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Keep up to dateIf your workers are that good at shinning up a rope, what's the need for scaffolding?
If you follow the gaze of the guy atop this 20-storey building, you'll see his althetic workmate halfway up, clinging to a rope. Steve Corbett, who spotted this while on secondment in Libya, exclaims: “Yes, that is his working platform at high level… and yes, that rope is his only access to that working platform!”
Not clear at this point whether the heavenward journey will take an upward or downward trajectory…
Not sure if this is what is meant by 'stackable furniture'… and there must be easier ways to put up a satellite dish
Standing in the gutter is handy – if hardly safe – for cleaning that particular storey, but how's he going to do the next one up?
Scheme drawn up by Danish architect 3XN set to go in for planning before Christmas
Project will include homes and workspace for local firms
Pair planning for start-up to hit £10m turnover mark in first year
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