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Building: Quzhou Stadium

Location: Quzhou, China

Completion: 2021

Size: 33,731 square meters with seating for 30,000 people

Architect: MAD Architects

Landscape Architect: PWP Landscape Architecture

Structural Engineer: Schlaich Bergermann Partner

MEP Engineer: SC Consultants Limited

AE Interests: Building is designed to be a fluid shape to blend in with the surrounding rolling landscape, it has sixty sets of concrete column walls with exposed wood-grained fair-faced concrete sheet walls to introduce an element of warmth and go along with the natural theme, glowing halo-like canopy structure is supported at nine drop points and has 95 foot long spans, and the largest earth-sheltered structure in the world.

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Building: Cathedral of Christ the Light
Location: Oakland, California

Completed: 2008
Size: 2.5 acres, 136 feet tall, 250,000 ft²
Cost: $190 million ($760 per ft² )
Client: Catholic Diocese of Oakland

Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merril
General Contractor: Webcor Builders
Civil Engineering: Korve Engineering

AE Interests: Very light ecological footprint using fly ash and slag to decrease cement paste content in concrete. Cathedral is lit entirely by daylight creating luminosity with the exception of evening activities. Uses the advanced method of ancient roman technique of thermal inertia to maintain an appropriate building climate. Built to withstand earthquakes implementing laminated wood timbers and a matrix of friction pendulum base isolators.

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*Original post by Jillmon Holland on September 1, 2009