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Underwater properties in Dubai are now going on sale before being finished later this year, though at a cost of £1 million. Each of the 42 villas feature a sea-floor room “offering magnificent views of the spectacular sea world”.

Construction workers have been revealed as the most generous workers when it comes to treating their partners on Valentine’s Day.

Staff at B&Q stores have been told to read Fifty Shades of Grey and prepare for a massive rise in demand for rope, cable ties and tape.

A man has built an igloo in his back garden which is available to rent for just £7 a night.

Architecture firm Gensler wants to repurpose London's abandoned tube tunnels to create a subterranean network of pathways that generate electricity as people walk and cycle through them.

Sydney has joined the list of cities with a Frank Gehry-designed building. The Chau Chak Wing Business School building has been dubbed the "brown paper bag" by local media.

A Shanghai-based company has used a giant 3D printer to create a six-storey apartment block and mansion. The two buildings – constructed on the Suzhou industrial park in China’s Jiangsu Province – took just days to complete.

Aberdeen has beaten off stiff competition from the likes of Cumbernauld, East Kilbride and Leven to win the award nobody wants, the Plook-on-the-Plinth trophy for Scotland’s most dismal town handed out as part of the annual Carbuncle Awards.

The owners of a villa that has become an unlikely tourist attraction thanks to its bright lemon paintwork will this week learn if they and their thousands of supporters will have to bid farewell to the bold new look. The striking Georgian villa in Greenock, known simply as the Yellow House, has attr

A workman saved a pal from electrocution by hitting him with a plank of wood. Mark Bradley, 50, was struck by a reported 11,000-volt shock when a metal lamppost he was installing hit overhead power cables, the Mirror has reported.

A sex theme park where tourists can ride astride gigantic stone penises and see erotic sculptures of people and animals in sexual positions is under construction in Taiwan. The park will be called ‘Romantic Boulevard’, and will include an outdoor garden filled with erotic sculptures of mammoth p

A Californian builder has spent the last 20 years turning his home into an adventure playground for his cats. Peter Cohen, of Goleta, who currently has 15 rescue cats, has spent about $40,000 (£26,500) creating the kitty paradise.

Hovering bizarrely over Glasgow’s Whitevale Street high rises, an innovative demolition platform is now in place to begin demolishing Scotland’s tallest residential towers -from the top to the bottom.

A large sinkhole has appeared near a green on the UK mainland's most westerly golf course. The 9ft (3m) deep, 22ft (7m) long hole was caused by heavy rain washing away a drain running under part of Traigh Golf Course, near Mallaig.

Germany's Autobahns have been praised and replicated the world over. They're beautifully flat, and on most stretches there's no enforced speed limit – just an "advised" one of about 80mph. But in Hamburg, residents have become a little sick of their local motorway, and the city government's decide