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Barcelona’s most famous landmark is set to get formal planning permission 136 years after work began. A deal has been struck with the city for Antoni Gaudí’s iconic Sagrada Família after years of unlicensed construction.

Donald Trump's plans to build luxury housing near his Aberdeenshire golf course have set a new record for the number of planning objections. The Trump Organisation plans to build 550 new homes on a site within the Trump International Golf Links estate at Menie, near Balmedie.

The Scottish stonemasons who helped to build the White House are to be the subject of a new exhibition opening in Stirling later this month. One of the most recognisable buildings in the world, the home of the President of the United States in Washington DC owes much to the team of stonemasons from

Image courtesy of Plant Prefab Tech giant Amazon has invested in a home design and prefabrication company with plans to integrate its suite of voice-controlled Alexa devices into affordable easy-to-build houses.

Rosyth Dockyard has been named one of the top 200 civil engineering projects which has helped shape the world and transformed people’s lives for the better. To mark the 200th anniversary of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the Institution is celebrating 200 inspirational and world-changin

The crumbling 12th-century church where William Wallace worshipped and was reputedly married is being restored and turned into a tourist attraction. Remedial works are underway to ensure the future of Old St Kentigern’s Church which stands in what is now Lanark Cemetery in preparation to ’re-lau

Bloomberg’s London HQ (c) Aaron Hargreaves Bloomberg’s European headquarters has been named the UK’s best new building, winning the 2018 RIBA Stirling Prize.

Dumfries and Galloway Council has been ordered to pay expenses after its refusal of plans for decking and hot tub screening at a caravan park was overturned. The BBC has reported that a Scottish Government reporter found it had acted in an "unreasonable manner" over the scheme at Mouswald.

The winners have been announced for a competition which challenged participants to envision a habitat for the first five colonisers on Mars. Volume Zero's Marsception 2018 competition imagined the colonisers undertaking research on the viability of life for the future human generations would live on

Picture: Pimlico Plumbers The boss of a plumbing company has said he will not take down a giant "Bollocks to Brexit" sign on the roof of his headquarters in central London, even if it means going to prison.

An innovative installation of mosses, which can help combat air pollution, has been installed in Musselburgh. Known as the ‘CityTree’, the structure uses a combination of mosses which are cultivated to thrive in urban areas and which is claimed has the capability to remove air pollutants from th

Willmott Dixon has teamed up with robotics firm Eksobionics to trial a high-tech exoskeleton vest to protect supply chain partners working on a new school development in Cardiff. Willmott Dixon is the first company in the construction industry to trial ‘Eksovest’ – an upper body exoskeleton ve

A major new educational resource has been unveiled utilising 3D digital surveys of the three Forth Bridges. This pioneering use of cutting-edge technologies by leading Scottish heritage institutions aims to inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers.

A Stockport leisure complex has been voted Britain’s worst new building after judges described it as a “sad metaphor for our failing high streets”. The warehouse-like buildings of Redrock Stockport beat five other shortlisted candidates to win the Carbuncle Cup, awarded by Building Design to w

Bulgaria’s ancient castles and fortresses have become a laughing stock after shoddy reconstruction work left the sites looking like they were made of “cheese and cardboard” and drove away tourists, it has been claimed. Conservationists have poured scorn on efforts to rebuild the medieval fort