What is good architecture? How should we build our cities, and adapt what we’ve already built as we look to the future? These are big questions. And after the Chateau Laurier debate it seems clear ...

An assault on the castle! That’s been the tone of the intense popular debate in Ottawa over a proposed addition to the Château Laurier. The design by Toronto’s architectsAlliance has been cast as a ...

The Chateau Theatre is on the National Register of Historic Places, which lists the building's original name — the Chateau Dodge Theatre. Including Dodge in the name was to honor a Rochester pioneer ...

Depending on your predilection, Château la Coste, located a little north of Aix-en-Provence, is either an estimable winemaker with a sideline in contemporary art or a marvel of modern architecture ...

Francois I’s gargantuan hunting lodge, the Château de Chambord, commenced in 1519, was conceived in the visionary sprit of the castles depicted in the celebrated pages of the Très Riches Heures du Duc ...

Two years of conflict over plans to expand the historic Fairmont Château Laurier got Carleton University architecture professor Mariana Esponda thinking. Why not invite her third-year students — part ...

Last September, when Richard Rogers stepped down from the architectural practice that he founded more than 40 years ago, he still had one personal project underway. Now, the last building of Rogers’ ...

Chateauesque is one of the many revival styles that were popularized during the late 19th century. The revival styles consisted of four main categories; Medieval, Renaissance. Baroque and Modern. Each ...

Owners of great houses in France face problems unknown in Britain. Not only was primogeniture abolished by Napoleon (so that children share a parent’s estate equally), but the current economic climate ...