STRUCTURE
The apparently complex form of the building is based on hyperbolic paraboloid forms defined by two sets of intersecting straight lines that may be laid across the warped surface. It is this that makes for a consistent and economic structural system for design and fabrication of the main steelwork and roofing sheeting.
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