Researchers uncover Roman method for applying cinnabar, or “red gold,” in a luxury house in ancient Cartagena, revealing painting techniques.

Material choices can either make or break a space — here is how these beautiful homes have mastered the use of their different materials.

With The Catford House, Hayatsu Architects has stitched together and renovated an assemblage of Georgian, Victorian and 20th century buildings with a conservationist approach that makes a virtue of ...

A buried seaside villa near Naples has yielded a painted room where frescoes show herons striding across black and red walls, ...

The planning green light has been given for an Italian materials giant to build a major factory near Ilkeston in Derbyshire. Erewash Borough Council has approved plans by Fassa Bortolo to house its ...

Pioneering in its approach to materials, Rammed Earth House is a home of tactile beauty, as well as one of the few examples ...

By Georgena Habbaba Restoration work is progressing rapidly on two 13th-century historic mural reliefs at the ancient Mar Behnam and Sarah Monastery in Iraq. The effort is being led by the monastery’s ...

When a house is barely more than a ruin, it is often simpler — and cheaper — to knock it down and start again. But for some, preserving a piece of history is its own reward ...

The storm surge topped Chesil Beach and all but destroyed the villages of Fleet and Chiswell. Burton Bradstock was enveloped by the waves but I can find no surviving eye witness accounts that describe ...

A stone farmhouse in Tellières-le-Plessis, France, sat forgotten for over 15 years—long enough for the forest to start taking ...