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Building: Meret Oppenheim Tower
Location: Basel, Switzerland
Architect: Herzog & de Meuron
Contractor: Drees & Sommer
Structural Engineer: Weischede, Herrmann und Partner wh-p GmbH
Facade Planning: Drees & Sommer
HVAC Engineering: Drees & Sommer
Site Area: 31,754 sqft / 2,950 sqm
Year: 2018

AE Interests: Stacked volume form, facade shutter system, design solution to growth of the city

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Building: Eystur Town Hall
Location: Faroe Islands
Architect: Henning Larsen Architects, Ósbjørn Jacobsen
Engineer: Spenn, Veri-Con and SMJ
Contractor: KBH
Landscape Architect: Henning Larsen North Atlantic
Year: 2018

AE Interest: Green Roof and bridge, built into the land

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Building: Google at 1212 Bordeaux Offices
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Architect: Parabola Architecture
Architect of Record: Devcon Architecture
Structural Engineer: Nishkian Menninger / IMEG
Daylighting / Integrated Design: Integral Group
MEP: Design Point Energy Innovations
Acoustical: Charles M. Salter Assoc. Inc
Civil Engineering: Kier & Wright
Year: 2017

AE Interests: Construction duration 10 months, LEED Platinum certification, design-build project, intensive application of sustainability, optimization of daylight, air quality, and acoustics for human comfort, integrated biophilic design principles, exposed unfinished-steel structure

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Building: Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture

Location: Imabari, Japan

Architect: Toyo Ito & Associates 

Completed: 2011

AE Interest: Steel sheeting skin. 6mm steel plate, different types of polyhedron modules, steel frame, reinforced concrete, interior cave or womb like structure

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Building: Grid Commercial Building 

Location: Nishinomiya, Japan 

Architect: T-Square Design Associates 

Structural Engineer: Amano Structural Engineering Office

Completed: 2018

AE Interest: concrete finished frame structure, grid pattern of facade seen from every angle of the building, facade designed to frame advertisements 

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Building: Tomioka Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Location: Tomioka, Japan 

Architect: Tezuka Architects 

Structural Engineer: Ohno JAPAN

Lighting Design: Bonbori Lighting Architects & Associates, Inc

Completed: 2018

AE Interest: renovation of prior building, existing timber structure was reinforced with steel framing, diagonal members used as planar rigidity instead of trusses, repeating roof ridges, angle braces and knee braces support the framework, repeating diagonal grid pattern

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