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In present-day Malta, architecture and environment are often at loggerheads. RICHARD ENGLAND discusses their relationship with Joseph Agius and talks about his

IT HAS been an unusual sight in the city skyline since the 1960s.

Did you know a famous architect, novelist, and even a racing driver were all buried in Suffolk?

Did you know a famous architect, novelist, and even a racing driver were all buried in Suffolk?

From live music to glass sculpture, game-changing performances to fitness podcasts… our writers on cultural treats to light up the months ahead

A GIANT 17-storey tower block development would "harm the town centre", representatives for Basildon Council have told a planning inquiry.

AN HISTORIAN says the would-be developer of a 17-storey tower block in Basildon has ‘no idea’ of how the new town was designed.

In 1962 the world’s attention turned to the war-torn city of Coventry as in its newly built Cathedral, Britten’s War Requiem was about to receive its symbolic world premiere. Michael White tells the story

The Standard Telephones and Cables strike in 1973 was one of a wave of strikes by black and asian workers confronting both the racism of their white colleagues and management, and sabotage from their own trade unions in the 1970s. It was preceded by the Mansfield Hosiery strike in 1972, and followed by the Imperial Typewriters strike in 1974.

Many modern structures, from the Crystal Palace to the Bauhaus Dessau, have centred around transparency. Stained glass, by contrast, is seen as an archaic