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/ 15 January 2009
As scientific ambitions go, it’s a big one: no less than the creation of an artificial life form.
The elegant, tapering signature of the Eiffel Tower is to be reshaped, altering the skyline of Paris, in time for the structure’s 120th anniversary next year, the Société d’exploitation de la Tour Eiffel has just announced. Serero Architects of Paris has won the competition to redesign the structure’s public viewing platform and reception areas.
Few things seem to excite car designers more than the concept cars they wheel out at international motor shows. Each year, gleaming displays of futuristic styling grace the circuit, revealing ever sleeker lines and tantalising technology that promises to do away with the car’s deadly addiction to carbon-based fuel.