Romance, originality — and perhaps a bit of snobbery — keep some of us living amid cracked china and spiky gothic chairs
Egyptomania is a cultural craze that keeps coming back, from Hawksmoor to the masters of polychromatic postmodernism
Designed in the 1950s, this architectural chameleon is enjoying a new incarnation
Meet the architects taking tumbledowns to the next level
James C McCrery’s White House project is rooted in a culture war that should never have been fought in the first place
The architect’s apartment is an exercise in careful geometry
Edwin Heathcote has a first look at the apartments in New York’s charismatic, slender-prowed triangle of a landmark
In Youssef Belkaid’s radical rammed earth home, everything is curved, from the beds to the steps to the paintings
Trump’s vast refurbishment ignores questions of style and scale
James Cagney said his summer retreat charmed him ‘right out of his shoes’. Its latest owners know just how he felt
The university’s biggest building project is a work of non-committal classicism — but its subterranean concert hall is astonishing
The Hampstead-based creative loves jiu-jitsu, a cold plunge and London’s fallen plane trees
Modern version of almshouses aims to tackle two crises — shortage of homes and a loneliness epidemic
A former docklands has become one of the city’s most desirable neighbourhoods, thanks to hard-won local lessons
Situated in front of the Louvre, this centre for contemporary art could have been a cliché — instead the French architect has created something truly provocative
The interiors icon has transformed her ‘sleeping beauty’ property into a colour-saturated delight
Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the new complex dedicated to Alexander Calder is quirky and modest
North Macedonia’s capital is an extraordinary testament to the lost optimism of a bygone age
Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away
Thanks to innovators and smart policy initiatives, demolition is becoming more unfashionable. But is the tide changing fast enough?
As residents of Margate’s imposing tower potentially face soaring maintenance and repair costs, the building inflames debates over the fate of the UK’s divisive postwar housing
The archetypal hideout is slick, sexy and invariably see-through. The FT architecture critic celebrates its evil genius
The heritage archetype is inspiring imaginative iterations for constrained or overlooked sites, and creating intimate communities
The restoration began with the supercomputer reconstruction of the 18th-century roof — and ended with a minimalist spa
An invigorated movement of estate owners opening their doors is proving a crucible for creative inspiration and giving properties a soulful new purpose
