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A naked man in Florida was taken to hospital for sunburns to his buttocks after he ended up on top of a 100-foot drawbridge. WPLG Local 10 News reports that the man did not plan to go up the drawbridge but was simply strolling across the bridge naked at an unfortunate time.

A typical strawbale home Two brothers have taken house building into their own hands after high summer tourist rent prices forced them out of their home in Cornwall.

The future of Google's new California headquarters is in doubt because social network LinkedIn has been given most of the land required to build it. Both companies are seeking to expand their real-estate capacity in the North Bayshore neighbourhood of Mountain View, just outside San Francisco but, a

An eccentric Chinese businessman has paid tribute to his favourite sci-fi TV show by building an office block resembling the Star Trek Enterprise. "Uber-Trekkie" Liu Dejian, who is China's 320th wealthiest man, commissioned the $160 million structure and even got official licensing from CBS to allow

Soviet architecture owes its dimensions and originality not only to the talent of the architects, but also to the frequent and desperate inventiveness of its engineers and builders. Russia Beyond The Headlines looks back at some of the boldest decisions taken by Soviet engineers when faced with tric

Volunteers in Londonderry are being asked to join a visiting group of artists in order to build a miniature city made of cardboard - replete with its own embassy, streets and unusual buildings -as part of an innovative celebration of creativity on May 23 and 24. The People’s Republic of Creativity

The Chartered Institute of Building has announce the winner of its Minecraft competition. Totally_Guy, real name Guy MacDonnell ICIOB, won with 52.9 per cent of the vote for his build of the CCTV Tower. The competition was launched in association with International Construction Management Day on 9 M

An Edinburgh builder who hacked into a 100-year-old protected “landmark” tree with a chainsaw and killing it in a fit of “frustration” after council chiefs refused to let him chop it down has avoided a massive fine. The Edinburgh Evening News reports that Robert Wilkie twice applied for plan

A full-size replica of Edinburgh Castle is to be built in Australia as the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo travels for a rare overseas performance. The replica of the historic facade will include statues of Scottish heroes Robert the Bruce and William Wallace.

An exact digital 3D visualisation has brought the V&A museum in Dundee to life, years ahead of schedule. The interactive, open-world virtual reality visualisation allows users to explore the museum as it will look when fully constructed in 2018.

A red bridge made completely out of paper has been unveiled in the Lake District. The structure, made only of 22,000 sheets of paper, was designed and erected by environmental artist Steve Messam. It took three years to develop after it was commissioned by Lakes Culture as part of its Lakes Ignite 2

A notorious pair of daredevils have taken a selfie balanced on a crane atop of the world’s second tallest building. Russian-Ukrainian thrill seeker Vitaly Raskalov and his friend Vadim Makhorov said they were inspired to climb the building because of positive feedback they received after scaling S

A luxury “fairytale” treehouse in Fife, which costs nearly £500 a night to stay in, has been named among the best leafy high rise stays in the country. The Scotsman reports that the home that has literally branched out at Fernie Castle at Letham near Cupar is built in a cluster of sycamore tree

The University of Leicester’s cutting-edge new Centre for Medicine building is set to become the largest Passivhaus building in the UK when it opens during the next academic year. In a new video issued by the University, plans for the £42 million centre, currently being constructed on Lancaster R

Hologram headsets that will show construction workers virtual reality projections of completed building projects are being developed. They will allow staff working on site to have 3D reconstructions of blueprints flashed up in front of them.