Today, AD is joined by legendary director Francis Ford Coppola to break down the architectural details of ‘Megalopolis’.

Lisa Edi for The New York Times The opera opens in 1935 with the funeral of Manon, Mahler-Werfel’s daughter with the architect Walter Gropius, who died at 18 from complications related to polio.

Built in 1935 to a design by architect Sir Owen Williams, the building was described by Walter Gropius as ‘an oasis of glass in a desert of brick’. Entrance to the apartment is on the ground floor.