San Francisco’s iconic Victorian style homes, such as the Painted Ladies of Full House fame, weren’t built merely as protection against the elements. Like 19th century Klout Scores, these houses were ...

Architectural symbols are rarely more layered, complex or self-aware than in a Holocaust museum, where the architect’s nearly impossible job is to mark murder on a mass scale while at the same time ...

For decades, if you wanted to say "Cleveland" visually in a way that instantly communicated the city's pride, vigor and ambition, or if you wanted to critique on its failings, you used an image of the ...

The bemusement of the rioters who made their way into Brasília's National Congress this month pointed to an increasing disaffection with architectural symbols of power, writes Will Wiles. On 8 January ...