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Revisit: Casa Batlló by Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona, Spain

Rafael Gómez-Moriana

The restoration of Antoni Gaudí’s famous house in Barcelona deifies the superstar architect on the centenary of his death

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Faith Museum in Bishop Auckland, UK by Níall McLaughlin Architects

The Faith Museum by Níall McLaughlin Architects in Bishop Auckland, UK, combines the godly with the profane

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Portfolio: Sara Alissa and Nojoud Alsudairi, Syn Architects

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Sweeping statement: Extension to the Centro de Arte Moderna in Lisbon, Portugal by Kengo Kuma and Associates

Edwin Heathcote

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Asif Khan Studio, United Kingdom

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Revisit: Le Cent Quatre in Paris, France by Atelier Novembre

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National Portrait Gallery in London, UK by Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell

Catherine Slessor

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Open play: International Rugby Experience in Limerick, Ireland by Níall McLaughlin Architects

Michael K Hayes

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Portfolio: Nguyễn Hà, ARB Architects

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Charleston in Lewes in Lewes, UK by Material Cultures

Exhibitions and essays about museums

Designing Motherhood: the design history of reproduction

Brutality made concrete: Tropical Modernism at the Venice Architecture Biennale and the V&A

Facades to city plans: the architecture of Paul Klee

Sands of time: the Dilmun burial mounds of Bahrain

Protest architecture: timber pallets, climbing ropes and a bottle of glitter

Gifts that keep on giving

In practice: Mycket on queerness, clubbing and architecture as the crowd

Retrospective: Theaster Gates

Building coalition through contradictions: the Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2023

Dress rehearsal: Chicago Architecture Biennial 2023

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1965–2020): demolition postcard

Living with plants: Garden Futures at Vitra Design Museum

Letter to the AR: Norman Foster on his ‘futurespective’

Back to the future: Norman Foster at the Centre Pompidou

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands by MVRDV

Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium by KAAN Architecten

Out of storage: the architecture of the museum depot

Healing the museum

Interview with Françoise Vergès

Monument to Egyptology

Typology: Museum district

Carlo Scarpa (1906–1978)

A place in the sun: The Energy Show at Het Nieuwe Instituut

Neighbourhood watch: Oslo Architecture Triennale 2022

Ghost stories: Sophie Calle at the Museé d’Orsay

Take a seat: Lubaina Himid at the Tate Modern

World stage: the grand international exhibition

Paint it black

Masculinities: Liberation through Photography at the Barbican

Camera man: race, class, and British masculinity

Flesh and stud: ‘Soft Schindler’ at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture

Cais do Sertão museum, Recife, Brazil, by Brasil Arquitetura

Enough is enough: Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019

Sentimental value: from Gordon Matta-Clark to emotional capitalism

Tortuous trajectories: the loves and lives of Modern couples

Toward a concrete utopia: Yugoslavian architecture 1948-1980

Balancing act: Junya Ishigami’s shifts in scale

Drawing, building; purity and corruption. Piranesi’s Différentes vues de Pesto

The new normal: exercises in American citizenship

The Happenstance: a lively Scottish-Venetian freespace

Grafton’s Venice Biennale 2018: Freespace remains a nebulous concept

Soane’s Ark: Building with Symbols

History in the making: Chicago Architecture Biennial

Designing for the moment: on 70 years of Japanese house architecture

Schizoid Mies

Palaces of Nothing

‘Can we distinguish the “mad” ambitions for an asylum from the “sane” ones?’

Outrage: Commonwealth Institute Betrayed

Learning from Venice: Alejandro Aravena’s Biennale from 2016

This Was Tomorrow: Reinventing Architecture

Home Economics: The British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016

‘Shenzhen’s Biennale regurgitates Central Party concerns in a festival of restraint’

Shoes and architecture: a walk on the wild side?

‘An intriguing, occasionally frustrating, but often enjoyable festival of architecture’

‘No harm done, few traces left behind’

‘The conflict between civil rights and space is played out with unusual violence in Istanbul’

‘It seems as though FAT has lost the plot – or at least strayed too far from the territory it best occupies’

Endless House: experimental archetypes of dwelling

‘Latin America was a place where Modernist dreams came true’

IM Pei’s unbuilt 1948 Shanghai Museum