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Architect Ian Simpson has apologised for what residents have described as a howl, a hum and a scream emanating from a skyscraper in Manchester. The 47-storey Beetham Tower emits a weird and incredibly loud noise every time the wind picks up.
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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today launched a new award which will celebrate the best new building in the world. Unlike the institute’s prestigious Lubetkin Prize, which was scrapped last year, the competition is open to any building, of any type and budget, in any country
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Residents in Penzance are so sick of an overturned car in a hedge near their homes they set up a Facebook page appealing for it to get World Heritage status. The 'Get World Heritage status for the upside down car at Ludgvan Leaze' was created by locals after the car was left in the hedge for months.
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Global firms WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff and HOK Architects have secured a major contract with the University of Glasgow to develop a world-leading research hub. The £40 million research hub facility will be developed on the University’s 31-hectare Gilmorehill Campus in the West End.
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Scottish ministers have granted consent for the construction and operation of a gas fired combined heat and power (CHP) plant at BP Kinneil Terminal in Grangemouth. The Kinneil Terminal is adjacent to the Grangemouth petrochemical complex and processes approximately 40 per cent of the North Sea crud
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A Marks and Spencer delivery lorry has been transformed into a £10,000 home featuring two bedrooms and two bathrooms. The man behind the lorry, which also comes with a bath, sliding patio doors and a lift, has lived in it for two years.
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Red-faced officers at Angus Council are to lift a pavement inscription celebrating Peter Pan creator JM Barrie after misquoting the Kirriemuir playwright. The words “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting” were carved into slabs laid around the world-f
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A Canadian road building industry body has launched a series of videos to highlight the dangers which construction workers often have to deal with in their workplaces. The campaign by the Ontario Road Builders’ Association (ORBA) sees construction workers placed into office environments exhibiting
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A mass-transit concept has been unveiled which sees a futuristic bus sit up above traffic and allow cars to pass beneath. Created by Beijing-based Transit Explore Bus (TEB), the ‘Straddle Bus’ was shown off at the 19th China Beijing International High-Tech Expo (CHITEC) over the weekend.
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A US flooring business has been turning heads with a banner placed alongside a road near its store. Flowood Flooring and Design, obviously poking fun about how long a pile of dirt resulting from a construction project has been in front of its building, posted a banner in front with a large arrow poi
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A man who converted an old hen house into a gin distillery and won ‘Shed of the Year’ failed to get planning permission. Walter Micklethwait, of the Inshriach Estate near Aviemore, spent two years turning the dilapidated hen house into a shack which boasts its own Wild West themed saloon and bar
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A multi-million pound housing development on the edge of a Perthshire town is in question after the discovery of a rare pine marten by two teenage boys. The Scotsman reports that Angus McNicol and Andrew Wombill spotted the heavily-protected mammal around the Highfield Woods area of Scone, Perthshir
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A 48-year old man who works as a construction worker in Quezon City in the Philippines has joined the ranks of the country’s millionaires after claiming on Thursday the P97.1 million (£1.49m) Super Lotto pot from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO). PCSO General Manager Jose Ferdinan
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MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Construction of a three storey extension to existing hotel to provide 30 (a net gain of 29) additional bedrooms, plant/water tanks and associated reconfiguration of the car park and external landscaping
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John Ballantyne, a man instrumental in the planning of housing developments which changed the face of Broughty Ferry, has died aged 82, The Courier has reported. Mr Ballantyne, who was born in Auchtermuchty in 1933, was influential in the development of housing in the Nursery Road and East Balgillo
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