The purpose of this website is to document and celebrate the Modernist and Art Deco buildings of the Metro-Land area and era. I first started this project after moving to South Harrow a few years ago. It began with me photographing some of the interesting local buildings, and grew as I found out more about both Modernist architecture and the concept of Metro-Land.
When I first published this site in February 2011 it featured 20 buildings, now there are over 100, from Hayes in the west to Enfield in the north-east of London. My explorations have taken me far from the area popularly thought of as Metro-Land, but in keeping with the famous idea that it is “a country with elastic borders that each visitor can draw for himself", I think all the buildings on this site share the progressive spirit of Modernist Metro-land.
The buildings are grouped by building type, (Tube Stations, Factories, Cinemas, Churches, Homes, Schools and Other Buildings), but can be viewed in a number of other ways. You can view them by Architect or by Borough, as well as on Google Maps. Other sections of the website feature Post War Buildings of the area, References I used in my research and a list of Links you might find interesting.
If you want to contact us for any reason you can do so at abbottjoshua@hotmail.com, and you can also follow us on twitter as @mod_in_metro, on Tumblr as modernism-in-metroland.tumblr.com and on Instagram as mod_in_metro. We hope you enjoy discovering the great Modernist buildings of Metro-Land. Enjoy!
When I first published this site in February 2011 it featured 20 buildings, now there are over 100, from Hayes in the west to Enfield in the north-east of London. My explorations have taken me far from the area popularly thought of as Metro-Land, but in keeping with the famous idea that it is “a country with elastic borders that each visitor can draw for himself", I think all the buildings on this site share the progressive spirit of Modernist Metro-land.
The buildings are grouped by building type, (Tube Stations, Factories, Cinemas, Churches, Homes, Schools and Other Buildings), but can be viewed in a number of other ways. You can view them by Architect or by Borough, as well as on Google Maps. Other sections of the website feature Post War Buildings of the area, References I used in my research and a list of Links you might find interesting.
If you want to contact us for any reason you can do so at abbottjoshua@hotmail.com, and you can also follow us on twitter as @mod_in_metro, on Tumblr as modernism-in-metroland.tumblr.com and on Instagram as mod_in_metro. We hope you enjoy discovering the great Modernist buildings of Metro-Land. Enjoy!
