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Project: Bahrain Masterplan
Location: Salisbury Plain, UK
Completion: conceptual stage
Engineer: Christopher McCarthy
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Inc.
Sustainable Masterplanning and Landscape Architecture: Battle McCarthy Limited

AE Interests: This plan contains 3 phases which will ultimately protect the island’s air, land, and water. Land assignments for all construction, seen and unforeseen, within the next 20 years will be laid out.

Building: New Home Office Headquarters
Location: London, UK
Completion: Post Construction
Architect: Terry Farrell & Partners
Environmental Design & Building Services Engineering: Battle McCarthy Limited

AE Interests: Local temperature controls achieved through reverse cycle heat pumps in offices. Previously existing building materials utilization was maximized.

Building: Holloway Circus Tower
Location: Birmingham, UK
Completion: Completed in 2005
Architect: Ian Simpson Architects
Landscape Architecture, Structural, Environmental & Building Services (MEP) Engineering: Battle McCarthy Limited

AE Interests: Car park deck landscape; twin stair cores resist wind loads and provide additional stability to steel frame structure; maximum utilization of recycled materials.

Building: Endesa Headquarters
Location: Madrid, Spain
Completion: Completed in 2003
Architect: Kohn Pederson Fox Associates
Structural, Building Services & Environmental Engineering: Battle McCarthy Limited

AE Interests: AIA New York Chapter Design Awards, solar/wind flues, full heat recovery throughout, large span column grid, photovoltaic atrium roof, displacement ventilation, concrete frame.

Building: Lerner Hall Student Center, Columbia University
Location: New York, New York
Structural Engineer: Severud Associates
Completion: 1999
Architect: Bernard Tschumi

AE Interests: Intersecting triangular steel planes create form for criss-crossing glass ramps. Corner bolts keep glass plane transparent.
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Building: Acropolis Museum
Location: Athens, Greece
Completion: 2009
Architect: Bernard Tchumi
Structural Engineering: ADK and Arup
General Contractor: Aktor
AE Interests: Museum contains glass ramp with overlooks archeological excavation. Top portion rotates.

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Building: BLUE Residential Tower
Location: New York City, New York
Completion: Summer 2007
Architect: Bernard Tchumi
Structural Engineering: Thornton Tomasetti
General Contractor: On The Level Enterprises, Inc.
AE Interests: Cantilevers over an existing building. Blue pixilated façades. Urban garden on top of adjacent structure.
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Building: Research Laboratory
Location: Groningen, Netherlands
General Contractor: Heijmans Bouw
Completion: 2008
Architect: UNStudio
AE Interests: Slats placed in bowed forms. Wave shaped walls create open or closed facade dependent upon view point.

Building: Athletics Center, University of Cincinnati
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
General Contractor: Turner
Structural Engineer: THP Limited, Inc.
Completion: 2006
Architect: Bernard Tschumi
AE Interests: Column elements spaced closely in a diagonal pattern creating a grid frame.