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This perfectly preserved Art Deco lodge is a time capsule of the 1930s

A virtually untouched gem of a 1930s hunting lodge outside Paris by the designer and architect Pierre Petit is currently on the market, complete with original furnishings and decoration

New Builders: the architecture firm breathing new life into old buildings

This old Dovecote has been given a new lease of life by Highlands based architectural firm Ta-Ma

William Strickland evokes an Egyptian temple within a Presbyterian Church in the heart of Tennessee

Nashville may be a far cry from Egypt. But in the 1840s, American designer William Strickland had an unusual vision: to evoke a pagan temple within a traditional downtown Presbyterian Church in the heart of Tennessee

The National Library of Kosovo offers a distinctively Balkan take on Brutalism

Designing the National Library of Kosovo in Pristina in the early 1970s, Andrija Mutnjaković deployed the dome as one of his fundamental forms in order to mark the Ottoman empire’s impact on the region

Avery Singer free-falls into Hauser & Wirth London

The artist eerily creates a Minoru Yamasaki-inspired office building in Hauser & Wirth’s London gallery, which hosts her latest deepfake portraits

The surprising 1930s Art Deco murals in San Francisco

In 1930s America, a radical government project to help painters weather the Great Depression has left an extraordinary legacy of Art Deco murals in public buildings

The divine case of Alvar Aalto’s ecclesiastical architecture

The Lutheran church was right to put its faith in the Finnish architect: a sworn atheist he may have been, but his Modernist churches really are something else

Our Love is History

Two million incredible historic images are stuffed inside Mary Evans Picture Library in London, a monument to one married couple’s passion for collecting

A timber treasure trove at Leuven University Library

Following a catastrophic fire that devastated Leuven’s university library in World War II, its reading room, designed by the maverick Belgian architect Henry Lacoste, rose from the ashes in spectacular carved and panelled form

Off-screen drama plagues Mayfair’s historic Curzon cinema

A campaign to rescue the Curzon Mayfair cinema has the support of actor Tilda Swinton and Steven Spielberg. As the off-screen battle ploughs on, the building’s architectural future hangs in the balance