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Building: HAUS Santa Fe
Location:  Mexico City, Mexico
Architect: De Yturbe Arquitectos S.C & Orozco Arquitectos
Construction Company: Grupo Deptos
Completion: 2006

AE Interests: 120 meters (341.69 ft), aluminum skin, reinforced concrete and glass, curtain wall facade system, 40 seismic designed to withstand an earthquake of 8.5 on the Richter Scale.

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Building: Liverpool Altabrisa, also known as Tienda Departamental Altabrisa (Department Store)
Location: Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
Architect: Iñaki Echeverria
Structural Design: Ingeniería Estructural Aplicada
Precast Concrete: ARQme / FAPRESA
Completion: 2012

AE Interest: concrete structure, façade from 5 different types of precast pieces shaped like propeller blades, heights of blades varies between 16 to 20 meters.

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Building: Torre BBVA Bancomer (BBVA Bancomer Tower)
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Architect: LegoRogers, (Legorreta + Legorreta and Rogers Stirk Harbour)
Structural Engineer: Arup, Grupo Colinas de Buen
Construction Engineer: Turner with local partner Marhnos Engineering & Construction
M+E design: Arup
HVAC Engineer: DYPRO
Lighting Engineer: Fisher Marantz Stone
Cost Consultant: INPROS
Height: 781 ft, 52 floors above ground, 7 below
Completion: To be completed by late 2015, started on 2010

AE Interest: LEED Gold, sky gardens every ninth floor, geometry of the exterior shading used to create a lattice design protecting the façade from sunlight and heat while optimizing natural daylight.

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Building: Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Architect: Oscar Neimeyer
Completion: 1996
Structural Engineer:Bruno Contarini
Lighting: Peter Gaspar

AE Interests: winding slabs, radial structure, prestressed concrete, triplex glass plates, reflecting pool at base to give feeling of lightness

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Building: Leblon Offices
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Architect: Richard Meier & Partners Architects
Completion: 2011-2015
Client: VINCI Partners

AE Interests: louvres for shade, illuminated glass bridge, white aluminum and glass, rough concrete exposure, LEED Silver

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Building: Museu de Arte do Rio
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Architect: Bernardes + Jacobsen Arquitetura
Structural Engineer: Cerne-Engenharia e Projetos, GOP- Gabinete de Organização e Projectos
MEP: ADDAGE Engenharia e Planejamento
Management: Engineering Construção
General Contractor: Concrejato

AE Interests: undulated concrete canopy, suspended catwalk connecting the two buildings, translucent glass facade, pilotis, public square for displaying sculptures between two buildings

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Building: ArtScience Museum
Location: 10 Bayfront Ave, Singapore
Completion: 2011
Design Architect: Moshe Safdie & Associates
Associate Architect: Aedas Pte Ltd
Sturctural/Civil Engineers: Arup
MEP Engineers: L&K Engineering Co., Ltd
Steel Fabricator: Yongnam Engineering and Construction
Construction: Penta-Ocean Construction Co., Ltd.

AE Interests: Inspired by a lotus flower, intricate steel structure, polymer skin is similar to material on boats, rainwater and light can seep through an oculus into an internal pond, and the rainwater can be filtered for use throughout the museum.

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Building: Reflections (Complex)
Location: Keppel Bay View, Singapore
Completion: 2011
Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Architect of Record: DCA Architects
Structural/Civil Engineers: T.Y. LIN International
Landscape Architect: Hargreaves Associates + Sitetectonix
MEP Engineers: Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner S.E. Asia
Contractor: Woh Hup

AE Interests: Composed of six uniquely-shaped high-rises linked by sky bridges, highlighted by their double curvature with tapering sides, use of reinforced concrete in structural systems, and gardens are located the top of the towers.

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Building: Jinbocho Theater
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Status: Completed 2007

AE Interests: maximize column-free interior space with a light structural frame composed of anti-seismic panels, external heat insulating skin; 5 floors, the main theater being on the first; minimal thickness of reinforced concrete for acoustic control;

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Building: K-Museum
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Status: Completed 1996, closed to the public but viewable from outside
Architect: Makoto Sei Watanabe

AE Interests: Use of both physical miniature models and CAD images using a 3D scanner; simple, abstract forms part of a complex whole; direction gives sense of movement; aluminum and stainless steel panels on exterior, reflective surface; interior walls are made of two acrylic sheets with aluminum honeycomb in between, called “Acry honeycomb”; completed as part of a wave of construction in the new “Tokyo Waterfront City” Odaiba, but closed when the economic bubble burst

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Building: Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower University
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Status: Completed 2008
Height: 203.65 m (second tallest education building in the world
Architect: Tange Associates
Structural Engineering: Arup
Mechanical Engineering: Kenchiku Setubi Sekkei Kenkyusho
General Contractor: Shimizu Corporation

AE Interests: steel and reinforced concrete, covered with a skin of glass and aluminum parts network; accommodates approximately 10,000 students across the three vocational schools: fashion, information and technology, and medical welfare; 50 floors of three rectangular classroom areas, rotating 120 degrees, arranged in a curvi-linear form around the inner core; inner core consists of elevators, staircases and shafts; three-story student lounges located between the classrooms, facing three directions: east, southwest and northwest; a co-generation system installed within the building produces about 40% of the structure’s power and thermal energy, which reduces greenhouse gas emissions and increases efficiency; elliptic shape allows for even distribution of sunlight, limiting heat radiation to the surrounding area, and aerodynamically disperses strong wind streams

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Architect: Foster & Partners
Completion Date: Undecided

Details: Recently approved, team yet to be assembled.
1500 seat theater, Rehearsal Rooms, Restaurant on the 15th floor, Exhibition Hall, School of Performing Arts with a special block for children and one for adults, which has a library, video library, listening room, computer center, auditorium for 300 people, cafes and classrooms and trials for up to 1500 students

AE Interests: Translucent skin, cantilevers, combination steel and concrete structure, multifunctional purpose

    
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Architects: Plan B Arquitectos
Location: Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia
Project Architects: Felipe Mesa, Federico Mesa
Project Area: 4500.0 m2
Project Year: 2012
Construction: Acecuma Constructores LTDA

AE Interests: Double skin of metal and glass, six cantilever rooms on main facade, room sized glazing

  
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Building: Memory, Peace and Reconciliation Center
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Competition Architects: Santiago Fonseca G, José Vallejo C.
Project Development Architects : Santiago Fonseca G., Jose Vallejo C., Manuela Guzman, Mateo Cely
Project Supervision Architects: Santiago Fonseca G, Mateo Cely
Structural Engineer: Nicolás Parra
Hydraulic Engineer: Jorge Granados 

Ingeniero
Acoustics: Daniel Duplat
Mechanical Engineering: Alvaro Tapias y Cia

AE Interests: Underground concrete structure, reflecting pools supported on top of the structure, perforated exterior walls

 
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Building: Los Nogales School Chapel
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Design Architect: Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos
Chair Design: Lorenzo Castro
Completion: 2002
Construction: Jaime Pizzaro

AE Interests: Concrete structure, exterior walls can open to outside to increase capacity

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Building:Polur Rock Climbing Hall
Location: Polour, Mazandaran, Iran
Architect: New Wave Architecture (Lida Almassian/Shahin Heidari)
Client:Development and Maintenance of Sports Facilities
Area: 4500 sqm.
Design Approved: 2012
Status: Under Construction

AEInterests: Connection between climbers and the surrounding landscape, fragmented mass invites nature, white fiber cement panels, steel moment resisting frames, tubular trusses transmit loads, geological process inspired shape

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Building: Apartment No. 1
Location: Mahallat, Markazi, Iran
Architect: Architecture by Collective Terrain (AbCT)
Structural Engineer: Reza Mehdizadeh
Mechanical Engineer: Ehsan Mehdizadeh
Contractor: Mehdi Mehdizadeh
Completion: 2010

AEInterests: recycled stone from stone cutting plant, recycled doors from the area, wooden shutters control heat and light

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Building: Vali-Asr Commercial Office Building
Location: Vali-Asr, Tehran, Iran
Architect: Abbas Riahi Fard and Farinaz Razavi Nikoo of RYRA Studio
Structural Engineer: Houman Farrokhi
Mechanical Consultant: Mohammad Reza Zomorrodi, Behrooz Noori
Electrical Consultant: Abbas Ahmadi, Amir Hossein Azmayesh
Contractor: Problem Company
Area: 1100.0 sqm
Project Year: 2009

AEInterests: facade as the “city skin”, Brazilian white marble, black Nadjafabad marble, contrasting interior and exterior color scheme

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Building:  High Court of Justice and Supreme Court
Location: Madrid, Spain
Architect: Foster + Partners
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold
Client: Comunidad de Madrid
Appointment: 2006

AE Interests: Building communities, full height atrium, glass and steel façades allowing for transparency yet minimize unwanted solar gain

     
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Building: Museum at the China Academy of Art
Location: Hangzhou, China
Architect: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Structural Engineer: Konishi Structural Engineers
Mechanical Engineer: P.T. Morimura & Associates, Ltd.
Completed 2014

AE Interests: cross-sections that blend in with the mountain slope, facade incorporates recycled clay tiles and stones from old houses in the area

     
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Building: Shanghai Houtan Park
Location: 2010 Shanghai Expo Park, Shanghai, China
Architect: Turenscape (Beijing Turen Design Institute)
Construction: Shanghai Landscape Construction Company
Completed 2010

AE Interests: built on a brownfield of a former industrial site, flood control, ecological restoration, reclaimed industrial structures and materials

  
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Building: Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral
Location: Santiago, Chile
Architects: Cristian Fernandez Arquitectos, Lateral Arquitectura & Diseno
Structural Engineering: Luis Soler P & Asociados
Area: 44000.0 sqm
Project Year: 2010

Interest: “Materials include weathering steel, reinforced concrete in sight, glass, steel, and wood. Weathering steel (with holes) creates a visual link between past, present, and future (Article 1).”

   
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Building: School of Economics and Business Diego Portales University
Location: Santa Clara, Huechuraba, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Architects: Rafael Hevia, Rodrigo Duque Motta, Gabriela Manzi
Structures: Luis Soler P. & Asociados
Project Area: 16644.0 m2
Project Year: 2013

Interests:  To reduce solar impact on the building, the design included central voids for indirect sunlight, reflective glass filtering light through highly controlled openings on walls, concrete lattice with vegetation shading corridors and classrooms, and a roof garden that provides thermal insulation and humidity during the hottest months.
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Building: Foro Boca
Location: Boca Del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico
Architects: Rojkind Arquitectos
Project Arquitect: Michel Rojkind
Acoustic Consultant: Auerbach Pollock Friedlander
Structural Engineer: EMRSA
Project Year: 2014

AE Interests: The most sophisticated concert hall in the country, concert hall for audience of 850, other theatrical spaces for dance and solo performances.

  
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Building: Parque Biotecnológico del Pacífico
Location: Culiacan Rosales, Sinaloa, Mexico
Architect: Tatiana Bilbao
Project Year: 2012

AE Interests: space for both student research and corporate offices. Shifted levels that provide shade to the lower levels, underground parking garage.

 
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Building: Orquideorama
Location: Medellin, Colombia
Architect: Plan B Arquitectos
Project Architects: Felipe Mesa , Alexander Bernal

AE Interests: serves as a botanical garden, interconnected modular structures,  wooden structure allows for sunlight to come through, plants are sustained by rainwater collected by the petals.

  
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Building: Suites Avenue Hotel
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Architect: Toyo Ito
Project Architect: Makoto Fukuda
Completion: 2009

AE Interests: previously an office building, remodeled into a hotel, 8 mm aluminum facade inspired by Gaudi’s organic shapes, facade added for privacy and masking of the black elevation behind it

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Building: Sancaklar Mosque
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Architect: Emre Arolat Architects
Completion: 2014
Structural Engineer: Balkar Engineering
MEP: Setta Engineer, HB teknik
General Contractor: Sancaklar Foundation

AE Interests: Follows topography, natural lighting, utilizes steel, concrete, and stone.

   
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Building: Alvear Tower
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Design Architect: Oscar Alberto Zurdo
Structural Engineers: Alberto Hugo Fainsterre
Main Contractor: CRIBA
Status: Under Construction
Completion: 2016 (Projected)
Height: 771 feet

AE Interests: tallest residential building in Latin America, second tallest building in South America (behind Gran Torre Santiago)

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Building: Marie – Elizabeth Luders Haus
Architect: Stephan Braunfels
Structural Engineer: SSP Sailer, Stepan & Partner GmbH
Project management: Schüßler-Plan Ingenieurgesellschaft GmbH
Light Engineer: Licht Kunst Licht AG
Facade Consultant: Ingenieurbüro R+R Fuchs

Completion: December,  2003
Cost: 220 million Euros
Area: 65,000 m2

AE Interest: Glass facades, concrete walls, sustainability, low energy usage, renewable energy incorporation, government buildings

    
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Building: Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Architect: Richard Meiers & Partners
Structural Engineer: Brufau, Obiol, Moya & Associats
Contractor: C.O.M.S.A.
Mechanical Engineer: Estudi d’Arquitectura G.L. Francesc Labastida i Azemar

AE Interests: stark contrast to Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, top lit through louvered skylights, entrance through cylindrical gallery, natural light screened by external louvers

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Building: Circa Art Gallery on Jellicoe
Location: Rosebank Johannesburg, South Africa; 2 Jellicoe Ave.
Architects: studioMAS architects + urban design
Structural Engineer: Vela VKE Consulting
Chief Contractor: Murray-Dickson
Project Year: 2009
Size: 3 levels of exhibition space

AE Interests: used as an art gallery and is an attempt at making the actual gallery a part of the art as well, inspired by nature utilizing order with chaos and a unique spiral walkway 360 degrees around the oval-shaped structure

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Building: Vallecas 51
Location: Madrid, Spain
Architect: SOMOS Architects
Structural Engineer: Deroman SL
MEP Engineer:  GD Inco SL
Façade Engineer: Proesga + Gallina.IT Aislux
Constructor: IMASATEC
Completion: 2009
Presented at Architecture Week 2009

AE Interests: Poly-carbonate paneled façade on aluminum substructure creates a sustainable and recyclable skin, Multipurpose building(residential and commercial)

 
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Building: Piazza Garibaldi Subway Station
Location: Piazza Garibaldi, 80142 Naples, Italy
Architects: Dominique Perrault Architecture
Project Manager: Metropolitana di Napoli et Metropolitana de Milano, Naples
Structural Engineer: Bollinger + Grohmann, Francfort
Client: Ti Metropolitana di Napoli, Ing. Giannegidio Silva
Site Area: 59,000 m²
Built Area: 21,000 m²
Completion: 2013

AE Interests: Complex transportation hub. Vast prismatic surface composed of different types of perforated metal in varying densities. Triangular patterns of roof.

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Building: Norton Rose Fulbright Building
Location: Sandton Johannesburg, South Africa; 15 Alice Ln.
Architect: Paragon Architects
Structural Engineer: Sotiralis Consulting Engineers
Mechanical Engineer: Adaptive Resource Engineers
Chief Contractor: Tiber Construction
Facade Contractor: Andrew Riley & Associates
Completion: May 2014
Size: 6 floor basement, 16 story highrise

AE Interests: north and south facades are wrapped in a glass skin of randomly alternating clear, grey, and translucent glass; the east and west facades implement hand-formed aluminium boxes that are set around incised glass lines, due to the abstract patterns and unique surfaces these materials alter dynamically according to light and atmosphere changes; has achieved a Four Star Green Star SA – Office Design rating because of these factors

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Building: Essener Geschichte Archive Building
Location: Essen, Germany
Architect: Ahlbrecht Felix Scheidt Kasprusch
Structural Engineer: SchulkeWiesmann Ingenieur GmbH
Acoustics Engineer: Grand and Partner Ingenieure GmbH
HVAC Engineer: Gertec Ingenieurs

Completion: 2010
Cost: 5 Million Euros
Area: 6700 m2

AE Interest:  Corten steel, natural ventilation, steel facades, additions to historical buildings, archives

   
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Building: Masseria Ospitale Restaurant Coverage
Location: Lecce, Italy
Architect: Gridshell and CMMKM Architettura e Design
Structural Consultants: F. Portioli with B. D’Amico
Completion: 2011

AE Interests: Parametrically modeled, lightweight structure. Semi-coverage through an integrated wood skin system. Use of salvaged and renewable resources, such as wood. Known for its economically and environmentally innovative method. Sustainable design. Complex form, timber gridshell.

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Building: Office Building and Logistic Center
Location: Naples, Italy
Architect: modostudio
Consultants: engineering and coordination; Studio Visone & associati
Contractor: Edilizia Cinquestelle + Canova Prefabbricati
Client: Giorgia & Johns Spa
Site Area: 20,235 m²
Built Area: 13,760 m²
Completion: 2011

AE Interests: Strong and recognizable facade. Main structural envelope made of precast concrete. Faceted reinforced concrete panels with a rhomboidal pattern. Glass curtain wall. Steel frame system and metal sheet plates join concrete panels with main envelope. Glass partitions.

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Building: Spiral Cafe
Location: St Martin’s Square,Bullring, Birmingham, UK
Architect: Marks Barfield
Structural Engineers: Price & Myers 3D Engineering
Completed: 2004

AE Interest: Shell like design, 3D modeled to allow steel plates to be cut, cantilevered structure

  
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Building: Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM) Research Building
Location: Oxford, UK
Architect: MAKE
Structural Engineers: Price & Myers
Contractor: Maceplus
Completion: 2013

AE Interest: Cantilevered timbre staircase, anodised aluminium louvres, full triangular height atrium

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Building: Talca Hotel & Casino
Architects: Rodrigo Duque Motta + Rafael Hevia García-Huidobro
Location: San Miguel 2789-2945, Talca, Maule, Chile
Structural Engineer: Eduardo Valenzuela
Area: 15.0 sqm
Project Year: 2008

Interests: Thermal considerations such as double walls, ventilated façade, roof garden, heightened spaces, and a “free cooling” A/C system which acts by stopping mechanical cooling and injecting exterior air when interior temperature is higher, were taken into account.
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Building: Uber Headquarters
Location: 1455 Third Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Architect: SHoP Architects & Studio O+A
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Geotechnical Engineer: Langan Treadwell Rollo
MEP Engineer: Alfa Tech Engineering
Completion: Expected beginning of 2018

AE Interests: 423,000-square-feet, integrated shops, steel structure, three double-level slanted bridges connecting the two buildings, one rising up 11 stories and the other six stories, glass facade.

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Building Name: National Museum of China
Location: Beijing, China
Architect: gmp International GmbH
Structural Engineer: Schlaich bergermann und partnerm
Area: 191,000 sq meters
Interior Ceiling Height: 27 meters
Project Year: 2010

AE Interest: Traditionally designed for harmony in Tienanmen Square, Large structural columns, Immense cavernous interior,

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Building: Park Tower at Transbay
Location: 250 Howard Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Architects: Goettsch Partners & Solomon Cordwell Buenz
Engineering: Goettsch Partners
Completion: Expected 2018

AE Interests: 605 feet high, 740,000 square feet, LEED Gold Certification, 5,000-square-foot outdoor plaza that connects to retail and the building’s main lobby, floor-to-ceiling glass facade, fritted glass to control transmitted light, solar gain, privacy, and views.

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Building: Salesforce Tower
Location: 415 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli
Production Architecture: Kendall/Heaton Associates Inc.
Structural Engineering: Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Geotech Engineering: Arup
MEP Engineering: WSP
Construction: Clark Construction
Completion: Expected 2018

AE Interests: 1,070 feet tall, 60 stories, when completed it will be the tallest tower in San Francisco, integrated metal sunshades, earthquake engineering, high performance, low-​emissivity glass to help reduce the building’s cooling load, heat-​exchanging coils wrapped around the tower’s foundations, comprehensive water recycling systems, high efficiency air-​handlers will take in fresh air on every floor.

   
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Building: Transbay Transit Center
Location: 150 1st Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Owner: Transbay Joint Powers Authority
Design Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli
Landscape Architect: Peter Walker Partners Landscape Architecture
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Services Engineer: BuroHappold
Construction Management: Turner Construction Company
Engineering Design: Arup
Collaborators: Adamson Associates, WSP Flack + Kurtz
Completion: Expected Fall 2017

AE Interests: 1.5 million square feet, rooftop park, natural ventilation, geothermal regulation, greywater/stormwater reuse, natural lighting, LEED Gold certified. `

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Building: Ryerson University Student Learning Centre
Location: Toronto, Canada
Completed: 2015
Architect: Snøhetta, Zeidler Partnership Architects
MEP Engineer: Crossey Engineering LTD.
Construction Manager: Ellis Don
Lighting Designer: Consullux Lighting Consultants

AE Interest: glass skin creates varying light intensities within the building, LEED silver, half of the roof is dedicated to urban green space

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Building: Costanera Center (Gran Torre Santiago)
Location: Providencia-Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
Architects: Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects / Alemparte Barreda y Asociados
Engineer: Thornton y Tomasetti
Structural Engineer: René Lagos y Asociados Ingenieros Civiles Ltda
Construction Years: 2006-2013

Interests: This is the tallest building in South America. It casts a shadow of over 1 mile long. LEED Gold (Shell and Core) certification in progress. Has a curtain wall façade.
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Building: Sunset Park Materials Recycling Facility
Location: 30th Street Pier of South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT)
Architect: Selldorf Architects
Operated by: Sims Municipal Recycling

AE Interests: LEED Certified, 98 percent of the complex made out of recycled steel; has an education center, classrooms, offices, a theater, and a large outdoor terrace with views to Lower Manhattan as well as a recycling plant; processes and markets more than 200,000 tons of plastic, glass, and metal each year; protection against a rise in sea-level significantly above city requirements; site fill is made from a recycled glass, asphalt, and rock composite.

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Building: The Infinity Centre
Architect: McBride Charles Ryan
Project Architect: Andrew Hayne
Landscape Architect: Oculus
Engineering: ARUP
Type: Educational
Year: 2012

AE Interests: Whole structure like two wings result an infinity symbol to stand for infinite possibilities of learning. Color strategy reinforces the identity of the academic disciplines. use natural materials like timber to stay green.

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Building: Bagnolia Futura Cultural Center
Location: Naples, Italy
Architects: Silvio d’Ascia Architecture
Design Team: Silvio d’Ascia Architecture, ATI Servizi Integrati, IDI
General contractors: SLED SpA with Studio Graziani, Studio Lenzi, Ing. Majorano, Gi.Pi.Gi.
Area: 44,230 m²
Completion: 2011

AE Interests: Steel structural system. Layered facade. Opaque acoustical curtains. Domed structure.

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Building: Town Hall Hotel
Location: London, England, U.K.
Architect: rare architecture
Structural Engineer: O’Connor Sokolowski Partnership
M & E Consultant: Mendick Waring
Contractor: MP Brothers Ltd
Subcontractors and Suppliers: Euroclad (extension and skin), DuPont (coating)
Completion: 2010

AE Interests: laser cut powder coated aluminum skin reduces heat gain and allows for the entry of natural light while preserving the privacy of the hotel rooms, 98-room hotel, bar and restaurant, addition to buildings originally erected in 1910 and 1937

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Building: Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
Location: Shanghai, China
Architect: RTKL with Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design and Research
Completed 2001

AE Interests: curtain wall, spiraling roof structure, elliptical ball and decorative hanging sphere represent an egg and its yolk—an important Chinese symbol.

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Building: The Diamond Building
Location: CBD Johannesburg, South Africa; 11 Diagonal Street
Architect: Murphy/Jahn, Inc. Architect
Associate Architect: Louis Karol Architects
Structural Engineer: ARUP
Mechanical Engineer: Biederman Finn
Completion: 1984
Size: 22 floors (2 below ground)

AE Interests: Fifteenth tallest building in Johannesburg at 262 ft., glass curtain wall facade, in use as a multi-functional office building, concrete structure designed to facilitate a slip-form core and flying forms for floor construction

 
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Building: National Library of China Phase II
Location: Beijing, China
Architect: KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten
Floor area: 80,000m² (861,000) SqFt
Completed: 2008

AE Interest: Third largest library in the world, Modular phases,

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Building: CityLife – Torre Curvo/Libeskind Tower
Location: Milan, Italy
Architect: Studio Daniel Libeskind
Structural Engineer: Redesco Progetti
MEP Engineer: Max Fordham and Manens–TIFS
Contractor: Tre Torri Contractor
Cost & Site Supervision: J&A Consultant
Lighting Designer: Manens–TIFS
Facade Consultant: ARUP Italy
Status: under construction
Completion: 2017
Height: 168 m

AE Interests: Steel structure clad in glass curtain walling, geometry corresponds to a portion of a dome.

 
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Building: INTECS Spa Headquarters
Location: Rome, Italy
Architect: Modostudio, Studio Cattinari
Structural Engineer: Gilberto Sarti
Mechanical Engineer and Klimahaus Consultant: Michele De Beni
Site Manager: Gaia Grossi
Contractor: Cogei Costruzioni s.p.a., Cami srl
Completion: 2014

AE interest: Special facade system, alternating reflective steel and glass panels rotate, different visual effects from various sides of the building.

   
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Building: MACRO Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma
Location: Rome, Italy
Architect: Odile Decq Benoit Cornette Architects and Urban Planners
Consultants: Batiserf Ingenierie, Al Engineering, MB&Co
Completion; 2010

AE interest: Renovation of existing brewery, grid of various viewpoints, suspended walkway leading to observation deck, industrial characteristics.

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Building: Sishane Park
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Architect and Urban Designers: SANALarc
Completion: 2014
Landscape Architect: Arzu Nuhoglu Peyzaj Tasarim
Structural Engineer: YBT Yapisal Tasarim Hizmetleri
MEP: Akim Muhendislik, Esan Muhendislik

AE Interests: Urban public space over undergound parking structure, complex landscape shapes. Designed to minimize water usage with permeable pavers that reduce storm water runoff and rainwater harvesting; utilizes cross ventilation underground.

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Building:  Capital City Complex
Location: Moscow, Russia
Architect: NBBJ
Structural Engineer: ARUP
MEP Engineer: ARUP
Main Contractor: Inrecon
Completion: 2010
Height of Moscow Tower: 301.8m (76 floors)
Height of St. Petersburg Tower: 257.2m (65 floors)

AE Interests: eight central mega columns for enhanced structural efficiency, stacked box effect is created by 2 cantilevers on each vertical segment while not compromising continuity of the main vertical structure, one mechanical floor for each 15 floor segment on which vertical load is transferred from corner and central columns to mega columns via perimeter belt truss

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Building: Evolution Tower
Location: Moscow, Russia
Architects: RMJM Group (in collaboration with artist Karen Forbes)
Structural Engineer:GK-Techstroy
Engineer of Record: Gorproject
MEP Engineer/Main Contractor: Renaissance Construction Company
Facade: VELKO-2000; Josef Gartner & Co; ST-Facades; Technologica
Formwork: PERI
Completion: 2015

AE Interests: Self climbing corner column formwork for the spiral-shaped rectangular columns with crane independent climbing systems (see video 2), 245.9 meters tall, 55 floors each is twisted by 3° in relation to the preceding one, totaling 135°, nominated as a finalist for ‘Best Tall Building in Europe’ by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

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Building: 71 Via Boncompagni
Location: Rome, Italy
Architect: MAD Architects
Local Architect: I. SI. Engineer
Structural Engineer: Tecnic Consulting Engineer S.P.A.
Urban Planner: Studio Busnengo
Completion expected: 2017

AE interest: Rebuild of former 1970’s commercial courtyard building.   Replace previous outer façade with custom metal and glass.   Full height curved glass windows within eight level concrete “book shelf” system.

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Building: Stadio della Roma
Expected completion: 2018
Architect: MEIS
Consulting firms: SCE, GAE, Thornton Tomasetti, Arup, and others.
Construction: to begin in late 2015

AE interest: Contemporary and dynamic, Colosseum inspired design, complex concrete and steel seating arena, sustainable sports venue, carbon neutral footprint.

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Building: MUSE Museo delle Scienze (Museum of Science)
Location: Trento, Italy
Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Structure Consultant: Riccardo Giovannelli
MEP Engineers: Manens Intertecnica, GAE Engineeringr
Contractor: Colombo Costruzioni
Lighting Designer: Piero Castiglioni
Completion: 2013

AE Interests: Built on the brownfield site of a former Michelin tire manufacturing plant, LEED Gold, among the winners of the 2013 CasaClima Awards, photovoltaic panels and geothermal probes, sophisticated automatic brisesoleil and curtain system driven by temperature and solar radiation sensors, rainwater collection tank that reduces hydro water by 50%, uses local resources such as Italian bamboo.

    
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Building: Za Koenji Public Theater
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Architect: Toyo Ito
Status: Completed 2009
Structural Engineering: Sasaki Structural Consultants
Mechanical Engineering: Kankyo Engineering
General Contractor: Taisei Corporation

AE Interests: walls and roof constructed of steel plate reinforced concrete, stable yet extremely thin to accommodate acoustic requirements; carved out of a cube by five elliptic cones and two cylinders; floating structural system for every floor slab

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Building: Horno 3 Steel Museum
Location: Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Architect: Grimshaw
Specialist Structural Engineer: Werner Sobek
Structural Engineer of Record: Sistemas Optimos Constructivos, SOCSA
MEP Engineer of Record: Asesoria y Diseno
Environmental Design: Atelier Ten
Completion: 2007

AE Interest: Surpasses International Energy Code requirements, tessellated steel roof, AIA Honor Award for Architecture 2009, ASLA Honor Award 2009, Cemex Building Awards 2008.

    
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Building: Esfera City Center Master Plan
Location: Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Completion: 2018 (Phase 1)
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Local Architect: BUDIC
Structural Engineer: Fhecor Ingenieros + Alonso y Asociados
Services Engineers: PGI Engineering
Project Manager: Escala

AE Interest: Community is designed with CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) principles, arranged in an ideal solar orientation, optimizes wind patterns to cool buildings, composed of 12 residential towers and 981 total apartments, constructed in 3 phases with the first phase having 353 apartment units.

  
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Building: Thanksgiving Square Chapel
Location: Dallas, Texas
Architect: Philip Johnson
Structural Engineer: Datum Engineers
Glass Design: Gabriel Loire

AE Interests: one of the largest horizontally mounted stained-glass pieces in the world, spiraling shape, curved walls, white marble aggregate

 
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Building: Metalsa
Location: Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Architect: Brooks + Scarpa Architects
Structural Engineer: Carl W. Howe Partners
M/E/P Engineers: Colbalt Engineering
Landscape: PEG Office
LEED Consultant: Zinner Consultants
Project Manager: Araltec- Alex Ruiz Cruz, Evelia Garcia
Completion: 2013

AE Interest: First LEED Platinum building in Mexico, geometric roof draws inspiration from old factories and surrounding mountains, roof allows for natural light, custom aluminum skin.

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Building: LASALLE College of the Arts
Location: 1 McNally Street, Singapore
Completion: 2008
Architect: RSP Architects Planners & Engineers
Structural/Civil Engineers: RSP Architects Planners & Engineers
HVAC Engineers: Hitachi Infrastructure Systems
Contractor/Construction: Takenaka Corporation, WT Partnership

AE Interests: “Black box,” exterior walls made of aluminum and black stone, interior is mostly composed of steel and glass, thin Teflon membrane provides shading over the campus.

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Building: Zorlu Levent Office Tower
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Completion: 2014
Architect: Tabanlioglu Architects
Structural Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor (ART II)
Local Structural Engineer: Emir
MEP Engineer: HB Engineering, GN Engineering
Main Contractor: Koray Construction
Wind Consultant: BMT Fluid Mechanics Ltd.

AE Interests: rotated rectangular façade, LEED Gold, concrete structure skyscraper, garden offices with access to patio and street, fritted glass for sun control

Height: 170 m / 558 ft, 43 stories above ground, 7 stories below ground

   
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Building: Klyde Warren Park
Location: Dallas, Texas
Architect: The Office of James Burnett
Structural Engineer: Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc.
Construction: Bjerke Management Solutions
General Contractor (Deck Plaza): Archer Western
General Contractor (Amenities): McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.
Completion: 2012

AE Interests: bridges an existing freeway, urban green area, central gathering space

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Building: Geology Museum
Location: Shenzhen, China
Architect: leeMundwiler Architects
Completion: 2013

AE Interests: angular facades, constructed with natural stone, facade designed for moss, lichen, and plants to grow on, natural lighting.

  
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Building: Tencent Corporate Headquarters
Location: Shenzhen, China
Architect: NBBJ
Structural Engineer: AECOM
MEP Engineer: WSP
Facade Engineer: Thorton Tomasetti
Completion: 2016

AE Interests: curtain wall incorporates modular shading, reduce carbon emissions by 40% over typical office tower, rotation between towers to capture winds, incorporates three sky bridges.