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Buildings where the building is the reason to go: the inside-out, the Art Deco, the concrete, and the ones that make no sense at all until somebody explains them.
Goldfinger built himself a modern terrace in Hampstead and the neighbours never forgave him.
HousesModern movementYou can go inside
Erno Goldfinger finished this row of three houses in 1939, keeping the middle one, and it is a modern building that behaves like a Georgian terrace: brick and concrete, the proportions of the street, a facade organised on a grid. The row it replaced was Victorian cottages, and the campaign against demolition was joined by Ian Fleming, who is said to have taken his revenge by giving a villain the architect's name. Inside is the argument: partitions that fold away, a spiral stair, built-in storage everywhere, and the art the Goldfingers collected - Bridget Riley, Max Ernst, Henry Moore - hung in the rooms they lived in rather than a gallery.
Opening hours, as recorded in OpenStreetMap: Mar-Oct: Th,Sa 11:00-16:30; Mar-Oct: Fr,Su-We off; Nov-Feb: Mo-Su off
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