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Building: New Museum Addition
Location: New York City, NY
Architect: OMA
Structural Engineers: Arup
Mechanical Engineers: Arup
Facade: Front Inc.
Completion: Ongoing

AE Interests: Expansion of New Museum by SANAA, atrium stairs for vertical circulation, laminated glass facade with metal mesh provides continuity between the two buildings, angular form language, cut for a plaza for openness,  triangular terraces

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Building: Western Australian Museum
Location: Perth, WA, Australia
Architect: OMA, Hassell
Lighting Design: Atelier Ten
Environmental Design: Atelier Ten
Construction: Multiplex
Completion: 2019

AE Interests: Seamless transition from historic to contemporary building, vertical and horizontal pathways, large open atrium, wooden beams span atrium, cantilevered volume, rectilinear and angular form, perforated metal facade

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Building: Odunpazari Modern Art Museum
Location: Odunpazari, Turkey
Architect: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Facade Engineer: ATTEC
Mechanical Engineer: TEMA Engineering and Consulting Trade Ltd.
General Contractor: Polimeks Holdings, INC.
Completion: 2019

AE Interests: Stacked volumes, scale museum to surroundings, central atrium framed with timber blocks, timber exterior, “Odunpazari” means “wood market” in Turkish, rectilinear form language

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Building: Mokuzai Kaikan
Location: Koto, Japan
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Structural Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
Mechanical Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
Lighting: Hideto Mori, Lighting M
Contractor: Taisei Corporation
Owner: Tokyo Lumber Wholesalers Association
Completion: 2009

AE Interests: Wood as urban construction material for wood wholesaler office, use of Numerical Control Machining for precision in cutting wood, steel reinforced concrete cast in cedar frames for seismic design, dividers allow flow between spaces, use of semi-outdoor spaces called engawas, tall ceiling height for fire safety

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Building: Miyahata Ruins Museum
Location: Fukushima, Japan
Architect: Furuichi and Associates and Suzuki Sekkei
Structural Engineer: Holzstr
Contractor: Hazama Ando Corporation
Completion: 2015

AE Interests: Museum dedicated to studying Jomon time period, exposed concrete exterior and interior, structural ceiling resembles caves, use of Vectorworks to design hexagonal timber ceiling panels, metal roof, structural glass floors expose excavated ruins beneath, primary form language is rectilinear

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Building: Toho Gakuen School of Music Chofu Campus
Location: Chofu, Tokyo, Japan
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Structural Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
Mechanical Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
Acoustics: Nikken Sekkei
Contractor: Shimizu Corporation
Completion: 2014

AE Interests: Music room ‘village’, light courts, sunken courtyards to bring in light, curtain wall around campus lobby, open space to surrounding environment, rectilinear form, concrete block façade to reduce scale, unevenly spaced columns

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