Hector Guimard in Paris: Seven Art Nouveau Buildings
Hector Guimard is Paris's most ubiquitous architect. Every person who has taken the Métro has passed through one of his entrances. But beyond the…
June 2026Stories on Italian and European heritage — architecture, art, places and the people who shaped them.
Hector Guimard is Paris's most ubiquitous architect. Every person who has taken the Métro has passed through one of his entrances. But beyond the…
June 2026Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in Glasgow in 1868 and died there in all but the most literal sense long before 1928. The buildings…
June 2026Alberta iela is eight buildings long. You can walk from one end to the other in three minutes. In those three minutes you pass…
June 2026Step into the atrium of Palazzo Mannajuolo on Via Filangieri and look up. An oval staircase spirals through six storeys of wrought-iron vines and…
June 2026The entrance to the Foro Italico — once the Foro Mussolini — is marked by a monolith of Carrara marble seventeen metres tall. Carved…
June 2026Turin built Italy’s first skyscraper, raced cars on a factory roof and modernised over vermouth and espresso. Walk the city’s lean inter-war architecture in…
June 2026Between the wars Milan built a hard, brilliant new architecture — caught between the avant-garde and a dictatorship. Walk the Rationalist city in a…
June 2026You walk past pieces of history every day without stopping to document them. A carved doorway, a ruined mill, a mural that will be…
June 2026Art Nouveau was born in Brussels in 1893, in the iron and glass of Victor Horta. Walk the city that invented it — façade…
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