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Norway is exploring an unconventional and first-of-its-kind form of transportation infrastructure solution to travelling across its many fjords. A drive on the main coastal artery, E39, from Stavanger to Sogneford is less than 250 miles, but takes more than seven hours, traversing as it does countle

Can you teach an old brickie new tricks? 73-year-old builder Pat Griffin is to swap roles with his 29-year-old comedian daughter Jo for a comedy infused, interactive theatre show about loss, family relationships, class and the generation divide. Born in 1942, writer/performer Pat Griffin grew up in

The professional website of Melania Trump, wife of Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump, has been taken down after it emerged that the claim she obtained a degree in architecture was false. The site stated that the Slovenian ex-model obtained an undergraduate degree in architecture from

An Edinburgh businessman has completed a world record attempt to lay the highest floor in the world – at the summit of Kilimanjaro. Richard Snape, who formed The Wooden FloorStore, carried a packet of wooden flooring along the Lemosho route in attempt to break the record for the highest floor in t

The Spanish Treasury has deployed spy planes to catch tax cheats carrying out unregistered building work. Mallorcan newspaper Ultima Hora reports that the Spanish government is flying light aircraft over the country to take aerial photographs of properties where building work has been carried out an

Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop the Feeling is the focus of an uplifting, foot-tapping video made to raise money for The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice. Launching on July 27, the film was made for hospice supporters, property management company Speirs Gumley, and features staff from their

Donald Trump has appealed to the Scottish Government in an attempt to have a decision made by north-east councillors overturned. The billionaire tycoon and US presidential candidate erected two 80ft flagpoles flying saltires outside his Menie Estate clubhouse at Trump International Golf Links last y

Arup has been appointed to develop a 21-storey tower that will be the world’s tallest wooden residential building to date. The 73 metre high Haut tower, located in the Amstelkwartier area of Amsterdam, will include 55 apartments, public plinth Hortus bicycles and an underground car park. It will h

A Romanian couple have spent two years building an eco-friendly "fairytale castle" in the mountains of Transylvania, using only natural materials. Razvan and Gabriela Vasile sold their home near the capital Bucharest to build the "castle" in a village 24 miles (40 km) from the city of Sibiu, Casa Me

A thoughtful construction worker gave children at a hospital something to smile about when he created a giant ‘Where’s Wally?’ (or ‘Waldo’ in the US) and placed it in various locations every day so they could find it. Jason Haney, a labour foreman working at the Memorial Children's Hospita

A street artist has mimicked Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s proposal to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border by constructing a wall around the billionaire’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Edinburgh’s iconic red public telephone boxes are about to be given an interesting makeover. New York based company Bar Works operates a growing chain of co-working spaces aimed at entrepreneurs who are looking for affordable convenient work space in attractive locations.

Not content with delivering a new dualled carriageway for A9 road users, Transport Scotland’s construction contractor has also been making ‘deliveries’ for the animals at RZSS Highland Wildlife Park, near Kingussie. Wills Bros John Paul JV, who are currently dualling the A9 between Kincraig an

  A hotel has opened in the Swiss Alps –without any walls.

The completed floral clock Edinburgh’s world-famous floral clock is to tick this year in honour of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland’s (RIAS) centenary.