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...work. Most of those live in the Hauts Champs/Longchamp neighborhood, a cluster of housing projects that crowds more than half of the town's residents into just 10% of its its land. Built in the late 1950s for laborers of the region's then-booming textile and steel mills, Hem's tenements and their residents were left stranded as international competition closed down those industries, killing the town's economic engine . While larger cities like Lille - with better schools and more dynamic economies - have adapted by exploiting high-tech and web-based opportunities, inhabitants of Hauts Champs/Longchamps have watched...
...already alluring enough, the addition of a sprawling $28 million spa makes it irresistible. Bergoase is the latest work of homegrown architect Mario Botta, whose commissions have included San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art and Milan's new-look La Scala opera house. The spa features sail-like steel-and-glass skylights, pictured, employs granite in abundance and is attached by a dramatic glass bridge to the recently renovated Tschuggen Grand Hotel. "I wanted the structure to have a deep, instant and intense bond with its surroundings," Botta says of the native raw materials he used. The four-story...
Hong Kong's trading companies have moved beyond consumer goods. Noble Group, founded in 1987 in Hong Kong by a former steel trader named Richard Elman, sources commodities ranging from soybeans to petrochemicals to aluminum. A Chinese steel mill searching for a reliable supply of iron ore can hire Noble to find it, deliver the ore and then market the steel made from it. For some products, Noble controls the entire supply chain--for example, it grows oilseeds in Argentina, stores them in Noble-owned warehouses, ships them to China from Noble-controlled Argentine ports, processes and refines them...
...computer calls up every scrap of data you can imagine--the ship's current route and historic movements, its cargo, entire crew roster and maintenance schedule. One ship, the program tells you, is dropping off 6,000 tons of fruit in Rotterdam, another is discharging steel products in Tanzania, while yet another is loading methanol in Malaysia. Port operator Hutchison Whampoa has an equally impressive system to help run its Hong Kong port. Incoming ships send data on their cargoes to Hutchison's operations center onshore. That information then gets fed through computers that optimize the loading and unloading. Hutchison...
...shoreline side. And just up from those tracks, running parallel to them, the park is cut again by the four lanes of Elliott Avenue, one of Seattle's major arteries. Together they split the slope into three long stretches connected by a land bridge over the roadway and a steel span crossing the tracks. So this isn't just a park in the city. It's a park with the city...