Seamless metal containers still have myriad uses in the high-tech age: they make particularly good casings for long-life lithium ion batteries, used in mobile phones and notebook computers, since they don't corrode as welded casings do.

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Professing to be an architectural icon in a liveable city core, this giant structure, purported to be the largest wood structure in the world, is best described as a forest of mushrooms welded onto a flying waffle.

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Some pieces in "Sinister Pop, " such as Lee Bontecou's wall sculpture of welded steel, wire and rope from 1961, would not look alien in a show about the New York School.

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The suppliers, not Chrysler, would assume responsibility for running large sections of the factory, such as the body shop, where steel car frames are welded together by robots.

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Transforming one of Boston's iconic hotels is no easy task, but the designers have magnificently welded a series of antique artworks with 21st-century furnishings such as modern lamps, a quartet of standalone reception desks and zigzag-lined carpeting.

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Nothing in the manner of the film-making is as witty or insolent as the scene in which Banksy has a red London phone booth carved up, welded into a dogleg, and put back where it stood.

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