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The Kaiserforum
The Unrealised Vision of an Imperial Forum for Vienna The Michaelerplatz façade of the Hofburg, Vienna. SIDLING UP THE KOHLMARKT and entering the Hofburg through the Michaelerplatz is a glorious...
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The Malteserkirche, Vienna
I happened to stumble upon the Order of Malta church in Vienna while meandering down the Kärntner Straße in the middle of a snowy day. It’s a small and relatively simple church consisting of a Gothic...
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Scipione Perosini’s Imperial Palace
An ambitious Italian’s mad plan to bulldoze the Roman Forum, destroy Michaelangelo’s Piazza del Campidoglio, and build a Napoleonic palace atop the Capitoline Hill. Some architectural projects are just...
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The Cathedral of the Bronx
The Augustinian Church of St Nicholas of Tolentine The Church of St Nicholas of Tolentine dominates the busy intersection of University Avenue and West Fordham Road in the Bronx. The parish was erected...
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A Decade of Driehaus
A Carl Laubin capriccio pays tribute to the first decade of Driehaus laureates THIS YEAR MARKED the tenth anniversary of the Driehaus Prize, the annual award honouring a living architect who has...
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The Lady Altar
The Oratory Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Brompton Road, London In the south transept of the Brompton Oratory is the altar dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, perhaps the finest altar in the...
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The Palace of Holyroodhouse
HOLYROOD IS SUCH a pleasant spot, despite the recent intrusion of an ostentatiously ugly government building designed by a Spanish architect. The other day, while visiting Edinburgh, I heeded the...
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An Eclectic Vernacular in Charleston
Two new alleyways designed by George Holt & Andrew Gould Charleston, the finest city of the American South, boasts two new alleyways designed by the architectural-urbanist partnership of George...
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Two More from Andrew Gould
In addition to my post on Charles Street & Tully Alley, here are another two houses designed by Andrew Gould. Like the other project, they are an urban infill project, built at the back of a lot...
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No. 6, Burlington Gardens
Sir James Pennethorne’s University of London German university buildings are an (admittedly unusual) obsession of mine, and I’ve often thought that No. 6 Burlington Gardens is London’s closest answer...
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The Dome of the Custom House, Dublin
THE MOST RECENT series of the ITV detective drama “Foyle’s War”, though set in London, was filmed entirely in Dublin. (Ah, those Bord Scannán incentives!). I’ve noticed a phenomenon in which something...
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St Paul’s Gothicised
Victorian England went mad for the medieval, often neglecting or destroying buildings and structures of classical design along the way. Wren’s classical rood screen for Westminster Abbey is probably...
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Football at S. Maria Maggiore
The enormous church of S. Maria Maggiore stands on one of Rome’s seven famous hills. Originally the site was very unkempt, as can be seen in an old fresco painting in the Vatican. Later, the slopes...
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Evolution of a Napoleonic Parliament
The Salle des états in the Palais du Louvre Among the numerous rituals of the ordinary visitor’s pilgrimage to Paris — trip up the Eiffel Tower, lunch at a tourist-trap café — braving the teeming...
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Russia’s Classical Future
Design chosen for St Petersburg’s new judicial quarter While a vast and multifacted state, the Soviet Union was nonetheless one in which power was highly centralised, not just within one city — Moscow...
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Shedding light on the Cape Baroque
Nuwe lig op die Kaapse barok deur Dr Hans Fransen A NEW BOOK BY Dr Hans Fransen, the leading authority on Cape Dutch architecture, intends to shed new light on the Cape Baroque style through an...
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Kerkplein, Pretoria
Gauteng, the province which forms the highly urbanised heart of the old Transvaal, is not my area of specialty in South Africa, enamoured as I am of the Western Cape. Johannesburg, for all its...
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UNHQ
United Nations Headquarters, New York AMONG THE LEGACIES of my New York childhood is a sentimental fondness for the United Nations, and especially for the stylish swank of its headquarters at Turtle...
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A Horror in the Hague
The old and new buildings of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts SINCE 1682, the Hague has been home to the oldest art school in the Netherlands, the Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten or Royal...
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Michael Ellis
Stumbled upon the website of a firm called Thameside Media whose architectural photographer, Michael Ellis, has done some superb work in capturing English churches on film (metaphorical film, I...
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