Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the architect Sir John Soane (1753 -1837), the son of a bricklayer. He rose up the ranks of his profession as an architect to see many of his designs ...

In 1812 John Soane—professor of architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts and, arguably, the most original architect in Europe at the time—wrote a fictional account of the fate of his central ...

Visitors to John Soane’s extraordinary house-museum in London can have no doubt that he was steeped in history. Its sepulchral basement is filled to bursting with a collection of antiquities befitting ...

Apollo gleams, bathed in golden light. The glow that sets him apart from the hieratic Egyptian gods, debauched Roman revellers and fragments of mosaics that encrust nearly every surface of the Sir ...

Sir John Soane's dressing room Martin Charles / Sir John Soane Museum Library dining room of the Sir John Soane Museum Martin Charles / Sir John Soane Museum Édouard André and his wife ...

An engineer, not an architect, is this year’s Sir John Soane Medal recipient. Hanif Kara—the go-to structural engineer for Zaha Hadid Architects, David Chipperfield, Herzog & de Meuron ...

There’s a little platform, or mezzanine, over the rear ground-floor passage at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, the central element in the terrace of three houses known since 1833 as Sir John Soane’s Museum.

Neoclassical architect Sir John Soane was a rambunctious art collector. Since his death in 1837, his London home has been left like a mausoleum. Today, still untouched at his request, the parlours and ...

For a Regency time capsule, nowhere in London beats Sir John Soane’s Museum – three Georgian townhouses stitched together, full of books, art and objects that reflect the life and passions of this ...

Sir John Soane’s Museum presents Soane and Modernism: Make it New, an exhibition that examines Soane as a forerunner of architectural modernism. The exhibition showcases drawings from Soane’s ...

It is one of only three churches to be designed by the world-renowned architect Sir John Soane. This is the first Art Diary of 2025. Viewing art, as with its making, involves paying attention. As ...

St John on Bethnal Green is a Grade 1 listed building of international significance that has been at the centre of the vibrant parish of Bethnal Green since 1828. It is one of only three churches to ...