Washington, D.C., is a city self-consciously styled, since its founding, to resemble ancient Rome. The neoclassicism of the White House and of the Capitol building, the now-tunnelized Tiber Creek on ...

This still-popular catchphrase, nailing the British preoccupation with World War II, comes from the 1975 sitcom Fawlty Towers. In a key episode, the eccentric manager of the titular crumbling ...

Norman Foster has always treated technology as a form of expression. As one of the pioneers of high-tech architecture (along with his friend and colleague Richard Rogers), his buildings celebrate ...

If the word “cybertecture” calls to mind high-tech architecture that looks like it would be at home on a distant planet, you’ve already grasped about half of James Law’s unusual design philosophy. The ...

Nine-year-old Dontay Lawrence crawled into a small, tent-like structure at Clifty Creek Elementary School on a recent afternoon with a simple question. “What is this?” Lawrence asked, reaching out to ...

RSHP’s Inmos Microprocessing Factory in Newport, Wales, has been Grade II* listed The listing recognises the building as ‘a masterpiece of British High-Tech architecture’ and an important part of ...

Nicholas Grimshaw, the pioneer of High-Tech architecture best known for the Eden Project in Cornwall and the International Terminal at London’s Waterloo station, has died aged 85 The ‘extraordinary ...