Architecture

British Modernist architecture found unlikely full expression in 1960s university buildings, where the brightest minds of the movement experimented wildly with form and technique. Did the results pass the test of time? It’s a matter of degrees, says Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Much of Geoffrey Bawa’s design is about the interplay between interior space and exterior setting. But ethnic tensions in Sri Lanka and, later, the eruption of violence meant that the architect’s house in the capital increasingly took on the air of a small fortress, as if keeping the warring world at bay

From the furniture to all the light fittings, this time-capsule Milan apartment remains remarkably untouched

Ahead of his exhibition at the Venice Biennale, artist Andreas Angelidakis shows us around his ever-evolving Athens apartment – where squishy Ionic poufs and Corinthian hangings are currently very much order(s) of the day

In 1937, Eugenio Miozzi laid out plans for what he believed would be Europe’s most beautiful casino: the Palazzo del Casinò in Venice

As absolute monarch Louis XIV ascended, his ambassador to Venice commissioned two monumental globes – one of the earth and one of the heavens – from Vincenzo Coronelli to grace His Grace’s firmament

In the 1760s Spanish friars built five churches in remotest Mexico whose rich Churrigueresque fronts were steeped in Indigenous culture

The 18th-century witnessed a strange proliferation of sea-themed pulpits across central Europe. We’ve caught several in our net

Padiglione delle Feste, an Art Deco party pavilion at a thermal spa in Emilia-Romagna, proves a bubbly backdrop for some gems of contemporary furniture

Back in the early 1980s, Olivier Sednaoui set off on a sort of Post-Mudernist adventure, building a traditional adobe home for himself on the banks of the Nile