Architecture

David Starkey looks at what impresses the contemporary visitor to Henry VIII's palaces

A look at the Georgian Group, who campaign for the protection of ancient buildings.

Ann Hills examines the reconstruction of Singapore's 19th-century buildings to accommodate tourism.

Early Russian architects adopted and adapted foreign influences to suit their native styles, but the late seventeenth century saw this trend reversed and western movements came to dominate native architecture.

Peter Biller looks at the restoration of one of England's finest remaining early town halls.

Transition in art and kingship, between medieval and Renaissance Europe, characterises the first Tudor's memorial.

William's persistent determination to build an abbey on the exact site of his victory at Hastings underlines its importance as a symbol of the Norman Conquest.

Robert Thorne on London's architects and their work.

'Compare the wealth and refinement of cities such as Mexico... in the middle of the eighteenth century, with the austere simplicity, verging on poverty, of... Philadelphia, a misleading splendour; what was dawn for the United States was twilight for Latin America...' Octavio Paz

The buildings the British built in India tell us much about how the British shaped India's conception of the past, explains Thomas R. Metcalf, and how they turned India's architectural heritage to the service of the Raj.