Architecture
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
Author: Adam Štěch
Photographer: Adam Štěch
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
Author: Ariadne Fletcher
Photographer: Murray Orr
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
Author: Colleen Darnell
Photographer: Andrew Moore
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
Writer: Bekim Ramku
Photographer: Oskar Proctor
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
Author: Elly Parsons
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
Author: Adam Štěch
Photographer: Adam Štěch
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
Author: Svetlana Nartey
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
Author: Elly Parsons
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
Author: Adam Štěch
Photographer: Adam Štěch
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
Author: Dominic Lutyens