how to build a $300 house Feature of the Week from MANAGEMENT Feb 12, 2012

The house that students built

A blog asking how to design a $300 house for the poor was the catalyst for a business competition

Feb 7, 2012

Ai Weiwei and Herzog to design London pavilion

Serpentine attracts Beijing ‘Bird’s Nest’ partnership

Poolside at Green Village From HOUSE & HOME Jan 27, 2012

Architecture: Bamboo as prime material

Eco-friendly and strong as steel, it is used to build everything from homes to bridges and schools

New Design Museum view Jan 24, 2012

From Commonwealth Institute to Design Museum

New museum site could do for design what Tate Modern did for contemporary art, Edwin Heathcote reports

Jan 20, 2012

Legacy or lunacy?

In the first of three articles exploring the architectural impact of London 2012, Edwin Heathcote tours the sporting buildings

Big screen

The Descendants Film

Nigel Andrews reviews Alexander Payne’s ‘The Descendants’, Drake Doremus’s ‘Like Crazy’, ‘The Grey’ and more

Small screen

Leo Robson

Jonathan Meades’s show sought to expose ‘les trente glorieuses’ as a period of amnesia and hypocrisy, says Leo Robson

Jan 11, 2012

Market, homes for elderly and hospital vie for design award

Designs of the Year contest features strong architecture entries

The Shard tower is seen under construction near the River Thames in London From COMMENT Dec 22, 2011

Skyscrapers: why they strive for the highest

Neither 9/11 nor the financial crisis has blunted the urge to build tall

Peter Aspden Peter Aspden Dec 9, 2011

How to build a better Britain, circa 1954

A new book on the Barbican estate shows the extent to which its architects were fired by idealism and noble intentions

From UK Dec 2, 2011

Foster reveals genesis of a vision

Architect tells of journey to his Thames estuary airport plan

Tech City Map Edwin Heathcote from MANAGEMENT Nov 16, 2011

Mapping the innovative city

Attracting entrepreneurs to rejuvenate a fading metropolis requires smart investment

Nov 14, 2011

Johns Hopkins’ Carey school expands MBA by design

Accelerated degree will focus on how to run businesses creatively

From UK Nov 7, 2011

Barnsley poised for welfare shake-up

Nationwide, more than 600,000 to be affected

Nov 2, 2011

Thames transport hub project unveiled

Foster plan would transform infrastructure

Edwin Heathcote from TRAVEL Oct 28, 2011

Stay cool in New York

Three new hotels provide perfect settings for design lovers to witness the city’s architectural renaissance, says the FT’s architecture critic

From WORLD Oct 26, 2011

Nairobi fails to deal with squalor

Kenyan capital unable to manage basic development

Edwin Heathcote from HOUSE & HOME Oct 21, 2011

The symbolic home: Between heaven and earth

From celestial metaphor to something better ignored, the ceiling has its highs and lows

Oct 13, 2011

OMA/Progress, Barbican, London

Rem Koolhaas isn’t nearly finished with modernism yet

Edwin Heathcote Oct 11, 2011

Gap in the market

London lacks a proper gallery district but momentum seems to be building to establish one in the city

The Monday Interview from MANAGEMENT Oct 9, 2011

Engineering enthusiasm

Paul Westbury, chief executive of Buro Happold, wants his profession to be more evangelical

Oct 5, 2011

Olympic landmark goes into Orbit

Steel pipes tower rises 114m in east London

Visual arts slideshows

david hockney

"WOLDGATE WOODS, 21, 23 & 29 NOVEMBER 2006" OIL ON 6 CANVASES (36 X 48" EA) 72 X 144" OVERALL DAVID HOCKNEY The artist’s first major UK landscape show

Video

Multimedia

audio slideshow

'Natures' by Quayola, set to music by Mira Calix and Oliver Coates How artists respond to new media

podcast

woody allen Wise cracks: has Woody Allen still got it?