In her lavishly illustrated book, Taroutina revises the time period during which art historians generally locate the origins of modernism in Russian art from the beginning of the twentieth century to ...

Local architect Arthur Brown Jr. designed the Byzantine Revival style Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco, now the Bay Area’s largest synagogue, in 1925. Almost 100 years later, the congregation’s ...

Alongside its mosques, Istanbul is a city known for its palaces. To any visitor, the gigantic but humbly designed Topkapi Palace near the Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque is a must see. Across the Golden ...

Set to a soundtrack suitable for the most climactic moment of an episode of Game of Thrones, this drone footage from filmmaking duo BigFly takes viewers inside the St. Louis Church in Paimboeuf, ...

The story: The more I find out about Frank Helmle’s work, the more I have to move him up in the pantheon of Brooklyn’s great architects. The man had incredible talent and versatility. He had an ...

A fire at the historic St Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto on Sunday (9 June) damaged the Canadian heritage site and destroyed its unique religious murals by members of Canada’s renowned Group of ...

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