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It can't be easy being the world's most famous living architect. Sometimes, you have to say what's on your mind. Sometimes, words just won't do. No, that's not Frank Gehry demonstrating the spire of his newest skyscraper. That's Frank Gehry giving you - and all his critics - the finger. Gehry's digi

A West Yorkshire firm is selling what it claims to be the world's first zombie proof log cabin. Leeds-based Tiger Log Cabins is offering a 10 year anti-zombie guarantee with its ZFC-1, Zombie Fortification Cabin.

An owner of a construction firm in Kansas has been caught in a bizarre story of mistaken identity. Jeff J. Vap, who owns Vap Construction, Inc. based in Atwood, about 30 miles north of Colby, builds agricultural buildings including barns in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado.

  The Songjiang Hotel in China

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has reportedly called for an end to “weird architecture” in a country that has seen a huge construction boom. Much of China’s older building stock is made up of Soviet-style concrete blocks, but in recent years property development has played a huge economic role.

Aberdeen, Cumbernauld, Kirkintilloch, Leven, Lochgelly and Maddiston will compete for the dubious honour of winning a prize at the 2014 Carbuncle Awards. The places have been named on the shortlist for the Plook on a Plinth category, which seeks Scotland’s most dismal town.

Edward Hardy The Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS) has published a new initiative focusing on inappropriate and offensive language used in the construction industry.

Thousands of pounds worth of stolen building equipment, including a 20ft car transporter and 2,000 pieces of scaffolding, has been recovered, thanks to an appeal in a local newspaper. Dundee builder Stephen Mellor requested information in The Courier about his equipment, stolen from his premises two

Nigel Himsworth, left, with Adam Wright, Ashley Robinson, Adam Booth, Michael Hunt and Darren Fisher A syndicate of six construction workers is celebrating after scooping more than £330,000 in a EuroMillions win the first time they played together.

A practical joke is turning heads on Alaska's roadways. Someone broke into the back of an electronic sign used for construction and changed the message to a phrase that caught some late night drivers by surprise.

Bob 2.0 (left) replaces the much-loved 1998 version Toy-makers Mattel have given Bob the Builder a new look, and it seems people are not happy.

A skip company has defended one of its workers after he was filmed driving a lorry with three skips stacked on the back. Alarmed motorists reported seeing the load rocking from side to side, with one driver saying the truck was going so fast its wheels appeared to lift off the ground as it careered

A construction worker had his hand mauled while working at a big cat sanctuary in Florida, losing a thumb in the encounter. According to a Florida Fish and Wildlife spokesperson, construction work was being done on the site and one of the workers stuck his hand into a cage containing a tiger when th

The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has leapt to the defence of The Great British Bake Off contestant Richard Burr after rumours were circulated that he is not a real builder. Earlier this week, the Daily Mail described Burr’s job as closer to that of “an investment banker than a jobbing bri

A bomb disposal team was scrambled yesterday after historical military explosives were found in a skip near an Ayrshire industrial estate. Officers trained to deal with exploded ordnance rushed to the Loreny Industrial estate in Kilmarnock following the unexplained find.