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A fashion show featuring clothes made from construction materials has taken place in the United States today. The “Studs Struts and Stilettos” show in Rochester, Minnesota is a fundraiser for the Habitat for Humanity charity.

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has announced the five finalists of their Minecraft Competition which was launched in association with International Construction Management Day on 9 March. The five finalists are:

A team of Dutch companies has unveiled a proposal for a huge circular wind turbine that doubles as an apartment block and hotel, and also includes a rollercoaster. Billed as "the most innovative windmill in the world", the Dutch Windwheel is intended as a landmark attraction for Rotterdam's watersid

A farmer has been ordered to demolish the mock-Tudor castle he constructed and hid behind hay bales for four years. 61-year-old Robert Fidler from Honeycrock Farm in Redhill, Surrey, never got a permit from the local planning authority before constructing his castle.

An Italian adventurer has announced plans to live on an iceberg for a year in a home that will float once its 'foundations' melt. This winter, Alex Bellini plans to travel to the west coast of Greenland, select an iceberg, and survive on it for an entire year in a special "survival capsule" created

An Edinburgh townhouse with an ingenious outdoor “invisible” wheelchair lift has gone up for sale. The inventively engineered contraption was installed for £100,000 by multiple sclerosis sufferer Dr Angelica Goodden, a retired Oxford University historian.

A multimillion-pound Georgian townhouse in the exclusive west London area of Kensington has been painted in "garish" candy stripes after a planning row, has been branded "hideous" by neighbours. The property’s owner Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring took the extraordinary decision to give her home a novel

Japanese studio Naf Architect & Design rounded one corner of a newly-built Tokyo home to broaden a footpath for pedestrians who had grown used to cutting across the empty corner plot where it now stands. Akio Nakasa of Naf Architect & Design – who also recently completed a pair of houses t

You’ve heard of a water bed, but a water house? It brings to mind something built on or in the ocean, but it actually has nothing to do with the view. Hungarian architect Matyas Gutai is a firm believer that a house can be kept at an optimal temperature through the use of water, according to CNN.

A giant fiery chasm that opened up on a mountainside in China has been branded the 'Gateway to Hell' by superstitious locals. Fumes spewing from the glowing pit are so hot that tree branches burst into flames when they are held over it.

A shopping mall in Toronto has sought to “clear up some confusion” about whether construction workers are allowed inside the mall following a backlash on social media. Construction workers had been ordered to stay away from the Yorkdale mall while they work on the mall's $331-million expansion a

Andy Murray’s plans for his own Scottish holiday home in the grounds of his luxury hotel appears to be held up by a colony of rare bats. Bosses at Cromlix House are bidding to convert an old, abandoned gas house on the 34 acre estate into a three-bedroom house.

A student's love of Lego could see Glasgow University's iconic campus immortalised in the plastic bricks. James Bruce May, 21, has painstakingly designed a Lego model of the university's main building in the hope that the Danish firm may manufacture it.

A town which lies smack dab in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, 1,000 miles from human civilisation, is looking to the outside world to plan its future for the first time in its history. Tristan da Cunha and RIBA are staging a competition that’s unlike any other ever held. The isolated isla

Following extensive research into the effects of cold temperatures on player performance, Gala Casino have released never-before-seen blueprint plans for the first ever casino made entirely from ice. Professor Ross Bight, from the Institute of Polar Science in London, carried out the research for th