Jason Barr’s enthusiastic celebration of the skyscraper argues that high-rises are engines of progress
Aberto, a new annual art show staged amid the fragile remnants of the city’s architectural legacy, opens up striking unseen interiors
The creator of classic branding on living in the city — and how it inspired visuals for some of its top companies
Swapping the car for the tree has not been a universally popular strategy
Hypertrophying towers should not begin to kill the reason for their presence in the Square Mile in the first place
Mattel’s Dreamhouses have tracked changes in design and desire, perhaps even more closely than the doll
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
