Edwin Heathcote

Wednesday, 21 February, 2024

Monday, 19 February, 2024

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

Architecture

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

Tuesday, 13 February, 2024

House & Home

Cinema’s gardens of earthly delights — and unearthly frights

From ‘The Shining’ to ‘Saltburn’ and ‘The Zone of Interest’, films upend our notion of the garden as a haven

Friday, 9 February, 2024

Interiors

‘Bookshelf wealth’ is the oldest decorating trick in the book

TikTok is abuzz with the interiors trend — but it’s a style that has a long history

Sunday, 28 January, 2024

Architecture

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

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

Tuesday, 23 January, 2024

ReviewNon-Fiction

Are trees bad for cities?

In a new book, a social scientist offers a witty and sceptical view of our obsession with greenery in urban spaces

Saturday, 20 January, 2024

Architecture

AI is coming for architecture

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

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

Wednesday, 3 January, 2024

ReviewArchitecture

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

Saturday, 30 December, 2023

Architecture

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

Tuesday, 19 December, 2023

Residential

Hearth in the right place: how videos of burning logs came to supersede the fireplace

Watching flickering flames on a TV screen meets our deep-rooted need to stare at a crackling fire

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

Wednesday, 13 December, 2023

ReviewArchitecture

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

Monday, 4 December, 2023

House & Home

The surprising resilience of Christmas cards

‘They remain a curious, fleeting form of uninvited interior decoration. We have no power over the tastes they express’

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

Wednesday, 29 November, 2023

ReviewArchitecture

Richard Rogers drawings, Château La Coste — urban architect celebrated in Provençale countryside

Pioneering designer behind the Pompidou takes centre stage at the French winery and sculpture park

Saturday, 18 November, 2023

FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023

Best books of 2023 — Architecture & Design

Edwin Heathcote selects his must-read titles

Friday, 17 November, 2023

FT SeriesHouse & Home Ski Property Special

The mysterious Carlo Mollino: stunt pilot, Surrealist, Alpine architect

The cultish designer was a pioneer of mountain Modernism

Friday, 3 November, 2023

House & Home

The London building wrapped in a mesh of the past

A 1970s office block has been covered in a ‘memory veil’ that recreates the historic cityscape. But is this trying to have it both ways?

Monday, 30 October, 2023

FT Globetrotter

Hidden depths: a guide to Milan’s most inventive interiors

Step into spaces where some of Italy’s greatest architects and designers — as well as Wes Anderson — let their imagination run wild

Friday, 20 October, 2023

Architecture

London retirement community wins UK’s Stirling Prize

John Morden Centre scoops top architecture award as ‘place of joy and inspiration’

Friday, 20 October, 2023

Interiors

How the island took over our kitchens

Hypertrophy reigns supreme in homes from London to Los Angeles

Thursday, 19 October, 2023

ReviewArchitecture

Aviva Studios — the UK’s biggest cultural investment in a generation

This ambitious £242mn Manchester venue will house the city’s International Festival

Edwin Heathcote

Architecture and design critic

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