Architecture

Private donations save Bologna’s Garisenda tower from collapse

City had been forced to cordon off leaning 12th-century structure

Miami Advice: Nina Johnson on the Spear House of North Bayshore Drive

The gallerist says that the pretty-in-pink property exudes the quintessential 1980s South Florida vibe that still resonates today

Raac and ruin: museums search for unsafe concrete—but can they afford repairs?

Institutions are scrambling to identify whether their buildings contain the potentially dangerous material

A new artist-designed ‘chapel’ to grace Kansas City

The artist Summer Wheat will create a space for visitors to “explore their inner world” on the Kansas City Museum campus

‘We wanted to test if people can still perceive the space’: the architect behind Art Week Tokyo's pop-up bar

Suzuko Yamada on reducing a bar down to its bare essentials, her vision for architecture and her favourite drinking spot in Tokyo.

In partnership withArt Week Tokyo

Leaked report suggests Canada may abandon prime minister's crumbling home

The historic property in Ottawa needs more than $27m worth of repairs, but creating a brand new residence could cost more

Fresh light on Wren: new installations interact with the domed spaces of two of the architect's greatest buildings

300 hundred years after the death of Christopher Wren, the London Design Festival has commissioned new pieces of light art for St Paul’s Cathedral and St Stephen Walbrook

Race to save Marcel Breuer’s 'magical' retreat on Cape Cod

The architect’s son is selling the Modernist summer house and a trust hopes to raise the funds to buy it

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s $230m transformation privileges its public and permanent collection

A decades-long process resulted in an ambitious reorientation of the museum’s campus around people and art

British wartime control tower to become holiday home after £3.1m restoration

Conservation charity Landmark Trust plans to transform derelict building into unique four-bedroom house, due to open in 2025

Architectureinterview

Minimalist master Tadao Ando on museum design, legacy and hope

The Japanese architect behind the Bourse de Commerce in Paris—and the subject of an exhibition at Museum SAN, one of his own designs near Seoul—gives a rare interview

New theatre building will house famous Diego Rivera mural in San Francisco

A new three-hall performance centre on City College of San Francisco's campus will house "Pan-American Unity", which is currently on display at SFMoMA

For India's biggest private collector, David Adjaye designs his 'most advanced museum concept' yet

The architect's vision for the new Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi, opening 2026, honours India's multiple cultures and religions at a time of heightened nationalist politics

Booksreview

Paul Goesch, the Gläserne Kette member murdered by the Nazis, reappraised in new book

The visionary but misunderstood German architect was a proto post-Modernist

SFMoMA acquires architectural capsule from Tokyo's famed Metabolist tower

Architect Kisho Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower was demolished last year, but 23 of its distinctive pods were preserved

Joy in Manchester’s cultural division as £211m arts centre opens

Factory International, the UK’s largest public investment in a cultural project since Tate Modern, opens in June alongside the Manchester International Festival

Striking displays of unequal power: Venice Architecture Biennale review

The 2023 event focuses on marginalised voices for the first time, with more than half of participants from Africa or the African diaspora

The transformed Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts reopens in Little Rock

Studio Gang’s ambitious renovation revitalises a historic cultural institution

Remembering Balkrishna Doshi, artist, teacher and father of modernist Indian architecture, who has died, aged 95

Innovative architect was at heart of rebuilding independent India, a protégé of Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, and winner of the Pritzker Prize and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal

A paragon of Desert Modern architecture becomes an art gallery

Art dealer Peter Blake is renting the Palm Springs house that renowned architect William F. Cody built for himself

David Chipperfield, architect of renowned museums from Margate to Mexico City, wins 2023 Pritzker Prize

Chipperfield’s building projects include Turner Contemporary and Museo Jumex, as well as expansions of Kunsthaus Zürich and London’s Royal Academy

Obituariesfeature

Rafael Viñoly—museum 'starchitect' who believed in experience over aesthetics—has died, aged 78

Uruguayan-born architect had an acute understanding of the visual arts and produced prize-winning buildings

Museum of Natural History’s new science and nature centre to open to New York public this spring

Dramatic extension to the 140-year-old building is inspired by the “Manhattanhenge” illusion

Protests erupt outside Archaeological Museum in Athens as David Chipperfield revamp announced

Riot police watched over crowds at the media launch, attended by the Greek prime minister

What will museums of the future be like? Three key takeaways from a new book

András Szántó spoke to 21 architects about how museum architecture is shaping up, here are some of his findings

The Portland Museum of Art picks mass timber design for $100m 'expansion and unification' project

Lever, a sustainability-minded firm, won the international design competition for the museum's ambitious campus overhaul

From a marble toilet roll to a giant Lego structure: Ai Weiwei's new London show looks at the value of objects

Exhibition at the Design Museum will include the artist's works drawing on the Covid-19 pandemic

Heritagecomment

London National Gallery revamp sets troubling precedent on the preservation of newer heritage sites

Existing plans to redevelop the gallery’s Sainsbury Wing, which will transform its entrance, demonstrate how newer listed buildings are treated with less respect than older heritage sites

Defying gravity—Leaning Tower of Pisa leans like in the early 19th century

Expert stabilisation plan means the Italian landmark has continued to straighten itself

'This land has an important history': Pritzker Prize-winning architects SANAA on their design for the Art Gallery of New South Wales

The designers behind the New Museum in New York and the Louvre-Lens talk about their latest project in Sydney

In partnership with the Art Gallery of New South Wales