Make a splash in a Moroccan palace

Wings of Desire starts with angels roosting on rooftops, white-clad figures silhouetted against a darkening sky. It ends with an astonishing blast of digital imagery, Birmingham’s Town Hall transformed as the performers move across it.

A modern view in an ancient landscape

The extreme climber known to some as Spiderman has struck again: this time, on France's new tallest building.

Growth in the construction sector slowed in April but another solid rise in new orders shored up confidence in the year ahead.

A pool on the roof? But this is Sweden ...

Regions badly hit by the financial downturn could miss out on the Government's plan to kickstart the economy through £250bn of infrastructure spending.

What on earth is that goldy-looking thing in the middle of Maidstone, that supersized Benson & Hedges fag packet pretending to be a building? Ah, it must be one of those World-Class Places that the government is promoting – as in "iconic" architecture. Not so. The new extension of Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery, designed by Hugh Broughton, is a counter-blow to the government's witless, developer-friendly assumption that places, and lives, can be transformed by blinged-up buildings marketed as world class.

Abbott hopes for a hit, about the not-quite-a-Miss Mia

Emergency workers were searching for the occupants of six homes last night after a US Navy jet crashed into a group of apartment buildings.

A group of travellers who settled on green belt land without planning permission have been given a year to leave the site.

A legal bid by a group of travellers to stay on green belt land was today rejected by a High Court judge.

Experts believe they are close to confirming that a lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece has been found in the cavity of a medieval Italian building, following the detection of paint similar to that used in the Mona Lisa.

We're snowed in. The ancient stone city of Split and its palm-lined seafront promenade are completely white. No one's ever seen it like this before. Businesses are closed and everyone is out, throwing snowballs. They've launched a Facebook page called "Split opens the Skiing & Bathing Season 2012" with photos of locals skiing, swimming and kayaking, as fluffy snowflakes tumble into the Adriatic.