Architecture

Turning 21 with a bang: Frieze's revamped tent brings emerging galleries to the fore

The fair’s location in Regent’s Park is both a boon and a bind: but this year designers have reconfigured Frieze London’s layout to improve the experience for visitors and galleries alike

Film review

The Brutalist asks who owns the memory of the Holocaust and who defines an artist’s legacy

Brady Corbet’s new film, feted at the Venice International Film Festival and now playing at the New York Film Festival, follows a Jewish, Bauhaus-trained architect adjusting to life and work in the US after the Second World War

After 20 years without a permanent home, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art will open this month

The museum is preparing to open a major new building in the heart of the Polish capital

Medieval Carcassonne laid bare in spectacular restoration

Visitors gain panoramic view of historic French city from upper ramparts after €5m restoration makes full circuit walkable

Brutalism meets art in São Paulo pop-up exhibitions

Homes designed by Ruy Ohtake and Chu Ming Silveira are the co-stars in annual show coupling contemporary art with architecture and design

Booksreview

Five of the best art books hitting the shelves this autumn

Our literary editor Jacqueline Riding selects some of the tempting titles that are scheduled for publication over the coming months

Second lawsuit to halt development of mega-spa on Toronto Modernist landscape is dismissed

The fate of the landmarked Ontario Science Centre also hangs in the balance of the redevelopment dispute over Ontario Place

Marcel Breuer’s Modernist cottage on Cape Cod sold to local trust, paving way for restoration

The Cape Cod Modern House Trust intends to use the architect's summer home to host residencies for artists, architects and scholars

New London hub with ‘affordable’ artists studios to rise from ruins of 19th-century warehouse

A scheme by the non-profit Create London will convert the Newham building into a culture and learning centre

National Trust for Historic Preservation grants $3m to Black heritage sites across the US

Almost half of the funding will go towards preserving Modernist buildings designed by Black architects

Booksreview

Who really was John Soane? The man and manifesto behind the magnificent house museum

Former museum director Bruce Boucher’s room-by-room account of the architect’s collection takes far readers beyond the catalogue

Julius Bryant

Legal challenge to preserve Toronto's Ontario Place rejected as mega-spa project moves forward

In addition, it was discovered that the provincial government agreed to pay almost C$1m to make its controversial case for moving the Ontario Science Centre, which closed permanently Friday due to structural decay

Booksreview

Taking a close look at classical architecture as a ‘living system’

Edward McParland's recent, wide-ranging book takes an idiosyncratic approach to classicism, examining its complexities and expressive forms

Booksreview

From pews to power stations: a history of interwar British architecture that some feared might not be published

Gavin Stamp’s final book offers a fitting memorial to the architectural historian and Private Eye columnist

Virginia Overton creates new public work for Brooklyn’s former Domino Sugar Refinery

The Brooklyn-based artist has created an abstract wall sculpture for the building’s lobby using parts of the old factory’s iconic yellow sign

The Colombian architecture group championing traditional and Indigenous building techniques

Fundación Organizmo rejects the notion of Starchitects, instead collaborating with local artisans to create site-specific, sustainable buildings

Lost building discovered in Sicily’s ancient Valley of the Temples

Archaeologists working at a Unesco World Heritage site in Agrigento have revealed the remains of a previously unknown building

How allegations about David Adjaye continue to impact global museum projects he has been involved with

While the architect, who has been accused of sexual misconduct, has been fired or stepped down from a number of contracts, other institutions continue to work with Adjaye Associates

Antoine Predock, architect of distinctive museums in the US and Canada, has died, aged 87

His Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Tang Teaching Museum and Tacoma Art Museum were typical of an approach that melded modernism and post-modernism into a characteristically unpredictable aesthetic

Court ruling blow to heritage campaigners in to-and-fro battle over historic London department store

Judge reverses decision by secretary of state to save 1929 Marks & Spencer building in London’s Oxford Street, paving way for its demolition

Albert Frey’s Aluminaire House finds a home 

The Swiss architect's building for the future has—at last—found a permanent location in Palm Springs

Private donations save Bologna’s Garisenda tower from collapse

City had been forced to cordon off leaning 12th-century structure

Miami Advice: Nina Johnson on the Spear House of North Bayshore Drive

The gallerist says that the pretty-in-pink property exudes the quintessential 1980s South Florida vibe that still resonates today

Raac and ruin: museums search for unsafe concrete—but can they afford repairs?

Institutions are scrambling to identify whether their buildings contain the potentially dangerous material

A new artist-designed ‘chapel’ to grace Kansas City

The artist Summer Wheat will create a space for visitors to “explore their inner world” on the Kansas City Museum campus

‘We wanted to test if people can still perceive the space’: the architect behind Art Week Tokyo's pop-up bar

Suzuko Yamada on reducing a bar down to its bare essentials, her vision for architecture and her favourite drinking spot in Tokyo.

In partnership withArt Week Tokyo

Leaked report suggests Canada may abandon prime minister's crumbling home

The historic property in Ottawa needs more than $27m worth of repairs, but creating a brand new residence could cost more