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Architecture

  • Monday, 18 May, 2026
    Interiors
    The truth behind the manosphere’s ‘looksmaxxed’ interiors

    The white, polished, supersized properties of Andrew Tate et al reveal something radical that even ‘The Matrix’ did not manage

    Edwin Heathcote
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  • Saturday, 16 May, 2026
    Sport
    Milan’s San Siro stadium is unique. So why is it set to be demolished?

    It is one of football’s most dramatic modern arenas — but both its brutal beauty and its cultural legacy are threatened

    Players from West Germany and Colombia walk on to the field at San Siro stadium before their 1990 World Cup match, with fans filling the stands.
  • Friday, 15 May, 2026
    Watches and Jewellery: May
    Why a watch is like a building: the lasting influence of modernism

    Architectural principles such as form following function continue to shape the design of luxury timepieces

    A concrete residential building facade features deep balconies with panels painted in red, blue, yellow, and white.
  • Wednesday, 13 May, 2026
    Interiors
    Architects are taking their design cues from kids

    Swings, nets and monkey bars in homes? It’s not just the children who love them

    Two people lying on a large black net suspended over a stairwell inside a modern house with wooden grid accents.
  • Tuesday, 12 May, 2026
    Medical science
    How architecture can save lives

    Carefully designed homes in Tanzania have been shown to lower disease rates among children

    Anjana Ahuja
    An illustration showing a defeated mosquito with swirling eyes sitting on top of a modern house, with a family safely inside
  • Monday, 11 May, 2026
    The best books of the week
    Wash by Erica Wagner — the man behind the Brooklyn Bridge

    A poignant fictional account of the life of Washington Roebling and the engineering feat that dominates the New York cityscape

  • Saturday, 9 May, 2026
    Interiors
    A new chapter for reading nooks

    The window seat is once again staking its claim as a cosseted place to retreat from the world

    Cosy wooden nook with a daybed framed by checked curtains, a red stool with books, and a window letting in soft light.
  • Tuesday, 5 May, 2026
    House & Home Wellbeing & Active Living Special 2026
    Padel is a new cash cow for farmers

    Repurposing agricultural barns as courts for the UK’s fastest growing sport is becoming a popular revenue stream

    An indoor padel court with artificial turf and a net, surrounded by metal fencing and signage reading “Punk Padel”.
  • Saturday, 2 May, 2026
    UK property
    ‘Blue urbanism’ — a key to England’s housing undersupply?

    Canal-side developments in east London, Bristol, Liverpool and elsewhere are helping to meet building targets — but it’s not all smooth waters

    Crowds gather along a canal and riverside bar at sunset, with people in small boats on the water in Hackney Wick, London.
  • Tuesday, 28 April, 2026
    House & Home
    Nine prefab-ulous houses by Jean Prouvé come to market

    The portable, once worthless designs by the French modernist are now cult collectibles; a clutch can now be seen at Patrick Seguin’s French estate

    A single-story, rectangular house with dark paneled walls, large windows, and a flat overhanging roof, surrounded by trees.
  • Wednesday, 22 April, 2026
    Interiors
    Wide view on Whitstable: building a house filled with poetry, sea and Turner’s skies

    An architect couple have fused earth tones and reclaimed materials for a house that merges into the Kentish landscape

    A cozy living room with plants, a record player, and a large window overlooking a beach at sunset.
  • Monday, 20 April, 2026
    Life & Arts
    LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries — insanely expensive but utterly astonishing

    Breaking every rule of museum design, architect Peter Zumthor has created a $724mn blockbuster for Los Angeles

    A gallery space with a tall marble statue in the center, a painted sculpture and framed painting on the left, and a bust on a pedestal to the right, all against a concrete wall with dramatic sunlight and shadows.
  • Saturday, 18 April, 2026
    The FT Magazine design special
    FT Magazine. The soul of the great Milanese apartment

    Milan’s postwar apartments were built for all. But the city is changing

    Casa Rustici, in Corso Sempione, Milan. The building is inspired by the ‘casa di ringhiera’ apartment blocks built in the 19th and early 20th centuries to house manual workers relocating from the countryside to work in the city’s factories. Short, compact buildings, the blocks were designed as hollow structures where small residences could be arranged in a square or rectangular building around a large communal backyard. They were joined together by narrow balconies, protected by iron railings — the ‘ringhiera’ of their name
  • Thursday, 16 April, 2026
    Life & Arts
    The founding fathers would have hated the ‘Arc de Trump’

    Washington DC with its history of sugary classical monuments could accommodate one more — but the president has no sense of scale

    Donald Trump holds up a model of the planned arch while speaking at a podium
  • Thursday, 16 April, 2026
    Interiors
    The Danish house that was built on a bookcase

    Mogens Koch’s 1928 modular shelves were the building blocks for a home inspired by a Viking longhouse. They are now back in the spotlight

  • Tuesday, 14 April, 2026
    Life & Arts
    V&A East — an ungainly building but a miraculous museum

    The institution’s new outpost joins ‘East Bank’, London’s overbuilt and under-designed cultural quarter

    A woman walks two dogs over a bridge in the foreground, in front of the angular sand-coloured concrete V&A East building.
  • Tuesday, 14 April, 2026
    At Home with the FT
    Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija: ‘I wanted a garden visible from every room’

    His modernist house in Thailand floats on stilts above the forest floor, its hard edges softened by trees and vines — it’s the perfect backdrop for his relaxed guest policy

  • Monday, 13 April, 2026
    Interiors
    Inside the ‘Edwardian’ house built on a London rooftop

    David Kohn Architects turn an office block extension on its head, creating a penthouse that is full of striking subversions

    A multi-level, modern brick building with angular terraces and rooftop gardens, surrounded by taller urban structures.
  • Saturday, 11 April, 2026
    FT Series
    HTSI’s spring design special celebrates the singular view

    With Heinz Mack, Jay Osgerby, Sang Woo Kim, Simone Bodmer-Turner, Dozie Kanu, Sophie Hicks and Simone Brewster

    Heinz Mack with paintings from his Chromatic Constellation series
  • Friday, 10 April, 2026
    HTSI’s spring design special celebrates the singular view
    Architect Sophie Hicks: my love affair with Seoul

    A decade of projects in the South Korean capital have made the designer fall for its youthful buzz

  • Thursday, 9 April, 2026
    HTSI’s spring design special celebrates the singular view
    Inside Jay Osgerby’s cathedral of wood

    The designer has renovated an 18th-century barn in Sussex – but kept a touch of the occult

    Jay Osgerby on a 300-year-old mahogany bench at his home on the Hampshire-Sussex border
  • Tuesday, 7 April, 2026
    HTSI
    Edwin Heathcote: why the Max Bill is my ultimate watch

    The FT’s architecture critic salutes a modernist masterpiece

  • Saturday, 4 April, 2026
    US politics & policy
    Trump’s architectural vices laid bare in the Miami library plan

    The presidential library design takes POTUS showboating to a new, but still gold-plated, level

    Beatrice Hodgkin
    A tall, modern skyscraper labelled "TRUMP" at the top, with a large American flag displayed on the building's facade.
  • Thursday, 2 April, 2026
    House & Home Country Living Special 2026
    The architects taking the quaint out of cottages

    Can you add a glass box or contemporary styling to a gingerbread cottage without offending our childlike sense of what these traditional homes should look and feel like?

    White horse looks through a window into a patterned room with armchair and lamps.
  • Tuesday, 31 March, 2026
    HTSI
    Take me to Casa Bola, Eduardo Longo’s UFO-like masterpiece

    Nearly 50 years after its completion, the spherical home in São Paulo is opening its doors

    Casa Bola
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