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Permanently Closed
The beautiful circular villa is now in ruins.
Dilijan, Armenia

Khanjian Villa

The luxurious circular mansion built for a Communist leader now lies abandoned.
Very different from its neighbor back in the '30s
New York, New York

William Lescaze Townhouse

New York City's first Modernist house.
How Mansion House Square might have looked
London, England

Mansion House Square

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.
Lobby of the TWA Flight Center
Queens, New York

TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.
Barcelona, Spain

European Museum of Modern Art

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.
architecture

How Utopian Living Looked to Modernist Architects

Bold visions—from the past—of how we would live in the future.
Anika Burgess September 14, 2016
architecture

Places You Can No Longer Go: Hoffman Auto Showroom

Only one car salesman enlisted Frank Lloyd Wright as his designer.
Lucas Adams September 1, 2016
The mobile lounge at Dulles Airport in action, 1960s. (Photo: Library of Congress/LC-DIG-krb-00774)
architecture

The Lonely Ballad of the Dulles Airport Mobile Lounge

A high-tech room on wheels and the airport that might have been.
Veronique Greenwood July 26, 2016
Skygate from afar
Honolulu, Hawaii

Sky Gate

During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.
architecture

New Jersey’s Deserted Mid-Century Motels, by Night

The kitschy motels of the Wildwoods, lit up in brightly colored neon.
Anika Burgess July 8, 2016
Exterior of Centre Pompidou
Paris, France

Centre Pompidou

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
architecture

The Strikingly Well-Preserved Modernist Homes of Pre-Revolutionary Cuba

Photographing history in Havana's Nuevo Vedado neighborhood.
Anika Burgess April 27, 2016
architecture

The Strange Pocket of Modern Houses in Virginia that Were Considered Communist

At one time, a glass house was suspected of being a red house.
George Pendle April 25, 2016
Noguchi Playscape
Atlanta, Georgia

Noguchi Playscape

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.
Donald Judd's works at The Chinati Foundation.
Marfa, Texas

Chinati Foundation

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.