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  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Raw Concrete — a reappraisal of architecture’s brutalist vision

    In his guide to eight UK buildings, Barnabas Calder finds beauty in a style whose negative image was cemented in the 1960s

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Residential
    Five of the best homes for sale in the Alps

    Prime property in Europe’s largest mountain range

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    Residential
    The contemporary California cabin that uses reflectivity to merge into the desert landscape and keep cool inside

    Remarkable artistic retreat in Joshua Tree National Park has walls made of Solarcool glass that offer panoramic views without absorbing heat

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Edwin Heathcote
    Channelling the Nimby spirit won’t fix Britain’s housing problems

    Government proposals allowing residents to vote on new developments are full of holes

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    The secret history of the women designers behind cherished buildings

    They have been downplayed in the past but an exhibition at London’s Riba puts them in the spotlight

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    12 glorious highlights in Tokyo’s constellation of starchitecture

    An ever-shifting canvas for Japan’s world-leading architects, the city is dotted with examples of their mind-bending vision — from stadiums and subway stations to a cake shop and public loos

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Edwin Heathcote
    The Elizabeth Line is much more than a feat of engineering

    The latest addition to the London Underground is restrained and austere, with touches that echo older glories

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Too rich and too thin? Welcome to Manhattan’s newest ‘skinnyscraper’

    This ‘deposit of unimaginable wealth in the sky’ is also an exquisite feat of architecture

  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    Residential
    How a derelict Knightsbridge townhouse was transformed into a state-of-the-art luxury home

    Newly constructed property cleverly reused original materials to blend in with its pristine Victorian neighbours

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    Review
    Legendary London music venue Koko enjoys a remarkable renaissance

    A £70mn redevelopment has cleared away the sleaze and grime and replaced them with gilding and a members’ club

  • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
    Travel
    One Hundred Shoreditch: the hipster hotel that grew up

    A reincarnation of London’s Ace Hotel doesn’t try too hard to be cool — and it’s better for it

  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2022
    Residential
    Fantasy home: a palazzo inspired by Call Me by Your Name

    A fading aristocratic pile in idyllic Italian countryside would make a charming place for our writer to both contemplate and entertain

  • Monday, 18 April, 2022
    William Morris’s ‘heaven on earth’: Kelmscott Manor reopens

    The poet and designer hated modernity, yet this Elizabethan farmhouse was pivotal to the history of Modernism

  • Saturday, 16 April, 2022
    FT SeriesThe HTSI spring design special 2022
    My papa, Jean Prouvé

    As Vitra reissues pieces from his furniture archive, the daughter of the French design legend reflects on his unorthodox genius

  • Saturday, 16 April, 2022
    FT SeriesThe HTSI spring design special 2022
    Philippe Starck: superstar designer and olive oil advocate 

    The starchitect’s friendship with investment banker Pedro Gómez de Baeza is growing into a bullish agritourism business in Andalucía  

  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
    FT SeriesThe HTSI spring design special 2022
    Kengo Kuma: ‘I am not attached to objects at all’

    But the Tokyo-based architect still loves tenuguis and his cat T-shirt 

  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
    Countryside Living Special
    What’s it like to live in a dovecote?

    The UK once boasted thousands of these architectural oddities. An obsessive explains their appeal

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    Review
    Cult architect John Hejduk’s work revived at the Royal Academy

    The American was unfashionable in his time — now his eccentric trombone-shed has been made real

  • Monday, 4 April, 2022
    Residential
    The private residences that bear the hallmarks of America’s pre-eminent classical revivalist

    Best known for his Washington DC and London museums and memorials, John Russell Pope also designed some remarkable houses

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    House & Home
    The architecture of horror shifts from gothic to Modernist

    Creaky stairs and dusty attics used to be film’s language of fear. Now these on-screen homes are all cool concrete and glass

  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Modernist dreams — the architectural future that never was

    Two books look back fondly at the beauty of Brutalism and an era of municipal optimism

  • Sunday, 27 March, 2022
    FT SeriesThe HTSI property special: spring 2022
    Inside Manifattura Tabacchi, one of Italy’s biggest regeneration projects

    Pier Luigi Nervi’s once-abandoned landmark is surging back to life

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    FT SeriesThe HTSI property special: spring 2022
    Could a carbon-loving super-crop be the solution to sustainable living?

    Hemp, cork, clay, adobe, rammed earth – nature’s oldest building materials are inspiring new architectural uses

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    FT SeriesThe HTSI property special: spring 2022
    Frank Gehry: ‘The more humane a building, the better’

    Now 93, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect has just completed his first residential buildings in Battersea. They’re a love letter to London

  • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
    Review
    Refurbished Burrell Collection keeps its wonder, if not its integrity

    The Glasgow Museum’s £68mn renovation future-proofs the building, but at a cost to its original subtlety

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