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Donald Trump has appealed to the Scottish Government in an attempt to have a decision made by north-east councillors overturned. The billionaire tycoon and US presidential candidate erected two 80ft flagpoles flying saltires outside his Menie Estate clubhouse at Trump International Golf Links last y

American actor Robert De Niro has been granted planning permission to open a hotel in London’s Covent Garden. The boutique Wellington Hotel has been given the go-ahead by Westminster City Council.

Equipment supplied by Seddons Plant & Engineers Ltd will be used to help try and smash the world land speed record next year, it has been confirmed. Seddons is providing a total of five Honda Generators for use by the BLOODHOUND project team during its attempt next October, 20 years after the ex

International superstar Emeli Sande has pledged her support to the multi-million pound redevelopment of Aberdeen’s historic Music Hall. The singer-songwriter, who hails from Alford in Aberdeenshire, is instantly recognisable from her striking profile emblazoned on the large building wrap surroundi

A Perthshire village has received £638,900 in lottery funding to restore 11 World War 2 Nissen Huts. Comrie Development Trust was been awarded the Heritage Lottery Funding to convert ten of the huts into self-catering accommodation.

A reader’s letter submitted to US literary and cultural commentary magazine The Atlantic challenges the notion that construction workers a burly, strapping guys. As a construction labourer, I find that one of the funniest misconceptions about my job is that Hollywood and pretty much all TV show pr

A housing developer is giving away one of his properties for free to a needy family in New Zealand's largest city, but they will have to find somewhere to put it. Auckland businessman Dave Rennie has listed the three-bedroom property with a zero-dollar price tag, with the proviso that the buyers mov

A conceptual scheme by a team of South Korean designers calls for inserting towers within the hollowed-out trunks of giant sequoias in the western US, Dezeen has reported. Called Tribute: The Monument of Giant, the visionary scheme imagines buildings constructed within the empty trunks of giant sequ

Cards Against Humanity, the self-dubbed “party game for horrible people”, has purchased a plot of land on the US-Mexico border in an effort to protest the development of President Trump’s wall. While the company said it has no expectations the venture will stop construction, it does think it i

Proposals for an upside down play house are set to become a reality after the project won an architecture design competition. Designed by architecture office Alma-nac, the multi-coloured house turned climbing frame came out top in the James Hardie House of Colour competition run by the Architect's J

Calls to emergency services in San Francisco have been made on at least three occasions because employees at Apple keep walking into glass windows and doors at the company’s $5 billion 'spaceship' campus. Apple Park, Apple's new four-storey corporate campus designed by Norman Foster, has 3,000 pan

Architects at BIG have released plans for a new zigzag-shaped hotel in Switzerland from which guests will be invited to descend from the roof on skis towards the slopes of Vallée de Joux. Called Audemars Piguet Hotel des Horlogers, the complex will include hotel rooms, two restaurants, a bar, a spa

Atkins is to carry out a feasibility study on the relocation of fresh water and salt water service reservoirs to caverns in Hong Kong. The relocation will release the existing sites for housing and other uses to meet the long term social and economic needs of Hong Kong whilst ensuring a reliable, ad

New boulder-shaped homes set in a landscaped plot in the Dutch city of Eindhoven are believed to be the first habitable dwellings in the world which were 3D-printed in concrete. The design and building site for Project Milestone were revealed last week by project partners (municipality of Eindhoven,

Drum Property Group has revealed high levels of public support for its planning application which is set to transform Stead’s Place, near the foot of Leith Walk. More than 2,000 letters of support for Drum’s development proposals have been lodged with the City of Edinburgh Council in adv