The future of luxury goods – from toxic waste urns to a compass that helps you get lost

A refreshing new exhibition at the V&A questions what luxury is and where it’s heading … and proves that £100k watches and fabulous fur hats count for nothing if you don’t have the ultimate luxury of time and space

Philharmonie de Paris: Jean Nouvel’s €390m spaceship crash-lands in France

Paris’s gargantuan new concert hall is two years late, cost three times what it should, and its architect even snubbed its opening … Oliver Wainwright tackles a tyrannical new mothership

Feathers and leathers: fashion houses give cycling a luxury makeover

From gold-plated forks to hand-crafted panniers, luxury goods retailers are adding bling to the bicycle

Farshid Moussavi: ‘We are in a world where ideas migrate’

The in-demand architect behind projects ranging from Parisian housing to Victoria Beckham’s Mayfair store talks about fashion, function and the power of physical space in a virtual world

Zaha Hadid’s Tokyo Olympic stadium slammed as a ‘monumental mistake’ and a ‘disgrace to future generations’

The 2020 Olympic stadium has faced two years of widespread criticism and budget cuts. Now prominent Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has launched a blistering attack on the designs

Sydney’s One Central Park wins world’s best tall building award

An apartment block in Chippendale impressed jurors for its sustainable design concepts, including green walls and water recycling program

The world’s best tall buildings of 2014 – in pictures