How luxury hotels such as Biarritz’s Hôtel du Palais have helped shape history

The venue for this weekend’s G7 summit played a pivotal role in Edwardian politics

City of London tightens rules on skyscrapers over wind tunnel fears

Developers will have to modify designs deemed likely to affect cyclists and pedestrians

The $16m New York penthouse fit for a UK civil servant

Exclusive: Luxury apartment next to UN headquarters to be used by senior diplomat charged with seeking post-Brexit trade deals

Tristram Hunt: ‘In the era of fake news, museums allow a better understanding of truth and history’

The director of the V&A on the institution’s expansion into east London, the antisemitism row in the Labour party, and the changing role of museums