From its sublime palaces and museums to its divine art deco markets, the city’s glorious architecture is lovingly captured in a thrilling new book. But can it survive a tidal wave of foreign investment?
He was our ‘greatest theatrical architect’, the creator of 150 magnificent buildings that delighted crowds from Glasgow to Blackpool to London. On the centenary of his death, we celebrate a stage visionary
Sneaked out under cover of Covid-19 and couched in empty jargon, plans for a £260m waterfront complex are a grim symptom of private-sector power
Watts Gallery in Surrey sets today’s quiz, the latest in a series that allows you to explore the art collections of British museums closed to coronavirus – while answering some tricky questions along the way
Scrawled signs, neon rainbows, flour mania … the V&A’s ‘rapid response’ collectors are creating a show for our times, targeting the everyday objects taking on new meaning in the coronavirus age
Her ravishing interiors shocked Paris, thrilled the avant-garde and gave the world its most expensive chair. But the fast-living aristocrat wasn’t just overlooked – Le Corbusier actually vandalised her work naked
Textile designer Bernat Klein found solace in High Sunderland, his minimal 1950s house in the Scottish Borders. In her memoir, his daughter recalls returning to her childhood home
Museums and galleries across the UK are closed due to coronavirus – so explore their collections with a few tricky questions in this daily brain-teaser
Is the open-plan office dead? Can skyscrapers survive? Will our phones control everything from the lights to ordering coffee? Our writer meets the architects already shaping the post-Covid-19 world
From mobile morgues to pop-up intensive care wards, Britain is responding to coronavirus with a new kind of elemental architecture – and it needs lots of it
