Swiss architect Heinz Julen has unveiled ambitious plans for a 62–65 storey skyscraper in Zermatt, facing the iconic Matterhorn, in a bid to tackle the resort’s chronic housing shortage.
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A new research project is set to create sound art in the communities and natural spaces located along the banks of the historic Forth & Clyde Canal in Falkirk.
As the men’s football team makes plans for the 2026 World Cup and Scottish football sits top of mind for many across the country, the National Trust for Scotland has added its voice to those seeking assurances about the preservation of the first ever Hampden Park in Glasgow. The site, at Kings
The Robert Burns Ellisland Trust has launched an international fundraising campaign to save the historic farm where Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne and more than a quarter of his entire body of work.
A wind farm worker who was secretly siphoning electricity to mine cryptocurrency has avoided jail. The man, a technical manager for Nordex in the Netherlands, admitted setting up crypto miners at wind farms in Gieterveen and Waardpolder, according to The Register.
Four high school pupils have illuminated the city’s skyline by officially switching on the Christmas lights adorning the crane above The Jenners Building, where GRAHAM is underway with construction works to sensitively restore one of the capital’s most iconic landmarks.
A site manager at a local development in Perth has welcomed the newest recruit to his site team – his son, 16-year-old Max Murphy. From Tullibody, Max has joined his dad at Springfield’s Bertha Park Village development on the edge of Perth. He is one of the 77 apprentices at Springfield
A construction team in the US is turning a worksite into something special for young hospital patients nearby by hiding a life-sized Waldo (Wally for our UK readers) for them to find from their windows.
A French man who found a treasure trove of gold bars and coins when he dug up his garden to build a swimming pool may be forced to hand over the hoard to their heirs of its presumed original owner.
A time capsule buried for more than a century in a former Perth school destroyed by fire has been rescued from the ruins. The time capsule was placed in the wall of Balhousie Primary School, then known as Northern District Primary School, during the laying of the foundation stone when the school was
One of Scotland’s oldest pubs, the Crook Inn in Tweedsmuir, is getting a new lease on life with a £1 million bunkhouse set to begin construction.
Restoration work is being carried out around the striking pyramid cairn erected by Queen Victoria in memory of Prince Albert on the Balmoral Estate in Aberdeenshire.
A trio of thieves disguised as construction workers stole a safe containing more than $3.2 million worth of jewellery from a New York home last month, police said. The suspects, dressed in neon vests and hard hats, broke into the Jamaica Hills residence through a back door around 2 p.m. on Oct. 16 b
Scotland’s first commercial wind farm has been supercharged to deliver more clean energy and a bumper boost to community benefit funds.
New research led by the University of Stirling has revealed the existence and fate of many fragments of the Stone of Destiny, notably those which were secreted away after the ancient artefact was taken from Westminster Abbey by a group of Scottish nationalist students early on Christmas morning 1950



