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Building: Winspear Opera House
Location: 2106 Boll Street, Dallas, TX 75201
Architect: Foster + Partners (Spencer de Grey)
Architect of Record: Kendall/Heaton Associates, Inc.
Design Engineer: Buro Happold (Mike Cook)
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Acoustical Engineer: Sound Space Design
Construction: Linbeck
Completed 2009

AE Interests: Grand shading structure at entrance, aluminum cladding, red glass facade, 2,200 seat auditorium, acoustic isolation strategies, white gold-leaf balcony acoustic baffles, l.e.d. giant chandelier – retracts into ceiling.   `

Video of chandelier retracting into ceiling

UT tour Dallas
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Building: Private Residence
Location: San Diego, California
Status: On hold
Architect: Zaha Hadid

AE Interests: Free form concrete structure, complex geometry, cantilevered concrete forms

Building: Milstein Hall, Cornell University
Location: Ithaca, New York
Completion: October 2011
Architect: OMA Rem Koolhaas
Client: Cornell University

AE Interests: Long span, 50 foot cantilever with exposed structure.

Building: Milstein Hall Steel
Location: Ithaca, New York
Completion: 2011
Architect: OMA
Architect of Record: KHA Architects
Structural Engineering: Robert Silman Associates

Building: Bao’an Stadium
Location: Shenzen, China
Completion: 2011
Architect: GMP Architekten
Lighting Design: Schlotfeld Licht

AE Interest: Double tension ring beam, pre-tensioned cable roof, steel columns mimic bamboo forest

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Building: City Hall
Location: 110 The Queens Walk
Completed: 2003
Architect: Foster and Partners
Architect of Record: Ken Shuttleworth
Structural Engineer: Arup
M+E Engineer: Arup
Contractor: Mace and Waagner Buro AG

AE Interests: Distorted glass sphere that improves energy efficiency

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Building: Slowtecture S
Location: Shiga, Japan
Completion: 2002
Architect: Shuhei Endo
AE Interests: Structural Steel Framing system, used as a complex culture center

Building: Refraction House
Location: Aichi, Japan
Completion: 2000
Architect: Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama + AMORPHE
AE Interests: Distorted box composed of small rectangular concrete tower

Building: Rooftecture C
Location: Hyogo, Japan
Completion: 2002
Architect: Shuhei Endo
AE Interests: Crematorium with a curved metal roof to match surrounding landscape

Building: Springtecture H
Location: Hyogo, Japan
Completion: 1998
Architect: Shuhei Endo
AE Interests: Corrugated Steel Sheets used as formwork of the building to combine the interior and exterior of the building, created using form of independent spiral of steel sheets

Building: Kansai Kan of the National Diet Library
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Completion: 2002
Architect: Fumio Toki Associates
General Contractors: Takenaka Corporation
AE Interests: During construction, precast concrete methods for beams and floors were used to reduce formwork and reinforcement of temporary fixtures at the site

Building: Nara Centenniel Hall
Location: Nara, Japan
Completion: 1998
Architect: Arata Isozaki & Associates
General Contractors: Obayashi Corporation
AE Interests: Built with new pantadome construction method which used precast concrete panels to erect side walls and roof simultaneously

Building: Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum
Location: Osaka, Japan
Completion: 2001
Architect: Tado Ando
Structural Engineers: Asocoral Engineering Associates
General Contractors: Zenitaka Corporation
AE Interests: Curving glass corridor

Building: Komyo-ji Temple
Location: Ehime, Japan
Completion: 2000
Architect: Tadao Ando
AE Interests: Constructed with laminated wood which allowed for material uniformity and all of the wood to be used with no waste, combined water with wooden elements , single structure made up of multiple parts, complex wood framing that required extreme precision

Building: Abeno House
Location: Osaka, Japan
Completion: 1999
Architect: Shotaro Suga Architects
AE Interests: Built for Shotara Suga,  three story steel frame contruction

Building: GC Osaka Building
Location: Osaka, Japan
Completion: 2000
Architect: Shigeru Ban Architects
Architect on Record: Marunouchi Architects
Structural Engineers: Van Structural Design
Mechanical Engineers: Marunouchi Architects & Engineers
General Contractors: Kajima Corporation
AE Interests: To counter fire resistance codes, the exterior of the steel structure was covered with wood to act as a fire barrier, known as a “flammable barrier” design.

Building: New German Parliament Reichstag
Location: Ebertstraße 10117 Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Completed: 1999
Architect: Foster and Partners
Architect of Record: Foster and Partners
Structural Engineer: Leonhardt, Andrae und Partner
Project Manager: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Projektsteuerung

AE Interests: Radical energy strategy, uses vegetable oil as bio-fuel
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Building: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Location: Earlham Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4
Completed: 1978
Architect: Foster + Partners
Engineer: Anthony Hunt Associates

AE Interests: Early exploration into lightweight, flexible structures
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Building: American Air Museum
Location: Cambridgeshire CB2 4QR
Completed: 1997
Architect: Foster + Partners
Structural Engineer: Arup

AE Interests: Single vault enclosure that is covered by a powerful arc
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Bridge: Millau Viaduct
Location: Millau, Tarn Valley, France
Completed: 2004
Architect: Foster + Partners
Architect of Record: Chapelet-Defol-Mousseigne
Structural Engineering: EEG Simecsol and Greisch
Contractor: Eiffage Construction
Fabricator: Freyssinet (stay cables)
Launching Enerpac
Formwork: PERI Formwork and Scaffolding

AE Interests: Cable stayed masted structure with minimal intervention in the landscape
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Building: Capella Singapore
Location: 1 The Knolls Sentosa Island
Completed: 2009
Architect: Foster + Partners
Architect of Record: DP Architects Pte Ltd
Structural Engineer: Web Structures
Civil Engineer: Web Structures
Contractor: Tiong Seng Contractors

AE Interests: Integrating historic buildings into master plan by using natural contours of the site
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Building: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: 1000 Jefferson Dr SW
Completed: 2007
Architect: Foster + PartnersFoster + Partners
Architect of Record: Smith Group Inc.
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold
Roof Contractor: Josef Gartner

AE Interests:  Roof composed of vaults that interlock to create soft curved valleys
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Building: California State University Channel Islands
Location: 1 University Dr, Camarillo, CA
Completed: 2008
Architect: Foster + Partners
Architect of Record: Leo A Daly / Gruen Associates
Structural Engineer: THP Limited
Landscape Architect: AHBE
Contractor: HKA

AE Interests: Prominent roof canopy as an effective environmental device
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Updated by Miguel Yapur, June 2020