Architecture

Until 1729, London Bridge was the capital’s only crossing over the Thames and a microcosm of the city it served, lined with houses and shops on either side. Leo Hollis looks at the history of an icon.

The building of Istanbul’s new underground railway has uncovered thousands of years of history, including the first complete Byzantine naval craft ever found. Pinar Sevinclidir investigates.

The air of London in the seventeenth century was polluted by clouds of sea-coal smoke against which Evelyn proposed some drastic remedies. By Steven R. Smith

Neil Taylor discusses how political change has left its mark on the Latvian capital’s Town Hall Square. 

Anthony Aveni explains how the people planning great monuments and cities, many millennia and thousands of miles apart, so often sought the same inspiration – alignments with the heavens.

The houses built by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, are a reflection of his career under Henry VIII, says Maurice Howard, and the King's manipulation of those who served him.

Geoffrey Tyack remembers the renowned architectural historian who died on December 27th, 2007.

Richard Barber describes the discoveries he made when Channel Four’s Time Team uncovered Edward III’s huge circular building at the heart of Windsor Castle.

Kevin Kennedy highlights a controversial project to rebuild a one-time Prussian ‘national monument’.

Adrian Mourby visits the site of a city that continues to inspire grandiose visions, as it has done for almost 3,000 years.

Martin Henig, interviewed by Tony Morris, shares a beaker of wine with the Emperor Hadrian.

Simon Thurley explains why the first Stuarts kept the great Tudor palace virtually intact.