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Building: Suites Avenue Hotel
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Architect: Toyo Ito
Project Architect: Makoto Fukuda
Completion: 2009

AE Interests: previously an office building, remodeled into a hotel, 8 mm aluminum facade inspired by Gaudi’s organic shapes, facade added for privacy and masking of the black elevation behind it

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Building: Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Architect: Richard Meiers & Partners
Structural Engineer: Brufau, Obiol, Moya & Associats
Contractor: C.O.M.S.A.
Mechanical Engineer: Estudi d’Arquitectura G.L. Francesc Labastida i Azemar

AE Interests: stark contrast to Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, top lit through louvered skylights, entrance through cylindrical gallery, natural light screened by external louvers

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Building: Torre Diagonal Zero Zero
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Architect: EMBA
Structural Engineer: Julio Martinez Calzon
Construction: Dragados
Height: 110 m
Floors: 25
Completed: 2011
Use: Commercial office

AE interests: trapezoidal prism, tube-in-tube structural scheme, interior structure composed of small vertical columns, exterior diagonal grid for gravity and lateral loads, erected in 8 months, open-plan working floors

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