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A violin-shaped church and an Inner Mongolia hotel in the form of a monstrous babushka doll are among the contenders for a competition to celebrate China's unsightly architecture. For the past 11 years, Chinese architecture website archcy.com has been inviting people to vote in the l

A flat with its very own World War Two bunker has gone on the market in Islington.  The spacious underground cavern can be accessed from a lone doorway set in the patio terrace belonging to the two-bedroom home in The Laboratory Building in Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell.

The World Trade Center in New York City has urged office tenants to turn off their lights at night after hundreds of migratory birds crashed into skyscrapers this week.

Scientists at the University of Manchester have developed 'cosmic concrete' from space dust and astronaut blood in order to make construction in space easier.

The role of fungi in helping to prevent landslips is being investigated in research led at the University of Strathclyde and partnered by engineering company BAM Ritchies.

Balfour Beatty has successfully built the world’s inaugural T-pylon on behalf of National Grid today, representing the first new electricity pylon design in Great Britain for almost 100 years.

Hot Wheels is giving one car owner the chance to have their car made into a toy.

The most expensive home in the USA has fallen into receivership after the owner defaulted on over $165 million of loans and debt.

A 180-foot tall statue of a god of war that cost almost $26 million to build is now being moved, piece by piece, to a place five miles away at a cost of $20m after the Chinese government said it had ruined the region’s landscape. The imposing statue of Guan Yu, a famous warrior of th

A junior council worker who rejected and approved real planning applications, adding sarcastic comments in the process, in the belief they were testing a dummy website has learned that the decisions are now legally binding. One applicant, a charity boss at an animal sanctuary, was told by Swale

A biomass power generator built by Aviva Investors should be torn down because of planning irregularities, a council has ruled. Vale of Glamorgan Council said that it would issue a legal enforcement notice against the Barry Biomass site requiring that “the plant and all buildings are removed f

Super-stretchy wormlike robots capable of ‘feeling’ their surroundings could find applications in the construction industry, scientists say. A team of engineers from the University of Glasgow have developed robots with forms of motion inspired by the movements of inchworms and earthworms

Plans have been submitted for a wedding marquee at Edinburgh Zoo.

Repairs to the leaning Millennium Tower in San Francisco have been suspended after it was found that the skyscraper was sinking faster than previously thought. A spokesman for homeowners told the Los Angeles Times that work had been stopped while workers “try to understand better the mechanism

Work is underway at Lynebeg as Network Rail engineers prepare for the reconstruction of the rail bridge near Moy as part of advance works for the A9 Dualling: Tomatin to Moy project.