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Architecture

  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Residential
    92 Carlton Hill, a cathedral of light, dedicated to creation

    Home to several famous sculptors over the years, this building remains an extraordinary repository of the work of Arthur Fleischmann who lived and worked here for decades 

  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    Edwin Heathcote
    What a child’s toy can tell us about how we want to live

    Mattel’s Dreamhouses have tracked changes in design and desire, perhaps even more closely than the doll

    Pink double-storey A-frame doll’s house with Barbie and Ken in suits at the entrance and another Barbie upstairs in gymwear
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
    House museums #73: 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin

    The life of a Georgian home and its residents through the centuries, from town house to tenement

    Georgian-style brick buildings with large sash windows and white-trimmed doorways. The cobblestone street in front is lined with black bollards, and a ‘No Parking’ sign is visible
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    The Centre Pompidou prepares for a controversial revamp

    A five-year overhaul of the cultural complex will open up new subterranean spaces but is arousing heated debate

    A realistic computer rendering of a five-storey building with glass walls which sit behind an external scaffold on a bright white plaza
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
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    A tiny house to tackle climate change pops up on the Vitra Campus in Germany

    Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum designed the dwelling to provide housing in areas prone to flooding

    A steep-roofed structure built on bamboo stilts has a ladder leading the the living space above ground; at the front, a window is open
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Architecture and design

    Edwin Heathcote selects his best mid-year reads

  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    FT Magazine
    What Frank Lloyd Wright tells us about late bloomers

    The celebrated architect enjoyed two periods of profound productivity — some 50 years apart

  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Behind the Privet Hedge — a surprisingly radical history of suburban gardens

    Michael Gilson’s tribute to 20th-century English gardening, its role in social change — and its forgotten hero

    A plastic gnome with red cap next to a wooden fence in a garden
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Edwin Heathcote
    When it comes to architecture, there’s no point carping about carbuncles

    The Carbuncle Cup celebrates the monstrosities we are condemned to live with

    Image of buildings in a city, one shaped like faecal matter
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    Interview
    Serpentine Pavilion 2024 architect Minsuk Cho: ‘It’s like a Korean meal — a collective experience’

    He explains the thinking behind ‘Archipelagic Void’ and why following other starchitects is like joining the James Bond franchise

    A man sits reading in one of a series of structures made of dark timber
  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
    House museums #70: Strawberry Hill

    Horace Walpole’s Gothic Revival house became hugely influential as an English architectural style

    The exterior of a white castle with spires and towers in front of a green lawn
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    FT SeriesHouse & Home Sunshine Living Special
    Landscape designer Fernando Wong: I always start with a tree

    An architect by training, he creates outdoor ‘rooms’ on tropical estates in Florida and the Bahamas

    large tree, hedges and water pool
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    ReviewTelevision
    Jim Henson: Idea Man — muppetational tribute to a master puppeteer

    Ron Howard’s poignant documentary delves into what drove the enigmatic man behind the Muppets

    A 1985 photo of Jim Henson surrounded by colourful Muppets, posing with a smile and resting his cheek against his hand
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Screen time: how digital surfaces took over the modern city’s buildings

    Once the most 3D of all forms, architecture is becoming reduced to gigantic flashing billboards

    An enormous domed structure carries an image of a humanoid robot figure with its arm raised
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Interiors
    This year’s remodel: why move when you can improve?

    When their needs change, many homeowners choose to stay put and renovate rather than start anew

  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Residential
    Marcel Breuer, the leading proponent of Brutalism who also had a softer residential side

    The Bauhaus alumnus had a dual career designing muscular offices and elegant, open-plan homes

  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
    House museums #67: Rietveld Schröder House

    Is this astonishing home in Utrecht the most Modernist semi ever built?

  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    House & Home
    What does painting houses grey say about our psyche?

    ‘Grey plague’ is dividing communities, with proponents extolling its hard-wearing modernity and critics calling it aggressive, even dystopian

    a chic Chelsea home painted dark grey
  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
    Residential
    Manhattan mansion designed by architects of New York’s Gilded Age goes on sale

    Elegant 22-bedroom property opposite Moma showcases the talents of McKim, Mead & White

  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    Residential
    Edwin Lutyens, innovative architect of the English countryside

    The designer created many country houses that reflect historic buildings in a distinctly modern way

  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    House & Home
    ‘The last house in England’: living in Dungeness

    Architectural photographer Gilbert McCarragher captures the unique homes and community of the hamlet on the edge of the country

    Modernist house against grey sky and shrubbery
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    Residential
    Architect George Dawes on how to decorate old buildings

    With the right approach it’s possible to respect a home’s historical features while introducing modern furnishings

  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    HTSI
    Inside Richard Rogers’ groundbreaking The Emory

    Maybourne’s latest addition is everything a London hotel isn’t. And it’s all the better for it

    The façade of The Emory in Knightsbridge
  • Sunday, 21 April, 2024
    HTSIThe HTSI wedding special 2024
    Recapturing the Castle Raby

    When Lord and Lady Barnard became custodians of the ancestral seat in 2016, they inherited a fairytale – and a project in urgent need of help

    Lord and Lady Barnard in a corridor by the Entrance Hall
  • Saturday, 20 April, 2024
    Edwin Heathcote
    Farewell to stock exchanges — fire is not their only enemy

    Technology and modernisation were transforming these financial monuments even before the Copenhagen blaze

    Plumes of smoke billow from the Dragon Spire of the Stock Exchange
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