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The full-scale 1, 900 square foot house sits inside a steel cage rigged up with 60 pressure boxes which can simulate the effects of a Category 5 hurricane (see photos).
Hydroforming uses water pressure (up to 15, 000 pounds per square inch) to force the flat steel against a one-sided tool, achieving the same result for half the cost.
General Motors sees those leftover steel cutouts, roughly four feet square, as a marketable commodity.
No longer: The walls, the ceilings, even the wet bar are honed from gleaming, hand-hammered stainless steel stretching across 1, 350 square feet.
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Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, the 46, 000-square-foot futuristic space is sheathed in stainless-steel pleats that alternately run horizontally, vertically and diagonally.
The apartment also boasts 2, 200 square feet of outdoor space including a rooftop terrace with stainless steel outdoor kitchen.
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At first, we think that Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon, with a wavy pompadour and steel-rimmed glasses) is the epitome of Midwestern square.
The smallest are roughly 500 square feet, and their amenities are decidedly modern: gas fireplaces, stainless-steel kitchen appliances, and epically scaled bathrooms, most with Jacuzzi tubs and heated floors.
The hardness of conventional steel alloys is at best in the neighborhood of 1.4 million pounds per square inch.
Golden keeps those products, which include Blanco stainless steel sinks, Progress chandeliers and DCS barbecue grills, in a 278, 000-square-foot warehouse in Edison.
The latter will consist of three free-standing units a square glass pavilion (as a workroom for the sculptor's poet wife), a tall triangle of recycled steel (forming the sculptor's studio) and an arc-shaped monolith of untreated wood, whose patina will turn grey with age (for the couple's house).
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