Britain’s magnificent palaces have been involved in some of history's most dramatic events. Historian Dan Cruikshank investigates how a palace’s design reflected a monarch's taste for luxury, their ...

Images of the afterlife have been an important architectural ingredient for centuries. Dan Cruickshank looks at buildings that evoke the image of heaven across religions and cultures in this ...

Architecture is a discipline that evolves through progressive stages, with each phase building upon the previous one. Schematic design, for example, begins with broad concepts and initial explorations ...