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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....
...It’s a large rustic room and all the chandeliers are made of antlers. The heads of animals adorn the walls and taxidermied specimens stand in glass cases....
...in Germany and northern Italy....
...chimneys and red-brick factories of the great northern cities....
...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....
...in Los Angeles (1949) used I-beams, corrugated steel and X-bracing borrowed from the industrial architecture of California....
...Klaba refers to the set-up as “Roubaix Valley” in a nod to its much larger (and sunnier) cousin in California....
...Apple’s Norman Foster-designed office appears to be at the top of the pile for architectural ambition....
...An archaeology of the architectural future....
...The new plans for Google’s main office by Thomas Heatherwick and Bjarke Ingels reveal a huge, free-form office landscape designed to be reconfigurable by robots beneath undulating glass canopies, almost...
...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....
...But Lambert was horrified at her father’s original plans for a showy metal and glass edifice....
...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....
...The glass walls and the shimmering surface of the water sparkled in the California sun....
...In the second glass dome I surrendered my sense of global indigestion and give him game, set and match....
...(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...
...AirAsia and Tata have high hopes for new India airline AirAsia, southeast Asia’s biggest low-cost carrier, and India’s Tata group unveiled plans for a new airline in India to capitalise on the country’s...
...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....
...They flank the imposing municipal metal staircase that used to be in the office and now leads up to Farrell’s loft....
...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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