Architecture

Sancta Sophia Collapses

Disaster struck on the morning of 7 May 558, when repair works to the Sancta Sophia caused it to collapse.

Death from Above

In 1917 the roof of Westminster Hall was on the brink of collapse; death-watch beetles had bored through it.

Organisation Todt

‘Hitler’s architect’ Albert Speer denied all responsibility for the ruthless exploitation of millions of slave labourers. Yet he was head of a bureaucratic machine that did just that. 

Safe as Houses?

The Gowers Report of 1950 was the first step in the postwar rescue of Britain’s country house heritage.

Sticks and Stones

The skills of the stone mason align with language to document a 30-year love affair with stone.