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This industrial building is a four-story reinforced concrete structure, with a flat roof, and large windows. For the year of its design, 1908, the building is quite a revolutionary piece of modern architecture. It is one of the earliest known example of a reinforced concrete construction employing the mushroom-column-and-flat-slab technique. This mode of construction, developed by engineer C.A.P. Turner in 1905-6, and patented in the same year 1908, allowed for a freer floor plan in opposition to the traditional beam and column construction. Exposed reinforcing rods on the roof and northern elevation provided for the facilitation of building enlargement.
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