Architecture

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

An expert’s guide to Postmodernism: five must-read books on the movement

All you ever wanted to know about the subject, from a pivotal novel to a book on how Postmodernism “shapes all aspects of contemporary life”—selected by The Cosmic House director Eszter Steierhoffer

Interiors of former Whitney Museum building landmarked ahead of Sotheby's move-in

Marcel Breuer's Brutalist gem on the Upper East Side is to undergo a partial renovation as part of its auction house revamp

Tadao Ando’s only building in the Southern Hemisphere faces uncertain future

The fate of the architect’s popular Melbourne pavilion, a project for the usually temporary MPavilion commission, is up in the air

Artists and architects shortlisted in Queen Elizabeth II memorial design competition

Designs by five teams have been shortlisted to create the proposed memorial in St James’s Park, with the winning entry due to be announced this summer

Antoni Gaudí’s Casa Batlló is reaping the rewards from its continual reinvention

The Barcelona museum's latest revamp has added 2,000 sq. m for immersive exhibitions

What not to miss at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale

We introduce the 2025 main exhibition and pick out the national pavilions to look out for

Los Angeles wildfire memorial project seeks to save chimneys from famous architects’ houses

Chimneys from Pacific Palisades homes designed by Richard Neutra, Eric Lloyd Wright and others—in many cases the homes’ only remaining elements—would be turned into a memorial for wildfire victims

Catholic artists celebrate Antoni Gaudí’s place on the path to sainthood

Known as “God’s architect”, Gaudí was earlier this week declared “venerable” by the Vatican

Architect Lina Ghotmeh to design Qatar Pavilion at Venice Biennale

Lebanon-born Ghotmeh—whose other projects include a forthcoming redesign of the Western Range galleries at the British Museum—is known for her work addressing themes such as history and nature

São Paulo's Museu de Arte to unveil sprawling expansion featuring 14-storey tower

This month’s opening will more than double the museum's space, and help to overcome its infrastructure limitations

Diplomacy museum and buildings designed by Breuer and Mies van der Rohe among hundreds of US federal properties briefly listed for sale

The list of buildings, briefly posted on the General Services Administration website, included 443 properties, many with cultural and historic significance

Masterwork by Mexico's foremost architect Luis Barragán becomes an art centre

La Cuadra San Cristobal, a complex on Mexico City’s outskirts, soft-launched with a project by Marina Abramović

Booksnews

New book celebrates William Butterfield, a master of High Victorian Gothic architecture

Nicholas Olsberg’s publication offers a learned analysis of the architect’s work, which includes Oxford’s Keble College and central London’s All Saints church

Architect Lina Ghotmeh wins competition to revamp British Museum’s vast Western Range galleries

Ghotmeh beat five architect-led teams to land what the museum has called “one of the biggest cultural renovations undertaken anywhere in the world”

Ayesha Singh’s India Art Fair tent commission remembers the forgotten women of Indian architecture

Singh considers the vast scale of India's religious, cultural and ideological movements at a time of charged historical revisionism

Vancouver Art Gallery invites proposals from Canadian architecture firms as it restarts building project

The gallery recently cancelled a project designed by the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron after its budget ballooned by 50%

Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum to design 2025 Serpentine summer pavilion

The structure will have a kinetic element and look to the architecture of Bangladesh