The glass and white-painted steel roof floats elegantly above the building, letting in natural light so that how the works look changes with the day.
If the Quest is to come with a panoramic skylight, the robot also knows to pick up the steel roof panel with large rectangular holes in it.
It had to be preserved, and Foster's scheme for so doing entailed sweeping away the clutter of now obsolete bookstack buildings from around it and covering the court with a light glass-and-steel roof, creating Europe's largest enclosed space, which will function as the access core of the museum.
The building's steel lattice roof collapsed after a night of heavy rain and wind but Wealden District Council does not believe the weather was to blame.
The building's steel lattice roof collapsed after a night of heavy rain and wind, but the council's building control officer Paul Dunstall said at the time he did not believe the weather was to blame.
The steel lattice roof collapsed about 04:30 GMT after a night of heavy rain and wind, but the council's building control officer Paul Dunstall said at the time he did not believe the weather was to blame.
The courtyard, which was supposed to be a breezy, sunlit outdoor space at the heart of the estate, is now a dimly lit interior room covered by a heavy an obtrusive steel and glass roof.
There is as much steel hidden in the roof of the aquatics center as there is proudly displayed in the main stadium, but when it finally sheds its wings, Ms. Hadid's design will have undeniable visual power.
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No great tonnage of steel here: Its curving roof is a tensioned cable-net that resembles the strings of a tennis racket.
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Its owner, retired insurance executive Ron Gunnell, says the estate includes 11 miles of crown molding, 80 tons of steel to support the slate roof from China and 52 interior hand-marbleized columns.
There are the big things that hit you first: the medical centre, a rambling, squat, three-storey yellow-brown structure that looks as if a car bomb, a big one, has gone off outside it, ripping out a great chunk of roof and exposing along one long facade its shiny steel skeleton.
Yet the car's body is 25% stiffer than its predecessor because key parts of the frame--like the center post that supports the car body during side collisions and the roof side rail that connects the sides of the roof--are made of ultra-high-strength steel created through a process called hot stamping.
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