Climate activists slam Norman Foster over Saudi airport
Architect is ignoring his own environment pledge, say critics
Middle East and North Africa
Saudi Aramco becomes most valuable listed company in history
Investor demand pushes oil giant’s market value to $1.9tn on first day of trade in Riyadh
Desert ski slopes and outdoor aircon: can the scorching emirates really go green?
It is one of Earth’s biggest carbon emitters, a place where SUVs roar from manmade islands to malls with ski slopes. Can an architecture triennial in the UAE really teach us how to go green?
The flying saucers have landed: Qatar’s thrilling new supersized museum
It took 18 years to build, has nearly a mile of galleries and is inspired by a desert rose. But is Jean Nouvel’s eye-popping creation for the world’s wealthiest nation too extravagant to fill?
Qatari firm buys London’s Grosvenor House hotel
Katara Holdings which owns the Savoy and Connaught pays undisclosed sum for hotel on Park Lane
‘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