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Sydney has joined the list of cities with a Frank Gehry-designed building. The Chau Chak Wing Business School building has been dubbed the "brown paper bag" by local media.

An architect has come up with a solution for love-shy Japanese couples - complete with stripper pole and hot tubs. Rintaro Kikuchi has a simple explanation for why nearly half of the adults in Japan are now celibate and the country's birth rate is plummeting.

Local authorities and animal rescue teams worked for hours this week to rescue 19 manatees who swam into a Florida storm drain and were trapped. The rescue effort captured national attention as crews removed drain covers and used construction equipment, fire engines and even a truck ladder to rescue

A major Perthshire regeneration plan was unveiled this week using a computer game. Project leaders want to breathe new life into a redundant printing plant at the centre of Coupar Angus, understood to be the site of a long-lost monastery.

When you're building a skyscraper with triple-digit numbers of storeys, there are some rather unusual building challenges to face — like the fact that the entire building can sway with the wind, fast enough to make people sick. The Shanghai Tower solves that problem in a scientifically awesome way

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have submitted revised plans for a field centre near the Forsinard Flows, the largest peat bog in Europe. Councillors will vote tomorrow on the plans, which are intended to provide office and teaching space and accommodation for those studying the

The owners of a historic pub who demolished it while it was being considered for listed building status have been ordered to rebuild the whole thing brick by brick. Tel Aviv-based developers CLTX Ltd will be ordered to “recreate in facsimile the building as it stood immediately prior to its demoli

A naked man in Florida was taken to hospital for sunburns to his buttocks after he ended up on top of a 100-foot drawbridge. WPLG Local 10 News reports that the man did not plan to go up the drawbridge but was simply strolling across the bridge naked at an unfortunate time.

Five Scottish developments have been recognised with the most rigorous and prestigious awards for new buildings in the UK. Arcadia Nursery, Dalmunach Distillery, Laurieston Transformational Area, Maggie’s Lanarkshire and West Burn Lane have been announced by the Royal Institute of British Architec

Councillors are set to discuss the progress of a business case for the possible extension of the tram in Edinburgh.

Australian architectural firm Elenberg Fraser has won planning approval for a 226-metre-high Melbourne skyscraper that will feature a curvaceous form that took inspiration from a music video by American pop star Beyoncé. The new Premiere Tower at 134 Spencer Street will boast a series of curves and

Kirkcaldy is to benefit from a new project by Kingdom Housing Association which will see the construction of 15 new affordable, energy-efficient homes at a cost of £1.5 million.

Buro Happold and bblur architecture have won planning approval to create Europe’s tallest and longest slide from the platforms of Anish Kapoor’s Orbit sculpture. The landmark was nicknamed the helter skelter by the public when it was built at the Olympic park for the London 2012 Games.

Angus Carmichael appointed as Scottish Road Works Commissioner Angus Carmichael has been appointed as Scottish Road Works Commissioner on an interim basis.

A 300-year-old farm steading will have to be rebuilt brick by brick after it was demolished without consent. Cocklaw Developments’ Ken Thomson was refused permission to tear down an old outbuilding at Boreland Farm, near Cleish, in Kinross-shire.