As Grimshaw put it, "We didn't waver one inch from our belief in our new palet of materials and in modernism generally.  The structure really, even if I say so myself, is a bit of a tour de force. ... You can see these great ties coming down and it sort of gives the building, I think, an enormous kind of strength and impact in the street instead of being a sort of bland box." 

Reflecting on the groups of metal rods that support the roof he said, "We put them at the same sort of rhythm as the party walls of the Georgian houses opposite and in an odd kind of way it does echo the scale of the building on the opposite side of the street.  I actually think it fits in rather well."