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Building: Wong Dai Sin Temple
Location: Markham, Canada
Architects: Shim-Sutcliffe Architects
Area:3271.0 ft²
Year:2015
Structural : Blackwell Structural Engineers
Mechanical : BK Consulting Inc.
Electrical : Dynamic Designs and Engineering Inc.
Landscape : NAK Design Group
General Contractor: Gillam Group Inc.
Cladding: Krypton Steel Inc.
Custom Lighting: Lighting Nelson & Garrett Inc.

AE Interests: Reflects ancient religious beliefs and the modern environment of its practitioners, asymmetrical and counterbalanced, cantilever to provide additional parking, two-way slab concrete, 10.2m cantilever on west end and 5.2m cantilever on east end, cantilever concrete staircases, fins to control views to outside, memorial hall within, large skylights

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Building: Sothern Branch of the National Palace Museum
Location: Taibao City, Taiwan
Area: 38332.69 m²
Year Completed: 2015
Architect: KRIS YAO | ARTECH
Plumbing, Electrical & Fire Protection: Majestic Engineering Consultants Inc.
Building Physics Consultants: ARUP
Façade Consultants: maRco façade Studio
Lighting Consultants: Chroma 33 Architectural Lighting Design
Green Architecture Consultants: Taiwan Green Architecture
Landscape Bridge Design And Inspection Collaborator: T. Y. Lin Taiwan Consulting Engineers, Inc.

AE Interests: Inspired by three caligraphy strokes, composed of solid and void forms, reinforced concrete structure, cast aluminum disks cover the solid form, glazed curtain wall, Low-E glass, mosaic tile,

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Building: King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station
Location: Riyadh , Saudi Arabia
Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects
Area: 20,434 m²
Project Director: Gianluca Racana, Filippo Innocenti
Project Architect: Fulvio Wirz, Gian Luca Barone
Design Team: Alexandre Kuroda, Fei Wang, Lisa Kinnerud, Jorge Mendez-Caceres
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold
Services: Buro Happold
Transport and Civil Engineering: Buro Happold
Fire Engineering: Buro Happold
Façade Consultant: NewTecnic
Project Year: 2017-2020

AE Interests: five levels above ground with two below, anticipate 3.6M passengers a day, Mashrabiya screens, building layout to facilitate pedestrian traffic, exterior shaped by interior design, exterior represents natural curvature in sand dunes

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Building: Guilin Wanda Cultural Tourism Exhibition Center
Location: Qixing District, Guilin City, Guangxi Province, China
Year of Completion: September 2016
Area: 26,118 sm
Architect: TengYuan Design Institute co., LTD, WAT Studio
Design Team: Peng Wei, Guang jun Zhao, Zhen ming Wang,Bo Zhang, Wei Wang
Construction group: Wanda Group
Structural Engineer: Xing Xing
MEP Consultant: Zhiguang Qu, Juan Wang

AE Interests: Digital-colored glaze-painted art glass curtain wall, connects humans art and nature, has vertical glass ribs to represent mountains, reflections in surrounding water, inspired by a style of Chinese painting

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Building: Shenzhen Sea World Culture and Arts Center
Location: Shenzhen Shi, China
Area: 73,918 square meters
Architects: Shenzhen Capol International & Associates
Structural Engineer: ARUP, Shenzhen Capol International & Associates
MEP: P.T. Morimura and Associates, Shenzhen Capol International & Associates
Acoustics: Nagata Acoustics, Huang Zhanchun Playhouse Architectural Design Counseling (Beijing)

AEInterest: Reinforced concrete and steel structure, multi-use space, overlook view of ocean and surrounding mountains, two grand stairways, composed of three main volumes, landscape of folded grass planes

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Building: Baimahe Park Visitor Center
Location: Xianyang, Shanxi, China
Area: 800 square meters
Architects: ATA Architects & Planners
Design Team: Wei Zhang, Moises Santiago Vera Soto, Celia Fu, Michael Antkowiak, Junda He.
Year Completed: in progress

AEInterest:
Located on a hill to maximize views, green roof and solar panels for low impact, solar shading that also creates porches, mechanical systems under porches and walkways, horizontal and vertical louvers, viewing pavilion

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