Conservation

First house designed by Gaudí to open as a museum in 2016

Casa Vicens, a Unesco World Heritage building, is currently undergoing renovation

Daniel Buren threatens to sue French city over disrepair of public work

Lyon insists a restoration of the artist’s 1994 intervention in the main square is on the agenda

Isil beheads archaeologist in Palmyra

Syria's antiquities ministry condemns killing as "cowardly and criminal act of appalling brutality"

Venice mayor holds up show to further his cruise ship aims

Photos of the “monsters in Venice” should have been displayed in the Doge’s Palace in September

A 17th-century country house is once again a family home

St Giles House, the Dorset seat of the Earls of Shaftesbury, wins restoration award—and the Earl is moving back in

Underground art by Eduardo Paolozzi saved from destruction

The late artist’s celebrated mosaics displayed at Tottenham Court Road tube will be restored at Edinburgh University

Unesco world heritage list grows along with cultural sites on 'danger list'

Experts meet in Bonn as news breaks of further destruction in conflict zones

Strange but true: Beuys’s works in felt and fat were built to last

Conservators have got to grips with seminal artist’s use of non-traditional materials

The case of the moth-eaten Felt Suit

Museums have learned to preserve the unusual materials in Joseph Beuys's works

Russian architect fights for German Modernist housing estate

Dmitry Sukhin wants Colour Row Settlement, designed by Berlin Philharmonic Hall architect Hans Scharoun, to be restored to full glory

Great Dam of Marib and Al-Qahira castle in Yemen damaged by Saudi airstrikes

Continued fighting in the region further threatens the country’s heritage sites

Terrorists attack ancient Egyptian temple in Luxor

Suicide bomber among those killed after failed assault outside popular tourist site

Saul and David reattributed to Rembrandt

Discovery to be revealed in CSI-style show at The Hague’s Mauritshuis

Updated emergency ‘Red List’ of Iraq antiquities at risk released

New publication includes cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, Assyrian reliefs and coins

Paris mayor gives city’s decaying churches a Hail Mary—to the tune of €80m

But heritage groups say the funds fall far short of the real cost of restoration

Lacma’s conservators discover 1960s colours in Ottoman interior

Damascene reception room is being restored before making its museum debut in Saudi Arabia in 2016

Pompeii in a fix despite cash boost

Funds for Great Pompeii Project could be withdrawn as lack of staff and red tape stifle efforts to save site

Nepal mourns and prepares to rebuild after heritage is destroyed in deadly quake

Prime minister appeals for $2bn after historic squares are reduced to rubble and ancient temples are damaged in deadly disaster

Has Russian government’s half-billion dollar pledge to save historic city of Vyborg come too late?

Experts blame local authorities in Vyborg for failing to act as architecture begins to collapse

Fears for cultural heritage as Israel sells off property

Experts say Palestinian heritage is at risk as ministry makes money from buildings seized from refugees

Palace replica opens at Chinese movie studios, despite official complaints

Authorities at the Old Summer Palace in Beijing tried to block the copy from being built

Four Seasons revamp turned down by NYC landmarks commission

Aby Rosen’s controversial plans to bring the 1958 restaurant “back to its original glory” met with opposition from architects and preservationists