World War II news

Gymbox has introduced a series of new classes dedicated to improving mental health. The new Mind category, which comprises five different classes, has been specifically ... More

Five-star luxury spa retreat Luton Hoo Hotel, Golf & Spa is due to be redeveloped under the premium Fairmont Hotels & Resorts brand following a ... More

A new museum telling the stories of the people exiled from Germany by the Nazi regime is set to open in Berlin in 2025. The ... More

Italy's culture minister Dario Franceschini has announced plans for a national museum dedicated to the Italian Resistance movement during World War II in Milan. The ... More

The newly opened Higgins Hotel New Orleans has been designed by Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe & Associates (NBWW) and Kay Lang + Associates (KLA) to ... More

An iconic hot springs resort in Arizona, US dating back to the 19th century has marked its return to the world of luxury hospitality, re-opening ... More

The D-Day Museum in Portsmouth, UK, has secured £4.7m (US$6.3m, €5.3m) from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a complete restoration of an original Landing ... More

Kengo Kuma’s US$33.5m US$33.5m (€31.3m, £26.2m) expansion of Portland’s Japanese Garden, celebrated as one of the most authentic of its kind gardens outside Japan, has ... More

The National Museum and Dialogue Centre in Szczecin, Poland has been declared the World Building of the Year 2016. Polish architecture studio Robert Konieczny KWK ... More

JW Marriott has reopened London’s Grosvenor House after an extensive revamp by interior design studio The Gallery HBA aimed at making the hotel’s public areas ... More

MVRDV co-founder Winy Maas has said architects should do more to instil clarity and purpose into their work. Speaking during the Next Creation forum on ... More

Dutch architects MVRDV have announced an eye-catching temporary installation for Rotterdam: a giant staircase leading from the plaza outside the city’s central train station to ... More

The Imperial War Museum (IWM) in Duxford, UK, is about to relaunch its American Air Museum following a five-year redevelopment project, switching the focus of ... More

The construction of the Museum of the Second World War – described by its director as “one of the biggest cultural investments being undertaken in ... More

Hotel and leisure group Principal Hayley have vowed to create a luxury landmark hotel inside the historic Liverpool bank building used to hide most of ... More

Australia’s Northern Territory Government has unveiled plans by Darwin-based DKJ projects.architecture to create a new visual art gallery in the centre of Darwin. Led by ... More

Starwood Hotels is opening the Westin Hamburg next year in the highly anticipated Elbe Philharmonic complex. Designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and ... More

A team of interior designers and exhibition designers have completed work on the new “innovation” wing of Washington D.C’s Smithsonian National Museum of American History, ... More

As part of plans to bring a £27m (US$41.4m, €36.7m) Puy Du Fou attraction to the UK, the team behind the project has brought in ... More

Puy du Fou is bringing its unique style of grandiose live entertainment to the UK after gaining approval from local authorities for the development of ... More

London-based Aros Architects have produced early plans to turn World War II sea forts seven miles off the British coast into a luxury hotel and ... More

Japanese officials’ plans to put several mines, shipyards and factories from World War II onto UNESCO’s World Heritage list have been placed under scrutiny, after ... More

Safdie Architects have unveiled plans for South Carolina’s National Medal of Honor Museum – a five-point design presenting the history of the US’s most decorated ... More

Developers are cashing in on the redevelopment of a resort originally built by the Third Reich in the run-up to World War II – part ... More

Mark Spalding, president of The Ocean Foundation, has said that underwater cultural heritage such as shipwrecks are a potential environmental “time bomb”, due to the ... More