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Building: Bitexco Financial Tower
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Completed: 2010
Architect: Carlos Zapata Studio
Structural Engineer:  Leslie E. Robertson Associates
Construction: Hyundai Engineering and Construction with Turner International

AE Interests:

Essentially an all-concrete structure with composite perimeter columns and concrete core walls. Office floors framed with reinforced concrete flat plate system. Poor soil conditions due to proximity to the Saigon River and the Mekong Delta; very long foundation piers (265ft). Perimeter tapers inward at lower 20 floors, limiting width and resistance to building sway. Structural design uses concrete outriggers and belt trusses are used to stiffen tower against swaying motion. 16 elevators.

Helipad cantilevered out on 52nd floor. Steel girder and beam system used because most economical. Almost the size of the 52nd floor itself.

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Building: S-Trenue Tower
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Status: Completed September 2009
Architect: Mass Studies
Structural Engineer: Junwoo Structure
MEP Engineering: HANA Consulting & Engineers

AE Interests:3-tower design; idea based on matrix studies; 32 bridges; variation of podium tower design; concrete and steel construction; contains commercial, retail, and residential spaces

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Building:  Apple Store
Location:  Huangzou, China
Architect:  Foster + Partners
Completed: 2015

AE Interest:
“The main area inside the store features a 9m high space where the upper floor projects 12m from the rear wall”,
large sheets of glass: 11 large double-glazed panels, each 15m tall. [1]

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Building: Strasbourg Central Station
(Hauptbahnhof Strasbourg)
Location: Strasbourg, France
Status:Completed in 2007
Architect: Jean-Marie Duthilleul /AREP
Structural Engineer: Ingenieurbüro RFR
Facade Consultant: Seele GmbH & Co. KG
Energy Consultant: Transsolar

AE Interests: Glass structure covering historical building

  
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Building: Bangkok Central Embassy
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Status: Completed in 2014
Architect: AL_A
Architect of record: Pi Design
Project manager: PPS
Structural engineer: Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick, Arun Chalseri Consulting
Main contractor: Italian Thai

AE Interests: Inspired by traditional Thai architecture;complex geometry, step terraces, and vertical gardens
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Building: West Terminal of Algiers International Airport
Location: Algiers, Algeria
Status: Estimated Completion by 2018
Architect: Llewelyn Davies and BREA
Structural Engineer: Prointec
Construction: China State Construction Engineering Corporation Ltd.

AE Interests: Built to accomodate 10 million passangers per year as well as extra large aircraft, complex geometry
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Building: Museum of Books and Language
(El Museo del Libro y de la Lengua)
(Museum of Books and Language)
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Status: Completed in 2011
Architect: Clorindo Testa, Francisco Bullrich
Structural Designer: METRA Ingenieros

AE Interests: bold use of color, complex form.
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Building: Cordoba Civic Center
(Centro Civico de la Provincia de Cordoba)
Location: Cordoba, Argentina
Status: Completed in 2011
Architect: Lucio Morini and GGMPU Arquitectos
Architect of Record: Guillermo Pozzobón
Structural Engineer: Vanoli & Associates, Decibel, Tecno Riego, and  Del Bianco & Associates

AE Interests: Rectilinear building covered by angular concrete shading skin, reflecting pool.

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Building: Whitney Museum of American Art
Location: New York City, New York, U.S.
Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Assoc. Architect: Cooper, Robertson & Partners.
Structural Engineer: Roberts Silman Associates
Lighting Designer: Arup
M.E.P. Engineer: Jaros, Baum & Bolles
Construction: Turner Construction, LLC

AE Interests:  steel structure, cantilevered entrance, largest column-free museum gallery in New York City [1].

“…the new Renzo Piano–designed building in New York City’s meatpacking district will open Friday, May 1, 2015.” RPBWnews

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Building: Park Hyatt Guangzhou Tower
Location: Guangzhou, China
Completed: 2015 (Expected)
Architect: Goettsch Partners

AE Interest: 946.52 ft tall mixed-use tower includes offices, condominiums, apartments, retail, and a hotel; Exterior pinches in at corners to distinguish different functions of the building; Two-acre site sits over a transit station at the intersection of two subway lines; Staggered vertical strips on the facade stretches and compresses like tendons
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Building: Mercury City Tower
Location: Moscow, Russia
Architect: Frank Williams and Partners, M.M. Posokhin
Structural Engineer: Mosproject-2
MEP: AE Arma-Elektropanc (AE)
Number of Floors: 75
Overall Height: 1112 feet (339.92 meters)
Completed: 2013

AE Interest: Multi-Use High Rise (shops, restaurant, apartments, office spaces), Primary structural materials: steel and heat-resistant reinforced concrete, Natural lighting for 75% of workspaces, Uses less water due to mechanisms that collect melting snow for use throughout the building
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Building: 240 Blackfriars Road
Location: London, England, U.K.
Completed: 2014
Architect: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Structural Engineer:  AKTII
Building Services Engineer: Hilson Moran
Developer: Great Portland Estates plc
Consultant: BIM Technologies

AE Interest: fully glazed glass exterior, reinforced concrete vertical structure, solar shading, 4D BIM modeling

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Building: Building for Environmental Research and Teaching, Brown University
Location: Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Completed: 2013
Architect: Toshiko Mori
Structural/MEP Engineer: Arup

AE interest: Environmental Research building, greenhouse, rectangular form, expected LEED Gold certificate
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Building: Washington State University’s Veterinary Medical Building
Location: Pullman, Washington, U.S.
Completed: 2012
Architect: SRG Partnership
MEP Engineer: Arup
Structural Engineer: Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Landscape Architect: Walker Macy
Construction: Lydig Construction

AE interest: Laboratory facility, glass façade, daylighting, high efficiency ventilation

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Building: Northeastern University Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Complex (ISEC)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Completion: 2016
Architect: Payette
MEP Engineer: Arup

AE interest: Efficient laboratory, spiral staircase, pedestrian bridge
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Building: Dornier Museum
Location: Friedrichshafen, Germany
Status: Completed in 2009
Architect: Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten
Structural Engineer: Werner Sobek Ingenieure
Building Services: Laux, Kaiser & Partner Ingenieursgesellschaft
Interior Design: Grego
Facade Consultant: R+R Fuchs
Energy Consultant: TransSolar Energietechnik GmbH

AE Interests: Serves as a hangar for planes in exhibition, long-span structure, curved translucent facade

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Building: RSH Towers
Location: Maryah Plaza, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Status: Expected Completion in 2016
Architect: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Architect of Record: Pascall + Watson
Engineer of Record: Buro Happold
Interior Designer: Stuart Forbes Associates
Landscape Design: Gillespies LLP

AE Interests: Each tower is diamond-shaped in order to provide maximum lighting, expressed structure.

 
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Building: Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Student Residence Hall
Architects: ADD Inc.
Location: Boston, MA, USA
Year: 2013
Structural Engineer: Odeh Engineers, Inc.
MEP Engineer: WSP Flack + Kurtz
Main Constructor: Suffolk Construction Company, Inc.

AE Interest: Facade constructed of 5,500 metal panel that have 5 distinct colors whose purpose is to mimic a tree. Curved base constructed through use of steel truss system. LEED Silver. More than 50 percent of the building materials used has recycled content. Orientation of windows help to lessen heat gain.

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Building: Neuroscience and Psychology Complex
Location: Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Architect: José Rafael Moneo Vallés Arquitecto and Davis Brody Bond
Completed January 2014

AE Interest: Pursuing LEED Silver certification, natural lighting, stormwater reclamation system for non-potable use, high-performance glass façade.

  
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Building: Convention and Exhibition Center
Location: Ras Al Khaimah, UAE
Completion: Proposal
Architect: OMA

AE Interests: 44 story sphere, glass/steel construction
Design Concept: Presenting a unique form to UAE’s master plan