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Guggenheim Museum – New York, NY
Building: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Location: 1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Structural Engineer: Jaroslav Joseph Polivka
General Contractor: George Cohen
Construction: 1956 – 1959
AE Interests: among the first to use gunite (sprayed concrete), helical ramp gallery spirals up from ground floor to just below skylight, organic form juxtaposed with surrounding rectilinear urban setting
Fondazione Prada – Milan, Italy
Building: Fondazione Prada
Location: Largo Isarco 2, Milan, Italy 20139
Architect: OMA
Local Architect: Massimo Alvisi
Executive Architects: Alviso Kirimoto & Partners, Atelier Verticale
Structural Engineer: Favero & Milan
MEP Engineer: Favero & Milan, Prisma Engineering
Acoustics Engineer: Level Acoustics
Fire Engineer: GAE Engineering
Lighting Design: Les Eclaireurs
Construction: 2008 – 2018
AE Interests: restoration of seven buildings on old industrial site and addition of three new buildings; cladding materials of new buildings include concrete, aluminum foam, and gold leaf; ceiling height in tower increases from bottom to top, starting with 2.7 meters on ground level to 8 meters on upper floor
Olympiastadion – Munich, Germany
Building: Olympiastadion
Location: Spiridon-Louis-Ring 27, 80809 München, Germany
Architects: Günther Behnisch, Carlo Weber, Hermann Peltz, Fritz Auer
Structural Engineer: Frei Otto
Construction: 1968 – 1972
Capacity: 69,250
AE Interests: designed to echo the peaks and valleys of the nearby Alps; main stadium in a bomb crater from WWII; asymmetrical translucent canopy shelters spectators without casting uneven shadows on field; 271 miles of steel cables strung between 58 cast steel pylon and 8000 plexiglass panels
