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The Architect's Home in the Ravine, 1991 A painting by Scotland's “most valuable living artist” which refers to a building in Toronto will come to auction next month with an estimate of £14-18 million.

Architects at MVRDV have unveiled plans for an office block with an interactive mirrored facade and open geometric core designed to display back images of its location and surrounding landscape. Dubbed the "crystal rock" by the Dutch architecture firm, the facade of the Milestone building in the cit

A property developer has been ordered to pay nearly €5.5 million to a group of graffiti artists after destroying their work without warning. The street artists took the developer to court after 45 separate artworks were whitewashed as a precursor to the redevelopment of a site.

A Dundee graffiti artist has paid tribute to Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, the designer of the £80.1 million V&A Museum of Design on the city’s waterfront. Artist SYKE created the black and white portrait of Kengo Kuma on a wall near Seabraes, less than a mile from the flagship building.

A couple who purchased a $3.2 million mansion are suing the brokers for failing to disclose that it featured in a popular horror TV show — plus, they add, it is actually haunted. In 2015, Dr Ernst von Schwarz and Angela Oakenfold became the inadvertent owners of the Rosenheim Mansion at 1120 Westc

A giant glass spherical concert venue that could rise taller than St Paul's Cathedral is being planned near the Olympic park in Stratford, East London. Dubbed The Golf Ball, early designs for the distinctively shaped 20,000-capacity arena seen by the Guardian, are being prepared for the sp

A 2,000-year-old underground chamber has been uncovered during work to build a house on the Isle of Lewis. The Iron Age soutterrain was revealed during the digging of the foundations for the property in Ness.

Engineers are taking inspiration from an unlikely source to create more aerodynamic machines. A study of shark skin conducted by a team of evolutionary biologists and engineers from Harvard University has led to a new structure that could one day improve the aerodynamic performance of planes, wind t

A Gravitricity plant visualised within a rural edge landscape setting Former Scots mining communities could find a new lease of life – with old mine shafts turned into hi-tech green energy stores.

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

A new report which aims to shed some light on why so many of us start off the New Year desperately on the hunt for a new job has revealed some alarming results. The study, which was facilitated by independent survey company, Vivatic, quizzed 2,200 people about their relationship with their managers

A deadline has been introduced to a scheme in Italy that offers the chance to buy a house for €1 after it was overwhelmed with interest. A deadline of 7 February 2018 has now been set for applications, leaving what is now less than a week left to apply.

A deal has been agreed to begin work on the world’s largest towers built using modular construction. Investors have agreed a funding deal to start the twin-tower scheme of build-to-rent flats in Croydon, London.

The Falkirk Wheel is set to be drained of water as annual maintenance works get underway to ensure the world’s only rotating boat lift keeps on turning in 2018. The works, which will run from February 5 until March 7, will see Scottish Canals’ engineering team carry out a programme of inspection

Online retailer Amazon has unveiled a miniature rainforest of 40,000 plants which form the centrepiece of its $4 billion office expansion, including a 55ft tree transported from a farm in southern California. Located at the company’s headquarters in Seattle, the Spheres are three glass domes that