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Toyota to build prototype city of the future, powered by hydrogen fuel cells

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His team at BIG have designed many high-profile projects: from 2 World Trade Center in New York and Lego House in Denmark, to Google’s Mountain View and London headquarters. These three street types weave together to form an organic grid pattern to help accelerate the testing of autonomy.

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The Young Designers to Know at Pitti Uomo

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Stay Here In Philadelphia’s Fishtown, a Tranquil New Hotel in an 18th-Century Mansion Just like the variety of vintage treasures in the shops along Frankford Avenue in Fishtown, no two rooms are alike at Hotel Anna & Bel , the first full-service hotel in the artsy Philadelphia neighborhood.

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Road traffic noise linked to deaths and increased strokes

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Living in an area with noisy road traffic may reduce life expectancy, according to a new study by a team from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in partnership with Imperial College London and King’s College London. million people living in London between 2003 and 2010. In London more than 1.6

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Exploring Ghana, With Contemporary Art as a Guide

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Some days we had wraps at Vida e caffe , an African chain; others, we went to the Purple Café in Osu, a hip neighborhood to the east of our hotel. As part of the organization, Garvey founded the short-lived Black Star Line shipping company. After filling up on fruit and yogurt at breakfast, lunch could be a bit of a tossup.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

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It’s in the pavement at a bus stop in the middle of a residential neighborhood. We have a big network in Northern California, which is still in design work—that’s an organization called the Solana Transportation Authority. We also have a grocery delivery van with Waitrose in London. And we’re like, “Yeah, that’s the point.”