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    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      House & Home
      The surprising resilience of Christmas cards

      ‘They remain a curious, fleeting form of uninvited interior decoration. We have no power over the tastes they express’

    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      Residential
      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

      A structure in latticed orange steel juts out from a high point overlooking countryside
    • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
      Best books of 2023 — Architecture & Design

      Edwin Heathcote selects his must-read titles

      Montage of book covers
    • 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

      Blond-wood furnishings and a vivid pink carpet in Ettore Sottsass’s Casa Lana, in the Triennale Milano
    • 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’

      The John Morden Centre
    • 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

      Domino, old brick shell of old sugar refinery with famous yellow logo
    • 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

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