"For the 1958 Brussels international exhibition, Paduart and architect J. Van Dooselaere received an official commission... to design a structural symbol testifying of the "victory of [Belgian] civil engineering over nature"... The final structure... the "Civil Engineering Arrow" [Pavilian of Civil Engineering], was a spectacular thin wall... cantilever beam... a bold impression of equilibrium and "tour de force". [They] received the 1962 Construction Practice Award for their "Arrow". ...dismantled in 1970."

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