Architecture

A.L. Lloyd pays an historical visit to the capital of north-eastern England.

Richard Hare recounts the history of Russia's Western metropolis.

The seat of monarchs almost since English monarchy began, Windsor Castle owes its familiar outlines to the architect commissioned by King George IV.

Roger Hudson sails past a half-built Battersea Power Station and on to its slow decline.

The site of her oldest university and the home of one of her earliest missionary Saints, St. Andrews holds a special position in the history of Scotland, as Russell Kirk here explains.

The cityscapes of the world’s most populous nation are expanding at a bewildering rate. But China’s current embrace of urban life has deep roots in its past, as Toby Lincoln explains.

Albert Speer’s plan to transform Berlin into the capital of a 1,000-year Reich would have created a vast monument to misanthropy.

A series of videos exploring how Germania, Hitler's planned rebuilding of Berlin into the capital of a new World Empire, would have looked.

Christopher Winn, author of I Never Knew That, lists four historic structures that have been moved to new locations.