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Building: Flower Dome and Cloud Forest (Garden By the Bay’s Cooled Conservatories)
Completion: 2012
Location: Singapore
Architect: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Structure Engineer: Atelier One
Service and Environmental Engineer: Atelier Ten
Lighting design: Lighting Planners Associates
Landscape Architects: Grant Associates
Irrigation design: WET (Water Equipment Technology)

AE Interests: Largest climate-controlled greenhouses in the world, largest man-made waterfall in the world, Cool dry (Mediterranean)/Cool dry (Mountainous) biomes, fragile glass grid shell to allow for maximum lighting, radial steel arches to take any external forces, low-e glazing to minimize solar gain, computer controlled shading, carbon neutral cooling system, Combined Heat Power (CHP) Biomass Steam Turbine

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Building: Cremorne Riverside Centre
Location: London, England
Status: Completed 2007
Architect: Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
Structural Engineer: Jane Wernick Associates
M&E Engineer: Richard Pearce & Associates
Contractor: Gilby Construction Ltd

AE Interest: Two buildings can be broken down into 5 parts and moved during flooding, made of low-maintenance rusted Cor-ten steel over wood frame with sheep wool insulation, raised steel deck for drying and storing boats,  material from previous site used to create insect habitats on the roofs to attract birds

Design and Construction Process

Building: Potter’s Field Park Pavilions
Location: Potter’s Field Park, London, England
Status: Completed 2008
Architect: DSDHA
Structural Engineer: Jane Wernick Associates
General Contractor: Alandale Logistics Ltd
Material Contractor: Martin Childs Lt

AE Interest: Two structures of angularly stacked wood, one of charred timber with long cantilever, one of whitened timber with a green roof, situated to minimize obstruction of pedestrian flow through the park

World Buildings Directory
Pictures and Sketches

 
Building: Marysville Getchell Highschool
Location: 8301 84th Street Northeast, Marysville, WA
Status: Completed 2010
Architect: DLR Group
General Contractor: Absher Construction

AE Interest: Rectilinear form, 4 learning centers connected by a courtyard, interior walls are movable to create a variety of spaces, mixture of forest shading and open windows instead of mechanical cooling, exposed concrete and steel structure.

Architectural Record Article
ArchDaily Article
Video of Building and Community Response

Building: Senator John D. Pinto Library (Dine College Library)
Location: 1228 Yucca Drive, Shiprock, NM (Dine Campus)
Status: Completed 2011
Architect: DLR Group
General Contractor: Jaynes Corporation

AE Interest: Curvilinear/Angular form, slits in walls allow for direct lighting twice annually at the beginning and end of the school year, centralized glass ceremonial chamber, cultural symbolism

ArchDaily Article
Construction Images

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Building: Zapata Higher Education Center/Zapata HEC
Location: 607 N US Hwy. 83, Zapata, TX 78576
Status: Completed 2010
Architect: ERO Architects
Contractor: FJW Construction

AE Interest: Building keyed into the contour of the land, passive solar energy of earth shelter, open north face shielded from direct light by trellis, green roof

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