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Building:  Nordic Artists’ Centre
Location: Dale, Norway
Completion Date: 1998
Architect:  Haga and Grov with Knut Hjeitnes and Ivar Egge in association

AE Interests: daylighting, five individual studios, five individual guest houses

Building: Westminster Underground Station
Location: London, England, UK
Completed: 1999
Architect: Hopkins Architects
Contract Value: £80 million
Client: London Underground
Consulting engineer: Maunsell Ltd
Main contractor: Balfour Beatty – AMEC Joint Venture
Ready-mixed concrete: RMC Readymix Ltd
Cement: Castle Cement Ltd
Aggregates: RMC Aggregates Greater London
Reinforcement couplers: Ancon CCl Ltd
Formwork/falsework: PERI Ltd

AE Interests: Deepest ever excavation in central London, cast in place concrete

Building:  Mortuary at Asker Crematorium
Location: Asker, Norway
Completion Date: 2000
Architect: Carl-Viggo Holmebakk
AE Interests: load-bearing masonry construction, interior brick surfaces

Building: Canada Water Bus Station
Location: London, England
Completed: 1999
Architect: Eva Jiricna Architects
Contract Value: £3 million
Contractor : Carillion
Client: London Underground Ltd
Civil and Concrete Engineer: Benaim-Works JV

AE Interests: Acoustic control, natural lighting, cantilever roof spans

Building: Two Houses at Sølvberget
Location: Stavanger, Norway
Completion Date: 2000
Architect: Helen & Hard
Client: Svendsen & Stangeland

AE Interests: simple wood structured wall as membrane

Building: Private House
Location: Zushi, Kanaqawa Prefecture, Japan
Completed: 1998
Architect: Ricardo Legoretta

AE Interests: daylighting, Complex geometry

Building: Paper Art Museum

Location: Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Completed: 1999

Architect: Shigeru Ban

Structural Engineer: Hoshino Architects and Engineers

General contractor: Obayashi corporation

Engineer: Chiku Engineering Consultants

Square Footage: 18,000 square feet

AE Interests: daylighting, sustainability, fiber glass reinforced panels, overhang vertical shutter, steel frame structure

Building: T House
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Completed: 1999
Architect: Kei’ ichie Irie

AE Interests: daylighting, complex geometry, cylinder bathroom, space can be changed by sliding door, steel frame

Building: O Museum
Completed: 1999
Location: Lida, Nagano, Japan
Architect: SANAA
Interior Designer: SANAA

AE Interests: daylighting, structure

Building: Mount Fuji House
Location: Fuji-san, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
Completed: 2000
Architect: Satoshi Okada
AE Interests: wooden structure, shape softens the effect of the wind

Building: C House
Location: Tokyo, Japan

Completion Date: 2001
Architect: Kei’ichie Ire

AE Interests: complex geometry, simple materials, complex space, interior is linear, stucture is wood and partly steel frame

Building: Gifu Academy of Forest Science and Culture

Completion Date: 2001
Location: Mino, Gifu Prefecture
Architects: Atsushi Kitagawara Architects
Structural engineers: Inayama Architects
General contractors: Sawazaki Construction, Kuriyama-Gumi, Kyoei Doboku Kenchiku, Yoshida Construction, Nishimura, Kyoei
Kensetsu

AE Interests: wooden structure

Building:  House of Shadows
Location:  Tokyo, Japan
Completion Date: 2002 

Architect: Studio MYU Architects

AE Interests: use of natural light, complex geometry, wooden structure

Building: Louis Vuitton Omotesando
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Completed: 2002
Architect: Jun Aoki
Structural Engineer: Mutsuro Sasaki

AE Interests: unique geometry, stacks of boxes representing a different space, natural lighting

Building: Small House
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Completed: 2000
Architect: Kazuyo Sejima & Associates

AE Interests: Complex geometry, use of space, glass facade

Building: Feldman-Horn Center for the Arts, Harvard Westlake School
Location: Los Angeles, California
Completed: 1998
Architect: Michael Maltzan Architecture
Project Architect: Marmal & Radziner Architecture
Structural Engineer: Decoma Industries

AE Interest: Built around an existing chapel, beautiful courtyard at entry, made of a collection of individual buildings – some meant to frame views and some to create views.
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Building: Peter B. Lewis Building, Case Western Reserve University
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Completed: 2002
Architect: Gehry Partners
Construction Manager: Hunt Construction Group, Inc.
Structural Engineer: DeSimone Consulting Engineers, PLLC
Civil Engineer: Euthenics Inc.

AE Interest: A making roof structure, natural lighting produces an array of colors as it bounces down the white walls, and air-conditioning and heating enter the building through thin slits rather than the average ducts.

Building: University of Minnesota Gateway Center
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Completed: 2000
Architect: Antoine Predock
Architect of Record: LHB Engineers

AE Interest: Granite and copper façade, use of recycled laytex paint and multiple other recycled products, allows sun light to flood into large open gathering spaces.

Building: L.A. Design Center
Location: Los Angeles, California
Completed: 2003
Architect: John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects
General Contractor: Steve Forbes, Brunswick Builders
Structural Engineers: Mackintosh and Mackintosh
Landscape Architect: Michael Schneider, Orange Street Studio

AE Interests: Blends well with the surrounding neighborhood because of layers of textured materials, excellent use of parking area as a social center of the project.
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Building: Makino Museum of Plants and People
Location: Mount Godai, Kochi City, Japan
Completed: March 1999
Architect: Naito Architects and Associates
Structural Designer: Structural Design Group/SDG

AE Interests: Reinforced concrete and steel plus laminated wood roof framing. Large canopy provides sun shading efficiency. Deciduous trees planted next to external air intakes precools air before it enters the building.

Building: Yorkin House
Location: Malibu, California
Completed: 1999
Architect: Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners
Lighting Consultant: Neal Matsuno

AE Interests: Opens only to indirect light and huge light filled spaces to an exterior courtyard overlooking the beach. Entry to the building is through a courtyard of native grass.

Building: Bergamot Artists Lofts
Location: Santa Monica, California
Completed: 1999
Architect: Pugh + Scarpa Architects
Engineer: Gwynne Pugh
General Contractor: Pegan Construction

AE Interests: Both facades are excellent displays of geometry, blends well with challenging surroundings, great use of corrugated metal, steel, and glass.

Building: Gifu Kitagata Apartments
Location: Kitagata, Gifu, Japan
Completed: March 1998
Architect: Kazuyo Sejima & Associates and Yamasei Sekkei

AE Interests: Reinforced concrete structure. Utilized construction waste minimization by using each room as a modular building block.

Building: Colorado Court
Location: Santa Monica, California
Completed: 2002
Architect: Pugh + Scarpa Kodama
Energy Efficiency consultant: Helios International
General Contractor: Ruiz Brothers Construction Co.

AE Interests: First Building in the nation to be 100% energy neutral, and also the first in the nation to receive a LEED “Gold” rating. Passive Solar Design Strategy and natural gas powered heat recovery system.

Building: Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
Location: 555 West Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Completed: 2002
Design Architect: Jose Rafael Moneo
Executive Architect: Leo A Daly
General Contractor: Morley Construction
Structural Engineer: Nabih Youssef Associates
Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Engineer: ARUP Partners.

AE Interests: Modern Architecture, capacity of about 3000 people, built to withstand an earthquake of magnitude 8.4 on the Richter scale, and entire building sits on base isolators.

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Building: Kaze-no-oka Crematorium
Location: Nakatsu, Japan
Completion: 1997
Architect: Maki and Associates
Structural Engineer: Hanawa Structural Engineers

AE Interests: Reinforced Concrete and Steel Frame.

Building: Ashikita House of Youth
Location: Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan
Completed: 1998
Architect: Gigantes Zenghelis Architects
Commissioned by: Kumamoto ArtPolis

AE Interests: Curvilinear roof structure. Topography was preserved as much as possible. Norther Ridgeline is left almost untouched.

Building: Nav Yatra
Location: Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Completed: 2003
Architect: Laurie Baker

AE Interests: Roof detail shows water gathering, Ampitheatre allows maximum air circulation, Ventilation vents

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