Architecture
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
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
Dresden ballroom returns to gilded glory as part of €300m palace reconstruction
Residential Palace complex, a casualty of Allied bombing in the Second World War, is due to be rebuilt by 2021
Restored Soviet apartment listed on Airbnb takes guests back in time to ‘1930s Russian utopia’
The 35m sq. one-bedroom flat has been carefully renovated to include avant-garde furniture and design
Restorers of Nîmes arena expand their sights
Conservation effort now includes passageways and interior
Hala Wardé dismissed as architect of planned Beirut Museum of Art
Difficulties began when the museum asked HW Architecture to work pro bono
California wildfires threaten architectural landmarks and historic sites
The 19th century Sepulveda Adobe and western movie set Paramount Ranch have been destroyed, but the fate of many other buildings remain unknown
Modernism award honours preservation of a French school dating from 1933
Prize goes to firm for restoration of a monument to ‘civic Communism’
Tristram Hunt unveils plans for V&A East—the Victoria & Albert Museum's satellite London location
Museum will receive the buildings in former Olympic park for free, director says
Urgent revamp of William Morris’s country home to go ahead after £4.3m grant
UK National Lottery award will also fund a new education centre at the Victorian designer’s 16th-century Kelmscott Manor
New Russian cathedral to feature frescoes celebrating armed forces
Church is latest example of symbiosis between church and military patriotism
Getty announces grants to shore up modern buildings
The conservation projects include the National Art Schools in Havana, the Gateway Arch in St Louis and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California
Thermal spa developer buys Frida Escobedo's Serpentine Pavilion 2018
Structure will be re-installed as part of Therme Group's art and architecture initiative
South London Gallery unveils new £4m annexe in Victorian fire station
Historic space, transformed by 6a architects, opens with a group show on humour
Renzo Piano designs replacement for collapsed Genoa bridge
Since the Morandi tragedy, architect "can’t think of anything else but that bridge"
'This was no accident', says architect Renzo Piano about Genoa bridge collapse
Italy lacks effective site diagnosis, he tells Italian newspaper La Repubblica
Henry I of Haiti: the little-known story of a king and his amazing building spree
A short but fascinating book about a man immortalised through architecture
Turkey's Göbekli Tepe: is this the world’s first architecture?
Scholars say the organisation needed to build the 12,000-year-old temple may mark the beginnings of class society and patriarchy
Picture perfect: a 'sumptuous' book on Pre-Raphaelite stained glass
While its terminology is unsteady, the scholarship and production values of this sequel volume are exceptional
How to force historians to use their eyes: book urges academics to 'take art more seriously'
Princeton University's Theodore K. Rabb says more visual materials—not only written records—should be explored
Pull up a pew: vast volume surveys church cabinetmaking in 17th- and 18th-century Austria
Illuminating historical overviews and a mass of documentary research covers an under-studied subject
Putin praises Moscow's urban development in wake of World Cup success
But Russian president's remarks at eighth Moscow Urban Forum angered preservationists
How Yugoslavia’s architecture tried to cement a national identity
Exhibition at New York's MoMA aims to show how monumental buildings contributed to a “collective civic space in a multi-ethnic society”
The Glasgow School of Art dilemma: rebuild, leave in ruins or design a whole new school?
Alumni at odds over how to move forward after fire gutted Mackintosh’s masterpiece
Bauhaus in Belsize Park: Gropius, Breuer and Moholy-Nagy honoured in London
Blue plaque installed on Grade-I-listed Isokon building honours the Modernist artists and architects
There be dragons (again) after £5m Great Pagoda renovation at Kew Gardens
Eighty of the gaudy monsters have been recreated for the 18th-century tower at London's royal botanic gardens
Mumbai’s Victorian Gothic and Art Deco business district declared a Unesco World Heritage Site
British-era buildings in historic Fort area nominated by “several citizens’ groups”
Stockholm's revamped ArkDes centre champions design's role in public life
New exhibition and project space put spotlight on civic activism and emerging voices