2 Willow Road

2 Willow Road is the middle part of the three part series house in Willow Road in Hampstead, a northern district of London. The house south of the park Hampstead Heath was built to a design (1938 ) by architect Ernő Goldfinger. Since 1995 it belongs to the company, The National Trust for historic preservation. It is one of the first buildings of modern architecture, which the National Trust took up, although the construction of the house was very controversial at the time. In 2 Willow Road, the architect Goldfinger lived with his family until his death in 1987; his wife still lived until her death in 1991 there.

1-3 Willow Road was built of concrete and covered with red bricks. For the construction of these houses a row of Victorian brick houses were demolished. This triggered protests from local residents, including the writer Ian Fleming was. The house number 2 had designed for himself and his family Goldfinger; it is among the largest of the three houses and involves, at its core, a special spiral staircase of the Danish engineer Ove Arup. The completion of the houses was shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War; Goldfinger moved into the house No. 2 in September 1939. The building is supported by an outer concrete skeleton and is spacious inside. Goldfinger also designed much of the furniture in the house No. 2 itself It also contains an art collection with works by Bridget Riley, Marcel Duchamp, Henry Moore and Max Ernst.

The house No. 2 is to be seen today. In the houses number 1 and 3 are private apartments.