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Building: Shenzhen Sea World Culture and Arts Center
Location: Shenzhen Shi, China
Area: 73,918 square meters
Architects: Shenzhen Capol International & Associates
Structural Engineer: ARUP, Shenzhen Capol International & Associates
MEP: P.T. Morimura and Associates, Shenzhen Capol International & Associates
Acoustics: Nagata Acoustics, Huang Zhanchun Playhouse Architectural Design Counseling (Beijing)

AEInterest: Reinforced concrete and steel structure, multi-use space, overlook view of ocean and surrounding mountains, two grand stairways, composed of three main volumes, landscape of folded grass planes

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Building: Guangzhou Infinitus Plaza
Address: Baiyun New Town
Location: Guangzhou, China
Completion Date: Spring 2020
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Steel Structural Engineer: BuroHappold Engineering
Site Selection, Conceptual Planning, and Construction: LKK Health Products Group
Façade Engineering: BuroHappold Engineering
Sustainability: BuroHappold Engineering

AE Interests: 167,000 sq. m., two building footprints connected by green-roofed skybridges, unitised insulated glazing system that reduces energy loss while maximizing natural light penetration, perforated aluminum screens protect against and collect rainwater, Line 2 Metro runs between two footprints

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Building: Guangzhou Circle
Address: S81 Guangzhou Ring Expressway Exit & S 39 Dong Xin Gao Su & S81 Guang Zhou Huan Cheng Gao Su, Li
Location: Guangzhou, China
Architect: Joseph di Pasquale of AM Project
Structural Engineer: SIGGMA
General Contractor: Guangdong Hong He Construction Ltd.
M/E/P/FP Engineering: Architectural Design and Research Institute of South China University of Technology

AE Interests: circular shape reflects in the water of the Zhujiang River to form a figure 8 which symbolizes good fortune in Chinese, 48 meter diameter center circle, inspired by jade disks as the bi-jade disk symbolizes a Chinese dynasty from 2000 years ago, furthest office space cantilevers 25 meters outwards, design inspired by numerological tradition of feng shui, unpopular among locals

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Building: Parc Central
Address: China, Guangdong, Guangzhou, Yuexiu, 连新路8号
Location: Guangzhou, China
Architect: Benoy, Ronald Lu and Partners
Interior Design: Benoy
Structural Engineer: ARUP (Hong Kong)
Landscape Consultant: Urbis Limited
Lighting Consultant: Lighting Design Partnership Pty Limited
Façade Design: ARUP (Hong Kong)
Sustainability: ARUP (Hong Kong)

AE Interests: 110,000 sq. m. multi-level parkland, mostly underground development to preserve ground level, steel monocoque roof structure supported by steel tree-like columns, rainwater collection system, low E glass façades, EFTE roof has high corrosive strength over wide range of temperatures, connects to China’s metro and bus system, represents China’s “Double Fish” symbol for peace, harmony, and fortune

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Building: The Bund Finance Center
Location: Shanghai, China
Architect:  Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studios
Structural Engineer: ECADI
Landscape Architect: Martha Schwartz Partners
Lighting Engineer: BPI
Completed: 2017

AEInterests:
The building has a 3 tiered moving veil of bronze tubes designed to look like bamboo. These tubes move based on the use of the building; for example, the tubes may move to open up a stage on the building to reveal the Shanghai Pudong skyline. `

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Building: Baimahe Park Visitor Center
Location: Xianyang, Shanxi, China
Area: 800 square meters
Architects: ATA Architects & Planners
Design Team: Wei Zhang, Moises Santiago Vera Soto, Celia Fu, Michael Antkowiak, Junda He.
Year Completed: in progress

AEInterest:
Located on a hill to maximize views, green roof and solar panels for low impact, solar shading that also creates porches, mechanical systems under porches and walkways, horizontal and vertical louvers, viewing pavilion

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Building: Sapporo Dome
Location: Hokkaido, Japan
Completed: 2001
Architect: Hiroshi Hara
Structural Engineers: Osamu Hosozawa, Yoshio Tanno, Mutsuro Sasaki
Co-Contractors: Taisei Corporation, Takenaka Corporation, Bovis Lend Lease
Capacity: 41,000

AE Interests: first retractable pitch in the world, steel-shell structure, multi-sport facility (soccer and baseball)

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Building: IZU Velodrome
Location: Shizuoka, Japan
Completed: 2011
Architect: Gensler Architects
Capacity: 1,800; 4,300 with temporary seating

AE Interests: drum-shaped design, first 250-meter indoor cycle track built in Japan, wooden cycle track

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Building: Ariake Gymnastics Centre
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Completed: 2019
Head Architect: Hidemichi Takahashi
Architect: Nikken Sekkei Ltd. and Shimizu Corp.
Capacity: 12,000

AE Interests: bowl-shaped design, slanted walls resembling Engawa verandas in traditional Japanese homes, 394 x 295 ft arched wood roof, wooden poles extending from the cantilever of the roof to the ground plaza, uses timber from all throughout Japan

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Building: Atago Nursery
Location: Nagasaki, Japan
Year of Completion: 2016
Area: 970 sq meters
Architect: Intermedia, Kei Sasaki
Engineering and Construction: Nagasaki Daiken Co.
Structural Design Collaborators: Jun Sato Structural Engineering Co.
Equipment Design Collaborators: Seed Design Engineer Co.
Light Plan Collaborators: LIGHT・PLAN

AE Interests: Designed around natural terrain, inner rib structure through retaining wall and room separators, natural shaped play spaces to match terrain, rooftop garden

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Building: Escalier Gobancho
Location: Chiyoda City, Japan
Area: 340 sq meters
Year completed: 2019
Architect: ETHNOS
Contractors: Lixil Corporation, Nozawa, Sanshiba

AE Interests: green balconies promoting communication, exterior vertical circulation to maximize rentable space, facade of insulated glazing and fire preventing steel

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Building: Birch Moss Chapel
Location: Nagano, Japan
Year of Completion: 2015
Area: 66 sq meters
Architect: Kengo Kuma and Associates
Design Team: Masafumi Yukimoto, Ayumu Shimotsukasa

AE Interests: religious architecture, steel columns covered in birch, glass and acrylic structure, camouflaged in nature

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Building: Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture

Location: Imabari, Japan

Architect: Toyo Ito & Associates 

Completed: 2011

AE Interest: Steel sheeting skin. 6mm steel plate, different types of polyhedron modules, steel frame, reinforced concrete, interior cave or womb like structure

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Building: Grid Commercial Building 

Location: Nishinomiya, Japan 

Architect: T-Square Design Associates 

Structural Engineer: Amano Structural Engineering Office

Completed: 2018

AE Interest: concrete finished frame structure, grid pattern of facade seen from every angle of the building, facade designed to frame advertisements 

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Building: Tomioka Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Location: Tomioka, Japan 

Architect: Tezuka Architects 

Structural Engineer: Ohno JAPAN

Lighting Design: Bonbori Lighting Architects & Associates, Inc

Completed: 2018

AE Interest: renovation of prior building, existing timber structure was reinforced with steel framing, diagonal members used as planar rigidity instead of trusses, repeating roof ridges, angle braces and knee braces support the framework, repeating diagonal grid pattern

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Incubation on Waseda University Honjo Campus
Location: Honjo City, Japan

Architect: Nihon Sekkei, Inc.
Contractor: Toda Corporation, Kyudenko Co., Inc., Shinryo Corporation

AE Interests: sustainable design, green roof, solar chimney, natural ventilation, radiant heating and cooling, rainwater collection, joint research facility

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Inaba Electric Works Wind Wall (Eco-Curtain)
Location: Nagoya, Japan

Engineer: Inaba Electric Works

AE Interests: Wind harvesting, parking structure facade, sustainable design, renewable energy

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Acros Fukuoka Prefectural International Hall
Location: Fukuoka, Japan

Architect: Emilio Ambasz and Associates 
Engineer/Landscape Architect: Takenaka Corporation
Engineering Consultant: Plantago Corporation
System Manufacturer: Katamura Tekko Company
Construction: Takenaka Corporation

AE Interests: Multipurpose exhibition hall, museum, theater, conference facilities, governmental and private offices, retail. Green roof, sustainable design, rooftop garden

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Building: Zhenghong Property Air Harbour Office Project
Location: Zhengzhou, China
Year of Completion: 2022
Area: 86,831 square meters
Architect: Aedas
Developer: Zhenghong Real Estate Development Co.,Ltd
Completion Year: 2022

AEInterest:
Because of the narrow lot, the complex was split into three towers and have a curvilinear design to pay tribute to the Yellow River. The building is also designed with natural ventilation channels providing circulation and air flow throughout the complex.

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Building: Tsingpu Yangzhou Retreat
Location: Yangzhou, China
Year of Construction: 2017
Area: 4200 square meters
Architect: Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
Architect of record: Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research & Design Institute Co., Ltd.
Landscape designer (concept): Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
Engineers: Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research & Design Institute Co., Ltd.
Consultants: Bamboo Lighting Design
General contractor: CNTC
Awards: New Concept of the Year award at the AHEAD Asia Awards and Landscaping and Outdoor Spaces award at the AHEAD Asia Awards

AEInterests:
The complex is built partly out of re-purposed old buildings. Some walls in the building were constructed only out of recycled brick, having no structural and lateral support added in other than the bricks themselves. This brick wall was constructed to pay tribute to Ancient Chinese Architecture.

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Building: Hanhai Luxury Condos
Location: Zhengzhou, China
Area: 21500 square meters
Architects: Amphibianarc and Archimorphic
Landscape Design Consultant: AECOM
Curtain Wall Design Consultant: Zhongnan Curtain Wall
Constructor：Eastern Construction Group, China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Corporation, Huaxia Construction Group

AEInterest:
The space is split into nine high rise residential building and three additional buildings surrounding a large garden. The condos are meant to combine nature and architecture, taking inspiration from the Vertical Forest. The building is also designed with natural cross ventilation and solar exposure.

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Building: Datong Sports Center
Location: Datong, China
Architect: CCDI, POPULOUS
Completion: 2019

The project is valued at 1.2 billion yuan ($171 Million USD), and has a total construction area of 101,700 square meters (1,094,292 square feet). It consists of four main buildings: stadium, gymnasium, swimming pool and comprehensive training hall. It is mainly used for regional and national competitions.

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Building: Karamay Digital Network Control Center
Location: Karamay, China
Architects: Shanghai HuaDu Architecture and Urban Design Group (HDD)
Completion: 2018
Structural Design: Zhen Zhou, Zhili Yuan, Guoxun Wang, Yongqiang Zhang, Xiaozhe Qi, Meiqi Li
Electrical Design: Fusheng Ren, Xiaoqing Zhang, Ge Zhang, Lihua Wu, Yuhao Cao, Yu Chen
HVAC Design: Yuliang Chai, Lingsong Cheng, Dongyang Qu, Tao Luo

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Building: Beijing Patent Center
Location: Beijing, China
Architect: China Architecture and Design Research Group
Construction: Beijing Urban Construction Group, Jang Ho
Interior Design: Beijing Gangyuan Decoration design and Research Institute Co., Ltd.
Landscape Design: Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng planning design and Research Institute Co., Ltd.
Developer: National Intellectual Property Administration

AE Interests: In an effort to provide a quiet and comfortable environment for research and development, the Beijing Patent Center employs the use of an open and flexible three dimension garden, making nature a central aspect of the complex.

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Building: Muku Nursery School
Location: Fuji, Japan
Architect: Tezuka Architects
Structural Engineer: Ohno Japan
Landscape Design: 10-kei
MEP: Office May
Lighting Design: Bonbori Lighting Architect & Associates, Inc.
Construction: Sato Construction
Completion: 2018

AE Interests: timber structure, deep overhang, long spanning space

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Building: Kizunaya Building
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Completed: 2017
Architect: Alphaville Architects
Structural Engineer: Takashi Manda Structural Design

AE Interests: wooden frame structure, lateral bracing system, mixed use, transparent structure

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Building: Hongodai Church School & Nursery
Location: Yokohama, Japan
Architect: Takeshi Hosaka Architects
Structural Engineer: Arup
Construction: EIKO Kensetsu
Completion: 2010

AE Interests: Seismic design, transparent structure, steel moment frame, damping glass wall system, timber building.

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Mikimoto Ginza 2, Tokyo, Japan, Architect Toyo Ito + Taisei Design Pae, Mikimoto Ginza 2 Dusk Exterior View. (Photo by View Pictures/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Building: Mikimoto Ginza Honten

Address: Ginza 2

Location: Tokyo, Chuo-ku, Japan

Architect: Toyo Ito

Structural Engineer: SSC Sasaki Structural Consultants

Interior: Ichiro Nishiwaki Design Office

Lighting Designer: Ushio Spax Co

Contractor: Taisei Corporation

Completion: 2005

AE Interests:  Straight vertical walls with light pink exterior, like a pearl. ­­ Rectangular box looks like skyscraper from afar. The windows (of fractal composition) are bubbles or petal dancing arranged randomly through the building, like Swiss-Cheese­. But some windows are placed at corners (where columns usually are) to emphasize the sophisticated structure. Column-free interior, the building is a tubular structural system without columns, so that the load bearing walls. Formed by two layers of steel panels were interspersed with pins and then with concrete reinforced low viscosity. The slabs of the floors are formed by homogeneous layers 9. The design uses “method of finite element analysis”. Ito wants the user to “look for the technology” and “architecture you can touch and feel because the object is real”, as it is subtle and sewed seamlessly into the building.

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Building: Art Tower Mito

Address: 1-6-8 Goken-chō

Location: Mito, Japan

Architect: Arata Isozaki & Associates

Structural Engineer: ATM Structural Design

Acoustic Engineer: Nagata Acoustics

Construction:

1.Taisei Corporation

2.Takenaka Corporation

3.Totetsu Kogyo Co., Ltd., Akui Corporation

Completion: 1990

AE Interests: Built for 100^th year anniversary of Mito becoming a city. 100 meter tower is composed of spiraling titanium panel units, forming 28 tetrahedrons and 57 isosceles triangles.  Titanium was chosen because it is highly resistance to corrosion and weathering. Built to last. First titanium skyscraper in japan!

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Building: Tokyu Plaza Omotesando Harajuku

Address: 4 Chome-30-3 Jingumae, Shibuya City

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Architect: NAP/Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP Co., Ltd

Structural Design:  S.R.C + R.C. + S Structure

Structural Engineer: Takenaka Corporation

Construction: Takenaka Corporation

Completion: 2012

AE Interests: The idea of the space was to maximize the value of space for it cannot be replicated through online shopping. A Kaleidoscope-like Entrace tube makes the ride up through the escalators an unforgettable experience. Polygonal panels, as well as contributing to form, absorb seismic movement in desperate measures.

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Building: Beijing Daxing International Airport

Location: Beijing, China

Completed: 2019

Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects, ADP Ingénierie and Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD)

Structural and Fire Engineer: Arup

Facade Engineer: Buro Happold Engineering

AE Interests: Largest airport worldwide, utility, energy efficient, sustainability, Chinese traditional values

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Building: China Entrepreneur Forum Conference Centre

Location: Yabuli, China

Expected Time of Completion: 2020

Architect: MAD Architects

Construction Engineer: China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd.

Facade consultant: Shanghai Kighton Facade Consultants.Co

Landscape architect: BJF International Design

AE Interests: motives behind design, integrated natural elements, centre skylight

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Building: National Speed Skating Oval

Location: Beijing, China

Expected Time of Completion: 2021

Architect: Populous

Structural Engineer: Beijing Urban Construction Group Co.,Ltd.

AE Interests: green building, sustainability, façade resemblance design, light strands

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Building: Bank of China Tower, Shanghai
Location: Shanghai, China
Completed: 2000
Purpose: office
Size: 846 ft at tip of antenna, 56 floors (including 3 underground)
Architect: Nikken Sekkei Ltd.
Local Design Institute: Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design & Research
Façade: Manntech Building Maintenance Systems
Awards: CITAB – CTBUH China Tall Building Legacy Award Honorable Distinction Recipient (2016)

AE Interests: unique appearance that still blends in with surrounding high-rises, gateway to city center when coming from Shanghai Airport, glass curtain wall, skyscraper, modernism

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Building: Mangrove West Coast
Location: Shenzhen, China (junction of Qiaocheng Xilu & Binhai Dadao)
Completed: 2007
Purpose: mixed-use (academic, master planning, residential, waterfront)
Size: 2,691,000 sf (includes 1200 luxury condominiums)
Architect: Arquitectonica
Developer: Mangrove West Coast Property Management Co., Ltd.
Awards: AIA Florida Award of Excellence Merit Award, AIA Miami Award of Excellence in Architecture, Society of American Registered Architects (SARA) Design Award of Honor, Chinese Real Estate College Golden Award

AE Interests: units divided into complex of 3 buildings with heights staggered from 10 to 31 stories, floor to ceiling glass windows, see-through glass railings on the balconies, buildings arranged in windmill composition strategically positioned at specific angles that maximize views

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Building: Habitat Qinhuangdao
Location: Qinhuangdao, China (on the coast of the Bohai Sea, 200 miles east of Beijing)
Completed: 2018
Purpose: high-density residential community
Size: 4,800,000 sf complex (includes 2500 residential units & 60,000 sf of retail space)
Architect: Safdie Architects (Somerville, Massachusetts, United States)
Local Design Institute: East China Architectural Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd.
Façade: Konstruct West Partners, Zhejiang Zhongnan Holdings Group
Landscape: SWA Group & Ager Group
Lighting: Lam Partners & Brandston Partnership Inc.
Awards: MIPIM Asia Best Chinese Futura Mega Project Gold Award (2013)

AE Interests: affordable housing, organized into a series of linked mini blocks of 16 stories each, responds to the beachfront site & local zoning ordinance that requires every unit receive > 3 hours of sunlight daily, private green spaces, terraces, skylights, solariums, roof decks, humanizing the megascale (maintaining basic human necessities that are lost in most urban designs), exterior circulation systems include internal communal streets & covered skywalks

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Building: Shonan Christ Church
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Completed: 2014
Architecture: Takeshi Hosaka Architects
Architect: Takeshi Hosaka
Acoustics: Nagata Acoustics
Acoustics Engineer: Ayako Hakozaki
Engineering: Ove Arup & Partners, Japan Office
Structural Engineer: Hitoshi Yonamine

AE Interest: inverted barrel-vaulted ceiling, sculptural reinforced concrete, consideration of lighting during church service

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Building: Harajuku Church
Location: Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
Completed: 2006 – 2007
Architecture: Ciel Rouge Creation

AE Interest: Concrete, sculptural interiors, concept design, form inspired by biblical symbols

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Building: Catholic Suzuka Church
Location: Suzuka-Shi, Japan
Completed: 2015
Architecture: Alphaville Architects
Architects: Kentaro Takeguchi & Asako Yamamoto of Alphaville Architects
Structural Engineer: Takashi Manda of Alphaville Architects
Construction: Matsui Construction Co.

AE Interests: Galvanized steel sheeting, natural light, roof resembling the mountains of the surrounding area

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Building: The Ice Cubes
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Completed: 2008
Architect: Jun Mitsui & Associates Architects
Mechanical Engineer: Sogo Consultants
Electrical Engineer: Sogo Consultants
Structural Engineer: Orimoto Structural Engineers
Contractor: Taisei Corporation
AE Interests: seismic design, lateral support, interlocking cubes, light material

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Building: Izumi Garden Tower
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Completed: 2002
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Contractor: Shimizu Construction Company
Developer: Sumitomo Realty & Development Co.
AE Interests: seismic design, high rise building, sustainability, green architecture, ribbed glass curtain wall

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Building: Tsuruoka City Cultural Hall
Location: Tsuruoka City, Japan
Completed: 2018
Architect:  Kazuyo Seijima 
Structural Engineer: Arup
Consultants: Sogo Consultants
Acoustic Engineering: Nagata Acoustics
AE Interests: seismic design, curved steel framing, flexible volumes, sweeping canopy roofs

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Building: Sayama Forest Chapel
Location: Saitama, Japan
Architect: Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP
Structural Engineer: Arup
Construction: Shimizu Corporation
Completion: 2013

AE Interests: Gassho-style building, handmade aluminum cast-sheet roof, columns lean against each other to create the visual of prayer, floor-to-ceiling glazing for natural light.

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Building: Toranoko Nursery
Location: Yamanashi, Japan
Architect: Takashige Yamashita Office
Structural Engineer: Sasaki Structural Consultants
General Contractor: Usuko Sangyo
Completion: 2016

AE Interests: laminated-veneer lumber roof, curved roof, steel portal frame.

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Building: GC Prostho Museum Research Center
Location: Kasugai-Shi, Japan
Architect: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Structural Engineer: Jun Sato Structural Design
MEP Engineering: P. T. Morimura & Associates, LTD
Lighting Consultant: Daiko Electrics
General Contractor: Matsui Construction
Completion: 2010

AE Interests: modeled after an old Japanese toy, focus on human construction, no glue used for assembly.

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Building: HKSAR Government Headquarters
Location: 2 Tim Mei Ave, Admiralty, Hong Kong, China
Completed: 2011
Architect : Rocco Design Architects
Landscape Architect: HOK
Project Team: Rocco Yim, Bernard Hui, William Tam, C M Chan, Henry Ho, Boris Lo, Lucia Cheung, William Lee, Wicky Choi, Herbert Hung, Ivy Yung, Queenie Szeto, Angela Fong, Joseph Kong, Sze Hoi Wai, Alonzo Cheng, Chan Chi Chung, Fiona Ching, Chris Wong, Tong Hui Ching, Ivan Chui, David Ho, Dathan Wun, Gary Ng, Agnus Lau, Mike Morgan
Consultants: Architectural Services Department (ASD)

AE Interests: The complex integrates three government facilities: the Legislative Council Complex, the Government Offices, and the Chief Executive’s Office. Disposition of the blocks allows the prevailing wind to penetrate the inner city providing ventilation through the Open Door passage, it also allows solar access to the site from the south, while the stepped heights of the buildings allow airflow mixing and recirculation, channeling wind from higher elevations to enhance air ventilation at pedestrian level. The Central Government Offices have double roof photovoltaic solar panels installed while the Chief Executive’s Office has thermal chimney, full height atrium as well as a green solar screen on its west – facing wall. Water conservation has been implemented and rain water collected has been recycled for landscape irrigation

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Building: LHT Tower (Luk Hoi Tong Building)
Location: 31 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong, China
Completed: 2011
Architect: Rocco Design Architects
Structural Engineer: Greg Wong & Associates
MEP Engineer: J. Roger Preston
Main Contractor: Gammon Construction
Consultant: Greg Wong & Associates

AE Interests: A re-construction of the former Luk Hoi Tong Building and Queen’s Theatre. It is comprised of 29 stories and 14,000 m² of mixed-use premium office. The non-linear folding of the curtain wall gives an impression of a stage curtain, opening to reveal the office and retail spaces within and creating a subtle reference to the iconic Queen’s Theatre that previously occupied the site.

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Building: Xinhee Design Center
Location: Xiamen, China
Status: Under Construction
Architect: MAD Architects
Design Team : J Travis Russett, Flora Lee, Liu Huiying, Fu Changrui, Xu Chen, Li Yuanhao, Julian Sattler, Jei Kim, Jakob Beer, Younjin Park, Liu Ling, Ma Ning, Sear Nee, Zhu Jinglu, Liang Zhongyi, Sarita Tejasmit, Natalia Giacomino, Zeng Lingyue
Associate Engineer : CCDI Group
Façade Consultant : RFR Asia, Front
Interior Design : Gold Mantis, Kangyang Architecture Consultancy (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
Landscape Architect : Cicada Landscape Architecture, Hordor Design Group
Lighting Design : United Artists Lighting Design
BIM : Gehry Technologies Co., Ltd.
Wind Tunnel Consultant : Guangdong Provincial Academy of Building Research Group
Acoustics Consultant : Shen Milsom Wilke, LLC
Cost Consultant : Shanghai PM First Track Co., Ltd.

AE Interests: The design center is for the international fashion group, Xinhee, and its six subsidiary brands. It has a site area of 15,000 square meters with building area of 61,000 square meters. The spatial organization mimics six petals, growing from a central point. Each of the six brands have their own individual office and research space, yet can freely interact and communicate between departments. A mix of office spaces and green gardens compose each of the organically-formed arms. A translucent and sun-shading envelope of PTFE hangs slightly off the vertical garden, and provides ventilation during the hot season. The atrium’s footbridge provides air circulation, and doubles as a catwalk for occasional fashion shows.

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Building: The LOOP
Location: Chongqing, China
Architect: LWK + PARTNERS
Landscape Design Consultant: SWA + Dao Yuan Landscape Consultants, SWA +
Curtain Wall Design Consultant: Shanghai Anvan Design Consulting Co. Ltd.
Completed: 2017

AE Interests: circular volumes that intend to integrate into the contours of the site, embraces the shapes of nature, crescent-shaped glass-bottomed bridge, full steel frame structure, onion-ring-like cladding system, quality stone slabs, large windows, stone facade
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Building: Novartis Campus Building
Location: Shanghai, Pudong, China
Architect: Zhang Ke, ZAO/standardarchitecture
Project Manager: Margret Domko
Design Team: Zhang Ke, Leonardo Colucci, Margret Domko, Johan Kinnucan, Alessandro Colli, Joao Dias Pereira
Structure/MEP: AECOM
Local Design Institute: Tongji University Architecture Design Institute
Façade Supervisor: Terry Bell
Façade Consultant: RFR
Interior Consultant: Sevel Peach
Interior Design Schematic &DD: standardarchitecture
Interior Construction Documentation: EXH
Landscape Designer: Teresa Moller
Lighting Design: LDC
Design: 2010 – 2016
Construction: 2012-2016
Occupation: 2016

AE Interests: organic grid system, outdoor courtyards, Lightness is upheld as an overall value, semi outdoor passage from the public open space, private gardens, contemporary local masonry and a geometric-inspired, abstract simplicity, contrast of colors
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Building: Victims of Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall
Location: Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Architects: He Jingtang, Ni Yang, Architectural Design & Research Institute of South China University of Technology
Completed: 2015

AE Interests: Modest and Downy Form, Green Park Integrated into Urban Life, Open and Accessible Design, public day- night park, dark red rust plate, single cast of fair-bare concrete, green roof,
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Building: Ningbo Historic Museum
Location: Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
Architect: Wang Shu, Amateur Architecture Studio
Structural: Shentu Tuanbing, Chen Yongbing
Construction Supervisor: Hu Jun
Completed: 2008

AE Interests: Museum, Solid Construction, Flat Roof, Facade General, Masonry, Reinforced Concrete, Concrete Moulded With Bamboo Canes, Natural Stone, Wapan, Recycled Materials 

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Building: Hiroshima Chapel
Location: Naka-Ku, Japan
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Wood Panel Design: Jotaro Saito
Lighting: Style Ma’tec
Constructor: Takashimaya Space Create Co., Ltd.
Construction: 2014

AE Interests: wood lattice, self-supporting, sunlight, interior design, nature

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Building: YKK80
Location: Chiyoda-Ku, Japan
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Civil/Structural Engineer: Kimiaki Harada
General Contractors: Kajima Corporation, Toda Corporation, and Daiwa House Industry Corporation, Ltd.
Mechanical/Electrical: So Takizawa, Sin Horikawa, Kitaro Mizuide
Construction: 2015

AE Interests: aluminum screen facade, shading, radiant heating, energy, office space

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Building: Tokyu Plaza Ginza
Location: Chuo, Japan
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Civil/Structural Engineers: Yuji Yamano + Satoru Ueno & Nikken Sekkei
Mechanical/Electrical: Kosuke Sato + Koichiro Hara & Nikken Sekkei
Construction: 2016
General Contractors: Infix Design Inc., Nikken Sekkei

AE Interests: Vessel of light, glass facade, reflection, commercial, urban integration

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Building: Suzhou Modern Media Plaza
Address: Nanshi St, Wuzhong, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Location: Suzhou, China
Completed: 2016
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Co Architect: ARTS Group Co., Ltd.
Structural Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
MEP Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
Main Contractor: Zhongyifeng Construction Group Co., Ltd
Façade Engineer: Aurecon, Shenyang Yuanda Aluminium Industry Engineering Co., Ltd

AE Interests: Two L-shaped towers connected by an M-shaped truss made of glass, curtain wall systems, metal frame curtain wall windows that allow overlapping natural light and shadows, perforated metal panels on the exterior.

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Building: K11 (2013)
Location: Shanghai, China
Architect: Kokaistudios
Lighting: Isometrix
MEP: AECO
Landscape Architect: Hassell
LEED Consultant: Arup
Facade Design: KWP+SEELE

AE Interest: Retrofitted from New World Tower podium levels. Core and Shell LEED Gold Certification for Existing Buildings. Focuses on the relationship between the buildings and its surroundings. Double height atrium underground with skylight that require complicated geometric design and precision installation.

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Building: Shanghai Greenland Center
Address: 562 Dong An Lu, Xuhui Qu, Shanghai Shi, China
Location: Shanghai, China
Completed: 2017
Lead Architects: Lu Zhong Xiao, Tetsuo Tonouchi, Hiroyuki Suga / NIKKEN SEKKEI
Co Architect: East China Construction Group Co., Ltd.
Landscape Design: mindscape
Commercial Space Design: Studio Taku Shimizu Inc

AE Interests: Rooftop green space and park above a commercial facility and subway station, two office buildings and a SOHO building, sloping roofs allow views across city, separated buildings create a street-like atmosphere, louvers and shade fins that create a changing façade, large windows and openings allow for natural light.

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Building: Hongqiao Flower Building (2015)
Location: Shanghai, China
Architect: MVRDV
Structure: Shanghai Construction Design and Research Institute
MEP: China Team ENgineering Consultants
Landscape Architect: SWA Landscape Architecture
Sustainability Consultant: China Academy of Building Research
Facade Design: EFC Facade Design

AE Interest: The building form allows it to be self shading, thus drastically reducing energy consumption. The Flower Building also received a 3-star energy rating, a Chinese classification for the ‘Green Building Label.’ Utilizes green roofs, natural ventilation, rainwater collection, and permeable roadways.

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Building: Shanghai Bund CITIC Plaza
Address: No. 859 Sichuan Road, Hongkou
Location: Shanghai, China
Completed: 2010
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Construction design collaboration: Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design & Research and Shanghai Mingkong International Design Co., Ltd.
Structural Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
MEP Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
Main Contractor: China Construction Fourth Engineering Division Corp. Ltd. 
Landscape Consultant: a-i-sha Architectural Design Consulting., Ltd

AE Interests: high-rise office building with natural ventilation openings that appear as feathers on the façade, a plaza and commercial space on the ground level that together create lanes which resemble the structure of traditional Chinese housing blocks.

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Building: Tokyo SkyTree
Location: Sumida, Tokyo, Japan
Architect: Nikken Seikei
Contractor: Obayashi Corp
Developer: Tobu Railway
Lighting Designer: Sirius Lighting Office
Completion: 2012

AE Interests: Second Tallest Structure in the world at completion with a total height of 2,080 feet. Triangular base and triangular framing means reduced steel usage. Main structure made from Steel tube frames and steel channels. Central column Vibration control used to reduce wind and earthquake loads by as much as 40%. Also functions as a broadcasting and telecommunications tower.

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Building: DAIMYO509 Commercial Space
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Architect: CASE-REAL
Structural Engineer: Ohno Japan
Lighting Engineer: ModuleX FUKUOKA
Construction: Kyushukensetsu  Co., Ltd.
Completed: 2018

AE Interest: Concrete Structure, pillars enclosed in walls for maximizing tenant space, mechanical hidden on roof

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Building: Isozaki Atea Towers
City: Bilbao, Spain
Architect: Arata Isozaki, Iñaki Aurrekoetxea
Contractor: Fincas Abando
Structural Engineering: Robert Brufau y Asociados
Completion: 2008

AE Interests: Atea means Gate in the Basque Language, meant to be the entrance into Bilbao. The entire project is actually multiple high-rise buildings that are mixed use.  Reused existing foundations.

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Building: Boltun Headquarters
Location: Saitama, Japan
Architect: Atelier TEKUTO
Structural Engineer: June Sato Structural Engineers
Contractor: Shigeki Matsuoka, Shinichi Uchimura, Koji Izawa
Completed: 2018

AE Interest: Concrete structure, designed to be lightweight, soundproofing and fireproofing

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Building: Ogimachi Global Dispensing Pharmacy
Location: Osaka, Japan
Architect: ninkipen!
Structural Engineer: TAPS
Lighting Engineer: Hiroyuki Nagatomi
Contractor: Ikeuchi Komuten
Completed: 2011

AE Interest: Steel and wood, narrow slot between existing buildings, gabled roof

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Building: Delis Yokohama Building
City: Yokohama, Japan
Architects: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Visualization: Teppei Iizuka, Soichiro Harada, Shoki An
Model: Takeshi Terasawa, Toshiko Tokai, and Saki Osaka
Completion: 2018

AE Interests: The 850-panel aluminum façade that is an interpretation of noise. Multipurpose building for restaurants and office space. Designed to attract foot traffic. The façade lights up at night.

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Wooden Bridge Museum – Yusuhara, Japan

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Building: Wooden Bridge Museum
Location: Yusuhara, Japan
Architect: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Structure: Katsuo Nakata & Associates
Utilities, Equipment: Sigma Facility Design
Construction: Shimanto Sogo Construction
Electrical: Showa Denki Kogyo
Completed: 2011

AE Interest: Cantilever bridge design, connects a hotel and spa, contains work and exhibition rooms

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Kojimachi Terrace – Tokyo, Japan

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Building: Kojimachi Terrace
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Architect: Nendo
Project Year: 2019

AE Interest: Three story open air garden, balconies on six of eleven floors, windows allow natural air to enter

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De Beers Ginza Building – Tokyo, Japan

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Building: De Beers Ginza Building
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Architect: Jun Mitsui & Associates
Metal Architect: Kikukawa
Structural Engineer: TAISEI Corporation
Electrical Engineer: TAISEI Corporation
Construction Company: TAISEI Corporation
Completed: 2008

AE Interest: Twisting facade, reflects sunlight and city lights in an ever changing way, sparkling light subtly reflects that of a diamond

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Building: Mokuzai Kaikan
Location: Koto, Japan
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Structural Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
Mechanical Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
Lighting: Hideto Mori, Lighting M
Contractor: Taisei Corporation
Owner: Tokyo Lumber Wholesalers Association
Completion: 2009

AE Interests: Wood as urban construction material for wood wholesaler office, use of Numerical Control Machining for precision in cutting wood, steel reinforced concrete cast in cedar frames for seismic design, dividers allow flow between spaces, use of semi-outdoor spaces called engawas, tall ceiling height for fire safety

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Building: Miyahata Ruins Museum
Location: Fukushima, Japan
Architect: Furuichi and Associates and Suzuki Sekkei
Structural Engineer: Holzstr
Contractor: Hazama Ando Corporation
Completion: 2015

AE Interests: Museum dedicated to studying Jomon time period, exposed concrete exterior and interior, structural ceiling resembles caves, use of Vectorworks to design hexagonal timber ceiling panels, metal roof, structural glass floors expose excavated ruins beneath, primary form language is rectilinear

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Building: Toho Gakuen School of Music Chofu Campus
Location: Chofu, Tokyo, Japan
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Structural Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
Mechanical Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
Acoustics: Nikken Sekkei
Contractor: Shimizu Corporation
Completion: 2014

AE Interests: Music room ‘village’, light courts, sunken courtyards to bring in light, curtain wall around campus lobby, open space to surrounding environment, rectilinear form, concrete block façade to reduce scale, unevenly spaced columns

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Building: Tsinghua Ocean Center
Location: Shenzen, China
Completed: 2016
Architects: OPEN Architecture, Local Design Institute, & Shenzhen Institute of Building Research

AE Interests: Exposed structural concrete found all throughout; allows for easy maintenance and provides visual relief from surrounding stucco buildings. Academic spaces are compartmentalized with public/social spaces found in between floors. Underneath the plaza is a deep-sea research lab. Three potholes found in the main plaza allow light in from above.

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Building: Bishan Cultural and Art Center
Location: Bishan Qu, China 
Completed: 2016
Architect: Tanghua Architect & Associates
Acoustic Consultants: Lin Taiyong & Zhang Sanming

AE Interests: The 3 masses are a response to the surrounding landscape. A “valley” formed between the 3 buildings creating a gathering space for visitors. The curtain wall protects from the sunlight coming from the west. The curtain wall is made of glass, metal grilles, and aluminum mesh in the Chinese traditional pattern called ice crack.

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Building: Mjøstårnet (pronounce: Myoo-star-net)
Location: Brumunddal, Norway
Architect: Voll Arkitekter
Builder: AB Invest AS
Contractor: HENT AS
Subcontractor (Structural Timbers): Moelven Limtre 
Year: 2019

AE Interests:
World’s current tallest timber-framed building (280′ tall). Nicknamed “Plyscraper”, built almost entirely out of wood. Sustainably built by using local renewable resources. Wood naturally stores CO2 throughout it’s life, which contributes to it’s sustainability. Designed to withstand a complete burnout. Almost all interior structural timber left exposed to contribute to interior design `

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Building: Nanjing Performing Arts Center
Location: Nanjing, China 
Completed: 2009
Architect: Preston Scott Cohen, Amit Nemlich, & Atelier Zhang Lei (Chinese Architect of Record)

AE Interests: Concrete roof made from a series of hyperbolic paraboloids which act as reinforcing beams. The buildings are separated into several independent zones that can be isolated thermally if not in use.    

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Building: Eight Tenths Garden
Location: Shanghai, China
Architect: Wutopia Lab
LDI: Shanghai DuJuan Engineering Design and Consultants Limited
Interior Design: ShangRuiYuan Building Design Consultants Limited
Landscape Design: Atelier VISION
Interior & Landscape Design Consultant: Yu Ting
Year: 2016

AE Interests:
Micro cultural complex (ie. chess, library, coffee shop, offices, venue, museum). Tribute to ancient literati garden with roof vegetation garden. Contemporary Chinese courtyards. Curtain fencing wall using corrugated board, glazed tile, perforated aluminum (pattern is the pixel style of the “thousands of miles mountains and rivers”), aluminum grille with vertical green. Galvanized frame from original sales center building.

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Building: Encore Mount Wutai Theatre
Location: Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province, China
Architect: BIAD-ZXD ARCHITECTS
Lighting: BIAD Lighting Design Studio
Structure / Air Conditioning / Water Supply: BIAD-John Martin International Architectural Design Co,. Ltd
Construction: MCC Tiangong Group Co., Ltd
Stage Design: Zhejiang Joinus cultural technology Co.,Ltd
Year: 2014

AEInterests:
730-meter-long slowly unfolding “Sutra Folds”. Mix of materials such as stone, glass and stainless steel. Folds constructed out of wood to display detailed and traditional Chinese wooden architecture.

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