Architecture

The Suomalainen brothers' church cut into granite in 1969: why the air-raid-shelter story is wrong, what the interior does, and the admission charge it introduced in 2017.

Finnish Orthodox rather than Russian, built from the brick of a Baltic fortress an Anglo-French fleet destroyed in the Crimean War, and now charging admission.

Engel's cathedral above Senate Square: who actually built it, the two name changes, the grey repaint of 2025, and the fact that it now charges admission.

Joseph Strauss took the credit, but Charles Ellis did the mathematics and was sacked for his trouble, Leon Moisseiff conceived the suspension design and Irving Morrow chose international orange over the Navy's black and yellow stripes.

Three fires and Villanueva's closing of the square, the autos-da-fe, the Casa de la Panaderia and its 1992 murals, the Philip III bronze, and what the square is like now.

The two royal convents and the basilica of San Francisco el Grande: how the Descalzas collection was formed, the Relicario at La Encarnacion, the corrected dates and dome claim, and the Goya in the third chapel.

The Bourbon palace built after the Alcazar burned in 1734: the Italian architects, the Royal Armoury and what it does not contain, the Royal Collections Gallery of 2023, and the Almudena next door.

The Three Gorges Dam was accepted as complete on 1 November 2020 and has generated since 2003, so accounts of construction in progress are three decades out of date. It is the largest hydroelectric plant in the world at 22,500 megawatts, but supplies about one per cent of China's electricity rather than four. Its reservoir runs 662 kilometres, displaced more than 1.2 million people and inundated around 1,300 archaeological sites. The gorges are on China's tentative list, not the World Heritage List.

The wheel's name has changed five times and it is at present the lastminute.com London Eye; Merlin Entertainments has owned it outright since 2007, and Lambeth made its planning consent permanent in May 2024.

Harrods has been owned by the Qatar Investment Authority since 2010, not by the Fayed family. The pet department closed in 2014, the dress code has gone, and in 2025 the store applied to remove the Egyptian hall and the sixteen carvings of its former owner's face.