Architecture
Moving monuments:
Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu
believed that Bucharest’s churches were
in the wrong place. So he simply had
them moved
Architecture
Architecture
Farewell my ugly: Naples and the fall of Gomorrah towers
The flats of La Vele were supposed to be the emblem of a utopian style of architecture. But they soon took on a very different identity
Architecture
Paris’s root and branch reform
The city of light has – finally – stopped taking its historic trees for granted and is devising ways of preserving them
Architecture
Hitler’s grand designs for a Berlin that never was
In the north of Berlin, on the site of a
little-visited former garden, lies one of
the city’s best-kept historical secrets
Architecture
Le Corbusier: The architect who revolutionised the 20th-century city
City skylines of tower blocks, motorway networks, urban plazas - everywhere you look today there are traces of the Swiss-French architect
Architecture
A white elephant trumpets its success
Hamburg’s £740m concert hall went
wildly over budget – but it is an
overwhelming hit with visitors and
locals