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Architectural steelwork The team behind the ArcelorMittal Orbit, Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond with Ushida Findlay Architects and Arup, has risen to the challenge and integrated art, structural engineering and architecture writes Felix Mara If the greatest achievement of the baroque was to integrate sculpture into architectural form, by incorporating architectural elements into Britain's largest sculpture the designers of the ArcelorMittal Orbit will achieve the exact opposite. This landmark feature of the London 2012 Olympics will open next year having received up to 86 per cent of its funding from ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelwork manufacturer. Ian Louden, head of worldwide brand at ArcelorMittal, says that the competition to design the sculpture was initiated by Boris Johnson because the mayor of London thought the buildings originally proposed for the Olympic Park, lacked the 'wow factor'.