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Why historic buildings keep catching fire during renovations
...Worldwide, about one historic building is damaged by fire every day, according to an estimate by Ingval Maxwell, a Scottish consultant in architectural conservation....
April 19, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The painful reset in commercial real estate
...There are architectural obstacles, and demand depends on neighbourhood quality....
February 15, 2024
FT Live
Financial Times @COP
FT Live events coinciding with COP
Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: Chrysler Building, the solar system and Cleopatra
...What’s the densest planet in the solar system? The interventricular septum is in which part of the body? Which flightless bird is the largest in South America?...
September 22, 2023
ReviewHistory books
Chris Bryant’s James and John — when British men were hanged for being gay
...Given the veil of unutterability that the press and judicial system drew over such crimes, coupled with the men’s social backgrounds, we might have expected the trial details to have been lost....
March 22, 2024
Special ReportManaging Climate Change
The Bermuda model: climate resilience born out of necessity
...The architectural design that helped make this viable was the distinctive Bermuda roof....
November 30, 2023
House & Home
How central heating changed everything about our homes
...They look like the sort of people sent up in Alan Bennett’s 1966 radio sitcom On the Margin, which featured a couple called Nigel and Jane Knocker-Threw, whose name played on the crucial architectural move...
March 22, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
British Museum
British Museum strikes £50mn sponsorship deal with BP
...The work will involve replacing the mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems in the 170-year-old museum, and refurbishing public galleries....
December 19, 2023
Jo Ellison
What the charmless Ripley could teach Bond
...Ripley is only the latest casualty of a system that seems to have lost its way....
April 13, 2024
Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
What Texas can teach San Francisco and London about building houses
...The lesson for the rest of London, for San Francisco and New York is that densifying historic cities need not mean architectural vandalism or characterless tower blocks....
February 23, 2024
OutlookPatti Waldmeir
Sinking skyscrapers, new beaches: Chicago faces the climate crisis
...Garages, basements, tunnels and underground transportation systems emit heat into the ground and in a dense area such as the Loop, this causes it to expand or contract....
February 19, 2024
Robin Lane Fox
Sustainable solutions at Sarasota’s botanical gardens
...This ingenious system avoids nails and netting on the building itself and is the work of Jakob Systems, specialists in support systems for gardens....
January 26, 2024
News in-depthUK employment
UK employers race for staff visas ahead of new immigration rules
...An architectural assistant who had studied for five years, but was not yet qualified, could earn about £30,000 in London — above the current going rate for a visa, but well below the likely new level....
February 11, 2024
HTSIThe HTSI Paris special
Maxime Flatry will make you fall for art deco
...It was during research for his graduate collection that he began to develop an interest in the decorative arts of the 1930s, particularly the lacquer work of artist Jean Dunand, the “system furniture” of...
March 21, 2024
HTSIHow To Give It 2023
How to give it... to disaster-relief design initiatives
...The Danish NGO seeks to involve vulnerable communities in the architectural process, whether that’s designing a classroom for refugees in Jordan or working closer to home in Copenhagen. ea-hr.com Better...
December 8, 2023
InterviewVisual Arts
Refik Anadol on his immersive AI-generated art
...He and his team loftily envision “the power not only to challenge but to change existing systems, to create a better world”....
March 5, 2024
FT Live
Climate Capital Live
The leading global platform for climate science, finance and business
Wednesday, 19 March 2025London, UK & Online
HTSI
10 highlights from Milan Design Week
...Look out for his Logos design, a living-room wall unit system; the sweeping Augusto modular sofa and armchair; and the Lucio sofa and armchair, which has a generously curved open backrest....
April 16, 2024
HTSI
Why burr wood furniture has its groove back
...“It feels an authentic material to use for the architectural period of 180 House – a building that was designed [between 1971 and 1976] by noted architect Sir Frederick Gibberd,” says interior style manager...
January 19, 2024
House & Home
Can ‘gentle density’ help us solve the housing crisis?
...At the other extreme and outside of London, the volume housebuilders, partly thanks to our planning system, are still busy churning out Brookside-style, low-density, car-dependent cul-de-sacs, he says —...
November 3, 2023
House & Home
How to build a home on the Moon (that you might actually want to live in)
...That money was to cover the spacecraft, the life-support system, a landing vehicle and a new generation of space suits. There have been setbacks....
February 23, 2024
Leyla Boulton
Five lessons from a London neighbourhood’s battle against global warming
...A shortage of guidance and skills is also why Ben Ridley, founder of Architecture for London, an architectural practice, set up his own contracting firm to do retrofit work for clients....
November 30, 2023
Janan Ganesh
The UK is becoming a pragmatic country again
...Herzog & de Meuron, the great architectural pragmatists, leave no such calling card....
September 5, 2023
Travel
Four years after it was razed in a bushfire, Australia’s Southern Ocean Lodge is reborn
...“That said, there was both a product and an architectural opportunity to re-craft certain elements,” says James Baillie....
December 12, 2023
FT Magazine
The delivery rider who took on his faceless boss
...Samii remembers his father poring over architectural plans to work out engineering failures....
March 15, 2024
Inside Politics
Labour must tread carefully on road towards UK’s clean, green future
...While I don’t agree that its Brutalist building is an “architectural treasure”, the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann, was a reminder of the excellent programme inside....
February 16, 2024
FT Globetrotter
Brave new world: an architecture tour of central Milan
...The structure is a reflection on the city’s archaeology, its layering and, perhaps, as a little tribute to its Modernist metro system — Foster, having designed the Bilbao metro and the incredible Canary...
September 24, 2023

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