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...It nods to the perfectionism of the company’s founder, from its integrated door handles to the distressed-stone cladding of its yoga room and its tree-filled inner-ring park....
...The result is an architectural cadavre exquis....
...But then you notice the discreet pedestals at each end of the installation, created by Los Angeles based PlayLab, Inc. Each showcases four “historiated sculptures” encased in glass....
...The real excitement hinges on a technological development that it would enable: lithium metal anodes....
...Its operations include Sudbury — one of the largest integrated mining complexes in the world — and the Thompson mine in Manitoba, which has 5mn tonnes of untapped nickel that Vale is looking to exploit through...
...Just a short boat ride from Mahón port, the island’s trail of six sculptures includes creations by Spanish masters Joan Miró and Eduardo Chillida, and one of Louise Bourgeois’ eerie arachnids, all integrated...
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...The film is beautiful, Douglas’s composition is haunting, and the architectural backdrop is pure Soviet triumphalism....
...The second building, the Ritz-Carlton, is no less opulent, but if Prince Alwaleed has mixed feelings about the sprawling neoclassical estate, it may not be a question of mere architectural taste....
...I mean, from the customers you're talking to, are they concerned that China Inc, as it were, has cornered the market for battery materials?...
...That might have applied in the heyday of Ford’s integrated Michigan Rouge plant. It does not apply today. There is a more basic reason for Mr Musk to steer clear of lithium....
...But of course, it’s a very different situation because as it turned out, Russia’s more integrated into the world economy than people recognise....
..., the German asset manager that is a top-five investor in both gold miners with holdings worth more than $1bn, said the idea of combining the best assets in the industry was attractive if they could be integrated...
...“We’ve gone from North America . . . making hardly any batteries and not producing any chemicals and raw materials to having an integrated Tesla battery hub.”...
...The company wants to become the first vertically integrated producer of anode material outside China....
...Any recovery comes too late for Nemaska, which had ambitions to become a fully integrated lithium producer — both mining and processing lithium into the form required by batteries....
...It is the same award that Le Corbusier, IM Pei, Edwin Lutyens, Frank Gehry and other wearers of architectural spectacles have won over the past century and a half....
...Offshore wind farms play to some oil-company strengths; they know a lot about large metal structures in the North Sea. But solar energy is an architectural innovation....
...The software systems will not be given an integrated run-through until the month before opening, which seems bold, to say the least....
...It is something of an architectural metaphor for the man....
...total steel demand in the US, Mr Rodrigues noted, and are also used by a Russian-owned Evraz mill in Oregon and a joint venture between Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal and Japan’s Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal...
...That ride-sharing model, integrated with other land-based transport to ferry passengers to their nearest skyport, presents a huge opportunity for Uber....
...Culture, perhaps, was never fully integrated in the plan....
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...China’s troubles with Donald Trump could be an opportunity for Japan Inc....
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