Architecture

Le Corbusier’s freshly-restored Paris shelter to open to the public

Residents will give tours of the Salvation Army’s Cité de Refuge

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A lifelong dedication to Gothic architecture: Peter Howell on A.W.N. Pugin

The final instalment in the collected letters of a revivalist pioneer

Moscow’s ‘Soviet Versailles’ to be restored to its former glory

But the project includes a controversial history exhibition that tries to rehabilitate Stalin’s image

Which star architect will be first to use blackest of black material?

Maker of spray-on version of Vantablack working with “global architects” as well as Anish Kapoor <br>

People of Geneva say ‘non’ to museum extension designed by Jean Nouvel

The proposal for the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire is sent back to the drawing board after 54% vote against it<br>

For world-class Art Deco, visit Shanghai

Chinese city is first in Asia to host global congress

Chicago hits an architectural high

Our pick of the inaugural biennial, which opened to towering expectations

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When scholarship married the imagination: Peter Howell on Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

The French architect is the subject of two excellent new books

Zaha Hadid buries new museum beneath Italian Alpine peak

Museum dedicated to the art of climbing offers sweeping views

How little man-made boxes are used to capture bigger ones

Great architectural photographers have moved far beyond mere documentation

Dasha Zhukova’s Garage to reopen in new-look Gorky Park pavilion

Rem Koolhaas transforms Soviet-era pavilion and Yayoi Kusama brings Infinity Room and polka dots to Moscow<br>

Paris mayor gives city’s decaying churches a Hail Mary—to the tune of €80m

But heritage groups say the funds fall far short of the real cost of restoration

Has Russian government’s half-billion dollar pledge to save historic city of Vyborg come too late?

Experts blame local authorities in Vyborg for failing to act as architecture begins to collapse

Berlinische Galerie reopens after refurbishment

German capital’s 1960s urban renewal is explored in new shows

Culture clash: how Venice battled to keep the Modernists out

The Biennale is celebrated for a collision of the contemporary and the historical, but newer architecture remains hidden behind the city’s venerable walls

Incense: the secret ingredient in G.F. Bodley's architecture

Kenneth Powell locates G.F. Bodley in the Aesthetic Movement

Architects vs Prince Charles: if the column goes, we go

Why Robert Venturi threatened to walk out after royal objection to false column on Sainsbury Wing of London's National Gallery

America is easier to see, but the whole picture remains elusive: Alexander Alberro on the Whitney’s opening exhibition

Unknown works appear with more familiar ones but a few key pieces have lost impact they once had in Breuer Building

New Whitney and Broad Museum on trend with vast column-free space

Super-sized, flexible spaces are the latest must-have, but curators and budgets can suffer

Russian dealer to help Abramovic get Montenegro art centre off the ground

<p> Performance artist’s Bauhaus-inspired venue was meant to open in 2013 </p>

Don’t be scared of what will be: the Medieval way of art and death

The union of devotional imagery and religious observance was a comfort

MoMA builds a new audience for Latin American architecture

Sixty years after a landmark architectural survey, the New York museum picks up where it left off

V&A Cast Court restored to Victorian splendour

£2m, two year refurbishment to open next month