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...The slender glass obelisk dominates the city’s skyline....
...Take the multistorey structure he built in northern California for a woman who worked for Pinterest and so was keen for her treehouse to be visually arresting....
...There’s something captivating about molten metal: the pure glow, the transformation of permanence into motion....
...The pandemic killed off his ambitious attempt to merge 42 separate pension schemes into a single, fairer system, but even before Covid it had been stalled by disruptive protests from workers in the most...
...He worked constantly during that time, creating sketches for local architectural practices in between manual work to earn his way. “Architecture was like a religion....
...Calpers, the nearly $400bn California public sector workers pension, declined to provide data on the racial or gender composition of its venture capital managers....
...My neighbour, a marijuana farmer from northern California, had been coming to Nicaragua since the early 1980s — part of an early wave of visitors drawn by both surf and Sandinismo....
...“The sovereign wealth funds, international pension funds . . . how big they were.”...
...Listed in 2010, the Milton Keynes building is a glass-and-steel masterpiece....
...the museum or the impenetrable concrete Brutalist boxes that had replaced them were symbols of an elitist, exclusive culture and applying the language of industry would make these buildings part of the workers...
...Klaba refers to the set-up as “Roubaix Valley” in a nod to its much larger (and sunnier) cousin in California....
...There are huge curved glass doors that open the café up to the landscape. “There’s not a straight piece of glass in this building,” said Jobs....
...An archaeology of the architectural future....
...But some employers from California to London are reacting against those corporate archetypes....
...Institutional investors, including the California State Teachers Retirement System, Calpers, New York City Pension Funds and the Florida State Board of Administration voted against the plan....
...Far from the wealthy elites then building their glass houses in California and New England, the Bavingers did not have much money but had very particular ideas about living....
...But Lambert was horrified at her father’s original plans for a showy metal and glass edifice....
...The glass walls and the shimmering surface of the water sparkled in the California sun....
...These trunks and their metal tracery of branches are covered with green climbers, bromeliads and flowering plants. Grant credits the movies for his inspiration....
...(Financial Times) US pension fund sues big banks over CDS ‘dominance’: The class action antitrust suit filed by the Sheet Metal Workers Local No. 33 Cleveland District Pension Plan pension fund accuses...
...temporary workers, writes Chris Bryant....
...Early medieval glaziers created pot-metal: molten glass blended with metals such as copper compounds (which alone could provide blue, green and red colours)....
...The compromise allowed JLR to factor lower manufacturing costs into its business plan and also rejuvenated the company’s workforce. Today, half of the workers at Halewood are aged 25 or under....
...Just inside the door, two round metal sinks have been converted into large fish bowls....
...Government retirees in California had reason to cheer this week when the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (Calpers), the biggest US public pension fund, boasted its best returns in 14 years...
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