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  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    Travel
    My night with Frank Lloyd Wright

    In the Pennsylvania woods, visitors can tour some of the architect’s seminal buildings — and a lucky few can stay the night

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    Travel
    From Rio to Essex — modernist places to stay

    The FT’s architecture critic selects some dream destinations for design fans

  • Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
    Battle of Trafalgar Square: another makeover for London’s National Gallery

    An international competition has been announced today to upgrade the gallery’s Sainsbury Wing

  • Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
    Notre-Dame rescue is buttressed by digital wizardry

    Scientists and designers have created a ‘virtual twin’ of the Paris cathedral to guide its rebuilding

  • Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
    Residential
    Why low cost, engineered wood is finding its way into fashionable interiors

    A material once intended to be hidden is now appreciated for its rough texture 

  • Sunday, 14 February, 2021
    Let’s twist again: Amazon’s new spiral home unpacked

    The HQ2 building in Arlington, Virginia has drawn comparisons with screws — and worse

  • Wednesday, 10 February, 2021
    Visual Arts
    The Illuminated River shines a light on London’s shifting currents

    A new project to light up Thames bridges is characteristic of changes that are transforming the city

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    Edwin Heathcote
    The Versailles complex: political leaders and their palaces

    Aqua-discos, ice-hockey rinks, gold and crystal fill opulent behemoths built to impress and intimidate

  • Wednesday, 3 February, 2021
    Theatre
    Theatre that rethinks the box

    The struggling live events sector could be revived by a new Vertical Theatre concept

  • Promoted Content
  • Friday, 29 January, 2021
    ReviewHistory books
    Moscow Monumental — the towering hubris of Stalin’s skyscrapers

    Katherine Zubovich offers a richly illustrated account of a masterplan for proclaiming the Soviet Union’s greatness to the world

  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
    Design
    When the wall became a playground

    A project that bridged the divide between the US and Mexico has won the Design Museum’s annual award

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Residential
    How corrugated metal became designer chic

    The former preserve of low cost, quick-build homes is finding favour in imaginative and upmarket places

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Beauty and the Brutalists: why the most maligned style in history should be preserved

    Brutalist buildings around the world are endangered or lie derelict — even Donald Trump dislikes them

  • Sunday, 10 January, 2021
    Demolition’s creative destruction of the citiscape

    Architecture involves construction but also often relies on taking a wrecking ball to valuable heritage

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    Adolf Loos’s spaces of intimacy, darkness and mystery

    A new exhibition looks at the work of the Viennese architect, an enduring paradox and powerful influence

  • Tuesday, 5 January, 2021
    Review
    Zoe Zenghelis: a painter whose medium is architecture

    Instrumental in the early days of OMA, the artist’s captivating work is on show at London’s Betts Project — now online in 3D

  • Monday, 4 January, 2021
    Berlin’s Humboldt Forum: a palace in search of a purpose

    The vast Stadtschloss complex has been rebuilt at huge expense — but is a restored imperial building what the city needs?

  • Tuesday, 29 December, 2020
    Residential
    The biggest residential design trends for 2021

    Homes will connect more with nature, while minimalist decor and open-plan living will be shown the door

  • Thursday, 24 December, 2020
    House & Home
    How our windows became a channel of communication

    Like a kind of architectural social media, political messaging and Christmas displays are more public this year

  • Tuesday, 22 December, 2020
    Residential
    Why the fireplace refuses to die

    Even the most daring of architects cannot bring themselves to tear the hearth out of the home

  • Monday, 21 December, 2020
    Space — architecture’s final frontier

    2020 has reinforced the need for projects that emphasise open spaces and fresh air

  • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
    From the apocalypse to the environment: the latest in gaming
    How architecture is helping game designers build new worlds

    The two disciplines are growing ever closer

  • Tuesday, 15 December, 2020
    Memorial rules are not set in stone

    Grandiose memorials are springing up across the world, sparking questions and controversy

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    How To Spend It
    A Gio Ponti pilgrimage in Italy

    On the 50th anniversary of the Concattedrale Gran Madre di Dio, we pay homage to “the father of modern Italian design”

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    New Lambeth Palace Library is a brick tower laden with treasures

    The curious but compelling building will house artefacts such as a 12th-century Bible and Mary Queen of Scots’ death warrant

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