UK house price growth stagnates on back of Brexit concerns
Average price up by 0.1% – the smallest annual gain since February 2013, says Nationwide
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Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich
An extreme concentration of wealth in a city where even the air is for sale has produced a new breed of needle-like tower. By Oliver Wainwright
Developers fight on to make famed Edinburgh neoclassical building into luxury hotel
Urbanist Hotels’ latest appeal against its rejected plans for Old Royal High School reopens battle with group wanting site for St Mary’s Music School
London’s Walkie Talkie building sold for record-breaking £1.3bn
Sum paid for City skyscraper by Hong Kong food conglomerate Lee Kum Kee is highest ever for a single UK building
Pompidou Centre: a 70s French radical that’s never gone out of fashion
The much-loved Paris landmark was designed in the 1970s by two young unknowns – Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano. On the eve of its 40th birthday, they recall the sheer joy and bravado – and the struggle – of creating it
Iconic Hôtel de Crillon in Paris is closing for a two-year interior renovation
The legendary Parisian Hôtel de Crillon is the second iconic luxury hotel closing for extensive renovations. Hôtel de Crillon in Paris is supposed to close this fall for a comprehensive interior restoration in order to keep up with competitors such as Mandarin Oriental, Le Royal Monceau and Shangri-La. The large-scale works involve the entire 18th … Read more