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Building: Sunset Park Materials Recycling Facility
Location: 30th Street Pier of South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT)
Architect: Selldorf Architects
Operated by: Sims Municipal Recycling

AE Interests: LEED Certified, 98 percent of the complex made out of recycled steel; has an education center, classrooms, offices, a theater, and a large outdoor terrace with views to Lower Manhattan as well as a recycling plant; processes and markets more than 200,000 tons of plastic, glass, and metal each year; protection against a rise in sea-level significantly above city requirements; site fill is made from a recycled glass, asphalt, and rock composite.

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Building: Polonsky Shakespeare Center (Theatre for a New Audience)
Location: 262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Architect: Hugh Hardy
Structural Engineer: Robert Silman Associates
Construction Manager: F.J. Sciame Construction Company
Completion: October 2013

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Building: 520 West 28th Street
Location: Manhattan, New York, USA
Design Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Structural Engineer: DeSimone Consulting
Facade Consultant: Gilsanz Murray Steficek LLP (GMS)
Service Engineer: AKF
Completed: 2013

AE Interests: architecturally acts as extension of nearby High Line Park, dynamic design, curvy, space-age structures, two distinct zones which are both separated and merged together by the chevron pattern, 11 stories with approximately 37 private residences

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