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To illustrate the design principle behind Scotland’s Forth Bridge, engineer Sir Benjamin Baker offered a personal demonstration. Sir John Fowler (left) and Baker (right) each hold two wooden poles with outstretched arms, forming two diamond shapes. When construction foreman Kaichi Watanabe sits in the center, the diamonds are prevented from tipping inward because their outer ends are anchored.

It worked. The bridge, opened in 1890, held the record as the world’s longest single cantilever bridge span for 17 years.

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Jacques Tati ad nauseum

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Reliance Controls Factory, Swindon, 1968. Commissioned by Peter Parker, who went on the run British Rail, this simple factory building was probably the first example of Californian steel construction ideas coming to the UK. The Architects, Team 4 (Richard Rogers and Norman Foster), worked with Engineer, Tony Hunt (my old boss). Tony had been influenced by the work of people like Craig Elwood and Raphael Soriano in the 1940s and 50s, and so it seems obvious to me that this building is a progression from their work. The simple layering of steel I-sections and exposed profiled metal deck, creates a calm composition against the clutter of manufacturing that takes place inside.

Again much copied, this sort of simplicity is the result of many hours refining and re-thinking steelwork connections and details. Well worth the effort provided the architects do the same with the rest of the fabric; wasted if they do not have the same discipline.