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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....
...chimneys and red-brick factories of the great northern cities....
...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....
...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...
...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....
...Early medieval glaziers created pot-metal: molten glass blended with metals such as copper compounds (which alone could provide blue, green and red colours)....
...They flank the imposing municipal metal staircase that used to be in the office and now leads up to Farrell’s loft....
...These relationships are the same even when we take into account the education, experience, and industry of workers. They’re even the same if we take individual workers’ IQs into account....
...Northern Ireland has now nearly 60 peace walls, the majority in west and north Belfast....
...For now, the clubs and the warehouses, the meatpackers and the models, the glaziers and the gallerists co-exist in a slice of real urbanity....
..., where the back of the glass is painted with gold or metal and the design is etched into this to create a patterned mirror....
...hate figures on a par with the “welfare queens” conjured up by Reagan-era Republicans....
...A wall of sliding glass – a kitsch medley of mirrored, stained and sculpted panes that were leftovers from a glazier in 1975 – opens on to a mature camphor tree....
...There are a couple of clocks, a few pieces of china and glass on some shelves, but few books....
...wage packets; IG Metall, the powerful engineering trade union, last month won an inflation-busting 3 per cent pay rise for 3.4m metal industry workers for the 10 months from June....
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