Are you sick and tired of spending valuable time commuting to work and enduring peak-hour traffic and road rage? Well now that most people have access to mobile phones, email, video conferencing and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hailed as the “new conservatories”, modular and architect-designed garden offices are gaining in popularity.

The pod was made from compressed paper and timber enclosed in translucent plastic and polycarbonate slats. It encircles the trunk of one of 60,000 trees in the borough’s parklands and sits on stilts.

Now this is either incredibly cool or a trigger for claustrophobia. The Archipod or ‘pod’ is an ergonomic garden office, designed to compliment your garden landscape. At 3m diameter, the Pod is ...