1 Undershaft, the tallest skyscraper in the City of London, revealed

Architect Eric Parry unveils plans for tallest skyscraper in the City – but the orgy of billion-pound towers doesn’t stop there

The competition is over: Marriott and Starwood create the world’s largest luxury hotel company

Marriot hotels have competed with Starwood for decades. Now the competition is over. Starwood hotels were welcomed to the Marriott family. Marriott International announced the acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. The transaction created the world’s largest hotel company. The combined luxury hospitality company will have 1.1 million rooms in more than 5,500 hotels, … Read more

‘We will be ready, inshallah’: inside Qatar’s $200bn World Cup

Can the richest country in the world buy its way to footballing glory? We joined the Qatar 2022 hopefuls to find out

Highly anticipated W Amsterdam debuts with the city’s most glamourous crash pad and the Amsterdam’s first rooftop pool

Connect and Exchange in the Heart of Amsterdam: W Amsterdam promises to bring something new and exciting to the hotel industry in the Dutch capital. Starwood group introduces a new style of modern hospitality to the Netherlands with the debut of the highly anticipated W Amsterdam hotel, described as “an energetic space full of unexpected moments”. … Read more

Switzerland builds first QUANT City where small series of the QUANT sports cars will go in production

“We have the potential to create the most innovative, sustainable and enduring energy technologies in the world.” The QUANT City, a new research and development centre for flow cell technology, will be built in Tenero in Switzerland, announced Nunzio La Vecchia‘s team from nanoResearch, the company pursuing a revolution in energy storage with the NanoFlowcell … Read more

‘It’s an insult’: Chinese property developers race to the top of London’s skyline

Giant luxury towers (with their own karaoke rooms) to spring up around the city as eastern investors look to Britain. But residents fear deals will force them out