The design included a three-layer facade consisting of louver-like stainless steel ribbons over glass over squares of white fabric, which LA Times'fashion reporter Adam Tschorn described as being designed to create an indoor / outdoor feeling.
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The building's fa�ade was redesigned by the architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox, and features a stainless-steel ribbon assembly made of 100 tons of 14-gauge type 304 steel in 308 sections, 25 supports and 140, 000 custom stainless-steel screws.
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The award, originally sponsored by the McDonnell Douglas corporation, is a trophy with a polished black stone base and an 18 inch ( 46 cm ) stainless steel ribbon topped with a stylized model of a strike fighter aircraft . It is awarded annually to the strike fighter squadron with the greatest professional reputation, aggressiveness, and operational performance.
