At the World Architecture Festival, Nikken Sekkei took home the sustainable building award for its evaporative cooling bioskin building in Tokyo, and science fans successfully purchased Nikola Tesla's old Long Island workshop to turn it into a museum.

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To our interview he brought an old wooden driver from his workshop in Latrobe, Pa.

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On Saturday passers-by in Porthmadog will see it hauled from the pub and taken along its old tracks to return to a workshop for some "tender loving care".

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Afghan engineers are able to carry out repairs on their old American Humvees, but outside the workshop there are more than 100 idle vehicles, waiting for spare parts.

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Subsequent analysis showed that the lake was 50km wide, 225km long, 500 metres deep, and at least 2m years old though new data presented to the workshop suggest that its age may be closer to 15m years, and that it could even predate the glaciation of Antarctica, which occurred around 40m years ago.

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The 69-year-old Laurence Graff climbed from scrubbing toilets in a Hatton Garden workshop to the helm of a worldwide brand with 15 stores in the globe's wealthiest spots, from Monte Carlo to Dubai to Moscow.

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In his workshop he shows me a strip of tonewood from a tree at least 350 years old.

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To a workshop to deliver the crates, and to pick up a pile of trash and old tires.

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