Build your own Adjaye: starchitects design catalogue homes

Want a home designed by a top architect on an affordable budget? Entrepreneurs Cube Haus may be moving in on your neighbourhood, with the help of David Adjaye and more

Not the end of The World: the return of Dubai’s ultimate folly

Underwater bedrooms, ‘Lohan Island’ and snow all year round – a decade after it was scuppered by the financial crash, the fantasy archipelago of 300 artificial ‘countries’ is back in business. Has anybody learned anything?

The £3bn rebirth of King’s Cross: dictator chic and pie-in-the-sky penthouses

Google HQ, boutique shops in old coal sheds, gasholders offering wedge-shaped flats at sky-high prices … as the vast project comes together after 18 years, our critic gives his verdict

China’s Dalian Wanda drops purchase of Nine Elms Square in London

After Beijing clampdown on overseas investment, site is sold, with permission for 1,900 flats, to unidentified buyer