Great battered sheets of rusting metal are stacked outside in the courtyard, surrounded by girders and heavy machine parts.
The research we're doing at MIT and Southampton is so you can make up your own objects and say we're going to collaborate about bridges and girders and buses, because we're redesigning Hammersmith Bridge.
This will enable architects to build up a design using representations of real products, from steel girders to floor panels to light fittings, while keeping track of costs, structural properties and so forth.
They generated such heat when they exploded that steel girders supporting the building melted.
The stalking girders of piers subdued the mighty deep, or at least half a mile of it, and their twinkling electric lights crept out bravely from the shore; in Atlantic City, New Jersey, no fewer than 27,000 outlined the Steel Pier against the dark.
Visitors still stand like mourners at a funeral, silent and thoughtful, and pick rust from its girders.
But anything went: car doors, girders, industrial springs, bollards and bedsteads, all piled up in a great rusting heap outside his studio in Camden Town.
The demand for iron ore depends on down-to-earth things, such as how many steel girders Chinese builders are using.
Look over the rail on any pier, and the rust is inch-thick and flaking from its girders.
In the attacks, the building was hit from two sides by falling girders, and then swept by fire and floods.
Massive concrete girders and the dense, warm smell of history provide strange comfort.
