Word: steeled
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...because our energy system is so deeply embedded in the world economy--in vehicles, power plants, factories, residences and office buildings--it will take decades to reamp it. So people who care about the future of the planet will need to push for businesses to produce electricity, concrete, steel and plastics in new ways...
...Boy” doesn’t quite cut it. Ciara is more of a back-up dancer than she is a star. Her smoky looks alone can’t make her video interesting. She’s like Derek Zoolander: she’s got Blue Steel, but that’s all, folks. —Juli...
...serious takeoff. It has under way two major projects in Italy, that museum for the Maserati car company in Modena and a subway station in Naples that's a collaboration with Anish Kapoor. He's the British artist best known in the U.S. for Cloud Mirror, the reflective steel sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park that locals call the Bean. Obviously, beans are a developing theme here...
...plant life and cellular forms and the swells and inlets of the human body. It was that undulating line that Modernism almost did away with when it swept into power in the middle of the 20th century, stomping its robot feet, depositing flat-topped, right-angled glass-and-steel boxes everywhere. In with the Cartesian was the general rule. Out with the organic. In with knife-edged perpendiculars. Out with just about everything else...
...architecture firm Marmol Radziner in Los Angeles, sustainable prefab homes are on the rise, and while the factory-produced modules are made of recycled steel frames and covered with environmentally sound paints, the custom layouts bring nature and the landscape into the home, and interiors are made of wood and stone with all of their natural blemishes. "We spend most of our days in front of a computer screen. What you do touch you want to be as authentic and least processed as possible," says design principal Ron Radziner...