His ambitious plans for a new computer lab for MIT, the world's leading electronics research university, combine both elements to create a complex of crazy buildings clad in traditional brick with steel-clad classrooms and meeting rooms.

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But the glass and steel-clad building "has become too large" said the Herald's website thisisplymouth.

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She minimized paint (using plaster walls inside, stone outside and steel-clad windows) so as to avoid retouching work.

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The Porsche is long gone, but Mr. Toyoda likes to show off his Porsche ballpoint pen clad in the steel mesh used to protect wiring under the hood.

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