Architecture
US snipers co-opt Samarra mosque’s spiral minaret
The US military says “military necessity” takes precedence over the safeguarding of this Islamic landmark
Collector Bob Rubin's proves passion for Prouvé in $1 million restoration
The artist’s Maison Tropicale is on show this month at Yale
Letters to the editor: doubts about the need for a V&A Architecture Centre
Architects no longer need vast resources of the printed word.
Cairo’s five centuries of rubbish now a park, thanks to the Aga Khan
This vast landscaping and urban renewal project has also uncovered Saladin’s walls
Eli Broad chooses Renzo Piano for Los Angeles County Museum of Art project
The Italian architect will design the institution’s new $50 million wing
Lord Palumbo’s Mies house for sale next month
Farnsworth House will be auctioned next month
Santiago Calatrava joins Daniel Libeskind on World Trade Center project
British artists Andy Goldsworthy and Anish Kapoor are to design memorials
'Zoomorphic' an overview of contemporary architecture at the V&A Museum
Exploring the animal kingdom's influence on contemporary architecture
Interview with Warren Neidich: When scientists make art
Trained as a neurobiologist, his art is about ways of seeing both physiological and as affected by the high-tech visions around us
The new Imperial War Museum North is a failure—as a museum
Our reporter visits Daniel Libeskind’s latest building in Manchester
Art in the media: The personality eclipses art in programmes on Lee Miller and Tracey Emin
Miller and Emin on ITV1’s South Bank Show, plus architecture of the future on Channel 5
Art publishers cover everything from traditional art history and exhibition catalogues to the heroes of digital games
From Dürer to digital beauties
Architecture is taking centre stage in the art world, and the market for architectural drawings is heating up
Few dealers, scarce material, but a growing audience
Letters: the V&A and RIBA partnership realises that historical architectural materials do have value
A reply correcting some out of date assumptions
One of Britain’s leading architectural historians has serious doubts about the Victoria & Albert Museum’s plan to be a “National Centre for Architecture"
Do modern architects use historic architectural material?
Slow progress on restoring war-torn Croatia
Work is underway, but worst hit town Vukovar still 'deserted'
A review of art in the UK media: Dumbing down or opening up?
The question of whether society gets the art it deserves, or merely what it is prepared to tolerate
The architecture of Tate Modern. Deceptively simple
Architects Herzog & de Meuron play subtle tricks with lighting and glass boxes
Richard Meier to obliterate Mussolini’s mark
The US architect's new building for ancient Roman monument to replace one commissioned by the Fascist dictator in the 1930s
Janet Myles, L.N. Cottingham, 1787-1874: architect of the Gothic Revival
Restoring a pioneer of the Gothic Revival to his rightful position
Mies' landmark Chicago university campus subject to redesign
Rem Koolhaas to revive inner city property
French support cultural diversity with $3 million going to new Hanoi museum
President of France inaugurates huge new ethnological museum
Aulenti-Foscari partnership wins competition to rebuild Venice's Teatro La Fenice
At a projected $50.7 million, theirs was not the cheapest plan proposed, but the fastest and technically the best
In 1993 Rome’s town council began preparing for the Millennium. The debate has been over how much to alter Mussolini’s propagandistic exploitation of imperial remains
The priject to execavate the imperial fora of Augustus, Vespasian, Nerva and Trajan has been described as “every archaeologist’s dream”
MoMA has chosen three finalists for its renovation project
Bernard Tschumi, Yoshio Taniguchi, and a team of Jacques Herzog and Pierre do Meuron are in the running
Who gets to build MoMA’s expansion?
As disgruntled museum staff strike, America’s most famous museum of modern art is trawling world-wide for a new architect
The Renaissance mystery of Sibenik’s dome
Sainsbury money is helping restore the fifteenth-century, Venetian-style masterpiece shelled in 1991
It’s official: it will be an old-style Fenice, but that’s all we know
The rubble began to be cleared from the burnt-out shell of the theatre in May, as rumours leaked from the judicial enquiry that the fire which destroyed it in January may have been arson. There is no proof, however, and investigations continue, while the mayor of Venice, Massimo Cacciari, tries to speed up the rebuilding by putting the town hall technical department in charge of drawing up the preliminary plan
Barcelona builds up Dalí’s architectural interests in new exhibition
Twenty-seven oil paintings and over one hundred drawings are featured
Criticism for Prado's approach to expansion project
Criticism from the Spanish architectural world as the museum launches huge open competition for its new extension