Edwin Heathcote

Sunday, 24 September, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saturday, 24 June, 2023

Summer Books 2023

Best summer books of 2023: Architecture and design

Edwin Heathcote selects his best mid-year reads

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

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

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

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

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