The billion-dollar palaces of Apple, Facebook and Google
From California to London, the tech giants are employing top architects to build spectacular symbols of their immense global power. But they have their critics…
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Christie’s reports soaring sales of £10m-plus art
Auction house is boosted by Asian demand as well as lots including £44m Brancusi and £36m Beckmann in first half of year
Car, shed … elevator? The Los Angeles art spaces proving smaller is better
A range of alternative galleries have sprung up in the city, creating micro-museums that offer unique experiences not found in ‘white-walled galleries’
The V&A’s £55m new courtyard: ‘Like a Marbella beach bar airlifted to South Ken’
Amanda Levete’s dazzling new porcelain piazza brilliantly reunites the museum with the Kensington streets. But the giant new jewellery box of a gallery lurking below ground is the real star of the show
Former Paris stock exchange to be reborn as major new art museum
François Pinault, the billionaire luxury brand owner, will convert the 19th century Bourse de commerce into art museum with architect Tadao Ando
George Clooney sells his tequila company for up to $1bn
Casamigos, which star founded with Rande Gerber and Mike Meldman, bought by Smirnoff and Johnnie Walker owner Diageo