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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

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.