The main results of the paper are: Proposition 0.1. A group G acting coarsely on a coarse space (X,𝓒) induces a coarse equivalence g ↦ g·x₀ from G to X for any x₀ ∈ X. Theorem 0.2. Two coarse structures 𝓒₁ and 𝓒₂ on the same set X are equivalent if the following conditions are satisfied: (1) Bounded sets in 𝓒₁ are identical with bounded sets in 𝓒₂. (2) There is a coarse action ϕ₁ of a group G₁ on (X,𝓒₁) and a coarse action ϕ₂ of a...

Let $X$ be a building of arbitrary type. A compactification ${𝒞}_{\mathrm{sph}}\left(X\right)$ of the set ${\text{Res}}_{\mathrm{sph}}\left(X\right)$ of spherical residues of $X$ is introduced. We prove that it coincides with the horofunction compactification of ${\text{Res}}_{\mathrm{sph}}\left(X\right)$ endowed with a natural combinatorial distance which we call the root-distance. Points of ${𝒞}_{\mathrm{sph}}\left(X\right)$ admit amenable stabilisers in $\text{Aut}\left(X\right)$ and conversely, any amenable subgroup virtually fixes a point in ${𝒞}_{\mathrm{sph}}\left(X\right)$. In addition, it is shown that, provided $\text{Aut}\left(X\right)$ is transitive enough, this compactification also coincides with the group-theoretic...