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US eco-friendly home improvement store TreeHouse has bucked the trend and closed its doors on Black Friday. The Austin-based retailer said on Wednesday that it will be closed on Black Friday so workers can spend time with their families. Employees will still be paid even though they have the day off

People working on the construction of a large asylum centre in Enschede were met with a gruesome sight on Wednesday morning. The severed heads of 12 pigs were scattered around the site sometime on Tuesday night. According to newspaper AD, nine of the pig heads were placed on the fence around the sit

The world’s most expensive footballer Gareth Bale has commissioned the construction of a three-hole golf course in the garden of his Vale of Glamorgan home in Wales. The Real Madrid star is such a big fan of golf that he has planned for three holes from three separate courses to be replicated out

A Pokémon-themed gym has opened in Osaka, Japan, the first of its kind anywhere in the world. The gym is actually a selection of paid games spread across two floors, each one allowing its player to digitally interact with a wide variety of Pokémon. Also on site is a Pokémon-themed café and a gia

Steven Holl Architects have received the go-ahead to build a pair of skyscrapers in Copenhagen harbour, linked by a pedestrian and cycle bridge 65 metres above the water's surface. Nearly eight years after winning a competition for the site, the New York firm revealed that its Copenhagen Gate propos

An historic Glasgow tenement-side advertising hoarding could be preserved after the city's council stepped in. The three billboards on the Paisley Road West building, in Cardonald, thought to date back to the 1950s, were exposed when recent storm-force winds blew off the boards covering them.

A collaborative effort between the U.S. Air Force and defence contractor Energetic Materials and Products has resulted in a new tool that can cut through metal in a matter of seconds. They’re calling it the TEC Torch, but its it is already being being hailed as the world’s first real-life 'light

Photography enthusiasts across Scotland are being encouraged to help raise awareness of the importance of infrastructure to our everyday lives and regional growth by entering the 2016 RICS Infrastructure Photography competition, which launched this week. RICS launched the inaugural national competit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8S_gX9qkjM A huge building standing more than 387 foot tall has been dramatically demolished in Xi'an City in China’s northwest Shaanxi Province.

During the heavy rains of the 3 week monsoon season, Seoul Korea is transformed into a soggy grey metropolis and the population chooses mostly to stay inside. To combat the gloom, a team of designers has teamed up with Pantone on a fantastic street art project called ‘Project Monsoon’.

Workers on a building site in Dorset have been left scratching their heads after they were forced to surround a car with rumble because its owner never showed up to move it. The Vauxhall Fontera 4x4 will now be boxed in for the next six weeks after builders at the new retail complex in Christchurch

Architects Foster + Partners New York’s design for a modular habitat on Mars has been shortlisted amongst 30 finalists for NASA-organised 3D Printed Habitat Challenge.

Sibbald Training has just received a delivery of 100 items of plant machinery - although they are only models. The machinery is displayed in a new purpose built exhibition area at their facility. MD David Sibbald is delighted with the collection which he had donated to him by the late John Ferguson,

Edinburgh’s new £850 million ‘Ribbon Hotel’ plan has been ridiculed as one of Scotland’s biggest flops. The List Magazine slammed the swirling design at the centre of proposals for the St James Quarter in its run-down of the year’s five worst people, places or things.

A Frenchman is hoping to revolutionise the building and services trade after inventing special underwear that caters for the infamous "builder's bum". Builder's crack, plumber's bum, the coinslot, bottom cleavage...