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  • Saturday, 25 June, 2022
    Review
    A new chapter for New York’s Morgan Library

    The restoration project is an attempt to seduce the eye of book lovers back to the Beaux-Arts structure

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    House & Home
    Ten years on, what is the Olympic legacy in east London?

    A decade after the 2012 Games, the writer Iain Sinclair walks through the Lea Valley to Stratford to find that ‘much has changed and everything is the same’

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Summer Books 2022
    Best summer books of 2022: Architecture and design

    Edwin Heathcote selects his best mid-year reads

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    The pros and cons of stone buildings

    ‘Massive stone’ can be better for the environment than concrete and steel but detractors question the impact of quarrying

  • Monday, 13 June, 2022
    Royal Academy Architecture Prize goes to Renée Gailhoustet

    Her work in the Paris suburb of Ivry-sur-Seine gave choice and diversity to inhabitants

  • Saturday, 11 June, 2022
    FT Weekend podcast30 min listen
    The rich interior lives of pigs

    Henry Mance on new scientific research on pigs. Plus, what a new style of skyscraper says about how our cities are designed

  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    Interview
    Theaster Gates on his Serpentine Pavilion: ‘It is intended to be humble’

    The artist is using his Black Chapel to reflect on race, society and family and to bring people together

  • Saturday, 28 May, 2022
    House & Home
    Inside the junkyard of architectural gems

    ‘Pro-social’ salvage yards save old houses from landfill and sell the treasures within to fund further preservation

  • Saturday, 28 May, 2022
    Review
    The Royal College of Art’s bold new Battersea campus is a triumph of brick

    Herzog & de Meuron’s £135mn south London space is an imposing union of design and industry

  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    HTSI
    The secret furniture of Enric Miralles

    Benedetta Tagliabue has long championed her late husband’s unconventional architecture. Now a new exhibition is illuminating his lesser-known furniture

  • 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 

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