While other Harley frames are built of steel tubes welded together, the V-Rod's is made by hydroforming, a process in which water, under extremely high pressure, is used to make complex shapes from a single tube.
In a flourish that preserves some of Calatrava's original vision, the glass spine of the building, which is made of blast-proof glass and ribbed with rectangular frames, was built to fully retract, leaving a long, curved, open skylight that stretches the length of the space, like a giant eye that is just waking up.
For that, a graph layered by frames is built with the pitch combinations, where the weights consider the differences in the smoothed intensities for the candidates in adjacent frames and their combination scores.
You see the paint being mixed, the frame being built, the canvas being stretched, everything being prepped.
For steel cantilever bridges, the steel frame is built out from the towers toward the centre and the abutments.
He is going to show it in a gallery in London for a month while a specialist frame is built for the piece in his house.
To provide additional height, two ocean shipping containers were brought in and welded together, and a frame was built on top to support the mobile tower.
Hurricane Sandy struck early in the construction process, leading Piano to adjust the museum's design; the steel frame is built to bend, not break, whenever the next storm arrives.
The frame was built with a one-inch margin of error, and when a crowd gathered to watch it being lifted into place, some were betting it wouldn't fit.
