Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich
An extreme concentration of wealth in a city where even the air is for sale has produced a new breed of needle-like tower. By Oliver Wainwright
The long read
How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1%
In an age of astonishing wealth, nothing reveals the lives of the ultra-rich like the FT’s unashamedly ostentatious luxury magazine.
By Andy Beckett
Perfect prams for perfect parents: the rise of the bougie buggy
How the rise of the luxury pram capitalised on the status anxiety of a new generation of parents
By Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
Not the end of The World: the return of Dubai’s ultimate folly
Underwater bedrooms, ‘Lohan Island’ and snow all year round – a decade after it was scuppered by the financial crash, the fantasy archipelago of 300 artificial ‘countries’ is back in business. Has anybody learned anything?
How a tax haven is leading the race to privatise space
Luxembourg has shown how far a tiny country can go by serving the needs of global capitalism. Now it has set its sights on outer space