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  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Bristol Beacon: a stonkingly expensive restoration saga

    The £132mn music venue is a story of architectural choices ranging from wonderful to woeful

    An orchestra of young white-clad musicians performs on stage in a packed concert hall
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    HTSI
    The poet who talks to walls

    LionHeart uses verse to explore architecture

    Rhael Cape, aka LionHeart
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    Residential
    The ‘homely’ stockbroker-belt house by the architect who inspired the early modernists

    The late-era Arts and Crafts property by Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott heralds the designer’s shift towards housing for the masses

  • Saturday, 17 February, 2024
    FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
    House museums #55: the Eames House

    The home of the polymathic designer couple Charles and Ray Eames evinces their mid-century modern ideals 

    wood and glass modernist interior of Eames House living room
  • Saturday, 17 February, 2024
    Edwin Heathcote
    Hollowed-out department stores offer an opportunity for the high street

    The UK government wants them converted to homes but that is misguided — the buildings have a very different potential

    Black and white photo from 1955 showing women shopping in the Oxford Street branch of M&S
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    House & Home
    How engineered timber can help the housing and climate crises

    The material’s embodied carbon, strength and beauty are finding favour among architects

    modern engineered timber house with black upper storey and huge glass windows on a hillside
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    Residential
    The Arts and Crafts mansion designed by Inigo Triggs with a naturalistic garden by Gertrude Jekyll

    The Hampshire property has an unusual ‘garden gnome’ — a Harrier jump-jet

  • Sunday, 28 January, 2024
    Edwin Heathcote
    The UK is dismantling its legacy of municipal splendour

    Turning grand 19th-century town halls into luxury flats and hotels diminishes the public realm — and civic pride

    The Old War Office in central London
  • Saturday, 27 January, 2024
    FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
    House museums #52: Casa Vicens, by Antoni Gaudí

    The Barcelona home is considered to be the architect’s first masterpiece

    the exterior of the house in candy colours and dazzling ornament
  • Saturday, 20 January, 2024
    AI is coming for architecture

    Programs such as Dall-E and Midjourney are revolutionising the designs of buildings, but threatening the industry too

    A sketch of a tower block and the photorealistic image generated by an AI
  • Saturday, 20 January, 2024
    FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
    House museums #51: Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and studio

    This formative building in the career of the US architect was the first over which he had complete artistic control

    a wood-lined barrel-vaulted ceiling
  • Wednesday, 10 January, 2024
    Design
    Roman and Williams, luxury’s default designers of atmosphere

    From working on film sets to furnishing stately homes, the New York couple’s opulent style defies boundaries

  • Tuesday, 9 January, 2024
    Residential
    Residential architecture trends for 2024

    Enduring properties, a shift to size-appropriate homes and a focus on the human touch are among architects’ predictions for this year

  • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
    Prime property
    Hot property: homes designed by notable architects

    From a Florentine castle restored by Gino Coppedè to a New York apartment in a building designed by Emery Roth

    Living room with a fireplace and tall windows facing the ocean
  • Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
    Manchester’s skyscrapers: towers of homebuilding ambition or ‘high-rise mania’?

    The northern English city is being transformed by new residential skyscrapers that dwarf its 19th-century heritage

    several skyscrapers behind traditional red brick buildings
  • Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
    Review
    Bijoy Jain, Fondation Cartier — disassembled architecture reassembled as art

    The founder of Studio Mumbai’s attempt to translate his work into a gallery setting is not without problems

    A rectangular bamboo structure stands within a larger glass-walled gallery
  • Monday, 1 January, 2024
    FT Series
    The world’s best house museums

    Step inside the homes of some of the world’s most illustrious writers, artists and other historical personalities — and see how interiors can reveal interior lives

  • Saturday, 30 December, 2023
    The joy of boring buildings

    Are we in the midst of a ‘blandemic’? Do our cities need more Gaudí, as some contend? For the FT’s architecture critic, plain and restrained can be beautiful

    Towering building against blue sky
  • Friday, 29 December, 2023
    Are salvaged materials the future of building design?

    Architects and property groups are repurposing materials as the reuse and recycling of construction waste becomes urgent

  • Friday, 29 December, 2023
    HTSI
    Inside 15 extraordinary homes

    HTSI has taken you to Houghton Hall, Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris bolthole, Nureyev’s Amalfi hideaway, and a host of other heartstopping houses this year. Here are our favourites

    Courteney Cox at home in LA
  • Sunday, 17 December, 2023
    FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
    House museums #47: Schindler House

    The LA house of Viennese architect Rudolf Schindler is a European intellectual’s take on bohemian California life

    Modernist house exterior
  • Thursday, 14 December, 2023
    HTSI
    An auto barn for the Volvo man

    Technological ingenuity meets traditional design at car designer Jeremy Offer’s home

    Jeremy Offer’s home in the Chilterns
  • Wednesday, 13 December, 2023
    Review
    Renzo Piano’s Istanbul Modern: the glories and contradictions of Turkey

    This new museum in the Karaköy neighbourhood is admirably transparent — though beset by Turkish politics

    An image of striking symmetry, with the sky reflected in a rectangular pool and the side of the pool reflected in a glass wall
  • Friday, 8 December, 2023
    HTSIHow To Give It 2023
    How to give it... to disaster-relief design initiatives

    20 leading organisations helping to rebuild broken worlds

    An Emergency Architecture & Human Rights project in Jordan
  • Monday, 4 December, 2023
    Residential
    Rare sale of a duplex in a modernist building in Camden that was designed by Georgie Wolton

    This light and airy one-bed property, in a former artists’ studios built by the influential 20th-century architect, is on the market for c£1mn

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