All news on the topic: Architecture

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Initiative launched to improve insurance cover for fire safety risk buildings
The Fire Safety Reinsurance Facility aims to help increase insurance market competition to cover properties affected by combustible cladding and other fire safety problems
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Expert unveils 'wild' reason supermarkets always put fruit and veg by the door
An architecture and design expert has revealed that supermarkets are laid out in a specific way to manipulate shoppers into staying in store for longer and buying more junk
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Dark history of one of the UK's most iconic bridges that claimed scores of lives
The construction of the rail bridge required 53,000 tonnes of steel and 120,000 cubic yards of concrete - but building the famous landmark took a major toll on human life
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Italian leaning tower sealed off sparking fears it collapse on buildings
Regular monitoring by experts from the University of Bologna, Italy have recorded changes in the way the Garisenda Tower leans. Its foundations could be at risk of subsidence and require reinforcing
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UK's 'ugliest' place named with pound shops and takeaways dominating town centre
Slough ranked last in a cut-throat Daily Telegraph list of the ugliest towns in Britain with the blaming being pointed at the number of pound shops on high street
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Abandoned mansion bigger than Buckingham Palace 'left to rot' for over 20 years
A mansion in Sussex has been standing half-finished for over two decades after its millionaire owner fell out with the architect - and some say it could even be haunted
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Abandoned mansion with designer shoe collection and luxury cars left to rust
An urban explorer has discovered an abandoned £10.5 million mansion located in Northeast America where £10,000 worth of designer shoes have been left unopened and luxury cars left to rust
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Unassuming water tower voted 'most phallic building in the world'
Since 1890 the good residents of Ypsilanti, Michigan, have been wondering how the architects didn't notice just how much their water tower looked like something inappropriate
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Inside £25million abandoned mansion on 'billionaires row' left to rot
A mansion worth £25million lies abandoned on 'billionaires row' in Hampstead, London, and new images reveal that the property has now been taken over by green mould and graffiti
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Inside luxury £34million doomsday bunkers which can survive deadly nuclear war
A new set of luxury doomsday bunkers have been launched by a Swiss engineering company just months after Russian president Vladimir Putin threatened the West with nuclear war