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  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Residential
    How corrugated metal became designer chic

    The former preserve of low cost, quick-build homes is finding favour in imaginative and upmarket places

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Beauty and the Brutalists: why the most maligned style in history should be preserved

    Brutalist buildings around the world are endangered or lie derelict — even Donald Trump dislikes them

  • Sunday, 10 January, 2021
    Demolition’s creative destruction of the citiscape

    Architecture involves construction but also often relies on taking a wrecking ball to valuable heritage

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    Adolf Loos’s spaces of intimacy, darkness and mystery

    A new exhibition looks at the work of the Viennese architect, an enduring paradox and powerful influence

  • Tuesday, 5 January, 2021
    Review
    Zoe Zenghelis: a painter whose medium is architecture

    Instrumental in the early days of OMA, the artist’s captivating work is on show at London’s Betts Project — now online in 3D

  • Monday, 4 January, 2021
    Berlin’s Humboldt Forum: a palace in search of a purpose

    The vast Stadtschloss complex has been rebuilt at huge expense — but is a restored imperial building what the city needs?

  • Tuesday, 29 December, 2020
    Residential
    The biggest residential design trends for 2021

    Homes will connect more with nature, while minimalist decor and open-plan living will be shown the door

  • Thursday, 24 December, 2020
    House & Home
    How our windows became a channel of communication

    Like a kind of architectural social media, political messaging and Christmas displays are more public this year

  • Tuesday, 22 December, 2020
    Residential
    Why the fireplace refuses to die

    Even the most daring of architects cannot bring themselves to tear the hearth out of the home

  • Promoted Content
  • Monday, 21 December, 2020
    Space — architecture’s final frontier

    2020 has reinforced the need for projects that emphasise open spaces and fresh air

  • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
    Gaming
    How architecture is helping game designers build new worlds

    The two disciplines are growing ever closer

  • Tuesday, 15 December, 2020
    Memorial rules are not set in stone

    Grandiose memorials are springing up across the world, sparking questions and controversy

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    How To Spend It
    A Gio Ponti pilgrimage in Italy

    On the 50th anniversary of the Concattedrale Gran Madre di Dio, we pay homage to “the father of modern Italian design”

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    New Lambeth Palace Library is a brick tower laden with treasures

    The curious but compelling building will house artefacts such as a 12th-century Bible and Mary Queen of Scots’ death warrant

  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    House & Home
    Brave new town: inside the transformation of Fawley power station

    The vast Modernist building near Southampton is being developed into a ‘new town’ — where the New Forest meets Trieste

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    Seeking shelter in stormy times

    The pandemic has highlighted the importance of outdoor areas where people can gather with protection from the elements

  • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
    Special ReportFT Wealth: December 2020
    Modern death: new ways of paying tribute

    A trend is emerging for more eco-friendly, high-tech and life-affirming memorials

  • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
    Residential
    The Palm Springs house that started the fashion for desert retreats

    One of the world’s best modernist properties is on the market for $25m

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    Special ReportThe Future of Cities
    Park life: harnessing the power of public space

    The popularity of green spaces in lockdown highlighted their value

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    How an architect reinvented a ‘white box’ in a Modernist high-rise

    Ben Allen has created warmth and homeliness in his flat in London’s Keeling House

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    Interview
    James Wines: ‘Why can’t the sculpture be the architecture?’

    The designer talks about his roots as a sculptor, making fun of boring buildings and proving the naysayers wrong

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    Tennessee’s Parthenon, China’s Eiffel Tower and other heritage fakes

    Why do we build so many replicas of historic monuments?

  • Wednesday, 11 November, 2020
    Have we lost touch with our buildings?

    The pandemic has made us wary of contact, but it is also a reminder of the importance of touch in architecture

  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    Q&AHouse & Home
    Ask the architect: can I build a flat on my roof?

    New airspace development laws present rooftop opportunities, plus advice on building a retirement bungalow in the garden

  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    Ski property special
    Modernism’s big moment in the Alps

    Once-reviled mid-century ski resorts are now recognised as the culmination of a daring vision

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