Architecture
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
Obituary: Gae Aulenti
One of the few Italian women to achieve fame in architecture, not least for turning a train station into the Musée d’Orsay
Interview with Oscar Tuazon: Sculptures you are supposed to play with
Artist Oscar Tuazon on his Public Art Fund project for Brooklyn Bridge Park
Swiss architect dropped by Warsaw's Museum of Modern Art
Site of museum to be temporary McDonald’s
Are too many museums relying on too few architects?
Famous name or talented newcomer—how art museum architects are chosen today
Arles cultural centre falls foul of planning rules
French heritage authority wants Gehry-designed towers moved to reduce their impact on the city’s archaeology.
Berlin and Warsaw team up to preserve socialist heritage
Though reconstruction efforts after the devastation of war differed wildly between the two cities, the dialogue will be vital to conservation efforts
Inside Piranesi’s prisons on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale
An immersive, digital film at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini reimagines the artist’s dark fantasies as if in three dimensions
Restored 18th century parlour from Connecticut open for public viewing at Yale University Art Gallery
Yale prepares for the 2012 installation of its decorative arts galleries by reconstructing a period room
Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture: Two cities grin and bear it for one uneasy biennale
Interesting work, relaxed censorship and sheer scale belie tensions in joint Hong Kong-Shenzhen project
Book review: The trade in architectural salvages
John Harris investigates the mainly US market for parts of European buildings
Tate expansion by Herzog & de Meuron secures $100m from British state
Swiss duo stake claim to be the art world’s favourite architects
Interview with Olafur Eliasson on his pavilion in the park for the Serpentine
The Danish artist, whose Weather Project transformed Tate Modern, discusses his building for the Serpentine Gallery
New competition for Warsaw museum architect
Top practitioners had been excluded due to “Kafka-esque” rules
Minaret of Ana likely the "obelisk" said to have been lost in Iraq bombings
Professor Alistair Northedge asserts that the minaret is the only structure that fits a description provided by US marines
UCLA students get Richard Meier building thanks to $23m from Eli Broad
Philanthropist pays for nearly half the cost of new building
Eli Broad breaks new ground at LACMA
Construction starts next month on the collector’s $50 million Modern art gallery at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
'The destruction of memory: architecture at war', by Robert Bevan
This book argues that the deliberate destruction of buildings and cultural artefacts is a human rights issue
Terry Riley to leave MoMA
The head of Architecture and Design will instead focus on his own firm
François Pinault has abandoned plans to build a contemporary museum in Paris. Will his arch rival do it instead?
Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, has hired Canadian architect Frank Gehry to produce designs for a new museum
Interview with His Highness the Aga Khan on Al-Azhar Park and the importance of architecture
In a rare interview, the Aga Khan describes his global approach to helping Islamic communities help themselves, while also restoring their past heritage
Samarra mosque's spiral minaret targeted by bombers
Insurgents allegedly staged the attack to prevent US troops using the tower as a vantage point
Interview with Dennis Oppenheim on hid latest exhibition: “I could never stay with just one thing”
The veteran artist promises “truly radical” new work in his show at the Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma