Architecture
Chicago hits an architectural high
Our pick of the inaugural biennial, which opened to towering expectations
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
Smithsonian Design Museum reopens with array of high-tech displays
Cooper Hewitt puts can-do spirit into the house Carnegie built
Venice Architecture Biennale: Architecture as a living organism
Rem Koolhaas’s Biennale reflects his discipline not just as a technical process but as the embodiment of human experience across the ages.
New monument to mark Malevich’s grave
A competition to be held for a monument to mark lost resting place of the Russian avant-garde
Sifang Art Museum opens in a Nanjing forest while two private museums in Shanghai are near completion
Amidst a period of rapid growth for Chinese museums
Interview: architect Jacques Herzog on Art Basel’s new hall
The co-founder of Herzog & de Meuron architects on remodelling Messe Basel and the end of Modernity
Books: Portraits of a diverse selection of Scottish country houses
Perthshire’s answer to the Ritz revealed
Design Miami/Basel to relocate to more spacious hall in exhibition complex
Change was inevitable if the fair was to stay in Basel, as the limitations of the original site would have restricted its growth