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Travel
The unstoppable power of ‘Harry Pottourism’
...There’s a massive Hogwartian castle on the hill; gravestones and plaques with names co-opted by Rowling for characters; and Diagon Alley-like streets packed with quirky indie shops....
March 30, 2024
James Max
Rich People’s Problems: Should I be clothes shopping in the sales?
...You’ll pay £55 for a Crew shirt, selling for £17-£25 on Brand Alley, a web-based discount site....
January 25, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
FT Globetrotter
Wonderful waterways: two routes along Melbourne’s Yarra river
...Across Flinders Street to your right is the original Customs House that oversaw the port and is now the Immigration Museum. The Sea Life Aquarium is on the side of the King Street Bridge....
April 23, 2023
FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
Chef Daniel Calvert’s insider guide to Tokyo dining
...I love sitting at the counter and watching the chefs baking the pizza in the custom oven....
October 4, 2022
House & Home
Home entertainment with everything but the popcorn
...The 10 x 10 metre space is not filled with snooker tables or a bowling alley (they’re elsewhere in the mansion) — instead, it’s an immersive, interactive racing room....
July 1, 2022
InterviewNew York City
‘No big company is coming to the city’: biotech developer bemoans New York’s status
...Unlike a standard commercial office building, life science facilities typically require extra-large floor plates and tall ceilings to accommodate ventilation equipment and other custom features....
July 7, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
FT SeriesLondon Design Special 2019
London design: what’s on and where to see it
...Camille Walala furnishes the pedestrian shopping alley of South Molton Street with a typically exuberant suite of public seating featuring bold colours, block shapes and banners (above)....
September 6, 2019
Britain after Brexit
The hunt for Brexit Plan B
...The country can’t afford to waste yet more time going down blind alleys....
November 27, 2018
FT Magazine
Berlin’s Stadtschloss and the trouble with history
...Another innovation was to push for free entry, a break with the German custom of charging for admission. Not all of MacGregor’s initiatives were well-received....
September 13, 2019
Travel
In the French Alps, little La Rosière dreams big
...“My father was a customs man!”...
March 22, 2019
Life & Arts
Balkrishna Doshi wins the Pritzker Prize for architecture
...With the experience of my work over the years and my own observation, I am trying to understand a little about my people, their traditions and social customs, and their philosophy of life.”...
March 7, 2018
FT Magazine
Tales from the storage unit: inside a booming industry
...He was carrying two empty grenades and a shell case — which had been examined by French customs — and spent three days in custody....
July 29, 2018
UK business
Why the ‘Boris bounce’ is likely to be shortlived
...As a result, it has distorted the economy and been going down a blind alley with support for the indebted at the expense of investors....
January 1, 2020
Life & Arts
Shanghai Diary: How China is changing and creating ‘beautiful chaos’
...In a neighbouring alley a two-storey high billboard proclaims his wisdom....
November 10, 2017
Life & Arts
How JK Rowling built a $25bn business
...In The Philosopher’s Stone, Harry first visits the fictional shopping district Diagon Alley. “Harry wished he had about eight more eyes . . ....
June 26, 2017
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
The Aesthete
Soane Britain’s Lulu Lytle loves bath oils, Egyptology and Istanbul escapes
...I love to amble through Cukurcuma’s narrow alleys where mosques, hammams and antique shops sit side by side....
October 10, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half, Museum of the City of New York — ‘Serious and earnest’
...He described tenements, taverns, dumps and back alleys, lingering on the spiritual and physical diseases they bred....
February 10, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
The Railway Children, King’s Cross Theatre, London — review
...Nearly five years after it first steamed into London, The Railway Children is back, berthed this time in a custom-built theatre behind King’s Cross station....
January 16, 2015
Life & Arts
Why Montenegro’s Bay of Kotor is the latest superyacht parking lot
...“Our marina service is second to none, from the convenience of on-site customs clearance and sale of the vignette [the permit to sail in national waters] down to complimentary delivery of pizzas on board...
May 2, 2014
Small Talk - CompaniesUK small companies
Survival of the zombies is bad news
...Unless consumer confidence and spending picks up – whether on the high street or in the bowling alley – companies will fall under the weight of slowing sales and rising costs, they warn....
December 30, 2012
Life & Arts
Expat lives: from Manhattan to Vietnam
...“As is the custom, Buddhist monks came to bless the occasion with chants and incense....
April 5, 2013
Life & Arts
We’re off to see the wizard
...And there’s Diagon Alley to walk through, complete with its familiar shop fronts. The best is saved for last....
March 30, 2012
InterviewLunch with the FT
Lunch with the FT: Peter Marino
...Instead he shrugs on his custom-made Dior leather jacket and we get ready to go. I mention that the jacket looks a lot like a fencing jacket....
September 28, 2012
Life & Arts
The still point of the turning world
...Everywhere I wandered, in every side alley and cul-de-sac, an al-fresco restaurant was bursting with custom beneath its sun-shades....
August 3, 2012
Undercover Economist
Beware online confessions
...(HM Revenue and Customs may be trustworthy, but they are the last people I’d tell if I was cheating on my tax return.)...
August 26, 2011

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