Architecture

Francis Kéré's design for Las Vegas Museum of Art revealed

The Pritzker Prize-winning architect plans for the building draw dual inspiration from Las Vegas as a centre of Modernist architecture and a site within a stunning natural landscape

Brutalist home of England's first National Black Art Convention saved from demolition

The University of Wolverhampton’s School of Art building, which played a key role in the emergence of the British Black arts movement in the 1980s, has been granted Grade II listed status

Construction of Trump’s White House ballroom continues despite heritage body’s lawsuit

A federal judge has rejected attempt by National Trust for Historic Preservation to temporarily halt president’s pet construction project

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Comment | When did US museum design get so boring?

While art-museum architecture remains vibrant across the globe, many US institutions are both uninspiring and unwelcoming

Taichung’s new ‘Museumbrary’ expands Taiwan’s culture credentials

The cutting-edge institution, which opens tomorrow, fuses museum and library in decommissioned military airport

Comment | Why Frank Gehry was the ultimate artist’s architect

The radical builder emerged—and learned—from a scrappy group of Los Angeles artists

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Remembering Frank Gehry, legendary architect of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The Toronto-born architect, who reshaped global skylines with his sweeping, seemingly unfinished creations, has died, aged 96

A tale of three historic Miami theatres in disrepair

Recent restoration projects at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, Ace Theatre and Olympia Theater have ranged from preservation to near demolition

Miami Advice: Nina Surel on the historic Villa Paula and its future

The Argentine artist Nina Surel is enamoured with Villa Paula—an architectural transplant of sorts that was built for the Cuban consul in the late 19th century

Plans for Trump Tower Belgrade ‘breach multiple laws’, architects’ union claims

The Union of Architects of Serbia has shared an open letter of concern regarding the demolition of Belgrade’s Generalštab Modernist Complex

Inside Lambeth Palace, the historic building that will be home to the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury

Sarah Mullally, who was appointed to the role last month, will be the first occupant of the palace following its £40m renovation

New York’s Studio Museum—known for championing Black artists—reopens in $300m new home

The legendary institution, which took seven years to build, reopens with an exhibition devoted to the works of Tom Lloyd

Belgium’s famous Menin Gate memorial to host first Armistice Day ceremony since €6m restoration

The structure, once described as a “sepulchre of crime”, has undergone extensive repairs—and now has a “living roof”

Sportnews

Amoako Boafo serves up a community tennis court in Ghana

The tennis-loving artist is bringing a space for sport, learning and creativity to the Accra neighbourhood he grew up in

‘It’s not complete without people’: the architect behind Art Week Tokyo's see-through pop-up bar

Designed by Ichio Matsuzawa, this year’s AWT Bar is made of transparent acrylic

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‘Sometimes the space comes first’: how Shohei Shigematsu is using architecture to break cultural ground

The director of Office for Metropolitan Architecture's New York outpost is a master at presenting luxury marques at their most fantastical

Princeton University Art Museum graduates to expansive new home

The institution has doubled the size of its former space to display more of its collection of 117,000 works, plus newly commissioned sculptures and installations

Trump fires all members of fine arts commission that reviews construction projects in Washington, DC

The White House plans to install new Commission of Fine Arts members who “are more aligned with President Trump’s ‘America First’ policies”

Trump demolishes White House’s historic East Wing despite preservationists’ protests

One group called the sudden demolition “a collective loss” while another expressed concern the $300m ballroom that will replace the East Wing “will overwhelm the White House itself”

Historic architecture is celebrated in new Onera Foundation venue in Connecticut

The first show at the new space, opening on 1 October, is inspired by the Eero Saarinen-designed US Embassy in Oslo

Vancouver Art Gallery selects architects for second attempt at new building

After abandoning a costly design by Swiss starchitects, the museum has picked Vancouver-based Formline Architecture and Urbanism and Toronto-based KPMB Architects to take on the project

Outrage over heritage listing of temple in Mexico tied to sex-abuse scandal

La Luz del Mundo’s flagship church in Guadalajara is a unique structure, but should architectural value (and politics) override ethical concerns?

Calder Gardens opens this weekend in Philadelphia

The long-awaited project is not a museum but a contemplative, multi-sensory space—or an underground cathedral

Donald Judd’s architecture office reopens after previous restoration went up in flames

The building in Marfa, Texas, was badly damaged by fire in 2021, wrecking a three-year restoration project that was about to complete

Alexander Calder finally gets hometown space in Philadelphia

The $70m Calder Gardens is a unique space serving as both a celebration of the artist’s work and a meticulously landscaped oasis on the city’s grandest boulevard

Lina Ghotmeh to transform historic Uzbek scholar’s house into Jadids’ Legacy Museum

The space, due to open in 2027, will be dedicated to the ideas and enduring influence of Jadidism

Filmreview

In the new documentary Architecton, buildings collapse and stones dance

Victor Kossakovsky’s mostly-silent film reflects on the disposability of new buildings and durability of ancient construction

London’s Queen Elizabeth II memorial to feature contemplative Yinka Shonibare sculpture

The British-Nigerian artist Shonibare is part of the team behind the project, led by Foster + Partners

Tadao Ando’s only building in the Southern Hemisphere gets a five-year lifeline

The much-lauded temporary pavilion in Melbourne designed by the Japanese architect was facing an uncertain future

Sotheby’s offers peek at Breuer building’s makeover

New renderings show the subtle interventions the auction house is making to its new Manhattan locale ahead of the marquee autumn auctions in November