Architecture
Burning heritage
Are the Houses of Parliament set for the flames? Brice Stratford discusses with David Scullion
Soulless suburbia
London overspill is ruining once-distinctive towns
Temple to craft and prestige
A beautiful and unusual book can lift the spirits of even the most jaded reviewer
The modernist who wanted to be Führer
Charles Saumarez Smith says we should acknowledge the Nazi past of architect Philip Johnson, not erase him
Are timber skyscrapers the future?
Given the challenges that UK governments will face over the next decade, there’s every reason for us to embrace the timber age
Monuments to self-expression
Serenhedd James finds folly and ruin frequently go together in Rory Fraser’s new release: Follies
Putting a price on scholarship
Charles Saumarez Smith on the battle to safeguard the future of some of Britain’s oldest and best-known learned societies
Back to the drawing board: How the modernist cult captured architecture
Mark Alan Hewitt’s book is a welcome breath of sound common sense in a field where expensive insanity seems to have ruled the roost for far too long
Homes fit for a post-Covid world
Tim Abrahams asks whether the crisis will prompt builders to create the type of houses we need
American Xanadu: an appreciative history of Mar-a-Lago
Les Standiford’s book situates Mar-a-Lago’s surreal qualities in the larger history of Palm Beach