President accused of vanity project as he pushes to replace historic stained glass that survived fire intact for ‘contemporary gesture’.
French President Macron hailed “sublime” rebuild of the magnificent 12th-century Notre Dame as he toured it before reopening on Friday.
Emmanuel Macron is facing outrage over plans to replace historic stained glass windows with modern verisions in the Cathedral of Notre Dame.
Bologna announced 4.3 million euros to shore up the leaning Garisenda tower, one of the ‘Two Towers’ that look out over the city.
Top art historian publishes report on fire, says not only could blaze been avoided, but other historic buildings remain vulnerable.
Schools closed because they were built with 20th century materials that are catastrophically failing, with potentially fatal consequences.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) unveiled legislation on Tuesday aimed at making classical architecture the preferred national style.
Top central banker warns erasing Europe’s built heritage may be necessary to meet extreme green ‘net zero’ demands.
The ancient Romans perfected the use of concrete, and researchers believe they have found the ingredient that made it so strong.
The French government wanted a modernist redesign of Notre-Dame, according to its former culture minister, with President Macron’s wife pitching a new spire resembling male genitalia.
The Notre Dame Cathedral looks set to become a super-woke Disneyland-style “theme park” under new renovation plans.
The committee said the projects were “detrimental to the site´s authenticity and integrity” and had caused “irreversible loss of attributes.”
Sadiq Khan’s “Housing Design Advocate” has denounced traditional architecture as “offensive” and said it “harks back to oppression”.
President Joe Biden has revoked former President Trump’s executive order that required federal buildings be constructed in the style of American classical architectural codes.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday requiring federal buildings be constructed in the style of American classical architectural codes.
Turkey-backed Azeri forces have been accused of inflicting heavy damage on the Armenian Apostolic Church’s Holy Saviour Cathedral in the historic city of Shusha, or Shushi.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the Hagia Sophia on Sunday shortly before the newly reconverted mosque opens to Muslim prayer on Friday, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, which was nearly totally lost to fire in April 2019, will be rebuilt as it was, the French government says, defying the calls of modernist architects to seize the opportunity to give the medieval masterpiece a glass and steel overhaul.
The president of Albania has decried the “mafia” government of his own country after the state apparently launched a midnight demolition raid against the National Theatre building, police having first rounded up demonstrators.
A worldwide campaign to block the demolition of the London-area home of English Catholic writer G.K. Chesterton has succeeded.
President Trump is reportedly considering an executive order to mandate that federal buildings are updated and constructed in a “classical architectural style” that resembles the United States’ most beloved monuments.
Donald Trump has expressed faith in Notre Dame, stating its completion would give “glory to God” and fill millions of people with wonder.
The House of Lords may go north in a bid to spread government more evenly. This begs the question, what has York done to deserve this?
PARIS (AP) – The French general overseeing the reconstruction of fire-devastated Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is not saved yet because there’s still a risk its vaulted ceilings might collapse.
Billionaire David Rubenstein has donated $10 million to fund much-needed upgrades to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.
Tel-Aviv — While many in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv start the weekend at a sidewalk cafe, there is a small group of visitors walking the streets in search of Bauhaus buildings.
Despite promises from some of France’s most famous billionaires, a spokesman from the Notre Dame cathedral claims none have sent any money so far to help the rebuild following April’s devastating fire.
A group of French Republican politicians have sounded a “state of emergency” on 75 Paris Churches, each of which face a potential Notre Dame level catastrophic event if left without urgent remedial work, a statement after the world-famous Medieval cathedral suffered a catastrophic fire in April.
The French Senate has voted to reject the plans for rebuilding Notre Dame cathedral in Paris put forward by the French executive including President Emmanuel Macron who wanted an “inventive reconstruction”, mandating that the work must be traditional.
Professor Sir Roger Scruton, Britain’s greatest living philosopher, has been sacked from his job as chairman of the government’s Building Better Building Beautiful Commission, after making ‘unacceptable’ remarks on subjects including Islam, the Chinese and George Soros in an interview with a left-wing magazine.
Britain’s pre-eminent conservative philosopher, Sir Roger Scruton, has come out fighting in response to a left-wing campaign to drive him from public life.
Celebrated Conservative Philosopher Sir Roger Scruton will chair the British government’s new beauty watchdog, in a serious blow for modernism and bland housing developments.
The 19th century St Lambertus Church in Immerath, Germany, has been torn down despite protests, as mosques and Islamic centres multiply across the country.
The fashion industry’s trade association is joining with Mark Zuckerberg’s lobbying group on Monday to argue that employers need more visas to hire more foreign professionals for high-fashion jobs in New York City that young American graduates supposedly just won’t do.
Britain’s bicameral Houses of Parliament are an architectural and artistic testament to, and record of, the self-identity of the nation that built it. But a new initiative at the Palace is working to replace the images of Britain’s historic white, male statesman with works intended to make the building more “aspirational and modern”.
A government minister has hit out at “aesthetically worthless” public architecture in the United Kingdom, and has vowed during his tenure as a Minister of State he would “turn the tide” against Brutalism. Modernist architects have lined up to criticise his comments.
The Chinese government has banned the construction of buildings it deems “bizarre” and “odd-shaped,” urging architects to develop more “green” models to help the environment.
A group of prominent architectural experts have spoken exclusively to Breitbart London to express their bewilderment at calls to list the “ugly”, “overbearing” No.1 Poultry office complex in the City of London. While not usually headline news, the architectural press has
The state of Hawaii was selected in September as one of four finalist sites of the future Barack Obama presidential library. Now the state has submitted possible designs for the center which would be located on the coast, not far from Waikīkī.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has called for streets to be reclaimed for pedestrians. The recommendation comes in a list of ten “geometric principles” designed to relearn from traditional approaches to architecture, which place human beings and nature
