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...The unblemished concrete walls of Modernist architecture were a blank canvas for abstract murals by Fernand Léger, Marc Chagall or Georges Braque, proving that less is not always more....
...“The key is to design a hotel that doesn’t feel like a hotel,” Cheng says....
...These would convene senior officials, technology leaders and academics in closed-door meetings to drive concrete outcomes....
...One of the most promising is artificial intelligence: just this month there have been three concrete examples of how Alphabet and Google are tapping AI’s potential....
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...“Most of them got into difficulty early on with the civil engineering work, the site clearance and the concrete pouring. It doesn’t matter what you put on top if you don’t get the concrete right.”...
...Just look at the Chinese miracle, a modern economy wrought from concrete and steel in two short decades, entire cities built from scratch....
...But we will all need to verify if there are actual concrete plans,” said Federico Bellono, head of the Fiom metalworkers union in Turin....
...He said he would never design a building like the Gherkin today, but it was the Shard he had in his sights....
...Westinghouse has proposed a modular design for the shield, involving steel plate and a concrete layer. But the HSE worries this design is still unlicensed in the US or Europe....
...“Blurred groupings are powerful because they can ap-pear even more simple, but at the cost of becoming more abstract, less concrete.”...
...Anne Lauvergeon, Areva chairman, said the deal would give the French company “a very concrete, ambitious basis upon which to build the US EPR in the United States”....
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