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Building:  Sports Centre (Sporthalle Zug)
Location:  Zug, Switzerland
Completion:  2001
Architect:  Betrix & Consolascio Architekten
AE Interests:  Amethyst coloured structural glass sheet exterior, piers supporting roof

Building:  Guglielmini House
Location:  Pregassona, Switzerland
Completion: 2002
Architect: Luca Gazzaniga
Associate:  Carlo Ceccolini
AE Interests:  Built into a steep hillside, use of assymetry and glass to incorpate natural surroundings into structure

Building:  Ferretti Arnaboldi House
Location:  Locarno, Switzerland
Architect:  Michele Arnaboldi Architetto
Completion: 1999
AE Interests:  Large cantilevered concrete slabs, Use of piles and spread footings to secure foundation in soil on hillside

Building:  Oratorio Di Porta (Chiesa di Porta)
Location:  Brissago, Switzerland
Architect:  Raffaele Cavadini
Completion:  1996
AE Interests:  Reinforced Concrete Skeleton

Building:  House Willimann
Location:  Darschaleuns, Sevgein, Switzerland
Completion: 1999
Architect:  Bearth & Deplazes
AE Interests:  Gable roof, Hillside placement, Polygonal plan, Inexpensive materials making constructiong more difficult

Building: School
Location:  Paspels, Switzerland
Completion:  2005
Architect:  Valerio Olgiati
AE Interests:  Reinforced Concrete Monolith,  All exterior corners are made to be perceived as right angles, Two right angles per interior room

Building:  Liner Museum
Location:  Appenzell, Switzerland
Architect:  Gigon and Guyer
Client:  Stiftung Karl Liner
Landscape Design:  Kienast Vogt & Partner”
Completion:  1998
AE Interests:  Simple, Cost-efficient, Lighting through entrance, end, and skylights, steel shingle skin

Building:  Production and Office Facility
Location:  Baar, Switzerland
Completion:  2002
Size:  7,800 sqm
Client:  TRUMPF GmbH & Co
AE Interests:  Laser Cutting Production, Folding Exterior Skin, Built on a Sloping Topography

Building:  “The Hotel”
Location:  Sempacherstrasse 14, CH-6002 Luzern, Switzerland
Architect:  Jean Nouvel
Construction Cost:  $4.9 Million
Owner:  Urs Karli
Project Manager:  D.Laurent, M.Raasch, AJN
Inauguration: August 7, 2000
Original Construction of Building:  1907
AE Interests:  Rennovation,  Extensive use of metal and wood panels, Projections on all room ceilings

    
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Building: Ordrupgaard Museum Extension
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Completed: August 2005
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Design: Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher
Associate Architect: PLH Arkitekter
Structural Engineers:  Jane Wernick Associates, Birch & Krogboe
Service Engineers:  Arup, Birch & Krogboe
Lighting Consultants: Arup Lighting
Acoustic Consultants: Birch & Krogboe

AE Interests:  extension on an existing building, natural lighting sources, an in-situ black lava concrete skin
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Building: Central Building – BMW Plant
Location: Leipzig Germany
Completed:  2005
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Design: Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
Landscape Architect: Gross. Max
Structural Engineer: IFB Dr. Braschel AG, Anthony Hunt Associates
Lighting Design: Equation Design

AE Interests:  Engineered to have all levels of employees interacting
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Building: Guangzhou Opera House
Location: Guangzhou, China
Completion: 2010
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Project Director: Woody K.T. Yao & Patrick Schumacher
Project Architect: Simon Yu
Structural Engineer: SHTK, Guangzhou Pearl River Foreign Investment Architectural Designing Institute
Theater Consultants: ENFI
Lighting Consultant: Beijing Light & View
Project Management: Guangzhou Municipal Construction Group Co. Ltd.
Building Services: Guangzhou Pearl River Foreign Investment Architectural Designing Institute
Acoustic Consultants: Marshall Day Acoustics
Construction Management: Guangzhou Construction Engineering Supervision Co. Ltd.
Main Contractor: China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Co. Ltd.

AE Interests:  Twin boulder design, materials, complex form, acoustics
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Location: Zaragoza, Spain
Completed: 2008
Arhitect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Design: Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
Project Architect: Manuela Gatto (Associate)
Engineers: ARUP

AE Interests: water sustainability, divided into four interlocking elements inorder to distribute the weight, use of a permeable schark-scale membrane creates a micro climate utilizing the natural airflow
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Building:  Phaeno Science Center
Location:  Wolfsburg
Completed: 24 November 2005
Architect: Zaha Hadid
Project Architect: Christos Passas
Structural Engineers: Adams Kara Taylor, Tokarz Freirichs Leipold
Service Engineers: NEK, Buro Happold

AE Interests:  Europe’s largest building made of “self-compacting concrete,”  majority of building is raised off the ground allowing visitors to pass through with ease
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Updated by Miguel Yapur, June 2020