A five-year overhaul of the cultural complex will open up new subterranean spaces but is arousing heated debate
Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum designed the dwelling to provide housing in areas prone to flooding
Edwin Heathcote selects his best mid-year reads
The Carbuncle Cup celebrates the monstrosities we are condemned to live with
When we acquire a painting surely we are asking, where could I put that? Where would it fit? Does it go with the sofa?
He explains the thinking behind ‘Archipelagic Void’ and why following other starchitects is like joining the James Bond franchise
Horace Walpole’s Gothic Revival house became hugely influential as an English architectural style
Once the most 3D of all forms, architecture is becoming reduced to gigantic flashing billboards
Whether it’s the carpet from ‘The Shining’, Tom Ripley’s borrowed palazzi or Bridgerton’s Georgian pastels, TV and film provide our most immersive experience of interior design
Is this astonishing home in Utrecht the most Modernist semi ever built?
The annual Salone del Mobile is a vast display of slick superfluousness but at its heart is a deep regard for tradition and craftsmanship
Maybourne’s latest addition is everything a London hotel isn’t. And it’s all the better for it
Technology and modernisation were transforming these financial monuments even before the Copenhagen blaze
A terrific show explores the close relationship between photography and the city
This gloriously louche staple is perpetually on the verge of a comeback
The fabled artefact has found a permanent Scottish home
FT architecture and design critic Edwin Heathcote elevates the small pieces of design that make up our cities, from phone booths to manhole covers
A new retrospective showcases the groundbreaking work of the late anti-consumerist, who once likened Italian design to pornography
Architect John Hejduk’s pioneering and playful grid designs have been realised in this stripped back, modernist project in the heart of upstate New York
What ever happened to the old-fashioned stamp, seashell or invertebrate collection?
The laureate for architecture’s top award cherishes ideas of neighbourliness, even at a grand scale
An engrossing exhibition shows how newfound freedoms in West Africa and India inspired an optimistic, independent design approach
The £132mn music venue is a story of architectural choices ranging from wonderful to woeful
The late-era Arts and Crafts property by Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott heralds the designer’s shift towards housing for the masses
The UK government wants them converted to homes but that is misguided — the buildings have a very different potential
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