The conversion—one of the last projects that the Iraqi-British architect worked on before dying—wraps a landmarked structure ...

But lately, I've discovered that designers do, and the abundant arched doorway ideas I've been seeing have completely shifted ...

An 18th-century arched doorway overgrown with jasmine ... Simon Upton Parts of the 22,000-square-foot palazzo may have been built by the same family of architects, the Quadrios, who worked ...

Reluctantly, he agreed to tour the property: a 3,500-square-foot apartment on the piano nobile, or second floor, of a 17th-century palazzo. As he walked around the main hall — a “very scruffy ...