Welcome to Manc-hattan: how the city sold its soul for luxury skyscrapers
Giant towers are sprouting up all over Manchester. But how will sky lounges and penthouse olive groves help the city’s rocketing homelessness problem?
Society
Balfron 2.0: how Goldfinger’s utopian tower became luxury flats
The selloff of Erno Goldfinger’s landmark building in Poplar is a central element of a new plan to transform London’s East End
Blingy vaporizers and gold rolling papers: luxury cannabis brands court the affluent
As marijuana becomes more acceptable and its consumer base grows, companies are aiming for prestige
Extreme makeup: how the girls and boys of Generation Z created a huge new subculture
Many young people now spend hours in their bedrooms, perfecting extraordinarily intricate looks to put up online
‘Plastic recycling is a myth’: what really happens to your rubbish?
You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis
Are artificial islands the answer to Hong Kong’s housing crisis?
Will a $60bn development to house 1.1 million people help to ease the world’s most unaffordable property market or is it simply ‘pouring money into the sea’?