A supporting framework in a building formed with diagonally intersecting ribs of metal or concrete.
〈英〉（建筑物内起支撑作用的金属和混凝土）斜肋拱架
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The building's height was made feasible by the use of a peripheral ‘diagrid,’ in which all the steel elements subtly interlock.
Ends of the shell are stiffened with laminated timber arches braced by a diagrid of tension cables from which hang enclosing cardboard honeycomb panels.
At intervals, the double-height spaces are penetrated by the diagrid structure, bleached white like dinosaur ribs.
Because of the inherent stiffness of the external diagrid, the central core is required to act only as a load-bearing element and is free from diagonal bracing, producing more flexible floor plates.
Within the principal diagrid established by the 36 steel columns that spiral around building (which form an independent self-bracing structure), each floor level is broken down into 72 five-degree modules.