Described as a "mega-scale free form printer" by its makers, the massive aluminum structure uses sand, which it forms back into a material that's like marble.

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The Soumaya Museum is a towering, upwardly curving structure covered with hexagonal aluminum pieces that reflect the sunlight.

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Once you house an antenna structure inside of an aluminum body, you also have shadowing effects to overcome, this is caused by the metal body affecting the radiated signal, as well as the inbound signals from the cell sites.

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Comprised of a surface pattern of triangles-like those in the main theater, but made in this case out of 1, 067 thin aluminum panels, mounted on the support structure with open joints-the light-blue facade looks razor-sharp but creates the impression of a super-light floating skin dematerialized against the sky: another visual reference in the architecture to the infinite thinness of the moving image.

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The structure is made of steel tubing and the body of aluminum.

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The car has new aluminum doors and also uses aluminum in the bumper beams and the front cradle, which is part of the structure.

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