Architecture

Once Rome’s main artery south, for centuries the Via Appia has been taken as proof of Roman greatness.

Disaster struck on the morning of 7 May 558, when repair works to the Sancta Sophia caused it to collapse.

In 1917 the roof of Westminster Hall was on the brink of collapse; death-watch beetles had bored through it.

‘Hitler’s architect’ Albert Speer denied all responsibility for the ruthless exploitation of millions of slave labourers. Yet he was head of a bureaucratic machine that did just that. 

Whether a museum or mosque, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia has been a monument to selective readings of Turkey’s history.

The European sculptors behind England’s church memorials.

The Gowers Report of 1950 was the first step in the postwar rescue of Britain’s country house heritage.

The skills of the stone mason align with language to document a 30-year love affair with stone.

The devastating fire at Notre-Dame destroyed more than just bricks.