Beautiful interiors can’t guarantee a beautiful marriage
Every generation falls for the same trick. Why?
Architecture
Thursday
Prague by design
The Czech capital may be a prisoner of its heritage, but it’s more than a Disney castle
Thursday
The Spectator’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide
Our staff and regulars help you spread goodwill to all men
Sunday
Notre-Dame rising
The rebuilt and revitalized Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris is nearly complete. Will it appease the traditionalists?
Thursday
The royal lust of Hampton Court
The history of the magnificent Thames-side palace is vividly brought to life by Gareth Russell
Sunday
The buildings Richard Nickel championed
None were so dear to him as architect Louis Sullivan’s
Monday
Scotland by sleeper
Wanting to avoid the airport, I took a late-evening, six-and-a-half-hour train from Edinburgh to Bristol
Wednesday
Cuomo by design
The governor’s aesthetic abuse of New York
Wednesday
Time for Tudorbethan
Tudor architecture marked the first instance of Anglo domesticity recognizable today
Tuesday
From Prussia with love
The Humboldt brothers inspired Berlin’s museums — and London’s too
Sunday
The sorry history of London’s Hoover Building
Several other Thirties buildings from American firms survive in west London
Sunday
The perception of doors
Take hope, ye who enter here
Thursday
Trump should build to last
People who live in glass boxes shouldn’t throw stones
Saturday
Keep the modernists away from the Notre-Dame restoration
Reconstructions should aim to recreate and not transform the earlier style
