Kunsthalle Rostock, the only museum built under the GDR, remembers Berlin's asbestos-riddled parliament building and culture hub

The current approach to its restoration fails to take account of the interconnected structural “engineering” of Gothic architecture

The New York-based artist Cai Guo-Qiang shares personal memories and photos of his old friend, I.M. Pei

A Modernist villa and hut in the south of France feature wall paintings by Le Corbusier

German city launches €85m plan to prevent further decay of infamous rally grounds

Largely overlooked postscript suggests surprise friendship between the Van Gogh brothers and the young Belgian

The Chinese-American designer created some of the world’s most striking museum projects, including the Louvre’s glass pyramid entrance and the National Gallery of Art’s East Building

Exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice shows Tadao Ando’s designs for the Bourse de Commerce building

Planned Kiran Nadar Museum of Art will open up 6,000-strong collection to the public

Complex conservation issues mean it could easily take a decade or more to rebuild the Medieval cathedral

We talk about the effects of the fire at Notre Dame, the building’s history, and what happens next. And we speak to satirical artist Christopher Spencer, the man behind Cold War Steve. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

The Belgian, known for his sculptures in a Northern European Gothic style, is already devising a new spire

Tragic fire destroys the roof, but vaulting saves the interior

The 19th-century spire has collapsed on the medieval landmark

The Los Angeles Modernist home was designed and lived in by Charles and Ray Eames

The great building as seen through the generations of its occupants

The Italian architect, who made Brazil her "adopted home", designed the eclectic São Paulo museum in the late 1940s

We speak to the French architect about the search for a national landmark and the hurdles that faced the mammoth project

The UK architect talks about working in China and the decline of its "funny-shaped" buildings

Architects, conservation experts and paint archaeologists have collaborated on £12m project to reopen west London house

The villa was the fashion designer's home in the last decades of his life

A wave of innovative exhibition design has graced our museums in recent years. What are the keys to holding the viewer’s gaze?

Artist's son says the project will "do right by my father’s vision for the space"

The 696 incomplete public works are not simply a result of crime, corruption and incompetence, new book says

The extraordinary mitteleuropäische flourishing of all the arts from 1900 to 1914

Noah Charney examines how historic buildings that were needlessly destroyed can live on today

From the dazzling dresses of Dior at the V&A to the grim reality of how architecture can affect your health at the Wellcome Collection

Residential Palace complex, a casualty of Allied bombing in the Second World War, is due to be rebuilt by 2021

The 35m sq. one-bedroom flat has been carefully renovated to include avant-garde furniture and design