Brutal girders of polished steel soared upward, supporting three levels of walkways and rooms. The staircase was made of concrete, with fine threads of tensioned steel as rails. Here and there, bits of medieval wall stood in the middle of white-carpeted space, made more dramatic by their structural redundancy. No attempt had been made to often the collision of ancient and modern, but somehow the whole worked perfectly. It was, Terry thought, a very un-British piece of design.