Augustus Northmore Welby Pugin is far from being a household name, yet he designed the iconic clock tower of Big Ben as well as much of the Palace of Westminster. The 19th-century Gothic revival that Pugin inspired, with its medieval influences and soaring church spires, established an image of Britain which still defines the nation. Richard Taylor charts Pugin's extraordinary life story and discovers how his work continues to influence Britain today.

In 1921, an untitled text reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe's writings was discovered in Boston. It was...

In the aftermath of the fire that struck Notre-Dame de Paris in 2019, the cathedral is in danger of ...

Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spect...

In 1963 in the countryside in England, fifteen men pulled off 'The Great Train Robbery' netting toda...
Guyanese painter Aubrey Williams (1926-1990) returns to his homeland on a “journey to the source of ...

Documentary looking back at a Britain during the darkest days of WWII using stunning new archived fo...

World-famous architect Louis Kahn (Exeter Library, Salk Institute, Bangladeshi Capitol Building) had...

Arata Isozaki: Early Work in Japan takes a detailed look at the architect's pieces, exploring applau...
The work and unexplained death of Michael Ventris, the English architect, classicist, and philologis...

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and artist is celebrated around the world as one of t...

The film examines Mackintosh's iconic buildings, notably the Glasgow School of Art. Interwoven with ...

Heralded as a palace among minor and major league baseball stadiums, Silver Stadium set a standard o...

In the late 70s and early 80s, ET phoned home on Atari 2600 and became the video game that New Media...

A personal and political biography of the Octopus, or the Prague National Library project, but also ...
What does it mean to be goth—to be an outsider, to live both on the margins and in the midst of soci...
Historian William Dalrymple travels to Hyderabad in India to explore the remarkable 18th-century lov...

Although the past two years have been challenging for the Theatre industry, they also showed its inc...

A 96-year-old woman in a Kerala village pursues her lifelong dream of getting an education. Having n...

Based off a homophobic Bataille essay — L’Anus Solaire (1931) — which draws the erect penis as the s...

Through a blend of Japanese history and Western influence, Arata Isozaki has built a career around h...