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Architecture

  • Wednesday, 4 February, 2026
    House & Home
    How central should religious buildings be to new town planning?

    Architects are creating places of worship that also function as civic hubs in a bid to foster connection in the community. But it’s not the answer to everyone’s prayers

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    Modern church building with pale brick walls, tall vertical windows, and a dark glass façade, surrounded by greenery and trees.
  • Monday, 2 February, 2026
    They jettisoned downsizing for rebuilding and upsizing

    A five-storey multigenerational house takes a U-turn from a well-trodden path

    A modern house with a patterned brick facade and large black-framed windows stands between two older buildings.
  • Tuesday, 27 January, 2026
    House & Home
    Inside the rammed-earth home that breaks new ground on many levels

    A luminous, experimental house that has emerged from an old brickworks in Wiltshire is a lesson in innovative building with ancient techniques

  • Monday, 26 January, 2026
    InterviewAt Home with the FT
    Artist Léon Wuidar: ‘The architect never sent an invoice; he just wanted paintings’

    Geometric abstraction is the foundation and formation of this austere yet radiant brutalist home in Belgium

    Leon Wuidar stands by a window in a bright room with a geometric abstract painting on the wall behind him.
  • Friday, 23 January, 2026
    Interiors
    All about eaves: inspired ideas to transform your attic

    Some view the architectural quirks of these spaces as a problem. But leaning into angles, nooks and sloping walls can create a transportative, cocooning eyrie

    Guest bedroom with two matching blue full-size beds, floral patterned blue wallpaper, and blue Roman shades. A wooden dresser sits between the beds under a window.
  • Thursday, 22 January, 2026
    Interview
    For architect Kulapat Yantrasast, the point of a building is the experience

    The Thai master on the approach that has made his firm one of the world’s most in-demand practices

    Kulapat Yantrasast wearing a bright orange jumpsuit and chunky-heeled beige Crocs, smiling and holding colourful maracas in each hand, standing indoors next to an architectural model.
  • Saturday, 17 January, 2026
    InterviewAt Home with the FT
    Giles Miller: ‘The house began to feel like it was waiting for us’

    The designer known for his experimental architectural interventions is adapting his approach for a dilapidated Grade II-listed building in Suffolk that seemingly no one else wanted

    A traditional brick pub stands on a village street, with large windows and a pitched roof.
  • Tuesday, 13 January, 2026
    Welcome to a post-human world: the vast anonymity of the data centre

    These impersonal warehouses are the 21st century’s calling card — architecture for the computing power we are training to outsmart us

    Aerial view of a sprawling AI data centre complex under construction, with large warehouse buildings, construction vehicles and temporary structures.
  • Saturday, 10 January, 2026
    Edwin Heathcote
    Lego should be simple, not smart

    The introduction of tech to the most brilliantly basic of building blocks is an odd kind of futurism

    A screen displays a LEGO minifigure and a glowing LEGO brick at the LEGO SMART Play launch event, with audience members watching.
  • Tuesday, 6 January, 2026
    Interiors
    Return to Sarajevo: building a modern sanctuary in the once war-torn city

    Local materials and craftsmanship restore a sense of place and identity to an architect’s renovation project — its all part of a movement to help revitalise his former home town

    A light wood indoor playhouse structure with geometric cutouts; two children are playing inside and on the stairs.
  • Saturday, 3 January, 2026
    Super-museums are back. But are they best?

    Two huge blockbusters in LA could radically remake the city — but London and Brussels offer a different approach

  • Wednesday, 31 December, 2025
    Taichung’s museum and library complex weaves together art, light and learning

    The Taiwanese city’s Museumbrary is a stunning new civic space

    Exterior view of the Taichung Green Museumbrary, designed by SANAA Architects, with illuminated glass facades behind a park with trees and benches.
  • Monday, 29 December, 2025
    FT Series
    Eight maximalist homes we love

    Go inside these Pantone playgrounds, as seen in HTSI

    The “shrimp-pink” drawing room at Olivia von Halle’s London home
  • Friday, 26 December, 2025
    The quest to save Cape Cod’s forgotten modernist masterpieces

    A group of architects is finding and restoring the experimental mid-century homes hidden on the Massachusetts coast. Marcel Breuer’s ‘crown jewel’ is the latest

    A modern house with large glass windows and wood paneling sits on a hillside overlooking the ocean.
  • Tuesday, 23 December, 2025
    Norwegian architect firm Snøhetta is reaching for the skies

    New residential projects in the snowiest of resorts are pushing chalet design to new highs

    A modern, angular building with large windows sits on a snowy mountainside surrounded by snow-covered trees and hills.
  • Saturday, 20 December, 2025
    When the shopping arcade sparkles back to enchanted life

    These remarkable remnants of early modernism find their true calling at Christmas

    Burlington Arcade’s entrance decorated with illuminated Christmas trees and festive lights, with blurred shoppers passing by.
  • Wednesday, 17 December, 2025
    HTSI
    Villa Beer, Josef Frank’s modernist masterpiece reborn

    This forgotten residence, now opening in Vienna, is a light-filled testament to the architectural pioneer

    Villa Beer’s hall, with the music room on a mezzanine floor above
  • Wednesday, 17 December, 2025
    Toilets for all — the architects transforming London’s public loos

    Practices are tackling the capital’s dwindling stock of conveniences with new and refurbished facilities that are smart, welcoming and inclusive

    A woman stands at a long white sink in a public toilet with blue tiled walls and stainless steel stalls
  • Friday, 12 December, 2025
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré: ‘My life is serendipity’

    The Pritzker-winner on building ‘from the earth’, why modern architecture is going too fast — and how it all began with wobbly school benches

    A drawing of a smiling man with black jacket over black T-shirt, sitting in a restaurant
  • Thursday, 11 December, 2025
    From sheds to super-stadiums, the football ground is bigger than architecture

    Amid an evolution from standing terraces to high-tech arenas, the sport’s industrial working-class legacy lives on in new designs

    A close-up of football fans filling a stand on the left, while new stadium construction is visible on the right.
  • Thursday, 11 December, 2025
    House & Home
    Prehistoric chic? An anything but typical side-return

    Architect Mat Barnes’ predilection for folklore, geology and pure playfulness has transformed a London house, putting cookie-cutter extensions to shame

    Curved stainless steel kitchen island with potted plants, pink-tiled feature wall, and large windows overlooking a lush garden.
  • Saturday, 6 December, 2025
    Obituary
    Frank Gehry, architect, 1929-2025

    The globetrotting ‘starchitect’ created some of the world’s best-known buildings, from the Bilbao Guggenheim to LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall

    Frank Gehry speaks while gesturing with his hand during a panel discussion.
  • Friday, 5 December, 2025
    Frank Gehry
    Frank Gehry, architect, dies aged 96

    Modern master whose sinuous, billowing forms for the Guggenheim in Bilbao gave birth to the ‘Bilbao Effect’

    Frank Gehry sits at a press conference, resting his hand on his chin and looking thoughtful.
  • Thursday, 4 December, 2025
    How To Spend It In...
    Take an architectural tour of Cairo with Salem Charabi

    The creative gets immersed in the city’s crafts, pigeon towers – and chaos

    Salem Charabi at the funerary complex of Sultan al-Nasir Faraj ibn Barquq in the City of the Dead, Cairo
  • Friday, 28 November, 2025
    Architectural kintsugi is filling buildings with beauty

    The Japanese art of visible repair is inspiring creative fixes for building facades, floors and walls

    A barn with a corrugated metal roof and wooden shingle cladding, surrounded by a garden
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