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UK prime property
Hot property: five homes for sale in Poole, Dorset
...Its most dramatic feature is a cylindrical stairwell with a glazed lift which acts as a watchtower on the roof terrace....
March 6, 2024
Architecture
Why historic buildings keep catching fire during renovations
...You’ve got heavy timber structures that are hundreds of years old, dry as a bone,” said Ed Lewis, who has worked on the restoration of historic buildings in the UK....
April 19, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Robin Lane Fox
Sustainable solutions at Sarasota’s botanical gardens
...During the house’s recent restoration, these pipes were revealed, but were then bypassed by new pipes set in trenches in the ground. They are warmed by biomass heating, fed on sterile woodchips....
January 26, 2024
Gardens
How to make the most of moss
...I also love it on our roof and between the cobbles outside our back door — my boyfriend would rather take the power washer to it but, thankfully, the garden is my domain....
March 30, 2024
HTSIThe HTSI Paris special
The magisterial remastering of the Grand Palais
...And by the same token, when we do restorations, the response is always there. My job is to remove everything that prevents us seeing the statue.”...
March 20, 2024
OutlookLucy Fisher
MPs are stuck as UK parliament crumbles around them
...Even newer parts of the estate are crumbling: just this month, rainwater deluged the covered courtyard of Portcullis House, when a pane of glass broke in the atrium’s roof....
July 31, 2023
FT Live
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Wednesday, 19 March 2025London, UK & Online
HTSI15 travel destinations to book now
The splendid reinvention of Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay
...The abbey has proven to be de Gourcuff’s most remarkable feat: a €60mn restoration project of significant public interest....
November 8, 2023
HTSI
The American luxury lifestyle brand storming the Cotswolds
...One writer described its 90,000sq ft, six-floor go-to in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District – a $100mn vision of soaring atriums and glittering chandeliers crowned by a buzzing roof-top restaurant – as where...
June 2, 2023
FT SeriesHouse & Home Countryside Living Special
Call of the countryside: the pleasures (and pressures) of a return to the family home
...Last month, the Earps, along with their two children, aged six and four, moved into the main, 370-year-old farmhouse, complete with thatched roof, that hadn’t been modernised much since Ant’s parents, Jenny...
April 5, 2024
PAD London 2023
Designer Max Lamb: ‘Touch, touch, touch’
...He has yet to embark on its complicated restoration....
September 29, 2023
Travel
The Scottish castle restored from ruins — and yours for the weekend
...For a man with an old house and a weakness for home restoration TV programmes, Fairburn Tower stands as the sternest of reproofs....
May 17, 2023
Travel
In Menorca, the first ‘private Parador’ opens its doors
...Beneath a pedimented roof and a first-floor loggia, formal gardens draw the eyes towards the Mediterranean, a few hundred yards away....
August 26, 2023
Joy Lo Dico
Who gets to keep the castle?
...One would have thought that its restoration, a century later, would be welcomed. But no....
August 30, 2023
HTSI
An auto barn for the Volvo man
...Its walls and roof are clad in larch, which started out orange but has “settled”, says McLaren, “to this lovely dusty, silvery grey”....
December 14, 2023
Travelista
Best of the Balearics – new hotels to book now
...After a planning-permissions and restoration odyssey that stretched to two decades, Son Bunyola will debut its much-anticipated eponymous hotel here this summer: 26 rooms and suites will fill the estate’...
June 4, 2023
FT Live
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Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
House & Home
Art Nouveau’s golden hour: a year-long architecture festival in Brussels
...“Now we have to start the restoration: electricity, a new roof . . . historians have discovered that there were very beautiful floral wallpapers....
June 9, 2023
Books
Saving Trinity College’s Old Library
...With the elegant symmetry of wooden alcoves and book-lined galleries stretching up to its domed roof, Trinity College’s Old Library feels at once magnificent and charmingly cosy....
December 15, 2022
The Art of Fashion: Fantastic Shapes
Behind the seams at the museum
...“There’s incredible technical skill and a forensic level of research that goes into restoration. But there’s also an intuitive and emotional side of it.”...
April 5, 2023
Travel
Peninsula Istanbul: glamour on the Golden Horn
...On July 7, he opened Gallada on the roof of the Peninsula’s Bauhaus building, with a huge terrace planted with 30 pomegranate trees and offering panoramic views of Sultanahmet....
July 18, 2023
ReviewArchitecture
Gilbert & George Centre — deceptively magnificent within a slice of the old East End
...Their conservatism has also run through their domestic life; the restoration of their Fournier Street house to Georgian near-perfection has been part of what saved Spitalfields....
April 4, 2023
HTSIInside 15 extraordinary homes
About Thyme – the home that became a masterclass in Cotswolds living
...Hibbert was home alone with three young children, all terrified by the ghost stories they’d been told by the gardener, when the roof sprang a major leak. As she recalls, “We hadn’t done a survey.”...
June 30, 2023
FT Magazine
It’s only a matter of time before disinformation leads to disaster
...That restoration would have concealed Hebborn’s handiwork, if Hebborn ever touched the cartoon. So — did he?...
January 25, 2024
Prime property
Hot property: five homes for sale in Stockholm and its suburbs
...The main open-plan living and kitchen space is framed by large slanted roof windows....
November 10, 2022
FT Magazine
What a crumbling castle tells us about class, heritage and identity in modern Romania
...A serene lake stretching out in front reflected the building’s worn facade and gabled roof....
March 10, 2023
House & Home
How to restore a house to imperfection
...Another example is Grade-I listed Clandon Park House in Surrey, a great house destroyed by fire, currently undergoing a restoration by the National Trust that will conserve its burnt state with a new roof...
December 2, 2022

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