It was a functional federation in the form of a partnership republic of Turkish-Cypriots and Greek-Cypriots.

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Paul Andreu designed the first terminal at Charles de Gaulle, north of Paris, as a doughnut-shaped structure with glass tubes crossing through the middle, but when it came time to expand the airport, in the nineteen-eighties, only a few years after the first part was finished, his futuristic form seemed more like a cartoon than like a functional building, and more conventional terminals were ordered up.

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When four of her coasters are placed next to one another they form a picture or design and serve as a decorative, functional piece.

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