenstein (1928) stands at the entrance.” More SANSSOUCI PARK POTSDAM