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Situated just across from the tourist landmark Chatuchak market, the 30-storey skyscraper once featured a gleaming tower of blue glass and steel.

One spring day, I arrived home from work just as Stephen was pulling up outside our house in a gleaming, brand-new, white Dodge pickup.

"This has been our family car for three years, and it has been an absolute dream," says Ben Kilbey as he shows me his gleaming pearl-white Tesla Model Y.

Underneath the gleaming silver arch and around the freshly landscaped courtyard, inside Sky Studios Elstree there is industrious activity.

In a gleaming laboratory in Edinburgh, robotic machines whirr and mix.