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Heatherwick Studio Extrusions

“This is a process involving squeezing heated metal through a shaped hole, known as a die, to produce straight aluminium lengths with a precisely shaped cross-section. Despite the sophistication of this technology, it was liable to produce forms of warped imperfection when the first part of the metal to squeeze through the die snagged and contorted as it struggled to work out what shape it should be.”

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