NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared a mesmerizing photograph of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, taken from the International Space Station. Pettit's remarkable space photography ...

Credit: Veidekke/Cision. Scandinavian contractor Veidekke has been awarded a contract by Miami-based investment company HIG Capital to convert an office building into a hotel in Stavanger, Norway. The ...

Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992, it features 40 caves, many with large calcite deposits and a natural bridge named Tianqiashengkong (“bridge across the sky”) - one of the highest ...

The ongoing drama surrounding the beleaguered King’s Head Hotel continues as plans for ... which included retention of the state heritage-listed building, the site sat untouched with the project ...

Dozens of people got a chance Monday night to look at a development proposal that, if approved by the City of Victoria, would be the tallest tower on Vancouver Island. One Victoria Place is a ...

This is Thailand's desperate, unproven attempt at reducing the oppressive air pollution over its capital, which on Thursday reached eight times the World Health Organization's recommended daily ...

The man in charge of the tallest tree in Edinburgh said he is "devastated" it has been felled by Storm Éowyn - 166 years after it was planted during a visit by Queen Victoria's eldest son ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

President Trump dislikes brutalist architecture, the European-inspired trend that deposited concrete-clad federal buildings across the capital in the 1960s and ’70s. In his first week in office ...

The huge rectangular mass of concrete and glass – the tallest building in Havana ... known to locals as the “K and 23 building” because of its location. Located near the legendary Habana Libre hotel ...

The tallest tree in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has been felled by Storm Éowyn - a 95ft (29m) high deodar cedar which was planted 166 years ago. The head of the organisation said ...