High Tech was a development in British Modernist architecture from the late 1960s. It was a concept of design, based on engineering, construction and other aspects, such as the manipulation of space.

Simon Demeuse of Swiss starchitecture firm Herzog & de Meuron on the sustainability and beauty the material is adding to ...

while the exposed laser-cut trusses in the extension are a nod to high-tech architecture. Ranging pole columns, survey marker tiles and ‘waste not want not’ steps add to a sense of the surreal.