Edwin Heathcote

Monday, 4 December, 2023

Rare sale of a duplex in a modernist building in Camden that was designed by Georgie Wolton

This light and airy one-bed property, in a former artists’ studios built by the influential 20th-century architect, is on the market for c£1mn

Wednesday, 29 November, 2023

ReviewArchitecture

Richard Rogers drawings, Château La Coste — urban architect celebrated in Provençale countryside

Pioneering designer behind the Pompidou takes centre stage at the French winery and sculpture park

Saturday, 18 November, 2023

FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023

Best books of 2023 — Architecture & Design

Edwin Heathcote selects his must-read titles

Friday, 17 November, 2023

FT SeriesHouse & Home Ski Property Special

The mysterious Carlo Mollino: stunt pilot, Surrealist, Alpine architect

The cultish designer was a pioneer of mountain Modernism

Friday, 3 November, 2023

House & Home

The London building wrapped in a mesh of the past

A 1970s office block has been covered in a ‘memory veil’ that recreates the historic cityscape. But is this trying to have it both ways?

Monday, 30 October, 2023

FT Globetrotter

Hidden depths: a guide to Milan’s most inventive interiors

Step into spaces where some of Italy’s greatest architects and designers — as well as Wes Anderson — let their imagination run wild

Friday, 20 October, 2023

Architecture

London retirement community wins UK’s Stirling Prize

John Morden Centre scoops top architecture award as ‘place of joy and inspiration’

Friday, 20 October, 2023

Interiors

How the island took over our kitchens

Hypertrophy reigns supreme in homes from London to Los Angeles

Thursday, 19 October, 2023

ReviewArchitecture

Aviva Studios — the UK’s biggest cultural investment in a generation

This ambitious £242mn Manchester venue will house the city’s International Festival

Monday, 16 October, 2023

Residential

The Georgian townhouse that showcases the built history of London’s Spitalfields

Altered and refined over three centuries, the historic property is the perfect combination of authenticity and artifice

Friday, 6 October, 2023

House & Home

How the Domino refinery went from sugar to skyscrapers

The redevelopment of the old factory, a New York industrial landmark, is rebranding urban memory and forming a new Brooklyn waterfront

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

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

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

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

Edwin Heathcote

Architecture and design critic

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