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In his guide to eight UK buildings, Barnabas Calder finds beauty in a style whose negative image was cemented in the 1960s
Prime property in Europe’s largest mountain range
Remarkable artistic retreat in Joshua Tree National Park has walls made of Solarcool glass that offer panoramic views without absorbing heat
Government proposals allowing residents to vote on new developments are full of holes
They have been downplayed in the past but an exhibition at London’s Riba puts them in the spotlight
An ever-shifting canvas for Japan’s world-leading architects, the city is dotted with examples of their mind-bending vision — from stadiums and subway stations to a cake shop and public loos
The latest addition to the London Underground is restrained and austere, with touches that echo older glories
This ‘deposit of unimaginable wealth in the sky’ is also an exquisite feat of architecture
Newly constructed property cleverly reused original materials to blend in with its pristine Victorian neighbours
A £70mn redevelopment has cleared away the sleaze and grime and replaced them with gilding and a members’ club
A reincarnation of London’s Ace Hotel doesn’t try too hard to be cool — and it’s better for it
A fading aristocratic pile in idyllic Italian countryside would make a charming place for our writer to both contemplate and entertain
The poet and designer hated modernity, yet this Elizabethan farmhouse was pivotal to the history of Modernism
As Vitra reissues pieces from his furniture archive, the daughter of the French design legend reflects on his unorthodox genius
The starchitect’s friendship with investment banker Pedro Gómez de Baeza is growing into a bullish agritourism business in Andalucía
But the Tokyo-based architect still loves tenuguis and his cat T-shirt
The UK once boasted thousands of these architectural oddities. An obsessive explains their appeal
The American was unfashionable in his time — now his eccentric trombone-shed has been made real
Best known for his Washington DC and London museums and memorials, John Russell Pope also designed some remarkable houses
Creaky stairs and dusty attics used to be film’s language of fear. Now these on-screen homes are all cool concrete and glass
Two books look back fondly at the beauty of Brutalism and an era of municipal optimism
Pier Luigi Nervi’s once-abandoned landmark is surging back to life
Hemp, cork, clay, adobe, rammed earth – nature’s oldest building materials are inspiring new architectural uses
Now 93, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect has just completed his first residential buildings in Battersea. They’re a love letter to London
The Glasgow Museum’s £68mn renovation future-proofs the building, but at a cost to its original subtlety
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