In the post-war period, modernist styles became the dominant aesthetic for institutional and civic buildings – known as late ...

Berlin’s landscape reflects more than the destruction of World War II and the division of the Cold War—the 20th century has also been one of extraordinary creativity for Berlin's architecture. Guided ...

Barcelona's UNESCO-listed Casa Batllo, a modernist architectural masterpiece by Sagrada Familia designer Antoni Gaudi, ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. It wasn’t until 1825 that Pepys’s diary became available for the first time. How it was eventually decrypted ...

Arthur Christopher Benson was a pillar of the Edwardian establishment. He was supremely well connected. As his newly published diaries reveal, he was also riotously indiscreet. Piers Brendon compares ...

Science Archaeology Gold coins confirm ‘world’s richest shipwreck’ is 18th century Spanish galleon But who gets to claim the $17 billion treasure? By Andrew Paul Published Jun 11, 2025 10:30 ...

Three Spanish pilgrims performing the haj in Saudi Arabia rode on horseback to Mecca, travelling thousands of kilometres in snow and rain along a route they said had not been taken for more than ...

U.S. income inequality has varied inversely with union density over the past hundred years. But moving beyond this aggregate relationship has proven difficult, in part because of limited microdata on ...

Guided tours of many of these sites can be organised through Casamémoire, a non-profit that’s been working to preserve the city’s 20th-century architecture since 1995.

A 90-year-old mansion on Biscayne Bay is on the market for the first time in decades in Miami Beach, Florida, for $14.9 million. In a city full of contemporary, white-box mansions, the 1934 ...

A historic 18th-century castle -turned-residence has just been listed for sale by Spain Sotheby’s International Realty, with an asking price of roughly $4.6 million (4 million euros).