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 ...

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 ...

The owner of the property based its design on a classic French estate that he visited while he was still in college—but could ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest addition to Château La Coste’s ever increasing collection of architectural pavilions and art installations is billed as the final project drawn by Oscar Niemeyer. As recently as 2020, the ...

Larco Investments has had its architects do five versions of an addition for the Château Laurier. The fifth and final one is several storeys shorter and has more limestone than the first. (Larco ...

France's Loire Valley is, of course, famous for its regal châteaux. Visitors have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose. One can meander through the more than 500 rooms of the Château de ...

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 ...

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 ...

The historic property is perched within the walls of the old city, overlooking all of Vieux Quebec (a.k.a. Old Quebec) and the Saint Lawrence River below. Its convenient location is within walking ...