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Building: Vila Sari
Location: Pori, Finland
Architect: ARRAK Architects
Designer: Hannu Kiiskila
Date Completed: 2000

AE Interests: Horizontal design soaks in winter sun, deep overhangs provide shade in summer, uses 75% less energy than average house in Finland.

Building: Solar Tube
Location: Vienna, Austria
Architect: Driendl Architects
Designer: George Driendl
Date Completed: 2001

AE Interests: 21st century tree house design, concrete core, exterior steel frame, takes maximum advantage of light year round.

Building: Sea Train House
Location: Los Angeles, California
Architect: Office of Mobile Design
Designer: Jennifer Siegal
Date Completed: 2003

AE Interests: The home is almost completely recycled, the structural elements are old sea-going storage containers, some of which had been on site before the project began, glass curtain wall facade.
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Building: 1310 East Union Street
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: The Miller/Hull Partnership
Date Completed: 2001

AE Interests: Glass box with exposed steel structure, Argon gas infused windows.
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Building: Colorado Court
Location: Santa Monica, California
Architect: Pugh + Scarpa Architecture
Designer: Angela Brooks
Date Completed: 2002

AE Interests: Produces enough energy from its 199 blue solar panels to power 92% of energy needs

Building: 156 Reade Street
Location: New York, New York
Architect: Studio Petrarca
Date Completed: 2001

AE Interests: Glass and steel facade, heated and cooled using a geothermal pump, effectively uses natural light.
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Building: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E Project
Location: Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Architect: Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten
Date Completed: 2001

AE Interests: Unique contrast between old warehouse and green angular building, construction was prefabricated, relates to the city by taking advantage of existing systems.

Building: Private House
Location:Barcelos, Portugal
Architect: José Bernardo Távora
Date Completed: 1998

AE Interests: Elevated to maximize prevailing breezes to keep building cool, simple rectangular floor plan design, used local materials

Building: Presidency and State Government Building
Location: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Architect: AMP Architects
Client: Canary Government
Date Completed: 2007

AE Interests: Twinning of large volumes of stone with a central courtyard, each floor has unique distinguishing features

Building: South Tenerife Convention Centre
Location: Adeje Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Architect: AMP Architects
Structural Engineers: Victor Martinez, Juan Jose Gallarado
Contractor: Congrsso U.T.E.
Client Canary Government
Date Completed: 2005

AE Interests: Versatile meeting space, natural lighting by a series of metal glasshouses, 3 main entrances

Building: Studio Weil
Location: San Carlos, Mallorca, Spain
Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Structural Engineers: Adolfo Alonso Dura, Gracia Lopez Pationo
Lighting Designer: Studio Dinnebier
Contractor: Goccisa
Client: Barbara Weil
Date Completed: 2003

AE Interests: Responds to surrounding landscape, forms a space that complements and contrasts artistic work

Building: Bealearic Innovation Centre
Location: Mallorca, Inca, Spain
Architect: Estudio Alberto Campo Baeza
Date Completed: 1998

AE Interests: Triangular shape and floor plan, stereotomic base in stone, continuous space

Building: Congress Centre
Location: Valencia, Spain
Architect: Foster & Partners
Consultants: Arup, Davis Langdon & Everest, Claude and Danielle Engle
Client: City of Valencia
Date Completed: 1998

AE Interests: Follows vernacular local architecture, aerodynamic roof, used mostly local materials

Building: Museo de Bellas Artes
Location: Castello de la Plana, Spain
Architect: Mansilla & Tunon
Client: Castellon Cultural
Date Completed: 2005

AE Interests: External cast-iron rectangular shape, white/wooden interior that efficiently uses natural light

Building: Valleaceron Chapel
Location: Valleaceron, Spain
Architect: Sol Madridejos & Juan Carlos Sancho
Project Leader: Luis Renedo
Date Completed: 2000

AE Interests: “Folded Box” design technique, no artificial lighting

Building: Bodegas Ysios
Location: La Guardia, Spain
Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Structural Engineer: Calatrava
Client: Bodegas y Debidas
Completed 2004

AE Interests: Laminated wooded beams are used for roof, mixture of aluminum, wooden slates and precast concrete for exterior facades, rectangular-linear site plan
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Building: De Blas House
Location: Sevilla la Nueva, Spain
Architect: Estudio Alberto Campo Baeza
Client: Francisco de Blas
Date Completed: 2000

AE Interests: Rectangular glass 2nd floor, heavy and massive stone structure, symmetrical design

     
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Building: SEG Tower
Location: Vienna, Austria
Completed: 1998
Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Structural Engineers: Projektierungsburo fur Industrie-, Hooch- und Tiefbauten AG

AE Interests: Intelligent glass facade, Well circulated heating and cooling system
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Location: Busan, South Korea
Completion: 2011
Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Client: P(B)usan International Film Festival Organzing Committee

AE Interests: Responsive changing space, bright-organic feel, overlapping zones
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Location: Munich, Germany
Completed: 2007
Client: BMW AG
Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Structural: B+G Ingenieure, Bollinger und Grohmann GmbH, Frankfurt
MEP: Kühn Bauer + Partner
Electrical: PRO Elektroplan, Ottobrunn
Lighting: AG-Licht, Bonn
Building Physics: Büro Dr. Pfeiler, Graz
Façade Consultant: Emmer Pfenninger + Partner AG, Münchenstein
R+R Fuchs
Landscape Design: realgruen Landschaftsarchitekten
Civil Engineering, Road Construction: Ingenieurbüro Schoenenberg

AE Interests: Lightweight bridge structure, Complexity of form.
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