Architecture

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

Slow progress on restoring war-torn Croatia

Work is underway, but worst hit town Vukovar still 'deserted'

Featuresarchive

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

May 1999archive

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

Booksarchive

Janet Myles, L.N. Cottingham, 1787-1874: architect of the Gothic Revival

Restoring a pioneer of the Gothic Revival to his rightful position

Vietnamarchive

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

Romearchive

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”

Museumsarchive

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

Museumsarchive

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

Venice archive

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

Tatearchive

The Tate Gallery: Architecture’s Degree Zero

Architectural theorist Jehuda Safran discusses the merits of Herzog and de Meuron

Conservators fighting fire and time for the Royal Academy

Sculptor conservators Taylor Pearce are working on Windsor, Westminster Cathedral and Westminster Hall

Museumsarchive

Houston's Museum of Fine Arts bucks the recession in Texas

The museum's endowment has grown to $157 million and a $50 million building by Raphael Moneo comes next

Frank Lloyd Wright retrospective at MoMA

The exhibition covers the span of his seventy year career, and includes a huge range of works and materials

Vanbrugh at the V&A

Newly bought architectural albums on show

Tug-of-war over baroque church of San Luca in Genoa as baroque gem falls into ruin

The Spinola family has created a Foundation and is looking for sponsors; the State would like to get possession of the sadly-neglected building

Schinkel: the architect who changed the face of Berlin

German reunification has made possible the first major exhibition,at the Victoria and Albert Museum, of all aspects of Schinkel’s work