Architecture

Is it art, food or science? Archaeologists are now unearthing the remains of the meal to study the effects of decomposition

Art of decay is revealed as buried banquet is dug up

The banquet was buried in a picturesque chateau garden outside Paris 27 years ago, – a feast of tripe, smoked udders, veal lungs, pigs' ears and trotters.

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Piano hits the wrong note: London's new Central St Giles complex is striking but bereft of joie de vivre

Thursday, 3 June 2010

The Central St Giles complex is the Italian architect Renzo Piano's first London building. It may be the brightest new addition to the capital's landscape, but it's far from the best, argues Jay Merrick

Judgement day looms for Neville's zero-carbon footprint

Thursday, 27 May 2010

Jonathan Brown: The Man United star is passionate about his flower-shaped property – but others are less than convinced by it

Ravaged cities of Russia get Koolhaas cure

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Moscow has a reputation as a chaotic, ugly city where anything goes when it comes to construction. In recent times, architectural and aesthetic values have taken a back seat to business interests.

Shock of the Nouvel

Monday, 24 May 2010

From this year's scarlet Serpentine Pavilion to a disputed tower in New York, controversy follows Jean Nouvel around – that's the secret of the architect's success, says Jay Merrick

British architecture award winners revealed

Thursday, 20 May 2010

The Royal Institute of British Architects today presented 102 buildings in the UK and Europe with awards for architectural excellence.

Can Alain de Botton make modern architecture more desirable?

Wednesday, 19 May 2010

Developers can usually count on Prince Charles to write a stinging letter of indictment should they dare to consider a modern build.

£50m facelift planned for National Theatre

Tuesday, 18 May 2010

it is fair to say that not everyone was a fan of the new National Theatre building when it opened in 1976.

£81m lawsuit over Chelsea Barracks 'eyesore' opens

Tuesday, 18 May 2010

A bitter standoff concerning the aesthetic tastes of the Prince of Wales, the Qatari royal family and architect Lord Rogers opened in the High Court yesterday, amid claims that a £3bn property development in London's Chelsea Barracks had been wrecked by Prince Charles's "notorious opposition" to modern architecture.

Wet rooms: The world’s most beautiful boathouses

Saturday, 15 May 2010

For thousands of years, man has migrated towards the banks of the world's waterways in search of settlement, drawn by the fertile land and ample drinking supplies – not to mention improved conditions for trade, and the possibility of relatively free movement between distant lands.

Mussolini's monsters: Should the Modernist holiday camps of Fascist Italy be saved?

Saturday, 15 May 2010

They are some of the weirdest monsters the Modernist century left behind: a pencil-thin tower with long balconies sticking out like tongues from every floor, giving it the look of a diving apparatus for the suicidal; a white concrete complex, solid and technocratic like a government ministry but dumped in virgin Alpine countryside; white concrete centipedes crawling over a beach on the Adriatic coast; ruinous structures of crumbling cement and smashed glass, graffiti and refuse, spouting broken water pipes which still bring to mind locomotives or battleships or submarines, just as they must have done for the children who came here for "holidays" 70 and 80 years ago.

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