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A talented team of interior designers are taking show home décor to new levels at a number of Linden Homes developments across East Yorkshire. Younger visitors in particular are discovering the fun and magic when they step through the doors of the literary inspired bedrooms.

By Eric Curran at DM Hall Chartered Surveyors While it remains prudent to be careful what you wish for, it is sometimes quietly satisfying to see a situation which has been long and devoutly anticipated actually come to pass.

A new school complex on the edge of the rainforest in northern Brazil has won the RIBA International Prize 2018 for the world’s best new building. Designed by Brazilian architects, Aleph Zero and Rosenbaum, Children Village provides boarding accommodation for 540 children aged 13 to 18 attendi

The iconic Scottish-built Széchenyi Chain Bridge that reaches across the Danube river in Budapest, Hungary, will be turned blue today and tomorrow in celebration of St Andrew’s Day. The engineer in charge of the bridge’s construction was Edinburgh-born Adam Clark.

Roof truss manufacturer and supplier Pasquill has embraced the festive spirit by unveiling a Christmas tree measuring 23 feet made entirely out of trusses. Staff from Pasquill’s Inverness branch created a smaller design the previous year, and after receiving a great response decided to supersi

Scape Group chief executive, Mark Robinson, on the Scottish Government’s fresh investment into affordable housing and the barriers needed to overcome for delivery. Scotland is facing a huge shortage of homes for social rent. There are currently over 130,100 households on council waiting lists

The National Trust for Scotland has launched a campaign to save the birthplace of Bard. The humble cottage in Alloway where Robert Burns was born and where the first Burns Night Supper was held is at risk of being damaged beyond repair, it said.

A senior American politician has proposed introducing a new tax on online porn to help fund Donald Trump's planned wall along the southern US border. Senator Gail Griffin, a Republican state senator for Arizona, has proposed HB 2444, which requires tech companies to block content that "appeals to th

Large scale infrastructure projects and construction-led economic growth in Scotland are at risk if under-resourcing of the planning system continues, the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Scotland has told MSPs. Craig McLaren, RTPI Scotland director, told a parliamentary committee this week that

Homes for Scotland has repeated its call for growth across all housing tenures as an increase in new build home completions masked a drop in the private sector. Yesterday’s Quarterly Housing Statistics for Scotland revealed a 4% increase in the number of new build homes completed across all se

Edinburgh architecture practice ISA pitched its idea to reduce congestion in the capital yesterday with a plan for an urban aerial transport link.

Building materials and construction solutions business Tarmac has become one of the first major UK construction companies to provide expectant mothers with specialist high visibility maternity protective clothing when required. The pioneering maternity personal protective equipment (PPE) clothing co

Heat treatment experts at the University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) have furthered research into a sustainable initiative that could save up to 100,000 tonnes of waste ash from landfill each year.

CALA Homes is harnessing the popularity of one of Scotland’s most iconic characters to help raise awareness of an important children’s charity. The firm today welcomed Oor Wullie to the West End of Edinburgh, unveiling the sculpture as part of Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail - in sup

More than one in five Scots (21%) have called in sick because they don’t like their working environment while nearly three in ten (29%) work from home when they can because they don’t like their office. Those are the findings of a survey of 1,000 workers across the country commissioned b