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The Best Buildings are Made of Steel

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By acquiring steel , a more durable and resilient than the iron material , we became able to make better articulation of space , a feature of high tech architecture, in addition to providing greater expansion in any direction at any building and its elements are more easily designed than any other manufactured with other materials designed. The use of steel over time From his first job in the Barcelona Exhibition of 1929 in the German Pavilion by Mies Van der Rohe, chromed steel pilaster capable of uniting translucent glass walls. Currently, a clear example is the steel trusses designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers for coating the Pompidou Center, example of high-tech architecture. The steel provides flexibility and easy reinforcement in those structures where they are necessary in addition can be easily expanded in any direction and steel elements are designed much easier than the elements of other materials. When construction is done with a steel structure