High-tech style

Nicholas Bullock, Building the Post-war World (2002). Brutalism was cheap its uncommunicative abstraction suited post-war austerity. At Hunstanton School, the water tank featured prominently the motif of expressed services carried over into the high-tech style after the direct juncture of elements had been replaced by over-fetishised sealed seams. 

While studies of natural REE and their variation are abundant and their behaviour in natural systems is reasonably well understood, their increased usage in high-tech products and applications that have become essential for our modern life styles is making it harder to conduct research on natural processes. 

The high-tech architectural style was well served by British engineers. Function and construction were exuberantly expressed to the point of parody. 

They re the latest in high-tech faucetry hands-free water-savers, equipped with electronic-eye sensors that automatically detect hands and dispense preset amounts of water. They re also more likely to be contaminated with one of the most common and hazardous bacteria in hospitals compared to old-style fixtures with separate handles for hot and cold water, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital. 

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