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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGfCE9FHAec&feature=youtu.be The University of Dundee is seeking Minecrafters to design and build an iconic University building in a virtual Dundee later this month.

Villagers are hoping to acquire their local public toilets and turn them into a bank. Juniper Green in Edinburgh will be without a bank when Royal Bank of Scotland closes its branch their next month.

A major operation to clear unexploded World War II bombs has been completed in the German city of Hanover, The Construction Index has reported. Three bombs found on a building site were defused by a team of eight men.

‘World Animal Map’ by Danny Campbell is a conceptual artwork of a world map collage with familiar and little-known animals located in their geographical locations, from African okapi to the aye-aye, native to Madagascar Skypark's gallery walls will offer views of the world’s countries by the d

London estate agents have begun to offer free cars worth £18,000, stamp duty subsidies of £150,000, plus free iPads and Sonos sound systems to kickstart sales in the capital’s increasingly moribund property market, The Guardian has reported. The once super-hot central London market has turned in

The natural landscape of Scotland is stunning, and that's before we start to consider the amazing architecture that can be found around the country. For the short distances between them, four of Scotland’s biggest cities look worlds apart, and have very different architectural histories. Home desi

A conceptual scheme by a team of South Korean designers calls for inserting towers within the hollowed-out trunks of giant sequoias in the western US, Dezeen has reported. Called Tribute: The Monument of Giant, the visionary scheme imagines buildings constructed within the empty trunks of giant sequ

The UK’s toughest home, designed to withstand the blast from a 2,000lb bomb, has gone on sale for £350,000, The Scotsman has reported. Rosehearty Tower was constructed to observe RAF bombing practice off the coast of Aberdeenshire.

Positive feedback from a three-month trial has led Osborne to extend the use of protective site clothing that features solar-charged lights.

A woman who angered her neighbours by decorating her multimillion-pound townhouse with red and white stripes can ignore a planning order to repaint the property, the High Court has ruled. The Guardian reports that Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring, a property developer, painted candy stripes on the three-st

In a first for a construction firm, a rescue mission was launched by Glasgow-based City Building and Scottish Natural Heritage to save endangered water voles living beneath a working site in Easterhouse, Glasgow. After repair and upgrading work began on local housing association properties in Coxton

A group of construction workers have accidentally made the “sensational discovery” of the oldest aqueduct to be built in the city of Rome, The Metro has reported. In the city’s heyday, a network of aqueducts supplied clean water and took it away in sewers, a pioneering approach to hygiene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqsi8Z2cc8c YouTube funny-men TGFbro turned their hands to construction when they decided to build a house from jelly bricks.

The Queen’s official sculptor in Scotland wants to complete one of the nation’s most famously incomplete works of architecture, according to The Herald. The National Monument on Calton Hill, in Edinburgh, has remained incomplete since work stopped on it in 1829.

The remains of five Archbishops of Canterbury have been found beneath a medieval parish church next to Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury's official London residence. Builders renovating the Garden Museum, housed at the deconsecrated church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, found a hidden crypt conta