‘Five years ago there was nothing’: inside Duqm, the city rising from the sand

Oman’s sparsely inhabited coast of fishing villages and Bedouin camps is being transformed into industrial city with port, luxury hotels and housing for 111,000

A play to the super-rich: production firm offers private theatre at home

Revels in Hand has staged Coward on a polo pitch and Shakespeare in a Hamptons beach house

City of London’s third tallest skyscraper, The Diamond, revealed

Tower will be able to accommodate more than 6,000 workers with free public viewing gallery

How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1%

In an age of astonishing wealth, nothing reveals the lives of the ultra-rich like the FT’s unashamedly ostentatious luxury magazine.

By Andy Beckett

Why does Burberry destroy its products and how is it justified?

News that British fashion label destroyed £28m of clothes and cosmetics has raised questions

‘I’m a billionaire, but I’m not a big spender’

Entrepreneur David McCourt on buying art, his 30 blue suits, and why he likes living in hotels