Architecture
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
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
Soviet-era cinema transformed into culture centre in Kazakhstan
The Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture was designed by British architect Asif Khan
Judge orders sale of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower for original price of $1.4m
The Oklahoma skyscraper’s crypto-enthusiast owners had attempted to auction the tower after reneging on an agreement to sell it to a local company that restores historic buildings
Architects denounce Trump's call for ‘traditional and classical’ architecture
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has criticised an executive order signed by the new president, claiming his plans could harm local communities
As world cheers the restored Notre-Dame, other French churches decay
The country has too many churches in areas with too few people—and too little money to maintain them
London-based Studio Weave wins competition to revamp British Museum entrance
New welcome pavilions and a landscaped forecourt are scheduled for completion early 2026
Remembering Joseph Rykwert, influential writer and teacher on the theory of architecture
Warsaw-born RIBA gold medal winner, who became the professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, changed architectural understanding
Metropolitan Museum reveals design for new $550m wing for Modern and contemporary art
Designs for the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing, conceived by the architect Frida Escobedo, show a stepped exterior of latticed limestone
Environmental row escalates as historic Marks & Spencer store in London is set for demolition
Campaigners argue rebuilding Orchard House will release harmful embedded carbon and are calling on government to promote refurbishment over destruction
Through the Notre-Dame restoration, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc has now become ‘untouchable’. But at what price?
The five-year restoration of the cathedral has cemented the reign of the 19th-century architect, but his methods may not meet modern standards
Tracey Emin helps win fight to protect famous Margate tower block
Council rejects proposal to replace windows in Arlington House, a Brutalist seafront building
Farewell, functionality? The architect of this year's Art Week Tokyo Bar on her radical design
Plus, the three bespoke cocktails created by contemporary artists and mixologists
Take a peek behind the doors of acclaimed Tokyo houses
A programme of architecture tours at this year's Art Week Tokyo unlocks a series of historic private buildings
Modern Art Oxford gallery gets a £2m revamp
The new space's inaugural show is dedicated to the pioneering Cuban artist Belkis Ayón
Fate of Frank Lloyd Wright’s only skyscraper remains uncertain amid duelling lawsuits
Oklahoma’s Price Tower is caught in a tug-of-war between its current crypto-enthusiast owners, Wright’s conservancy and a company that restores historic buildings
'Not just the oldest, but the biggest': Alain Dominique Perrin on what to expect from Fondation Cartier's new gallery
Due to open in late 2025, the foundation's president hopes the new Palais-Royal location will draw around a million visitors each year
Fifty years after Hans Döllgast's death, conference explores his role in rebuilding post-war Germany
The architect rejected nationalistic solutions in favour of collaged restoration
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
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
Marcel Breuer’s summer house added to US National Register of Historic Places
What is happening with Breuer’s Cape Cod home?