Architecture
Protests erupt outside Archaeological Museum in Athens as David Chipperfield revamp announced
Riot police watched over crowds at the media launch, attended by the Greek prime minister
What will museums of the future be like? Three key takeaways from a new book
András Szántó spoke to 21 architects about how museum architecture is shaping up, here are some of his findings
The Portland Museum of Art picks mass timber design for $100m 'expansion and unification' project
Lever, a sustainability-minded firm, won the international design competition for the museum's ambitious campus overhaul
From a marble toilet roll to a giant Lego structure: Ai Weiwei's new London show looks at the value of objects
Exhibition at the Design Museum will include the artist's works drawing on the Covid-19 pandemic
London National Gallery revamp sets troubling precedent on the preservation of newer heritage sites
Existing plans to redevelop the gallery’s Sainsbury Wing, which will transform its entrance, demonstrate how newer listed buildings are treated with less respect than older heritage sites
Defying gravity—Leaning Tower of Pisa leans like in the early 19th century
Expert stabilisation plan means the Italian landmark has continued to straighten itself
'This land has an important history': Pritzker Prize-winning architects SANAA on their design for the Art Gallery of New South Wales
The designers behind the New Museum in New York and the Louvre-Lens talk about their latest project in Sydney
Home of Henry Ossawa Tanner—one of the first internationally renowned African American artists—faces demolition
A local grassroots group has begun a fundraising campaign to save a piece of local Black history in North Philadelphia
Notre Dame's fresh interior—cleaned with controversial latex paste—will deliver a 'shock', restoration chief promises
Conservationists raise concerns that by cleaning the Paris cathedral's fire-damaged interior stonework it will become "artificially bright"
London's National Gallery revamp row: is it a sensitive makeover or like 'an airport lounge'?
Plus, contemporary art in Lagos and Chagall's falling angel
Taliban government approves conservation work on historic synagogue in Afghanistan
Go ahead given to a restoration project to preserve two historic sites associated with the Jewish community that once resided in Herat
No to Modernism, yes to arts and crafts: a look at the creative tastes of King Charles III
The monarch's gardens at Highgrove are the purest example of his late-Victorian-inspired vision
Twenty-five years after it opened, artists still find it hard to love the Guggenheim Bilbao
Architect Frank Gehry claimed his design for the Spanish satellite museum was neutral and would not compete with the art within—did he succeed?
Sound installation puts voice of artist Maggie Jencks back into the Postmodern house she helped create in London
Edwin Heathcote—'keeper of meaning' at The Cosmic House built by the Postmodernist theorist Charles Jencks and his wife Maggie—explains how a sound work is bringing the building back to life
England’s late-Georgian churches—long dismissed as 'mere preaching boxes'—are reappraised in new book
Built for a booming population, their architecture has been unfairly maligned, argues this survey
Getty Foundation launches $3.1m programme to preserve Black architects' work
The two-year grant Preserving Black Modernism extends the foundation's larger initiative to protect Modernist architecture
Ai Weiwei and museum architects Sanaa win £100,000 Praemium Imperiale art prizes
The annual award, under the patronage of Japan’s Imperial Family, spans five categories including painting, sculpture and architecture
New publication brings Norwegian medieval wooden church—an art history Sleeping Beauty—to ravishing life
It may lie in a remote fjord but the Viking-built stave structure sits within a far wider context
Community-centred art pavilion to be unveiled at London's Notting Hill Carnival
The artist Alvaro Barrington and architect Sumayya Vally lean into the carnival's place as a robust "site of artistic creation"
A first glimpse of Storm King Art Center’s $45m redesign
The celebrated upstate New York sculpture park will begin an overhaul of its grounds to enhance visitor experience and biodiversity
Qatar ramps up cultural programme ahead of Fifa World Cup with museum previews and extensive exhibition programme
French curators take the reins at the country's new museums
Historic Beirut house damaged in city's devastating port explosion is reconstructed at Victoria & Albert Museum in London
The work charts an architect’s personal crusade to restore one of the finest remaining examples of Ottoman-Venetian homes in Old Beirut.
Williams College Museum of Art selects Brooklyn-based architects SO-IL for new building
The museum is currently housed in the university's former library building
London's Royal College of Art—whose graduates include Tracey Emin and David Hockney—doubles size of its Battersea campus
The £135m development is designed by Herzog & de Meuron
John Harris—an architectural historian and eagle-eyed connoisseur—has died, aged 90
A scholar of Inigo Jones and William Chambers, Harris mounted landmark exhibitions based on the RIBA drawings collection that he so radically transformed
Historic English villa—built by royal mistress to escape her 'stinker' of a husband—reopens after restoration
Henrietta Howard's Marble Hill is a rare surviving example of such a home, and even rarer as one created by a woman
Book reveals the perilous life and times of Stalin’s most celebrated architect
Boris Iofan, a Jewish architect born in Odesa—whose buildings included the Communist behemoth the “House on the Embankment”—built what the dictator demanded, creating architecture as an instrument of power
Ghanaian pavilion: returning country's presentation to spill out across Venice
For its second appearance at the Biennale, Ghana will install modular bamboo structures in locations around the city
Musée D’Orsay takes a trip through Gaudí’s fantastical world in new exhibition
Immersive show at the Parisian museum aims to show the varied output of the master of Catalan Modernism and go beyond his most famous work, the Sagrada Família
From torture to cream tea: new book chronicles the history of Britain’s castles
Eyewitness accounts from behind the gates of fortresses dating from the seventh century to now bring these imposing buildings to life