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A footbridge installed as part of a £3.8 million upgrade at Perth railway station has been nominated for a Carbuncle Award. The structure is in the running for the Pock Mark category, which recognises the worst planning decision.
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What happens when you secretly order a truckload of plastic balls and then fill your entire living room with them? The world improves by a small, but measurable margin.
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First-time buyers have been handed a tax boost after finance secretary John Swinney announced sweeping revisions to his replacement for stamp duty which will see 50 per cent of all household transactions paying no tax. Revisions to the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT), which will replace St
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A couple who secretly turned a pigsty into a four-bedroom home have been ordered to tear it apart and sell it – for just £20,000. From the outside the property still looks like an ordinary farm building, made of unpainted grey concrete blocks with a big sliding door and no windows.
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A large sinkhole has appeared near a green on the UK mainland's most westerly golf course. The 9ft (3m) deep, 22ft (7m) long hole was caused by heavy rain washing away a drain running under part of Traigh Golf Course, near Mallaig.
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A Shanghai-based company has used a giant 3D printer to create a six-storey apartment block and mansion. The two buildings – constructed on the Suzhou industrial park in China’s Jiangsu Province – took just days to complete.
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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.
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Local bus CCTV has caught the moment a sinkhole opened up in a pavement beneath two South Korean pedestrians. Emergency workers rescued the man and woman, who were then taken to a nearby hospital in Seoul with minor injuries.
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Plans have been unveiled for a recycling facility in Copenhagen, encased within a manmade hill that could double as a running track, picnic area or even a snowboarding slope. Architecture firm BIG was commissioned by waste management company Amagerforbrænding to create the 1,200-square-metre recycl
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Plans have been submitted for a slim mirrored skyscraper that – if it goes ahead – will be the tallest building in Europe. The part where things get weird is that it the structure designed by Californian firm Morphosis (headed by Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Thom Mayne) is to be located in
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The well-known boss of a construction firm has died after falling ill while on holiday in Tenerife. Douglas Gilbert, 56, the boss of Riverside Construction, passed away suddenly while abroad with his wife Yvonne on the island on Tuesday.
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Developers have revealed plans for a £300 million purpose-built cruise ship terminal on the site of a decommissioned coal-fired power station at Cockenzie in East Lothian.
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New images have emerged of how a visitor centre at Aberdeenshire’s historic Dunnotter Castle could look. The plans for the centre at the site south of Stonehaven were revealed this week by the owners, Dunecht Estates.
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A team of Dutch companies has unveiled a proposal for a huge circular wind turbine that doubles as an apartment block and hotel, and also includes a rollercoaster. Billed as "the most innovative windmill in the world", the Dutch Windwheel is intended as a landmark attraction for Rotterdam's watersid
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A notorious pair of daredevils have taken a selfie balanced on a crane atop of the world’s second tallest building. Russian-Ukrainian thrill seeker Vitaly Raskalov and his friend Vadim Makhorov said they were inspired to climb the building because of positive feedback they received after scaling S
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