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Architects BDP have submitted plans for an 800 place secondary school within the Fife Town of Anstruther. Delivered in partnership with the Scottish Futures Trust, Fife Council and BAM Construction, the scheme will form part of a new education campus incorporating the existing Anstruther Primary and

Top marks for Marley Contract Services at Livingston school

Work starts at National Performance Centre for Sport

A luxury “fairytale” treehouse in Fife, which costs nearly £500 a night to stay in, has been named among the best leafy high rise stays in the country. The Scotsman reports that the home that has literally branched out at Fernie Castle at Letham near Cupar is built in a cluster of sycamore tree

A Dutch firm is to use robots to 3D “draw” a steel bridge over the water in the centre of Amsterdam. MX3D aims to 'print' the complicated and 'intricate' structure over one of the city's canals using robots to 'draw' the bridge into being.

Twelve buildings representing the “very best of Scottish architecture” have been recognised with awards by The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS). Among the winners, announced at an annual the RIAS Awards Dinner held in Edinburgh last night, are the Dalmunach Distillery in Mora

Four men involved in an investigation into the allocation of public building work contracts at the City of Edinburgh Council have been sentenced to a total of over 13 years imprisonment for corruption and bribery. Former council employees Charles Owenson, 62, and James Costello, 44, received tens of

It's not just the UK's elected officials that apparently need to be rehoused, Queen Elizabeth II may have to move out of Buckingham Palace during much-needed renovations to the residence, which has not been substantially redecorated since she took the throne in 1952, royal officials said Wednesday.

A converted chicken house in Aviemore has fought off competition from 2,519 other sheds to win Shed of the Year. The Inshriach Distillery in the Cairngorms National Park, which creates gin from 100 per cent Scottish juniper, was nominated in and won the pub category of the contest before taking home

(If you are looking for today's Building Briefs please click here) A stately home has been demolished after it failed to find a buyer - despite being priced at just £1.

Bid to block Great Tapestry of Scotland home fails A bid to get Scottish Borders Council to drop plans for a £6 million permanent home for the Great Tapestry of Scotland at Tweedbank has failed.

A city in Morocco is to become home to one of the world's largest solar power plants aiming to deliver half the country's energy by 2020. Based near the Sahara desert, Ouarzazate will see a complex of four linked solar mega-plants that, alongside hydro and wind, will help provide nearly half of Moro

Workers on a building site in Dorset have been left scratching their heads after they were forced to surround a car with rumble because its owner never showed up to move it. The Vauxhall Fontera 4x4 will now be boxed in for the next six weeks after builders at the new retail complex in Christchurch

Dunfermline’s new cultural facility begins to take shape

John Logie Baird, the man who was the first in the world to televise objects in motion, has been inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame. Launched in 2011 by The Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (IESIS), the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame is supported by engineeri