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  • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
    Residential
    The 1950s Malibu home with a wavelike roof designed by a surfer turned self-taught architect

    Harry Gesner was a pioneer of organic buildings who counted Hollywood stars among his clients

  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    PAD London 2023
    Kenneth Grange: ‘The government once had ideas about how to use design’

    The designer behind the InterCity 125 train and the Kenwood Chef helped modernise Britain

    An older man in a white short-sleeved shirt talking
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    ReviewVisual Arts
    Christian Marclay turns to doors after timely success with The Clock

    The artist’s latest work of video collage probes our sense of place, space and transition

    Close-up of a hand reaching for a key in an ornate lock
  • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    Brave new world: an architecture tour of central Milan

    The city has long been a byword for forward-thinking building, from the Neoclassical glories of the world’s first shopping mall to Modernist masterpieces galore

    The glass dome of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan, in a photograph taken from inside the gallery, below the dome
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    ReviewArchitecture
    A church rises in the shadow of 9/11

    Santiago Calatrava’s St Nicholas Greek Orthodox building resembles an art-deco radio

    A small white marble building with bulging dome and front
  • Saturday, 9 September, 2023
    FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
    House museums #33: Oswaldo Guayasamín

    The posthumously completed Quito home of the Ecuadorean artist blends Baroque, European and indigenous imagery

  • Saturday, 9 September, 2023
    ReviewArchitecture
    PAC NYC is a beacon of simplicity at Ground Zero

    Open at last, the Perelman Performing Arts Centre at the World Trade Center site is flexible and understated

    A cuboid building covered in silvery marble surrounded by glass skyscrapers
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    Architecture
    Stirling Prize shortlist marks return to unassuming UK architecture

    Community centres, housing projects, a careful reimagining of an existing museum and a university faculty vie for award

    University of Warwick Faculty of Arts
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    Residential
    The starchitect-designed penthouses that were once the epitome of urban London living

    David Chipperfield’s rooftop glass ‘pavilions’ were built in 2000 at the height of Clerkenwell mania

  • Monday, 14 August, 2023
    InterviewArchitecture
    Architect Peter Cook goes back to the future

    His visionary drawings, now on show in London, have been highly influential since the 1960s

    A colourful drawing shows an imagined cityscape with towers and structures connected by scaffold-like structures
  • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
    Architecture
    All the world’s a stage — or at least unused London office space can be

    ‘Cultural insertion’ can breathe new life into empty commercial property — and tackle squeezed West End theatre capacity

    The word ‘Lightroom’ in capitals on the exterior of a modern building
  • Saturday, 5 August, 2023
    FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
    House museums #28: Casa Luis Barragán

    The pared-down, sensual home of the revered Mexican architect graces a working-class neighbourhood in Mexico City

    Living room with tables and chairs
  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    Residential
    The Los Angeles ‘starter’ home that is the epitome of Californian mid-century modernism

    Built in 1950 as an affordable family unit, the property has been carefully restored for 21st-century living

  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    Architecture
    The boom in Seoul’s corporate museums

    South Korea’s burgeoning commercial gallery scene has led to the creation of architecturally adventurous buildings

    A pond of water under a building shaped like a cube
  • Monday, 24 July, 2023
    House & Home
    A crisis of cupboards: why do modern homes have so little storage?

    We are obliged to sequester ‘stuff’ into soulless warehouses — maybe we should put some of it on display instead

  • Friday, 21 July, 2023
    Interiors
    Stained glass, an overlooked medium cast in a new light

    An exhibition highlights a melding of craft and architecture that brings colour into homes

  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
    Residential
    The Surrey Hills home that is a precursor to Modernism and an outstanding example of Arts and Crafts design

    The 1896 mansion beautifully shows architect Charles Voysey’s skill in blending history with modernity

  • Monday, 17 July, 2023
    ReviewArchitecture
    Herzog & de Meuron at the Royal Academy — never mind the buildings, here’s the process

    The architects’ work is celebrated in a London show which focuses on the stuff of their profession

    The interior of a building has a sculptural curved red staircase and arched windows
  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    House & Home
    Bring back the great British junk shop

    The high street staple provided a spectacle of the rare and the serendipitous — and made our interiors far more interesting than today’s

  • Saturday, 1 July, 2023
    Architecture
    HSBC departure spells doom for isolated experiment of Canary Wharf

    A moated, gated, privatised space divided from the rest of London may have had its day

    Margaret Thatcher and men in suits looks at a model of the development
  • Monday, 26 June, 2023
    ReviewArchitecture
    Young V&A’s architectural overhaul is striking and joyful

    De Matos Ryan and AOC have brought both subtle clarity and cartoonish exuberance to the east London building

    Imagine an orange with individual segments removed, then lined with mirrors. This, but very large and at the top of a spiral staircase
  • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
    Summer Books 2023
    Best summer books of 2023: Architecture and design

    Edwin Heathcote selects his best mid-year reads

    Montage of book covers
  • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
    ReviewArchitecture
    National Portrait Gallery’s renovation has created a beautifully public-facing museum

    A new entrance has been integrated and internal spaces recovered in a £41mn refurb partly by architects Jamie Fobert and Purcell

    A man sits on the stone steps of a museum with three doorways behind him
  • Monday, 19 June, 2023
    House & Home
    The humble awning is ready for its time in the sun

    In addition to providing protection in our rapidly heating cities, they offer another surface to add colour and decoration

  • Friday, 16 June, 2023
    House & Home
    Flush with cash — why do the super-rich need so many bathrooms?

    Whether to add value to a property or to stash classified information, en-suite inflation is a growing phenomenon

    Illustration of a floor plan showing many adjacent toilets
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