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Building: Museum of the Bible
Location: Washington, DC
Address: 400 4th St SW, Washington, DC 20024, US
Renovation Completed: 2017
Area: 430000 ft²
Design Architect: SmithGroup
Executive Architect: SmithGroup
Civil Engineer: Kline Engineering and Consulting
General Contractor: Clark Construction
Lighting Design: SmithGroup
MEP Engineering: SmithGroup
Landscape: Michael Vergason Landscape Architects
Structural Engineering: Tadjer Cohen Edelson
Historic Preservation: SmithGroup
Fire Protection Engineering: SmithGroup
Client: Museum of the Bible

AE Interests: Originally built in 1922, renovated to eight levels with selective floor demolition, structural retrofit of existing concrete columns with steel plate reinforcement, floors doubled to approximately 20 ft in height, 7,072 linear ft of driven piles for MEP systems, two-level glass and steel roof addition with visible structural rib, curved aluminum-framed glazed curtain wall with channel glass infill, skylights, zinc batten panel roofing, and green roof system

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Building: Taiping Financial Tower
Location: Hangzhou, China
Address: China, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, Jianggan District, 新城商圈 邮政编码: 310016
Completed: 2023
Area: 1,614,586 ft² (156,000 m²)
Executive architects: Zhejiang University Architectural Design and Research Institute (UAD)
Design Architects: SmithGroup & UAD
Structural Design: UAD
HVAC Design: UAD
Electrical Design: UAD
General Contractor: China Construction Third Engineering Bureau
Client: Taiping Realty (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd.

AE Interests: Butterfly-inspired design with four towers at the site’s corners, connected by two-story podiums and corridors forming graceful “wings,” stone street-facing facades for stability, transparent interior facades for lightness, varied stone-to-glass ratios for energy efficiency, two-story glass lobby, surrounded by public green space and mixed-use retail, LEED Gold certified

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