Architecture

Kurt Schwitters’s Merz Barn in Lake District up for sale

Chinese collector may step in to save the barn, after Arts Council rejects funding bid

South London Gallery’s new Fire Station annexe to open in September

Exhibition spaces and an artist’s studio have been created in the Victorian building that was donated by an anonymous benefactor

Serpentine 2017 pavilion snapped up by Malaysian buyer

Francis Kéré’s structure in London will head to Kuala Lumpur next year in deal struck with Ilham Gallery

Vincent Scully, fervent professor of art of architecture, has died, aged 97

His lectures at Yale University inspired generations to think about “the humanity within architecture”, says former student Maya Lin

In pictures: six global Guggenheim museums that never happened

As the Guggenheim Bilbao turns 20, we look back at some of the cities that considered, but abandoned, their own branch of New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Gazebo where Tamir Rice was shot is now at Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago

Theaster Gates and his Rebuild Foundation have organised a display and series of conversations around the disassembled structure, with hopes of rebuilding it outdoors this spring

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Gaudi's first masterpiece opens as public museum in Barcelona

Amidst political turmoil in Catalonia, opening of Casa Vicens could bring "a moment of peace"

Rem Koolhaas transforms Paris building into moving gallery for French retail giant’s cultural foundation

Mobile floors in Lafayette Anticipations's central exhibition space will operate as ‘curatorial machine’, say organisers

Norman Foster plans subtropical landscape for Norton Museum's $100m expansion

Florida museum will show sculptures by Keith Haring and Mark di Suvero in new 'garden rooms'

Centre Pompidou architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers to be honoured with statues outside Paris museum

French artist Xavier Veilhan has created the sculptures to celebrate designers of “masterful building”

Practical kitsch: on Ettore Sottsass at the Met Breuer

Disorientation over the designer's work has settled into quaint admiration

Four things to see during the Chicago Architecture Biennial

From imaginative scale models to a pop-up ‘freak’ show, we pick the must see projects around the city

Rehab and reuse top of agenda at Chicago Architecture Biennial

The second edition promises visionary solutions and a few surprises

Moscow’s Constructivist architecture under threat by government demolition plan

A proposal to raze Soviet era housing and relocate 1.6 million residents has caused so much concern that thousands turned out to protest this weekend

I.M. Pei’s life and work celebrated to mark architect’s centenary

Chosen by Jacqueline Kennedy to design the Kennedy Library, he went on to build landmark museums across the globe

Francis Kéré becomes first African architect to win Serpentine Pavilion commission

Architect’s tree-like wooden structure takes inspiration from the meeting-place of choice in villages throughout Africa

How a design for Hong Kong launched Zaha Hadid's career

Drawing on Chinese and Russian art, the late architect’s dramatic images for the Peak, a deluxe leisure club, brought her to international attention

Eiffel Tower to get a €300m facelift

The 15-year plan is intended to bolster Paris’s bid for the 2024 Olympic Games and 2025 World’s Fair

Metropolitan Museum surveys the past year of architecture with daylong event

Panels and talks feature prominent architects and artists discussing their most recent projects

Step inside Gaudí’s first major creation

A home the Spanish architect built for a Barcelona stockbroker is to be restored—with input from the first tenants’ descendants

International tour planned for Zaha Hadid exhibitions

Late architect's memorial service held in London, the city where foundation plans to keep her archive

Interview: David Adjaye and Theaster Gates on working in Washington, DC

The London-based architect and the Chicago-based artist spoke with us ahead of their joint talk at the Hirshhorn Museum

Serpentine Sackler Gallery to mount major Zaha Hadid show

Paintings, drawings and digital art by the late British-Iraqi architect will be exhibited at London institution this winter<br> <br>

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Tate Modern: a museum for our times

In emphasising architecture and spectacle, jettisoning chronology, pursuing diverse audiences and attracting private money, Tate Modern is the quintessential contemporary museum

Serpentine summer programme goes BIG

Four additional projects accompany the annual pavilion for Julia Peyton-Jones’ last stand

Venice Biennale: the multiple fronts of architecture do not disappoint

High-impact installations communicate the process of architecture to non-specialists

Tate Modern extension: a towering achievement

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

Zaha Hadid’s designs to be celebrated in Venice show

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

‘Zaha Hadid transformed our ideas of what architecture could be’

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