Sun House, Frognal Way, Hampstead, Greater London
This detached house dates from 1935-6 and was designed by Maxwell Fry. It has white rendered concrete walls, a flat roof, 3 floors and a roof terrace. The windows are in continuous strips and there is a continuous balcony with tubular steel railings on the 1st floor. Fry was a founder member of the MARS Group which promoted the cause of the new modernist architecture. It is a pioneer work of the Modern Movement in the UK. Frognal was a community of its own in the 17th and 18th centuries. It became a favourite area for artists and architects in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
