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London estate agents have begun to offer free cars worth £18,000, stamp duty subsidies of £150,000, plus free iPads and Sonos sound systems to kickstart sales in the capital’s increasingly moribund property market, The Guardian has reported. The once super-hot central London market has turned in

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The natural landscape of Scotland is stunning, and that's before we start to consider the amazing architecture that can be found around the country. For the short distances between them, four of Scotland’s biggest cities look worlds apart, and have very different architectural histories. Home desi

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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

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The UK’s toughest home, designed to withstand the blast from a 2,000lb bomb, has gone on sale for £350,000, The Scotsman has reported. Rosehearty Tower was constructed to observe RAF bombing practice off the coast of Aberdeenshire.

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A woman who angered her neighbours by decorating her multimillion-pound townhouse with red and white stripes can ignore a planning order to repaint the property, the High Court has ruled. The Guardian reports that Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring, a property developer, painted candy stripes on the three-st

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In a first for a construction firm, a rescue mission was launched by Glasgow-based City Building and Scottish Natural Heritage to save endangered water voles living beneath a working site in Easterhouse, Glasgow. After repair and upgrading work began on local housing association properties in Coxton

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The Queen’s official sculptor in Scotland wants to complete one of the nation’s most famously incomplete works of architecture, according to The Herald. The National Monument on Calton Hill, in Edinburgh, has remained incomplete since work stopped on it in 1829.

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Beach huts on the Moray Firth with dimensions smaller than a prison cell are currently selling for £25,000, it has emerged. The exclusive new-build development at Findhorn of just 30 timber huts have no windows, running water or electricity and measure just 2 metres by 2.5 metres.

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An undulating path covered in a layer of fake snow for sledding will curve around the roof garden of a Beijing shopping centre under new plans unveiled by American architect Andrew Bromberg. Deezen reports that Hong Kong-based Bromberg of architectural firm Aedas, designed the Phase 3C building for

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Around 84% of homeowners are more likely to hire a tradesman if they are punctual, a new survey has revealed. A poll by home services marketplace Plentific.com found that punctuality is the most desirable quality homeowners look for when hiring tradesmen, narrowly ahead of politeness and someone who

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