Not only is this vision wrought in civil engineering perfectly surfaced, free of potholes and shimmying traction changes, it is utterly, bleakly empty.

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No one breathed a word about the vast potential cost of re-engineering the world to suit the vision for which Pachauri received his award.

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He spent months working with the BMW engineering team in Munich to make his vision a reality.

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Branagan has faced that kind of tunnel vision throughout his career, which began with an undergraduate degree in metallurgical engineering from Michigan Technological University in 1990.

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Because towers take so long to plan and construct, the current crop reflect a vision up to a decade old, reckons Nick Offer of Arup, an engineering firm.

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