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              Edwin Heathcote

              Architecture and Design Critic

              • Friday, 10 January, 2025
                Architecture
                Bahrain’s Pearling Path: a surprising, stunning gem of urban architecture

                A winding two-mile walk is a glorious example of how careful design can enhance everyday life

                An artist’s impression of a structure of muted grey-brown colour with a flat roof punctuated by tall pillars and gaps through which sky is visible
              • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
                InterviewArchitecture
                Shigeru Ban: ‘Technology does not make architecture better’

                The award-winning creator of cardboard buildings on the joy of working with his hands and why his profession must serve the public good

                A middle-aged Japanese man in a black jacket and shirt, sitting with his hands crossed in front of shelving made from cardboard tubes, on which sit various architectural models
              • Monday, 30 December, 2024
                FT Globetrotter
                London’s best new restaurants of 2024

                This year’s top tables, as selected by FT editors and writers

                Framed vintage illustrations covering a green wall behind a dark-wood banquette and marble tables at Cloth
              • Friday, 20 December, 2024
                HTSI
                The world’s most wonderful places of worship

                FT editors and contributors nominate 32 awe-inspiring holy buildings, from the Temple of Light in Texas to Thailand’s Khuha Kharuehat Pavilion

                Ellsworth Kelly’s secular Temple of Light in Austin, Texas
              • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
                Architecture
                Viktor Orbán and the rebuilding of Budapest

                A programme of retro architecture in Hungary’s capital reflects nostalgia for a country at the peak of its power

                In the foreground, at dusk a dark car drives past a statue in front of a four-storey Baroque building with ornate windows, towers and a pitched roof
              • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
                Architecture
                Yasmeen Lari, the pioneer of ‘barefoot architecture’

                Pakistan’s first woman architect, now 83, is on a mission to decolonise, decarbonise and democratise design

              • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
                City of London
                Sham urbanity dispatches Smithfield to the knacker’s yard

                The City of London’s closure of the old meat market displays an insulting disrespect for trade and civic pride

                Smithfield Meat Market, London
              • Monday, 18 November, 2024
                FT SeriesThe best books of the year 2024
                Best books of 2024: Art, Design and Fashion

                Jackie Wullschläger, Edwin Heathcote and Carola Long select their must-read titles

              • Monday, 18 November, 2024
                FT GlobetrotterA winter in Miami special
                Miami, showcase of the starchitects

                Look beyond the Art Deco and MiMo. In recent years, the world’s leading architects have made their mark on the Magic City — to spectacular effect

              • Monday, 11 November, 2024
                Architecture
                Inside one of the most eccentric, occult and enjoyably unpredictable archives in the world

                An exquisite restoration by Haworth Tompkins architects does justice to a collection which foreshadows Google’s image search and the postcard walls of student bedrooms

                A five-storey, solid-looking rectangular brick building
              • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
                Architecture
                Lisbon’s Centro de Arte Moderna encapsulates architecture’s inflation problem

                The reinvention of the Portuguese art museum demonstrates the risk embedded in adapting elements to fit a larger scale

              • Sunday, 3 November, 2024
                FT SeriesMade in Miami: the HTSI autumn 2024 Property series
                Lawrence Murray Dixon – the man who made the Magic City

                The architect’s art deco gems helped define Miami. Many have been lost. Others still captivate

                Crescent Hotel, 1938, by Lawrence Murray Dixon
              • Saturday, 26 October, 2024
                Architecture
                Why redesigning Tate Liverpool is Britain’s most important cultural project

                Plans to update the gallery, International Slavery Museum and Maritime Museum are an inviting vision for the city’s docks

                A digital version of how a dock-side building will look after planned work, with large well-illuminated windows at dusk
              • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
                Interiors
                Tim Burton should have stayed in the suburbs — interiors is where his power lies

                A new exhibition highlights the ‘Beetlejuice’ director’s preoccupation with architecture, and his understanding of houses as both a site of aspiration and anxiety

              • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
                Architecture
                Elizabeth Line wins UK’s Stirling Prize

                East-west London railway that came in late and £4bn over budget praised as a ‘triumph of architect-led collaboration’

                Passengers walking down a white tunnel
              • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
                FT Globetrotter
                Back to the (retro)future: Carlo Scarpa’s Modernist Venice

                On the trail of the visionary Italian architect who brought bursts of mid-20th-century sleekness to a storied cityscape

                Detail of the Carlo Scarpa-designed Brion Tomb: a small grey staircase leading up to two overlapping stone-framed circles looking out to a lawn Cemal Emden
              • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
                FT SeriesHTSI autumn design issue 2024
                Organic architecture has never seemed so relevant

                How a movement conceived in the early 1900s became a blueprint for modern living

                Javier Senosiain’s Casa Orgánica, 1984
              • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
                Architecture
                Cathedrals of industrial power are ripe for reimagining

                The sublime ruins of our heavy manufacturing past can have a new life as monuments

                Coal powered power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar outside Nottingham
              • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
                Art and design in London 2024
                Designer Michael Marriott: ‘I don’t really like the word “designer”’

                An inspirational maker and teacher in London for 30 years, his designs often employ found objects or adapt existing items

                A middle-aged man wearing black-rimmed glasses, a blue shirt and jeans stands in a doorway. Behind him the room is lined shelves,  crammed full of books
              • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
                The Weekend Essay
                New towns are back. But can we still build them?

                To solve its housing crisis, Britain needs to start planning again — and rekindle the urban idealism of the postwar decades 

                An illustration showing people walking in the countryside, but with a new town rising in the background
              • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
                FT Globetrotter
                High-rise Hong Kong: the city skyline as ‘museum of architecture’ 

                A web of walkways connects some of the world’s finest towers, from IM Pei to Zaha Hadid Architects

              • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
                House & Home
                Is it art — or is it a chair? And do we care?

                Donald Judd strictly distinguished his sculptures from his furniture designs. The difference, now, is only in the price tag

                The image depicts a minimalist room with a mix of modern and industrial design elements. In the centre of the room, a low platform bed with a wooden base is placed on the floor
              • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
                Architecture
                Museum Reinhard Ernst — Fumihiko Maki’s elegant, elusive farewell

                A German museum makes a fitting epitaph for the revered Japanese architect

                Behind a tree-lined road, against a clear blue sky, there is a building made up two rectangular white blocks
              • Monday, 12 August, 2024
                ReviewArchitecture
                IM Pei, Hong Kong — much more than just the Louvre Pyramid

                The M+ museum shows how the architect defied the profession’s lone-wolf stereotype in enigmatic yet generous buildings

                A smiling man in round glasses, a suit and a raincoat stands on shallow curving steps in front of a round white building and large black cuboid one
              • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
                FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
                House museums #80: Philip Johnson’s Glass House

                The American architect’s minimalist folly, with its views of lush lawns — or ‘expensive wallpaper’ — was as influential as it was controversial

                A black and white photograph depicting five men seated around a modernist glass coffee table in a room with large windows
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