Labour leadership contender Ed Balls has called for an extra £6bn to be invested to build an additional 100,000 affordable homes in a major new programme of house-building.

Halton Borough Council has laid out proposals to fund its new bridge over the River Mersey to link Runcorn and Widnes in a bid to win Government backing.

The Empire State Building’s owner lost his bid to stop a new skyscraper from rising in the neighbourhood when the New York City Council approved zoning and land use changes yesterday that pave the way for the 1,190ft tower.

Houses built with a central timber frame are a fire disaster waiting to happen, experts have warned.

The owner of the Empire State Building said the height of a proposed tower near the skyscraper would damage the skyline of New York City.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will emphasise the Government’s commitment to England’s 2018 World Cup bid when he meets with a six-man FIFA inspection team today.

A 32-storey glass tower is to be built at the Roosevelt University in Chicago.

Aberdeen Football Club (AFC) has lodged a planning application for a new stadium with the city council.

A skyscraper designed to generate the power to meet its own energy needs is being planned in Spain.

St Modwen has redrawn its plans for the new stadium for Worcester City Football Club.

Network Rail has appointed BDP as chief architects for the refurbishment of Manchester’s Victoria railway station.

Plans to build a 115m tall observation tower near the Olympic Park in Stratford should be subjected to heightened inquiry before the project is given the go-ahead, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) has said.

A grant of £50,000 has been pledged to help safeguard one of the country’s most important lead mining ruins, English Heritage said today.

The largest planning application ever submitted in the UK, which could take 30 years to construct, is a step closer to being released after Wirral Council passed the proposal.

Reviewing the design of a project as part of the planning system brings benefits, especially if its done is early on in the process, according to the findings of a report.

Newport’s historic Transporter Bridge, one of only eight in the world, officially reopened to the public today after a £1.225M refurbishment project.

More than 100 oil rigs and platforms in the North Sea will soon be safety-checked, under a new Health and Safety Executive programme.

A newly-constructed dam collapsed during three days of flooding in Pakistan which left more than two hundred people dead, it has emerged.

Record-high water levels are putting the capacity of China’s massive Three Gorges Dam to the test after heavy rains raged on across the country, compounding flooding problems that already left more than 1,200 people dead or missing.

Ministers ignored officials’ advice not to publish an error-strewn list of scrapped school building projects before it could be double-checked, a quango boss has suggested.