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Building- Prado Museum Extension
Location- Madrid, Spain
Completion- 2006
Architect- Rafael Moneo
Structural Engineering-
Jesús Jiménez Cañas
NB 35 Ingenieros

Mechanical Engineering-
Úrculo Ingenieros Consultores

Construction- UTE Prado

AE Interests- The special attention given to the precision of the brick walls that emphasize the edges can be seen in the corner next to the church where the volume has undergone a careful process of erosion that reveals the concrete structure and the arches of the Cloister.

Building- Public Library in Usera
Location- Madrid, Spain
Completion- 2003
Architect- Abalos and Herreros

AE Interests- Tall slit windows, arranged in an apparently random fashion, allow in natural light. The interior walls are covered in abstracted text in different colors. Structure is confined to the core and perimeter to leave a largely column-free interior.

Building- Congress Centre
Location- Murcia, Spain
Completed- 2002
Civil Engineer- Isidoro Agullo
Structure- Francisco Riuz Gijon
Mechanical Engineering- EPM S.L.

AE Interests- Concrete frame exposed and in filled with either timber panels or glass. Metal mesh ceilings, almost industrial in character, add to the neutral, rather austere character of the spaces waiting to receive their exhibitions, relieved by pools of light from the patios.

Building- Caja Granada
Location- Granada, Spain
Completed—2001
Architect- Estudio Alberto Campo Baeza
Engineering—Urculo Ingenieros
Contractor—OHL(Antonio Padilla), LKS(Francisco Varela)

AE Interests- A concrete and stone box that traps sunlight inside of the building

Building- Doñana Visitor Centre of the Marine World
Completion- 2001
Location- Huelva, Spain
Architect- Cruz y Ortiz
Structure- Tedeco Engineers
Installations- Gadian
Gardening- Lardo Verde

AE Interests- Ancillary spaces are contained in irregularly shaped gaps at key points, such as the entrance hall

Building- CS House
Location- Barcelona, Spain
Completion- 2002
Architect- Alonso, Hernandez and Associates
Engineering- Ed Enginyeria
Contractor: CS Actuacions Urbanistiques Industrials, S.L.

AE Intersets- Transparent glass walls of iron and glass buildings, they do not sharply define the barrier between inside and out visually. From outside you can see what goes on inside and vice versa.
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Building: Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
Location: 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Completed: 2000
Architect: Antoine Predock
Architect of Record: Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, Architecture & Engineering, P.C.
Structural Engineer: Paragon Structural Design
Civil Engineer: Saratoga Associates
MEP Engineer: Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, Architecture & Engineering, P.C.
General Contractor: Barry Bette & Led Duke, Inc.
Structural System: Masonry bearing wall with localized structural steel supporting beam and composite floor and roof framing.

Building: Hotel Josef
Location: Prague, Czezh Republic
Completed: 2002
Architect: Eva Jirinca
Interior Design: Eva Jirinca

AE Interests: modern amenities while maintaining Prague’s traditional architecture; two buildings connected by a courtyard that unifies the public areas; natural daylighting deep into building

Building: Theatre L’Eclat
Location: Pont-Audemer, France
Address: Place du Général de Gaulle, 27500 Pont-Audemer
Completion: 2001
Project Architects: Jakob and MacFarlane
Client: City of Pont-Audemer

AE Interests: The entire auditorium is enveloped in shades of slate gray. With only silicone joints separating the glass panels, the facade appears detached from the building behind it.

AE Interests: The two pairs of curving glass-and-steel wings rise above the seating sections to allow daylight in and to block wind and rain.

Building: National Museum of History and Art
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Address: Marché aux Poissons, 2345 Luxembourg
Completion: 2002
Architect: Christian Bauer and Associates
Client: Fonds de Renovation de la Vieille Ville

AE Interests: Attempts a “demystification” of the museum. An internal atrium allows natural light provided from a skylight at the roof.

Building: Combined Heat Power Plant and Office Building 
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Address: 23 JF Kennedy Avenue
Completion: 2001
Architect: Paul Bretz

AE Interests: Building viewed as a house for a machine. It has a concrete frame with the front entirely glazed. Part of the building is raised up to allow circulation of light throughout the interior.

Building: San Juan Medical Center
Location: San Juan neighborhood, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
Completion: 2001
Architect: Francisco Mangado
Type of Building: Public

AE Interests: canted turrets for vertical interest, zinc-clad structure contrasts with rear apartment towers

Building:  Hedge House Art Gallery
Location: Kasteel Wijlreweg 1, 6321PP Wijlre, Netherlands
Completed: 2001
Architect:  Wiel Arets Architects and Associates
Client: Jo en Marlies Eijck-Voncken

AE Interests: Built in the 17th century pleasure gardens of Wijlre Castle, sought to harmonize nature with art, includes exhibition space for art, greenhouse, and hen house

Building: Giovanni and Marella Agnelli Art Gallery
Location: Torino, Italy
Designer: Renzo Piano Build Workshop
Client:Lingotto SpA and Palazzo Grassi

AEInterest: Contains a partly cantilevered wedge shaped box.  The roof is constructed from 16,000 glass fins above the gallery providing an interesting light quality.

Building: UPF Library
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Completion: 1999
Architects: Lluis Clotet Ballus and Ignacio Paricio Ansuategui
Type of Building: Cultural

AE Interests: interior shows massive load-bearing columns and arches, modern and older elements, inverted pyramids of mirrored glass within the skylights reflect and expanse of water
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Building: Self Referential House
Location: Groningen, Netherlands
Completion Date: 2001
Master Plan: Toyo Ito
Architect: Space Group
Secondary Architects: Space Group, Xaveer de Geyter, Foreign Office Architects and Tony Fretton
AE Interests: Roof terrace with pool. The front façade is made out of glass with half transparent textile screens, which are designed to make the building look both open and closed at the simultaneously.

Building: Alonso-Planas House
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Completion: 1998
Architects: Carlos Ferrater and Joan Guibernau
Type of Building: Residential

AE Interests: The sloped fold of concrete, punctured with a circular skylight, provides a sheltered workshop and viewing platform above
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Building:  Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum
Location: Bilderdijklaan 10, 5611 NH Eindhoven, Netherlands
Completed: 2002
Architect:  Abel Cahen
Structural Engineer: Abel Cahen
Client:  Municipality of Eindhoven

AE Interests: Renovation and extension of original museum built in 1936, new building 4 times the size of original, organic integration with old building stonework and tiling facade with alternating shades of gray

Building: Terrassa City Morgue
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Completion: 2002
Architect: Jordi Badia, BAAS Architects
Service Engineer: Consulting Lluis Duart SL
Structural Engineer: Eduard Doce
Civil Engineer: Francesc Belart
Type of Building: Religious

AE Interests: flat roof, rectilinear, glass/concrete/wood structure, an optimistic image of death (a white box somewhere between heaven and earth)
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Building: University Law Faculty
Location: Girona, Spain
Completion: 1999
Architect: RCR Arcitects (Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta)
Type of Building: Educational

AE Interests: modern fortress, three rectangular volumes on a pyramid base, sophisticated light filters for interior comfort

Building: Swimming Pavilion
Location: Girona, Spain
Completion: 1998
Architects: RCR Architects (Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta)
Type of Building: Sports

AE Interests: linear composition and slightly curved shaped, two horizontal planes combined to create four independent spaces, structure of rolled steel sections

Building: Kursaal Auditorium
Location: Donostia, Spain
Completion: 1999
Architecture: Rafael Moneo
Structural Engineers: Javier Manterola, Corres and Associates, Jesus Jimenes Canas
Type of Building: Cultural

AE interests: Glass walls able to withstand harsh weather conditions, complex structure, blends in during the day and is illuminated at night, base formed of prefabricated slate slabs

Building: M-U Housing
Location: Urretxu, Spain
Completion: 2001
Architect: Victoria Acebo and Angel Alonso
Type of Building: Residential

AE Interests: Lightweight steel structure perched on stilts,  housing multiple residents, completely glazed in section, open courtyard

Building: Crawford Art Gallery Extension
Location: Cork, Ireland
Completion Date: 2000
Architect: Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects
AE Interests: The extension Egeraat designed resolved the prior circulation problems by linking the two isolated gallery’s wings to the rest of the building. Curvaceous brick skin bulges out and appears to float above the gallery’s contemporary shop-front window.

Building: Sports Complex
Location: Galdakao, Spain
Completion: May 2005
Principal Designers: Miguel A. Alonso del Val, Rufino J. Hernandez Minguillon, Sol Madridejos Fernandez, Juan Carlos Sancho Osinaga
Design Team: Asier Atxurra, Miguela Modrego
Technical Architects: Miguel Aldaz Garcia Mina
Type of Building: Sports

AE Interests: strategic use of longitudinal corridors for lighting, contemporary, form follows function, street facade predominately constructed of pre-cast concrete panels

Building:  Water Tower House
Location: Brasschaat, Belgium (outside of Antwerpen)
Completed: 1996
Architect:  Jo Crepian
Project Architect: Dirk Engelen
Client:  Jan Moereels

AE Interests: Concrete water tower renovated into residential home, industrial u-glass facades, steel stairways connecting levels, reinforced concrete, galvanized steel, and glass design

Building: Euskalduna Conference Centre and Concert Hall
Location: Bilbao, Spain
Completion: February 1999
Architects: Federico Soriano and Dolores Palacios
Client: Palacio Euskalduna; Euskalduna Jurengia
Type of Building: Cultural

AE Interests: Form follows function, largest stage in Europe, designed to compliment Frank Gehry´s Guggenheim Museum, cor-ten steel casting, patterned glazing on the waterfront

Building: AHS Secondary School
Location: AHS Heustadelgasse 4, 1220 Vienna, Austria
Date of Completion: May 2002
Architect: Henke and Schreieck Architekten
Client: BIG Federal Estate Limited
Project Team / Collaboration: Gavin Rae (project manager) & Sascha Dehn
Structural Consultants: Dipl. Ing. Manfred Gmeiner, Dipl. Ing. Martin Haferl
Construction Physics: Dipl. Ing. Walter Prause
Mechanical Services: TB ZFG-Projekt GmbH. & TB Eipeldauer GmbH., Baden bei Wien
Signage: Mag. Ingeborg Kumpfmuller
Auxiliary Lighting: Waltraut Cooper
Competition: November 1998
Construction period: 04/2000 to 05/2002
Gross volume: 57,476 m3

AE Interests: Gliding openness that easily accomodates 1,000 pupils, naturally ventilated with well of ‘fresh air’, shading provided by louvres

Building: Saxon Federal Library
Location:  Dresden, Germany
Architect:  Ortner and Ortner
Completion:  2003

AE interests: vast open space, stone cladding, enormous glass roof

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Building: Limerick County Hall, Local Government Office
Location: Limerick County, Ireland
Completion Date: 2003
Architect: Bucholz McEvoy Architects
Engineering: Building Services/MEP Engineering ; Edith Blennerhassett
AE Interests: Ventilation zones, natural ventilation, thermal modeling, internal lighting and other modern methods give the building enduring benefits.  Entirely uses natural ventilation by maximizing the performance of the building’s structure and skin. The building is oriented 15 degrees off due N-S in order to allow the atrium to act as long thermal chimney.

Building:  Chasse Park Apartments
Location:  Nonnenveld 29, 4811 HN Breda, Netherlands
Completed: 2001
Architect:  Xaveer De Geyter Architects
Landscape Architect: West 8 Landscape Architects
Realization: ABT Bouwkunde
Engineer: Snellen, Meulemans en Van Schaaik
Client:  Chasse CV (Joint ventrue: Proper Stok Woningen, Wiliam Bouw)

AE Interests: Former military site, 5 towers of 137 apartments,  ‘campus’ dynamic, autonomous groups of buildings frame a public park, building facades interact in different ways with interior gardens

Building: Semi-Detached House
Location: Tabasalu, Estonia
Completed: 2002
Architect: Architectural Bureau Kolde Grupp
Structural Engineer: Kolde Grupp

Building: Galbally Social Housing
Location: Galbally, County Limerick, Ireland
Completion Date: 2002
Architect: O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects
AE Interests: Simplistic, traditional domestic forms and details to create both contextual and contemporary architecture. Monolithic roofs, defined recesses, and continuous eaves. O’Donnell and Tuomey designed the two roof lines to be pitched to counter each other and they chose to step their porch thresholds with the contour of the site.

Building:  Museum National Monument, Camp Vught
Location:  Lunettenlaan 600, 5263 NT Vught, the Netherlands
Completed: 2001
Architect:  Claus en Kaan Architects
Client: Stichting Nationaal Monument Kamp Vught

AE Interests: Memorial and exhibition building marks the entrance of the former concentration camp, building forms a screen for the site, simple blank facades, horizontal bands of roman terracotta tiles alternate with rows of heavy bricks

Building:  Popstage Mezz
Location:  Keizerstraat 101 (Chassée-terrein), 4811HL Breda, The Netherlands
Completed: 2002
Architect:  Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects (EEA)
Contractor: SV Metaaldak Specialist BV, Beek en Donk
Client:  Municipality of Breda, Dienst RME, Breda

AE Interests: Theater addition onto existing building, emerges from the earth with an animal-like shape, double dome structure with empty space between, hybrid cement and steel framework, pre-oxidized copper exterior, no exterior openings, gill-like slits for the structure to breathe

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Building: Hypo Alpe Adria Centre
Location: Klagenfurt, Austria
Completed: 2002
Architect: Morphosis
Client: Karntner Landes-und-Hypothekenbank

AE Interests: utilizes passive cooling and lighting. also uses a large, curved, perforated aluminum roof surrounds the majority of the structure, reducing dependency on electrical cooling.

Building: Crematorium Baumschulenweg
Location:  Rinkartstr 13, 12437 Berlin, Germany
Architect: Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank
Completion:  1998

AE interests:  concrete construction, flat roof, glass façade, minimalist exterior envelope, large interior columns

Building: Agora Headquarters
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Completed: 2002
Architect: JEMS Architekci
Project manager: Andrzej Sidorowicz
Project Management, consultation to the design team on the application of certain materials and technologies, and construction supervision: Arup Polska
General contractor: Porr Polska S.A.
Costs of construction and installation labor: USD 40,296,000

AE Interests: opened up to daylighting and use of interior gardens within building’s framework; use of louvers to direct daylight

Building:  INHolland University
Location:  Posthumalaan 90, 3072 AG Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Completed: 2000, 2008 Extension
Architect:  Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects (EEA)
Structural Engineer: ABT
Contractor: Giesbers Bouw

AE Interests: Stands by the water, covered entirely in glass, cable-suspended interior bridges, golden screen façade extension, sustainable design

Building:  Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
Location:  Museumpark 20, NL-3015 CX Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Completed: 2003
Architect:  Robbrecht and Daem Architecten
Client: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen

AE Interests: Renovation, combines contemporary insertions with a historic core, simplistic design, concrete and glass

Building:  St. Mary of the Angels Chapel
Location:  Nieuwe Crooswijkseweg 123, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Completed: 2001
Architect:  Mecanoo Architecten
Structural Engineer:  ABT bv, Delft
General Contractor:  H&B bouw, Sassenheim
Client: R.K. begraafsplaats Rotterdam

AE Interests: Golden ceiling, wavelike “moving” wall, floating roof, tin-plated copper walls, located in St. Lawrence cemetary

Building: Estonian Embassy
Location: Vilnus, Lithuania
Completed: 1998
Architect: 3+1 Architects

AE Interests: hallway creates a terrace garden that gets southern and evening sun; 3.5 story building created by 7 half floors; two distinct facades: one side of blue stained limestone and one hanging green glass;

Building: Bell Tower
Location: Judenburg, Austira
Status: Complete
Architect: Markus Pernthaler

AE Interests: Geometry, materials choice

Building: National Gallery of Ireland Millennium Wing
Location: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Completion Date: 2002
Architect: Benson + Forsyth
GC: Michael McNamara & Co
Structural Engineer: O’Connor Sutton Cronin
MEP Engineer: Faber Maunsell Ltd
AE Interests: stone façade like most local architecture, blending the architecture of the existing gallery on one side of the wing to the street and city life on the other side

Building: British Embassy
Location: Moscow, Russia
Completed: 2000
Architect: ABK Architects
Lighting: Delmatic

AE Intrests: “transparent” glass facade symbolize open relations between UK and Russia

Building: Neiser Factory
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Completed: 2002
Architect: Indrek Nakk

AE Interests: mix of glass, steel, and wood facade

Building: Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre
Location: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Completion Date: 2000
Architect: Glenn Howells
GC: Gilbert Ash Ltd
Structural Engineer: Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners
Landscaping: Nicholas Pearson Associates
Acoustical Engineer: John Wyckham Associates
AE Interests: passive cooling, structural solution for the significant sloping of the site, stone and plaster finishes

Building:  Trädgår’n Restaurant
Location: Göteborg, Sweden
Completion Date:  1998
Architect:  Studio Gron
Landscape Architect: Snøhetta
AE Interests: relatively massive two-story building against the road to provide a sound and pollution barrier, The objective was to form a veranda along the whole of this wall (and projecting beyond its ends). Only 3.5m wide, the veranda does not seem at pinched, for its inner wall is glass, and the outer one is an open rectangular lattice screen.

Building:  Icehotel
Location: Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
Completed: since 1994
Architect:  Ake Larsson
AE Interests: uses all snow from the nearby Torne River, then the snow is sprayed on huge steel frames and allowed to freeze. After a couple of days, the forms are removed, leaving a maze of free-standing corridors of snow. The hotel is built with snice (has a snow-like appearance but ice-like physical characteristics), which takes the place of mortar in a traditional brick-built hotel.

Building:  EOS Housing Scheme
Location: Helsingborg, Sweden
Completion Date:  2002
Architect:  Anders Wilhelmson
Clients: HSB Nordvastra Skane
AE Interests: Elevations clad in sinus corrugated rhein-zink (continuous wide-strip casting and rolling mill) change colors according to the atmosphere from grey to blue.

Building:  Henry Dunker Cultural Centre
Location: Helsingborg, Sweden
Completion Date: 2002
Architect:  Kim Utzon Architects
Clients: Kärnfastigheter, Helsingborg
Project Team: Martin Hahn, William Rose, Morten Paustian, Børge Nissen,, Malene Ib Andersen, Jesper Ravn, Jeppe Utzon, Lars Schwartz
General Contractors: Skanska Sverige AB
AE Interests: prefabricated concrete elements, slender white columns support the structure (an Utzon trademark), tons of skylights

Building: Karmøy Fishing Museum
Location: Karmøj, Norway
Completion Date: 1999
Architect:  Snøhetta
Design Team Principals: Craig Dykers. Christoph Kapeller, Kjetil Thorsen
Engineers: S/M/E/P: Peter Rasmussen AS
Project Administration/Construction Management: Peter Rasmussen AS
General Contractors: Einar Tangjerd AS, Kåløy, Kopervik
AE Interests: The museum is set perpendicular to the coastline which allows for the thin side of the structure to be a giant window overlooking the sea. There is a bracken basket weave pattern over the main entrance glass that is so tight that wind cannot easily go through. Rough polished concrete that reflects exterior light from the window at the end of the building.

Building: Honan-Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Address: 300 North Harvard Street / Allston, MA 02134-1530
Completion: 2001
Architect: Machado and Silvetti Associates
Structural Engineers: Lim Associates
MEP: Robert W. Sullivan, Inc
Civil Engineers: Samiotes Consultants
Landscape Architect: Richard Burck Associates
AE Interests: Alternating gardens and glass pavilion rooms, low maintanence materials, butterfly form

Building: Peabody Essex Museum
Location: Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Address: 161 Essex Street / Salem, MA 01970
Completion: 2003
Architect: Moshe Safdie and Associates
Structural Engineer, HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection: ARUP
General Contractor: Turner Construction Company
Lighting Designer: Fisher Marantz Stone
AE Interests: Glass roof, indoor pedestrian “street”

Building: International Elementary School
Location: Long Beach, California, USA
Address: 700 Locust Avenue / Long Beach, CA 90813-4317
Completion: 1999
Architect: Morphosis Architects
Structural Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners
Mechanical Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners
Electrical Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners
Civil Engineer: Andreasen Engineering
Construction Manager: Pinner Construction
AE Interests: Perforated metal wall as building skin, 2 acre roof deck

Building: Jiushi Corporation Headquarters
Location: Shanghai, China
Completed: 2001
Architect: Foster + Partners
Co-architects: East China Architectural Design and Research Institute
Structural Engineers: Shanghai General Arts Design & Engineering Co., Ltd
Client: Juishi Corporation
Consultants: Obayashi, Claude Engle

AE Interests: no internal columns in combination of curved floor plates, concrete core structure, triple skin ventilation glazing system decreasing buildup of solar heat, floors stepped back for terrace sectioned façade

Building: Villa V
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Completed: 2000
Architect: 3+1 Architects

Architects in charge: Markus Kaasik, Andres Ojari & Ilmar Valdur

AE Interests: cut into existing landscape; cast concrete, glass, and bright wood

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Building: Canary Wharf Underground Station
Location: London, England
Completed: 1999
Architect: Foster + Partners
Strutural Engineers: Ove Arup & Partners
Client: Jubilee Line Extension Project (JLEP)

AE Interests: Glass canopies cover station entrances; fair-faced concrete, stainless steel, and glass were the only materials used in the stations construction; concrete diaphragm tunnel walls are left exposed.

Building: Orro House
Location: Tabasalu, Estonia
Completed: 2002
Architect: Martin Aunin

Building: VXO House
Location: 16 Spaniard’s End, London, England
Completion: August 2000
Architect: Alison Brooks Architecture
Structural Engineers: Price & Myers
Clients: Yoram and Sabina Amiga

AE Interests: Extension and refurbishment of a 1960’s villa: folded and displaced ground planes, V-columns, optical/structural illusion, inside-out and upside-down, facade is made of a timber plate, suspended stair hangs from walls of stainless steel mesh.

Building: Peckham Library and Media Centre
Location: 122 Peckham Hill Street, London, England, UK
Completion: 1999
Architect: Alsop Architecture
Structural Engineers: Adams Kara Taylor Engineers
Facade: Gebr. Kufferath AG
Client: London Borough of Southwark

AE Interests: The building is a giant inverted capital letter ‘L’, cantilevered overhang held up by diagonal columns, concrete frame for natural cooling, “tongue” on the roof acts as a shade for ventilation shafts, the north face is covered in multi-colored glass panels and the rest of the exterior is made of copper.

UTL2011-E, UTL2011-A?

Building: Uijae Museum of Korean Art
Location: Un Lim-Dong, Gwangju, South Korea
Completion:  2001
Architect:  Kim Jong Kyu, M.A.R.U. with Joh Sung Yong
Client:  Uijae Foundation

AE Interests:  Floating walkway; adjusts to site with many levels; facade includes timber cladding, translucent glass, blocks of flat stone; contrast between modern/traditional and natural/man made

Building:  Ilsan Residence 5
Location: Ilsan, South Korea
Completion:  2003
Architect:  Jae Yong Lim
Client:  Dong Yeol Yoo

AE Interests:  Irregular and twisting masonry structure, cantilevered forms

Building:  Cafe en Rose
Location:  Yangp’yeong, South Korea
Completion:  1998
Architect:  Keunwoo Cheon
Client:  Kangchul Lee

AE Interests:  External timber decking, raised on piloti, curved H beam forms spine 30 m long

Building:  Aomori Contemporary Art Centre
Location:  Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Completion:  2001
Architect:  Tadao Ando Architect & Associates
Client:  Aomori City
Structural Engineer:  Kanebako Structural Engineers (Yoshiharu Kanebako, Sota Mato)
MEP:  P.T.Morimura & Associates, Ltd. (Yukimasa Suzuki, Masahiro Sekiguchi)
General Contractor:  Takenaka Corporation and Yamaguchi Corporation Construction

AE Interests:  Open air stage, exposed concrete structure, “invisible construction”, incorporates geographical features, such as the abundant ups and downs of the terrain, into the design

Building:  Hakuou High School
Location:  Wakayanagi, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Completion:  2001
Architect:  Kazuhiro Kojima and Mitsumasa Sampei/ C+A Associate Architects
Client:  Miyagi Prefecture
Structural Engineer:  Oak Structural Design Office
Mechanical Engineer:  Scientific Air-Conditioning Institute
General Contractor:  JV of Hazama, Hashimoto, and Watanabe; JV of Nihon, Ueda, and Onodera

AE Interests:  “flexible learning spaces” (multi use), solar panels, precast and prestressed concrete to reduce need of structural walls, daylighting, louvred windows

Building:  Fukushima Gender Equality Centre
Location:  Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
Completion:  2000
Architect:  Maki and Associates
Client:  Fukushima Prefecture
Structural Engineer:  Hanawa Structural Engineers
Mechanical/Electrical Engineer:  Sogo Consultants

AE Interests:  brick foundation set into the hillside, reinforced concrete and steel structure, louver-clad structure floats above base, building has core (3-level public space)

Building:  Sendai Mediatheque
Location:  Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Completion:  2001
Architect:  Toyo Ito & Associates
Client:  City of Sendai
Interior Architects:  Kazuyo Sejima, Karim Rashid, Ross Lovegrove, K. T. Architecture
Structural Engineer:  Sasaki and Partners

AE Interests:  3 elements = plate, tube, transparent skin, 7 steel decks on 13 hollow columns (one at each corner for support and 9 carrying ducts

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Building: Mount Stuart Visitor Centre
Location: Isle of Bute, Scotland, UK
Completed: June 2001
Architect: Munkenbeck + Marshall Architects
Structural Engineer: Anthony Hunt Associates
Services Engineer: Atelier 10
Contractor: Thomas John Stone
Landscape: James Alexander Sinclair
Client: Mount Stuart Trust

AE Interests: building “sits” within landscape, simple HVAC systems, nature visible through frameless glazing

Building:  Fukushima Lagoon Museum
Location:  Toyosaka, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Completion:  1998
Architect:  Jun Aoki
Client:  Toyosaka City

AE Interests:  tilted circular structure, spiral ramp to panoramic views, double layered tent roof, sloping glass curtain wall

Building:  Niigata City Performing Arts Centre
Location:  Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Completion:  2002
Architect:  Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier

AE Interests:  resembles archipelago, floating structures, elliptical glass skin, aluminum screen used for solar shading

Building:  Stone Museum
Location:  Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Completion:  2000
Architect:  Kengo Kuma & Associates
Client:  Shirai Building Stone
Structural Engineer:  K.Nakata & Associates
Mechanical Engineer:  M.I. Consultants

AE Interests:  Uses regional stone for louvers combined with porous and  slatted stone walls

Building:  Museum of Hiroshige Ando
Location:  Bato, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Completion:  2000
Architect:  Kengo Kuma & Associates and Ando Architecture Design Office
Client:  Bato Town
Structural Engineer:  Aoki Structural Engineers
Mechanical Engineer:  P.T.Morimura & Associates
General Contractor:  Obayashi Corporation

AE Interests:  Wood lattice over reinforced concrete and steel structure, inspired by artist’s own works

Building:  Matsudai Small Tower
Location:  Matsudai, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Completion:  2003
Architect:  Marin + Trottin Architectes/Périphériques Architectes
Client:  Art Front Gallery

AE Interests:  Sculpture, observation tower, mesh structural skin (steel painted gray)

Building:  Pine Courtyard House
Location:  Yongin City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
Completion:  1998
Architect:  Byoungsoo Cho
Client:  Jungwhan Kim

AE Interests:  Central courtyard provides natural light and ventilation, insulated concrete wall, wooden screens to control solar heat gain

Building: Auditorium at the Svanemøllen Barracks
Location: Ryvangs Allé 1, Copenhagen, Denmark
Completed: November 2002
Architect: Entasis Arkitekter
Engineer: Vissenbjerg Ingeniørfirm
Contractor: Einar Kornerup A/S
Client: Forsvarets Bygningstjeneste (Danish Defense Construction Service)

AE Interests: use of different materials, simple geometry, materials used to express strength and sturdiness

Building: Documentation Center
Location:  Nurnberg, Germany
Architect:  Gunther Domenig
Completion:  2001

AE interests:  steel and glass shaft, brick and concrete finish

Building: Private House
Location:Barcelos, Portugal
Architect: José Bernardo Távora
Date Completed: 1998

AE Interests: Elevated to maximize prevailing breezes to keep building cool, simple rectangular floor plan design, used local materials