It took just 90 minutes for fire to race up 20 storeys of the Grenfell Tower in June 2017, killing 72 people. Last month, a cigarette sparked a blaze that quickly jumped five floors of Melbourne's ...

Residents' representatives fear that any flammable materials left in place can lead to a lower fire safety rating - even ...

It is still unclear how much potentially dangerous cladding could be on Canberra buildings, but the taskforce looking into it said it is confident there is no need to worry. Flammable cladding, ...

Up to £3bn of public money may have to be spent assessing and removing potentially flammable cladding from buildings in Scotland. New estimates from the Scottish government suggest up to 1,450 ...

The first batch of data to be published by the Ministry of Housing since the Grenfell Inquiry completed its work shows that 4,771 buildings have now been highlighted as having "life-critical" cladding ...

Every time Tina Murolo hears a siren or alarm, she races with her heart in her mouth out onto her balcony and looks anxiously up the facade of her Sydney CBD apartment building for any sign of a fire.

The Scottish government has been accused of making "painfully slow" progress on removing unsafe cladding from buildings. It came as ministers announced plans to speed up efforts to inspect and repair ...

Flames raced up the side of the tower after the inferno began at about 2:20am on Tuesday near the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. A resident of the complex – 8 Boulevard Walk – told ...

The new images show how some of the cultural venue’s interior spaces will look, including the galleries and the vast event space created when the wheeled steel structure is rolled out to its furthest ...

What is it that makes wonderful buildings speak to us? The sense of shelter promised? Memories evoked? Innovative revealed? The possibility of heritage lost, or futures held? Or, simple, is it beauty ...