Unique Building Inspired by Swedish Architecture

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PLYMOUTH'S post-war NAAFI building was designed by E M Joseph of architects Messrs Joseph, writes architecture expert Graham Hobbins. Construction began in 1949 and the building was officially opened by Princess Margaret in July 1952.

Among the first post-war buildings to be built in the city centre, the architecture of the NAAFI was somewhat unique to Plymouth and shows us a time during the modern movement when architects were looking to the Scandinavian model for their sources of inspiration.

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Unique Building Inspired by Swedish Architecture

Sweden was particularly popular with British architects in the 1920s and 1930s because it had...

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