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“The structure was comprised of two exterior lattice girders running for the full height of the building and two rows of cast-iron columns running down the interior of the volume on either side of a central corridor. Both lattice girders and columns were supported on riveted, sheet-iron, tubular box beams spanning between the masonry piers, which in effect was a form of early megastructure. The three intermediate floors were formed by brick vaulted construction spanning onto riveted wrought-iron joists which in their turn were carried by the external lattice girders and the internal columns. The lattice framework on the exterior was finally filled with a thin layer of hollow brickwork whose variegated colour was coursed in such a way as to resemble alternately the letter ‘M’ standing for Menier and a conventionalized silhouette of a cacao tree.

— Kenneth Frampton and Yukio Futagawa. Modern Architecture 1851-1945. p33.