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    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      Architecture
      New Serpentine Pavilion is a delicate wonder of light spirits

      Lina Ghotmeh’s structure in Hyde Park draws on everything from Stonehenge to ‘Mary Poppins’ and the root systems of trees

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    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
      ReviewArchitecture
      Concrete caves and extravagant butterflies in the American Museum of Natural History’s extension

      Architect Jeanne Gang’s work pulls together a complex building but with questionable material

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
      House museums #18: Sir John Soane’s Museum

      A drawing office on the top floor of the architect’s theatrical home has opened to the public for the first time

    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Venice Architecture Biennale 2023
      This year’s Venice Architecture Biennale is brave, baffling, stimulating and essential

      Curator Lesley Lokko’s focus on Africa and its diaspora has inspired creative work — and few buildings

    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Architecture
      Celebrating London’s mansion flat

      Why the 19th-century invention is still one of the most civilised modes of British city living

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Venice Architecture Biennale 2023
      Norman Foster tackles the emergency shelter

      After natural disasters, people can find themselves living in tents for years. The architect is seeking a better solution

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Venice Architecture Biennale 2023
      British pavilion at Venice Biennale takes architecture beyond buildings

      Gathering inspiration from immigrant cultures in the UK, the curators are focusing on celebration and ritual

    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
      InterviewArchitecture
      Norman Foster: ‘The older I get, the more I realise it’s not about the building but about the city’

      The architect behind landmarks such as London’s Gherkin skyscraper is having his first major retrospective at the Pompidou in Paris

    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      Travel
      Postcard from Burgh Island: a slice of the 1930s, yours for £15mn

      The Art Deco island hotel in south Devon hosted Churchill, Agatha Christie and the Beatles — and is now up for sale

    • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
      Residential
      The Modernist Surrey home with Bauhaus in its DNA

      The suburban house was designed by Edwin Maxwell Fry, Walter Gropius’s 1930s British architectural partner

    • Saturday, 29 April, 2023
      FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
      House museums #14: architect Lina Bo Bardi

      The glass house she built seems to dissolve into the Brazilian rainforest and to embody her escape from war-torn Italy

    • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
      ReviewArchitecture
      Herzog & De Meuron’s M+ museum offers a new take on Asian art

      The Hong Kong gallery’s collection reshapes traditional narratives about the region

    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      ReviewArchitecture
      Milan show revives the reputation of architect Angelo Mangiarotti

      A shy and solitary character, his designs for churches, train stations and office chairs deserve more attention

    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      ReviewArchitecture
      Gilbert & George Centre — deceptively magnificent within a slice of the old East End

      The artists’ museum transforms a former brewery site in a rapidly changing London neighbourhood

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Architecture
      The V&A’s joyous celebration of the British mosque

      Architect Shahed Saleem has often drawn inspiration from the museum’s Islamic displays. Now he has designed a Ramadan pavilion for its courtyard

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      InterviewArchitecture
      British architect David Chipperfield wins the 2023 Pritzker Prize — ‘We can’t deny responsibility any more’

      Chipperfield says climate change and a sense of social purpose are at the heart of his practice

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
      House museums #6: Donald Judd’s loft, 101 Spring Street, New York

      The artist used his home as a test-bed for concretising the intimate relationship between art and architecture, sculpture and space

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Anthony Caro, Pitzhanger Manor review — adventures in heavy metal

      The sculptor’s works in steel and other materials form a powerful, architectural show in west London

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      House & Home
      Lessons from a disaster: building homes for an earthquake

      We can’t prevent earthquakes but engineers and architects have the knowhow to design structures that can keep residents safe

    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      Residential
      The four-storey atrium home waiting to be built beneath a strangely unfinished Barbican tower

      The site in the Brutalist icon was originally intended for commercial use but has remained dormant for five decades

    • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
      City of London
      Beware hollowing out the City of London

      Kitschy residential tower blocks are upsetting the historic balance of the capital’s financial district

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
      Gainsborough museum: from ‘just’ a house to a cultural institution

      In the first in a series on house museums, Edwin Heathcote visits the new iteration of the home of one of England’s most popular painters

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      Residential
      Grosvenor Square’s original US embassy building gets the poshest — and most discreet — of residential makeovers

      Neo-Georgian facade and Joe Kennedy’s replica of the White House Oval Office among the period features expertly preserved in conversion to luxury apartments

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      ReviewBusiness books
      Offices from the past help us imagine the workspaces of the future

      Several books explore the reality of the workplace and how corporate spaces may blur with the home

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Architecture
      The West Village warehouse reborn as an airy cultural space

      The Cara arts centre is superbly suited to performance and events as well as painting and sculpture

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