Architecture

For millennia, the cells that lie within the rocky landscapes of Cappadocia in Turkey’s heartland have been seen as highly sacred spaces

From an eel-catcher’s shed to a holiday home fashion from the remains of a helter-skelter, five distinctive waterside dwellings on the Norfolk Broads have just been listed

Victor Horta’s home/studio on the outskirts of Brussels pushed boundaries for what the style could achieve, steeped in sunshine from greenhouse-like skylights and sprouting all sorts of feats in steel and glass. Happily, it’s also open to visitors

By some miracle, this long-abandoned Art Nouveau pleasure palace in the heart of Brussels has survived – and might sparkle once again

Amid the high-value celebrity losses, Elly Parsons centres on a different sort of treasure taken by the Southern California wildfires: lifelong homes and personal collections – not to mention diamonds of architectural history

The Swiss Modernist architect Otto Kolb tried out his most daring experiments – floating walkways, indoor fishponds and ply to the sky – in his home near Zurich

When he spied this prize of a 1930s Deco hunting lodge in a wood just outside Paris, Adam Stěch leapt at the opportunity to shoot it. And – since it comes complete with all architect Pierre Petit’s original furnishings and is currently on the market – there’s no doubt prospective buyers will be firmly at his heels

David and Ann Hyde-Harrison co-designed this daring home in an unassuming Camden mews in the 1960s; soon, other architects were drawn to the same site to try out new ideas…

The ornamental dairy was the cream that floated to the top of 18th-century architecture. As this Prussian ferme ornée near Potsdam exemplifies, they gave their wealthy female patrons the means for self-expression and freedom, even if they sometimes ended in infamy

Eric Broug’s Islamic Architecture: A World History explores the diversity in religious building design