Salvador Dalí Museum in Florida, USA In January 2011, the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, opened its doors to the public. It contains the largest collection of Dalí’s artwork outside Spain, includ- ing oil paintings, watercolors, draw- ings, graphics, photographs and sculptures. The architectural highlight is the “Enigma,“ a glazed atrium that drapes over the side of the boxy rein- forced-concrete building. The struc- tural analysis of this unique steel- glass construction was carried out with RSTAB by the Dlubal customer Novum Structures. Construction The “Enigma” is a steel-tube con- struction comprised of more than 900 triangular-shaped glass panels that form the protruding bulges. No two glass panels within the curving glass structures are identical so

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