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Just one fifth of Scots claim to already live in their dream home as planning applications for home improvements slow to their lowest ebb in five year growth to stand at just 3%, new data has shown. According to Halifax Insurance, since 2012 just over 92,000 planning applications have been submitted

Ex-footballer Gary Neville has abandoned his plan to build an £8 million eco-house likened to the home of the ‘Teletubbies’. Comparisons with the BBC programme were based on the building's unusual semi-submerged design, intended to minimise its impact on the moorland landscape.

An architect from Edinburgh is hoping to be crowned the next winner of Channel 4’s Great British Bake Off. The Scotsman reports that the 29-year-old, known only as Tom, lives in the Capital with his partner David, and often makes shortbread for his relatives and friends.

A remote narrow-gauge railway which became a lifeline when a road was closed last year is being finally extended to Scotland’s highest village. The Scotsman reports that work has started on a new quarter-mile section of the line from Leadhills into Wanlockhead, where it is hoped trains will run fr

New details about the future tallest residential building on Earth have been released, along with an updated rendering showing the super-tall skyscraper towering over New York City. Designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, the Central Park Tower is expected to reach 1,550 feet (472 metre

A Soluis Group-led consortium has secured £1 million of funding from Innovate UK to develop an Augmented Worker System (AWE), pioneering the use of virtual and augmented reality for the construction industry. The system will enable the intelligent design, construction, maintenance and whole-life va

Edinburgh Castle will have to bolster its walls and reconsider the way it welcomes visitors in a new fight against global warming and erosion, world experts will hear at a conference next month. Professor Robert Oram, of Stirling University, told The Herald that “capping” walls under siege from

Los Angeles has become the first major city in the world to test a new paint technology that coat roads in order to reflect, rather than absorb, the blistering heat of the Californian summer sun. Normal black asphalt absorbs 80 to 95 percent of sunlight, while the innovative grey "cool pavement" ref

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqslA_CKub8 Big Ben’s famous bongs will temporarily cease for four years from next week so that major conservation work can be carried out.

Workers on Aberdeen’s bypass are having to “go into the woods and dig a hole” due the state of the on-site toilets, it has been claimed. Construction workers near Ellon say it has been three weeks since cleaners tended to the toilets.

A construction sign that is used to warn drivers about a street closure was briefly used as a declaration of a unique kind of love. The sign in Medford, in the US state of Oregon, read: "Pornhub loves me."

The Gordon Highlanders Museum in Aberdeen has lodged plans to create a replica World War I trench in an effort to bring in more visitors, The Press and Journal has reported. Bosses at the venue, which is locked in a battle for survival amid a cash crisis, believe the aboveground addition could help

Organisers of the Carbuncle Awards, handed out each year in recognition of Scotland’s “most dismal town”, have said the initiative is to make way for a new prize which looks to take a more “positive” view of the nation’s built environment. The Carbuncles, which launched at the turn of th

Jeremy Hawkings, chief executive of Luxury Scotland, pictured as the Monopoly character 'Rich Uncle Pennybags' outside Kinloch House in Perthshire Budding property tycoons can now get their hands on some of Scotland’s most extravagant hotels as part of an extra-special variation of the classic Mon

The residents of an apartment complex in the US state of Georgia were shocked when they tried to leave home - only to find they were stuck, as their stairs had been removed. The emergency services were eventually summoned to help free residents of Maple Walk Apartments in Decatur who lived above the