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Name: Salt Lake City Public Library
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Address: 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84111
General Contractor: Big-D Construction
Design Architect: Safdie Architects
Executive Architect: VCBO Architects
Structural Engineer: Arup and Reaveley Engineers
MEP Engineer: Arup and Colvin Engineering Associates
Landscape Design: Civitas Inc.
Lighting: Lam Partners Inc.

Completed: 2003

AE Interest: Glass curtain walls were designed to be flexible and move when stressed. All the glass in the building is a hybrid tempered laminate that disintegrates into pebbles if broken. The skylights are designed to pull apart into sections rather than break and fall. The Crescent Wall tilts inward 21 feet at its center to keep it from moving back and forth.

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Name: Gary L. Thomas Energy Engineering Building
Location: Austin, Texas, U.S.
Address: 210 E 24th St, Austin, TX 78712
Developer: Capital Planning and Construction – UT
General Contractor: Beck Group
Design Architect: Ennead
Executive Architect: Jacobs Engineering
MEP Engineer: Affiliated Engineers Inc.
Landscape Design: CleanScapes, LP
Roofing and Waterproofing: Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing
Elevator Consultant: EMR Elevator Inc.
Concrete Construction: United Forming

Completion: 2022

AE Interest: The third fire stair is open to the rest of the building and has doors that shut around it when a fire does occur. The purpose of this is to allow the building to feel more open because of how narrow it already is.

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