International style architecture

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International Style, the dominant style of Western architecture during the middle decades of the 20th century. Its common characteristics include rectilinear forms, little applied ornamentation and decoration, and open interior spaces. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, and Le Corbusier were well-known practitioners.

Tel Aviv is home to some of the world's best-preserved Bauhaus and International Style buildings. See 10 important examples from the city's Bauhaus Center

Image 1 of 21 from gallery of Saint-Ange Residency / Studio Odile Decq. Photograph by Roland Halbe

International style is characterized by rectangular structures and forms, simple exteriors with large glass panes and open interiors.

Image 31 of 33 from gallery of New York's Modernism Architecture City Guide: Beaux-Arts, Art-Deco, International Style, Brutalism and Organic Architecture. Photograph by Flickr CC license / Bobby Bradley

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The Unique Cultural CenterIn Ávila (Spain) are opening a new cultural center Centro Niemeyer constructed under the project of well-known Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.Oscar Niemeyer Presents...The spiral staircase begins outside, at ground level, then deduces in premises and further into the attic hall. The unique design is only a part of the future complex, the project is in expectation of the gradual grandiose realization.Organizers hope that the unusual object will represent itself…

SOM is renovating the Lever House skyscraper that it designed in New York in an effort to preserve the modernist office building's "very important legacy".