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Building: Shanti House
Location: Alibag, Mahatashtra, India
Completed: 1998
Architect: Rahul J Mahrotra

AE Interests: Butterfly, lightweight ironsheet roof

Building: Benjamin House
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka State, India
Completed: 2001
Architect: Mathew & Ghosh Architects

AE Interests: Fan-like pillars support the roof

Building: Shiddhartha Children and Women’s Hospital
Location: Butwal, Nepal
Completed: 1998
Architect: Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

AE Interests: Brick masonry over reinforced concrete, Large colonnades protect interior from sun radiation

Building: British Library
Location: 96 Euston Road, London, England
Completed: 1997
Architect: Colin St. John Wilson & Partners
Geotechnical Engineers: Grontmij
Client: British Library

AE Interests: Rhomboid shape, four story glass tower in the middle of the library, books stored under building in a low oxygen, temperature cooled and humidity free environment.

Building: Gas Training Institute
Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Completed: 1998
Architect: Raj Rewal

AE Interests: Open-air lecture theatre, Brick façade’s detailing, Auditorium’s ferro-cement shell domes, Sandstone lattices

Building: Parliament Library
Location: New Delhi, India
Completed: 2002
Architect: Raj Rewal

AE Interests: Large glass dome, formal gardens, steel lattice framework

Building: Druk White Lotus School
Location: Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir
Completed: 2001
Architect: Arup Group
Structural Engineer: Arup Group

AE Interests: Masonry base and exposed timber framing, Locally sourced timber, Solar energy use

Building:  The Finnish Embassy
Location:  Berlin, Germany
Completion:  1999
Architect:  VIIVA
Structural Engineer:  IGH
Landscape:  Karsten Bockling
AE Interest:  Shape, solar louvers

Building: Meteorit Exhibition Centre
Location: Essen, Germany
Completion: 1995
Architect: Propellor Z
Client: RWE, Essen, D and Heller workshop

AE Interests: hovering, curved aluminum hull; sloped glass roof; light

Building: Private Residence
Location: Vouliagmeni, Greece
Date Completed: 2001
Architect: ISV Architects & Associates

AE Interests: sloped site, structure, cantilever, residence

Building: Tavern 37
Location: Vouliagmeni, Greece
Project began development in 2007
Architect: Sakellaridou, Papanikolaou, Pollani & Associates Architects

AE Interests: low environmental impact, structure, sustainability

Building: Evosmos City Hall
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Date Completed: 1986
Architect: Sakellaridou, Papanikolaou, Pollani & Associates Architects

AE Interests: structure, materials, daylighting

Building: Private House
Location: Ekali, Greece
Date Completed: 2001
Architect: ISV Architects & Associates

AE Interests: structure, cantilever, lighting, materials, interior design

Building: Poly/mono-Katoikia
Location: Athens, Greece
Date Completed: 2002
Architect: Yannis Aesopos

AE Interests: structure, interior design

Building: National Bank of Greece New Headquarters
Location: Athens, Greece
Date Completed: 2001
Architect: Sakellaridou, Papanikolaou, Pollani & Associates Architects
Civil Engineers: Vasis Sysm / Ch. Mylonas-P. Antoniadou
Electro-mechanical engineers: Triedros Meletitiki / S. Kolokontes-A. Mihas-N. Niarhos

AE Interests: structure, materials, site bound by historical buildings

Building: Harbour Offices and Shopping Centre
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Date Completed: 2002
Architect: Sakellaridou, Papanikolaou, Pollani & Associates Architects

AE Interests: materials, building envelope, lighting

Building: Nizayama Forest Art Museum Entrance Pavillian
Address: 364-1 Nizayama, Nyuzen-machi, Shimoniikawa-gun, Toyama-ken 939-0631 Japan
Completion: 1999
Architect: Jose Antonio Martinez Lapena & Elias Torres Tur Architects
Client: Nyuzen Town

AE Interests: wood structure, roof, flag like structure, far away recognition

Building: Parco della Musica Auditorium
Location: Roma, Italy
Completed 2002
Designer: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Structural engineer: ARUP
Client: City of Roma

AEInterest: The inside of the auditorium is cherry wood which is the best material for acoustics, the form of the halls is geometrically complex

Building: Fiumicino Town Hall
Location: Roma, Italy
Completed 2002
Designer: Alessandro Anselmi
Client: Comune di Fiumicino

AEInterest: the building has an abstract geometry, as well as having the roof double as a usable floor.  There is a large glass curtain wall along one side

Building: Mur Island
Location: Mariahilferstraße 2, 8020 Graz, Austria
Date of Completion: March 2004
Architect: Acconci Studio
Design and architectural layout: Robert Punkenhofer

AE Interests: Steel structure. The structure contains an amphitheater, café, and children’s playground. It’s geometry is that of shells coming together at different areas, a fitting theme for an “island”.

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Architect: Meili and Peter
Completion: 2000
Structural Engineer: Conzett, Bronzini, Gartmann
Site Management: Hofmann and Huggler
Project Team: Marcel Meili, Markus Peter, Zeno Vogel, Andreas Schmidt, Thomas Schnabel, Othmar Villiger, Thomas Kuhne, Urs Schonenberger, Marc Loeliger
Address: Solothurnstrasse 102, 2504 Biel-Bienne

AE Interests: large scale wood structure, prefabricated elements create skeletal frame, shear and lateral forces on large windows is taken up by solid panels between frames

Architect: Mario Botta
Start Construction: 1997
Completion: 2000
Client: Swiss Confederation
Address: Chemin du Pertuis-du-Sault 74, 2000 Neuchatel

AE Interests: Built into hillside, annex of Durrenmatt’s house, arched pavilion displays Swiss landscape

Architectural Design: Architects + bmp Gorres and Kraatz
Architectural Supervision: bc-bauconsuit GmbH
Completion: 1999
Client: Landkreis Wittenberg
Address: Mittelfeld 50, 06836 Lutherstadt Wittenberh

AE Interests: Lateral wind loads supported mostly by glass and a thin steel frame, integrate technology in the classroom

Architect: Werner Sobek Engineering and Design
Completion: 2000
Client: Werner Sobek
Structural Engineer: Werner Sobek Engineering and Design
Address: Roemerstrasse 128

AE Interests: Completely recyclable, Emissions free, Energy self sufficient, No interior doors or walls, All electrical power from solar panels on roof

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Architect: Behnisch, Behnisch, and Partner
Completion: 2001
Client: Staatliches Hochbauamt Munchen I
Structural Engineer: Pfefferkern + Partner
Building Physics Engineer: Ingenieurburo Langkau Bayer Bauphysik
Landscape Architect: Luz and Partner
General Contractor: Dyckerhoff and Widmann AG
Address: Am Hirschgarten 1, 82347 Bernried

AE Interests: Slab roof and cantilevered balconies, Long and horizontal shape stretches to lake

Architect: BRT Architects
Competition: 1999
Completion: 2001
Client: Swiss Re Germany AG
Landscape Architects: Martha Schwartz, Peter Kluska
Address: Dieselstrasse 11, Unterfohring

AE Interests: Hanging hedge on perimeter frame that employees can walk on, garden on roof

Architect: Bottega + Ehrhardt
Completion: 2002
Client: Willibald Slavicek

AE Interests: Fusion of roof and facade, large overhang, interior is spacious and flooded with light

Architects: Herzog and de Meuron
Completion: 1999
Client: Ricola AG
Project Team: Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Ivo Sollberger, Anna Wickerson, Mario Meier
Address: Baselsrtasse 89, 4242 Laufen

AE Interests: Projecting roof made of synthetic material that bends with varying temperature and rain/snow loads, plants weave in and out of projecting roof, fits like pavilion in Ricola gardens

Address: 305 Harrison Street
Seattle, WA 98109
Architect: Mill Hull
Landscape Architect: SiteWorkshop
Structural Engineer: AKB Engineering, Inc
Mechanical Engineer: Greenbusch Group
Acoustical Engineer: Greenbusch Group
General Contractor: Howard S. Wright Construction Company
Precast Concrete Contractor: Concrete Technologies
Completed: 2000

AE Interests: LEED Silver, sustainable design, roof paving system, energy efficiency, natural ventilation, pre-cast in place concrete
Awards:2003 National AIA Top Ten Green Award
2003 Sustainable Building B.E.S.T Award
2002 AIA Seattle Merit Award
2001 AIA Seattle Citation Award
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Location: Dublin, Ireland
Architect: Pascall+Watson
Civil Engineer: Arup
Construction Management: Mace
Completed: 2010
Cost: $900 million

AE Interests: Parametric design of roof panels to fit complex geometry with similar sized pieces.

Address: 325 5th Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98109
Architect: Frank Gehry
Construction Cost: $230,000,000
Completed: 2000

AE Interests: voluptuously undulating musical form, fabricated steel frame, function, color, dedicated to Jimi Hendirx, CATIA system- a program used in aerospace engineering to design
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Address: 510 Bellevue Way Northeast
Bellevue, WA 98004
Architect: Steven Holl Architects
Associate Architect: Sclater Partners
Structural Engineer: Skilling Ward Magnusson Barkshire Guy Nordenson & Associates
Mechanical Engineer: McKinstry
Electrical Engineer: Nelson Electric
General Contractor: Sellen Construction Company
Exterior Concrete Color Additive: Custom added to clear OKON sealer
Completed-2000
AE Interests: space, light, circulation, color, geometry, hand stained aluminum panels, function

Location: Plzeňská, Prague 5 – Smíchov, Czech Republic
Architect: D3A / Fiala Prouza Zima
Structural Engineers: Novák & Partner s.r.o., PPP s.r.o.
Facade Contractor: Sipral a.s., Marton, IPS a.s. 03, Mechanika Prostějov
Completed: 2002
Cost: $84 million

AE Interests: Cantilevered roof. Facade illuminated at night.

Location: V Olšinách 80/626, Prague 10 – Strašnice, Czech Republic
Architect: D3A / Fiala Prouza Zima
Civil Engineer: Ing. Jiří Václavů
Structural Engineers: Nemec Polák
Electrical Engineer: Elis Praha, Micos
Completed: 2002
Cost: $13 million

Location: Prague – Nebušice 305 / 2, Czech Republic
Architect: D3A / Fiala Prouza Zima
Civil Engineer: Ing. Jiří Václavů
Structural Engineers: Ing. Vít Mlázovský
Completed: 2001

AE Interests: Vegetation covers the building’s roof and the building is designed to blend in with the site.

Address: 801 Rue Brennan
Montreal, Quebec
Architect: Dupuis Le Tourneaux and Menkes Shooner Dagenais
Structural Engineer: Nicolet Chartrand Knoll Ltee
Mechanical Engineer: Leroux, Beaudoin, Hurens et Associates Inc
Electrical Engineer: Enerpro Inc.
Acoustical Engineer: Octave Acoustique
General Contractor: Verrault/Marton
Glass Curtain wall: Thermalite Inc. /Gamma Industries Inc.
Metal Cladding: Vm Zinc/Vicwest Inc.
Completed: 2002
AE Interests: concrete-framed, iron-oxide impregnated brick, glass, use of AutoCAD 2000, a glass-screen facade seems almost to float above the highway

Location: Třebohostická 5a, Prague 10 – Strašnice, Czech Republic
Architect: D3A / Fiala Prouza Zima
Civil Engineer: Ing. Jiří Václavů
Structural Engineers: Ing. Martin Fučík
Electrical Engineer: Elis Praha, Micos
Completed: 2006
Cost: $500,000

Architect: Shim-Sutcliffe Architects Inc.
Pool Architect: Dan Euser, Waterarchitecture Inc
Landscape Architect: Neil Turnbull
Steel Cladding: Tremonte Manufacturing Ltd.
Structural Engineer: Blackwell Engineering
Mechanical Engineer: Ted Kesik
General Contractor: Kamrus Construction
Completed: 2001
AE Interests: L-shaped massing, Cor-ten steel panels, exterior massing, space, folded façade, connection between architecture and landscape, roof rainwater collection, roof garden, integration into existing ecological systems
Awards: Governor General Medal for Architecture

Location: Prague Castle, Czech Republic
Architect: Josef Pleskot AP Atelier
Completed: 2002
Cost: $950,000

AE Interests: Structural Brick Arch construction

Address: 60 Harbord Street
Toronto, Ontario
Architect: Morphosis
Completed: 2000
AE Interests: unusual façade and concrete interior, function, massing, exterior articulation, glass and steel bridge, metal screens and cladding, interior courtyard

Location: Wenceslas square, Prague, Czech Republic
Architect: DaM
Completed: 2002
Cost: $6.7 million

AE Interests: Glass skin facade is double layered, enabling automated control of the internal space’s environmental conditions.

Location: Kromeriz, Czech Republic
Architect: Archteam
Completed: 2000
Cost: $46,000

AE Interests: Simple wood construction with all structural connections visible.

Architect- Shim: Sutcliffe Architects Inc.
Structural Engineer: Blackwell Engineering Ltd.
Mechanical Engineer: Toews System Design
General Contractor: Dan Paul Design Build
Completed: 2001
AE Interests: wood frame, steel + reinforced concrete elements, modulates between different sized neighbors, four story house connected to restaurant

Building: Zita Kern Space
Location: Raasdorf, Austria
Completion: 1998
Architect: ARTEC Architekten

AE Interest: Remodel with newer structure over older one

Location: Brno, Czech Republic
Architect: Kuba and Pilar Architekti
Structural Engineers: Studio Hangár
Completed: 2005

AE Interests: Contrast to surrounding architecture. Fully lit facade.

Architect: Patkau Architects
Structural Engineer: Fast & Epp Partners
Mechanical Engineer: Fast & Epp Partners
General Contractor: Glover Corporation
Completed: 2000
AE Interests: pool on second level- immense amounts of reinforced concrete, clerestory that brings both daylight and light reflected from the lap pool, resistance to lateral forces
Awards:
American Institute of Architects National Honor Award 2005
Governor General’s Medal 2004
Record House Selection 2002

Location: Brno, Czech Republic
Architect: Kuba and Pilar Architekti
Completed: 2005
Cost: $2 million

AE Interests: Curtain-like timber facade shields interior from the sun whilst still allowing views of the outside.

Building: Semperit Research & Development Center
Location: Wimpassing, Austria
Completion: 2002
Architect: Najjar & Najjar Architects

AE Interest: Aluminum skin, roof light covers most of building, building form follows the companies forward reputation

Building: House P
Location: Gramastetten, Austria
Completion: 2000
Architect: Pauhof Architects

AE Interest: Aluminum façade, dissolution of built space and the exterior environment toward center of building

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Building: Wohnen am Lohbach Housing
Location: Innsbruck, Austria
Completion: 2000
Architect: Baumschlager & Eberle

AE Interest: Economical and environmental design

Building: Kunsthaus
Location: Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz, Austria
Date of Completion: September 27, 2003
Architect: Peter Cook/Colin Fournier
Partner Architect: Architektur Consult, Graz (Peyker, Domenig, Eisenköck)
Structural Engineering: Bollinger and Grohmann, Frankfurt/M

AE Interests: Façade is a media skin that can be changed electronically. “Biomorphic” geometry. Houses a very cost-efficient air conditioning system.

Link to building video: http://www.museum-joanneum.at/en/kunsthaus/the_building/movie_a_friendly_alien

Building: Bergiesel Ski-jump
Location: Berg Isel, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Completion: 2002
Architect: Zaha Hadid
Structural Engineer: Christian Aste
Electrical Engineer: TB PŸrcher
Building Physics: Peter Fiby

AE Interest: Building twists fluidly as it soars above tree height

Building: Jewish Community Center
Location: Duisburg, Germany
Completion: 1999
Architect: Zvi Hecker
Client: Jüdische Gemeinde zu Duisburg Mühlheim Oberhausen

AE Interests: Resembles a book with pages spread open, concrete

Building: Podersdorf Parish Centre
Location: Podersdorf am See, Austria
Date of Completion: 2001
Architect: Lichtblau Wagner Architekten
Structural Engineer: Josef Gebeshuber

AE Interests: Ingenious ventilation system that conforms to the temperature and air quality needs at different times of the season. 40-meter long glass wall printed with quotations from the bible.

Building: ING Group Headquarters
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Completion Date: 2002
Architect: Meyer en Van Schooten Architects ; Roberto Meyer, Jeroen van Schooten
Project Leader: Barry van Waveren
Landscape Architect: Michael R. van Gessel
Structural Engineer: Aronsohn raadgevende ingenieurs bv
Contractor: Bouwcombinatie Samenwerking
AE Interests: Resembles a shoe. Supported on angled stilts to ensure good views of the building from both the motorway and the offices.

Building: Walch´s Event Catering
Location: Millennium Park 8, 6890 Lustenau, Austria
Completion: 2000
Architect: Dietrich Untertrifaller Architects

AE Interest: Translucent fabric skin disguises the chipboard cladding and the form of the building

Building: Archaeological Museum and Park
Location: Venner Straße 69, 49565 Bramsche-Kalkriese, Germany
Completion: 2002
Architect: Gigon/Guyger
Structural Engineers:Gantert & Wiemeler Ingenieurplanung

AE Interests: space, three pavilions called Hearing’, Seeing’, Questioning’

Building: BTV Wolfurt
Location: Unterlinden 23, 6922 Wolfurt, Austria
Completion: 1998
Architect: Baumschlager & Eberle

AE Interest: Wood louver screens provide defuse delighting into the open interior

Building:  The Reichstag
Address:  Platz der Republic 1 11011 Berlin, Germany
Completion: 1999
Architect:  Foster and Partners
Consultants:  Arup
AE Interest:  Dome, 360 Degree view

Building: MISS Sargfabrik
Location: dorm Missindorfstraße 10, 1140 Vienna, Austria
Date of Completion: 2000
Architect: BKK-3

AE Interests: Orange-colored façade randomly lined up indicating that corridors and rooms near the outer walls have variable heights and spaces to accommodate the most obvious residential needs.

Building: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Liechtenstein Art Museum)
Location: Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Completion: 2000
Architect: Morger & Degelo; Christian Kerez

AE Interest: Main Facade, Interior Layout

Building: Flatz Residence
Location: Schaan, Switzerland
Completion: 2002
Architect: Baumschlager & Eberle

AE Interest: Concrete Facade, Cantilevered upper story

Building: Rostock IGA Pavilion (“Hedge Building”)
Location: Rostock, Germany
Completion: Spring 2003
Architect: Atelier Kempe Thill
Structural Engineers: Rob Nijsse, ABT Velp, NL
Landscape Architect: Niek Roozen, Weesp, NL

AE Interests: smart screen (ivy hedge), steel frame, computer controlled irrigation, light

Building: Start-Up Offices
Location: Grüsch, Switzerland
Completion: 2001
Architect: Barkow Leibinger
Structural Engineer: Conzett, Bronzini, Gartmann AG
Mechanical Engineer: H. L. Züst-Stock, Lippuner AG
Electrical Engineer: Brüniger & Co. AG
Landscape Architect: Büro Kiefer

AE Interest: Porch formed by cantilevered upper story, Interior naturally lit

Building: Silodam
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Completed: 2002
Architect: MVRDV
Structural Engineer: Cauberg-Huygen
Construction: Pieters Bouwtechniek
Client: Rabo Vastgoed, De Principaal B. V.

AE Interests: Stacked appearance used in reference to the shipping containers around the harbor. Diversified design to attract a broader range of potential tenants.
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Building: Royal Danish Embassy
Address:  The Nordic Embassy Complexs, Berlin Tiergaten
Completion:  1999
Architect:  3XN
Engineer:  IGH
AE Interest:  Solar louvers, structure, Two facades

Building: House in Ano Poli
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Date Completed: 1998
Architect: Anastassios Kotsiopoulos

AE Interests: Steep-sloping site, natural lighting

Building: Colorium
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
Completion: 2001
Architect: Alsop Architects

AE Interests: form, color, light, geometry

Building: Whale Housing
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Completion Date: 2000
Architect: de Architekten Cie ; Frits van Dongen
Project Team: A. Mout, P. Puljiz, F. Veerman, R. Konijn, J. Molenaar, A. Moreno, W. Bartels
Landscape Designer: Adriaan Geuze, West 8 Landscape architects bv, Rotterdam
Contractor: Heijmans Bouw, Almere Stad
Structural Engineer: Pieters Bouwtechniek, Haarlem
Client: Development Company New Deal bv, Amsterdam
AE Interests: Designed to look like a beached whale. Large building design is complimented with an interior garden giving off the feeling of intimacy. Aluminum roof is angled to make both sides elevated which is a strategy used in this design to maximize sunlight for the apartments within.

Building: House of Silence
Location: Klosterberg 11, 59872 Meschede
Completion: 2002
Architect: Peter Kulka
Builder: Benedikitiner Abtei Königsmünter

AE Interests: Concrete cubes, glass, shadow and light

Architect: Allmann Sattler Wappner Architects
Competition: 1996
Completion: 2001
Client: Erzbischofliches Ordinariat Munchen
Competition Architects: Karin Hengher, Olga Ritter
Project Manager: Karin Hengher
Project Architects: Micheal Frank, Annette Gall, Susanne Rath
Address: Marienplatz 8, 80331 Munich

AE Interests: Lamella cube inside of a glass cube, enormous gate facade, space between the cubes balances light and the arrangement of the vertical lamella direct light toward the altar

Building: Ijburg Bridges
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Completion Date: 2001
Architect: Grimshaw Architects
Structural Engineer: Ingenieurs Bureau Amsterdam & WS Atkins
Main Contractor: Project Bureau Ijburg- Amsterdam

AE Interests: Required the development of seven artificial islands. Designed to symbolize the unity of old and new land. Multifunctional: accommodates vehicles, tramlines, cyclists, pedestrians, drainage and other services.

Architect: J. MAYER H. Architects
Competition: 1998
Completion: 2001
Client: Stadt Ostfildern
Architect on site: Lilrich Wiesler
Structural Engineer: M,ller + M,ller
Service Engineer: Wetzstein
Landscape Engineer: Klaus Wiederkehr
Light Engineer: Luna Lichtarchitektur
Building Physics: Dr. Schaecke Und Bayer

AE Interests: Visitors walk through computer animated artificial rain dripping from a cantilevered roof at the entrance, entire building uses light and water elements to fuse nature and technology.

Building: Fluid Vehicle Bus Station
Location: Hoofddorp, Netherlands
Completion Date: 2003
Architect: NIO Architects
AE Interests: Organic design as if formed by natural erosion. Structure acts as one interrupted form with all its accessories such as seats and trash cans molded into the building.

Building: Gran Hotel Domine
Location: Bilbao, Spain
Architect: Estudio Mariscal
Completion: 2002
Design Concept: Javier Mariscal, Fernando Salas
Project Management: Vizcaina de Edificaciones SA
Acoustics: Higini Arau
Client: Silken Hotels
AE Interest: unique organic shape, stone pillar extending up through the lobby, designed for relaxation, visually interesting aray of sloped individual windows that jut out from the building

Building: Hydra Pier
Location: Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands
Completion Date: 2002
Architect: Asymptote Architecture ; Lise Anne Couture, Hani Rashid
AE Interests: Use of laminated glass for its strength in order to avoid use of mullions or frames. The picture on the right shows the glass roof which continues the theme of the whole building in making the construction visible. Suspended water pond on roof.

Building: Altamira Museum & Research Centre
Location: Santillana del Mar, Spain
Architect: Juan Navarro Baldweg
Completion: 2001
AE Interest: Cut into the hillside and made to blend with its surroundings and landscape, inside ceiling replicates the famous prehistoric drawings on the insides of the real caves, made of ochre-colored stone, glass, and metal for a contemporary spin on an archeic feel

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Building: Greenwich Millennium Village
Location: London, England
Completion: 2006
Architect: Ralph Erskine, EPR Architects LTD
Developer: Greenwich Millennium Village LTD
Structural Engineer: Ramboll, Price & Myers
Landscape Architecture: Battle McCarthy Limited
Integrated Ecological Design: Battle McCarthy Limited

AE interests: environmentally sustainable development, large high performance windows, non-polluting paint, CO2 emissions reduced by Combined Heat and Power system, series of infrastructure layers (heating, electrical distribution, water drainage, gas routes), pre-engineered steel framed structures allow for versatility.

Building:  Photonics Centre
Address:  Carl-Scheele-Strass 16 12489 Berlin, Germany
Completion: 1998
Cost:  25.7 Million Euros
Architect:  Sauerbruch Hutton Architects
AE Interest:  Double facade, solar louvers, natural ventilation

AE Interests: Several vertical shapes converge asymmetrically to form the physique of the building. Composed of some glass, the building allows shade and indirect sunlight into the building at many different angles.
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Building: Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Date Completed: 2000
Architect: Jurij Sadar and Bostjan Vuga

AE Interests:  structure, cantilever, daylighting

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Building: Gewild Wonen Expo 2001, Water Villas
Location: Almere, Netherlands
Completion: 2001
Architect: UN Studios

AE Interests: freestanding, individual and clustered blocks of homes,  steel-framed and timber-clad, concept: create a living environment with maximum flexibility to meet individual needs; customizable and extendable allows to elaborate and increase the volumetric potential.

Building: Concert Hall
Location: Leon, Spain
Architect: Mansilla + Tunon Architects
Completion: 2002
Project team: Luis Moreno Mansilla, Emillo Tunon, Andres Reguelro, Fernando Garcia Pino, Maria Linares
Structural engineer: Arup
Mechanical engineer: JG Asociados
Cost consultants: Hernan, Corona y Asociados
Acoustic consultant: Higini Araw
Client: Junta de Castilla y Leon
AE Interest: “billboard” wall, made of white travertine, grid of deeply recessed and splayed bays, each containing windows of different sizes, theatrically lights the exhibition space inside

AE Interests: A partially retractable roof provides protection for the crowd from bad weather while still exposing the outside elements.
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Building:  Olympic Cycle Stadium and Swimming Pool
Location: Berlin, Germany
Completion:  1999
Architect:  Dominique Perrault
Structural Engineer:  Arup
Project Manager:  PROMOS
AE Interest:  Multisports hall, structure, landscaping

Building: Sound Wall Houses
Location: Hilversum, Netherlands
Completion: 2001
Architect: VHP

AE Interests: Twelve residential houses, overlooking an adjoining park were constructed into an embankment along a main road, forming an acoustic barrier.

Building: Paltramplatz Residential Building
Location: Paltramplatz 7, 1100 Vienna, Austria
Date of Completion: 2002
Architect: Delugan-Meissl

AE Interests: façade includes windows that are placed seemingly random, a sleek gray skin, and protruding room-sized windows extending out of the building. The roof acts as a “hat” for the building and has perforations that leak sunlight into the open area in the middle of the building.

Building: Leon Tanatorio
Location: Leon, Spain
Architect: BAAS Architects
Completed: 2000
Structure: Eduard Doce, architect
Engineering Assistance: Mariano Fernández, José Manuel Pérez
Budget Consultant: Francesc Belart
Client: Leon City Council
AE Interest: whole building located under a reflecting pong with some concrete rectangular tubes protruding out from the water at the loxer righthand corner that act at skylights to the chapel that is in that corner, designed in concrete and underground to resemble tombs, allegory of death associated with total design

Building:  Slovenian National Gallery Atrium
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Date Completed:  2001
Architect:  Jurij Sadar and Bostjan Vuga
Structural Engineer:  ELEA, Atelier One
Environmental engineer:  ELEA, Atelier One
Mechanical engineer:  Lenassi
Electrical Engineer:  Eldata

AE Interests:  exposed structure, direct lighting, modern addition to existing building, atrium

Building: Law Courts
Location: Grasse, France
Architect: Christian de Portzamparc
Completion: 1999
Clients: French Ministry of Justice, DDe Alpes-Maritimes
AE Interest: curved shape with vertical slats, common to much of de Portsamparc’s work, very open and spacious, good use of shading mechanisms

Building:  Embassies of the Nordic Countries
Location:  Berlin, Germany
Completion: 1999
Cost:  42.5 Million Euros
Architect:   Berger & Parkkinen
Structural Engineer:  IGH
Facade Engineer:  DEWI, Wien
Project Manager:  Drees & Sommer
AE Interest:  Facade, lighting, steel construction

Building: De Maere Textile School
Location: Enschede, Netherlands
Completion: 2001
Architect: Brookes Stacey Randall
Designer: Brookes Stacey Randall Architects & IAA Architects

AE Interests: Refurbished surrounding buildings sensitively adapted to new functions. Distinctive ‘pods’ introduced, integration of old and new.

Building: Ruffi Sports Complex
Location: Marseille, France
Architect: Remy Marciano
Completion: 2001
Client: Ville de Marseille
AE Interest: powerful blocky presence, envelope composed of concrete panels, interesting lighting to enhance the building at night

Building: Mobius House
Location: Stadhouderskade 113, 1073 AX, Utrecht, Netherlands
Completion: 1998
Architect: Ben van Berkel
Designer: UN Studios
Landscape Architect: West 8
Structural Engineer: ABT

AE Interests: large residential structure, comprised of concrete and glass, designed to respond to needs of occupants, inspired by the mobius band, the interior is arranged on a continuous loop, concrete walls extend into fixed pieces of furniture and external glass walls slide into the structure to create partitions.

Building:  North German Regional Clearing Bank
Address:  Am Friedrichswall 10 30159 Hannover, Germany
Completion:  2002
Architect:  Behnisch, Behnisch, and Partners
Structural Engineer:  Prefferkorn and Partners
AE Interest:  Cantilevers for dramatic lighting, complex shape, double skinned facade, green building

Building: De Verbeelding Centre for the Arts
Location: De Verbeelding Park, Zeewolde, Netherlands
Completion: 2000
Architect: Rene van Zuuk
Designer: Rene van Zuuk Architects

AE Interests: international cultural pavilion situated on a narrow peninsula, comprised of wood, glass and metal cladding, supports a three-hinged frame roof system, similar to those used in local barns,  identical trusses are situated at different angles resulting in a shifted roof which provides indirect lighting.

Building: Pat’s House
Location: Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia
Completion Date: 1999
Architect: Ngiom Partnership

AE Interests: Natural ventilation and lighting, supported cantilever, outward sloping walls

Building: Lem House
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Completion Date: 1998
Architect: W Architects

AE Interests: Natural ventilation, perforated metal shading devises, shading from roof overhang

Building: Posbank Tea Pavilion
Location: Rheden, Netherlands
Completion: 2002
Architect: Bjarne Mastenbroek
Designer: SeARCH

AE Interests: commercial structure, comprised of steel (for tension loads), unprocessed oak timber and concrete (for compression loads) and glass, energy efficient and unified with the natural surroundings, floor rises in a continuous spiral, terminating in a 46 foot long cantilever.

Building: De Brink Centre
Location: Brink 184, 7551 JE Hengelo Ov, Netherlands
Completion: 1999
Architect: Bolles + Wilson
Design Team: Rem Koolhaas, Stefano de Martino, Georg Ritschl, Jeroen Thomas, Paul de Vroom, Alex Wall

AE Interests: 144 feet-tall, commercial tower with mixed-use development, includes apartment blocks, department store, shopping arcade, and underground parking structure. Constructed of white, pre-cast concrete panels, the tower houses an LED digital clock at the top and digital billboards at the pavilion level.