Architecture critic Robert Bevan reviews Herzog & de Meuron's "literal tour de force"

Exhibition during Architecture Biennale will focus on the late architect’s innovations—and why drawing was key to her practice

The architect, who died in March, faced down her critics to leave a remarkable, if flawed, legacy

Residents will give tours of the Salvation Army’s Cité de Refuge

The final instalment in the collected letters of a revivalist pioneer

But the project includes a controversial history exhibition that tries to rehabilitate Stalin’s image

Maker of spray-on version of Vantablack working with “global architects” as well as Anish Kapoor <br>

The proposal for the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire is sent back to the drawing board after 54% vote against it<br>

Politics are everywhere in the inaugural edition of the show

Chinese city is first in Asia to host global congress

Our pick of the inaugural biennial, which opened to towering expectations

The French architect is the subject of two excellent new books

Museum dedicated to the art of climbing offers sweeping views

Rem Koolhaas transforms Soviet-era pavilion and Yayoi Kusama brings Infinity Room and polka dots to Moscow<br>

But heritage groups say the funds fall far short of the real cost of restoration

Experts blame local authorities in Vyborg for failing to act as architecture begins to collapse

German capital’s 1960s urban renewal is explored in new shows

The Biennale is celebrated for a collision of the contemporary and the historical, but newer architecture remains hidden behind the city’s venerable walls

Kenneth Powell locates G.F. Bodley in the Aesthetic Movement

Why Robert Venturi threatened to walk out after royal objection to false column on Sainsbury Wing of London's National Gallery

Unknown works appear with more familiar ones but a few key pieces have lost impact they once had in Breuer Building

Super-sized, flexible spaces are the latest must-have, but curators and budgets can suffer

<p> Performance artist’s Bauhaus-inspired venue was meant to open in 2013 </p>