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• Need a lathe or a laser cutter? Come to Bloqs – Britain’s biggest open-access factory

  10-02-2022 17:29
  
  A rotting north London warehouse earmarked for flats has been transformed into a cutting-edge ‘makerspace’. Can it restore the area to its former inventive glory?From guns and vacuum flasks to cookers and colour televisions, Enfield has long been a cradle of invention. Rifles, radios, motorbikes and dishwashers were all made in this fertile corner of north-east London’s Lea Valley, which also gave birth to the world’s first cash machine – now memorialised with a gol
  
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• Triangle tower: building starts on rare Paris skyscraper decried as ‘catastrophe’

  10-02-2022 15:30
  
  New 180-metre glass-and-steel skyscraper condemned by environmentalists will be the city’s third-highest buildingConstruction of a 42-floor, pyramid-shaped skyscraper began in Paris on Thursday despite local opposition and objections from environmentalists who have called the project “catastrophic”.The Triangle Tower (Tour Triangle) will, at 180 metres (590 feet), become the city’s third-highest building after the Eiffel Tower, completed in 1889, and the Montparnasse Towe
  
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