The slightly ventilated cavity has a bespoke gasket designed to ensure sufficient natural ventilation of the cavity, while providing seal from external rain and noise. The design was supported by detailed FEM structural models of the façade including computational fluid dynamic (CFD) analysis to ensure the behaviour of the façade within the ambitious thermal performance targets.

Another challenge was posed bye the large cantilevering "wing wall" - at each corner of the building, the external skin of the façade is cantilevering by 1.5m from the slab edge. It consists of a bespoke reinforcing plate inserted within the transoms of the last unit acting as tensioning and compression distribution at top and bottom of the unit. These last unis required a bespoke launching trolley for installation, which we have designed and crafted in an artisal way.

The corner slabs supporting the structure are external, this has required for a bespoke concertina gasket around the penetration and a split unit with prefabricated thermally insulated collar installed from the floor around the steel penetrations.

Our R&D dept. have conceived a bespoke solution to adjust the design of the external shading devices (in cast aluminium) to be suitable for extruded aluminium, thus saving costs without compromising the aesthetic.

He was born in Genoa in 1937 into a family of builders. He graduated in 1964 from the Polytechnic of Milan. He is among the world best known and active architects i, winner of the Pritzker been delivered by U.S. President Bill Clinton at the White House in 1998. He also won other prestigious awards including: Imperial Award 1995, Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2000 and the Sonning Prize in 2008. In 1971, he set up the “Piano & Rogers” office in London together with Richard Rogers, with whom he won the competition for the Centre Pompidou. From the early 1970s to the 1990s he worked with the engineer Peter Rice, sharing the Atelier Piano & Rice. In 1981 The “Renzo Piano Building Workshop” was established, with 150 staff and offices in Paris, Genoa and New York. In 1994 he won the international competition for the new Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, inaugurated in 2002. In 2004 he fulfills the Church of Padre Pio in San Giovanni Rotondo. In 2006 he became the first Italian posted by TIME in the list of 100 most influential people in the world and among the ten most important in the world in the category of art and entertainment. In 2008, after nearly ten years of design and work, it’s inaugurated the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, one of the most sustainable buildings in the world for the high quality of the selected building materials.

Adamson is a leading architectural practice, offering a full range of architectural, planning, interior and urban design services. Its portfolio encompasses projects in virtually every market sector — commercial; cultural; hotel and residential; justice; colleges and universities; hospitals and healthcare; airports and transportation centres; and large-scale, mixed-use development sites. Established in 1934 in Toronto, Canada by Gordon S. Adamson, during the 1980s the firm extended its reach to the global marketplace. Adamson contributed its skills to such prestigious projects as the World Financial Center in New York; Canary Wharf in London; and Petronas Towers/Kuala Lumpur City Centre in Malaysia. Through work on these complex projects and others, the firm became a respected authority on urban design, architecture and building technology. Today Adamson Associates Architects is an integrated practice that is global in reach with a staff of more than 450 dedicated professionals worldwide working from offices in New York City [AAI Architects, P.C.]; Los Angeles [Adamson Associates, Inc.]; and London, England [Adamson Associates (International) Limited].