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Building: Villa Dall’Ava
Location: St. Cloud, Paris, France
Status: Completed in 1991
Architects: Rem Koolhaas OMA
Engineer: Marc Mimram
General Contractor: Entreprise Mare
Award: 1991 Winner Prix d’architecture du Moniteur, 1991, Paris, France

AE Interests: swimming pool lies on a concrete slab on the roof of the house, a glass pavilion lies underneath the pool containing the living room and dining room
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Location: Taibo City, Taiwan
Architect: Antoine Predock
Expected Completion: 2009
Total Area: 34,000sm (365,000sf)
Client: National Palace Museum of Taiwan

AE Interests: spiralling bronze galleries, flowing water, wood lattice structure, Taroko marble

Building: Educatorium
Location: University of Utrecht
Status: Completed in 1997
Architects: Rem Koolhaas OMA
Structural Engineers: ABT Adviesbureau voor Bouwtechniek bv
Awards: 1999 Gerrit Rietveld Prize

AE Interests: the design of the building is two sheets which fold and interlock to accommodate the range of programs like learning/teaching to social gathering and circulation, the concrete slab is treated as a transformable surface to fit each program, the larger auditorium is enclosed by two walls with one being made of a laminated holographic film that changes from transparent to translucent depending on the location of the viewer

Building: Vanke Center
Location: Shenzhen, China
Completion Date: 2010
Architect: Steven Holl
Structural Engineer: CABR, CCDI
Lighting Engineer: lighting consultant, L’Observatoire International
ME Engineer: CCDI
AE Interest: Structure Elevated to maximize green space and allow land and sea breeze to pass

Location: Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Architect: Antoine Predock
Completion: 1990

AE Interests: steel plate trellises, labyrinthine form, curving aqueduct provides water to fountains

Location: Venice, California
Architect: Antoine Predock
Completion: 1991

AE Interests: one-ton cantilevered window, designed to withstand seismic activity, glass cast in concrete

Building: LM Harbor Gateway
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Architect: Steven Holl
Structural Engineer: HNTB Corporation, Ted Zoli (Bridge Structural Engineer)
ME Engineer: Niras
AE Interest: cable-stay bridge between two towers that act as piers

Building: Whitney Water Purification Facility and Park
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Completion Date: 09/01/2005
Architect: Steven Holl
Engineer: CH2MHill, Tighe & Bond Consulting Engineers
Landscape architect: Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates
Site sustainability consultant: Bioengineering Group
AE Interest: stainless steel exterior, ground-source heating and cooling system, recyclable materials, and natural ventilation

Location: 651 NE Woods Chapel Rd, Lees Summit, MO

Completion: 2007

Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

AE Interests: sustainability, high-performance glazing on windows, sunshade wrapped around building

  
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Building: Austin City Hall
Location:  Austin, Texas
Design Architect: Antoine Predock
Local Architect: Cotera+Reed
Structural Engineer (above-grade building): P.E. Structural Consultants, Inc. PESC
Structural Engineer (below-grade parking structure): Datum Engineers, Inc.
Builder: Hensel Phelps Construction Co.
Landscape Team: Eleanor McKinney, Carolyn Kelley
Total Area: 115,000 sq. ft.
Cost: $56.6 million

AE Interests: LEED Gold, cast-in-place concrete, Lueders limestone, copper, water system incorporates Lady Bird Lake, photovoltaic cells provide solar protection.  Ventilation system for the underground parking measures the level of CO2 and CO and regulates the amount of ventilation, saving a significant amount of energy and earning it a LEED innovation point.
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Building: Sliced Porosity Block
Location: Chengdu, China
Completion Date:Fall 2012
Architect: Steven Holl, China Academy of Building Research
Structural Engineer: China Academy of Building Research, Liu Junjin, Zhu Huosheng (senior engineer)
ME Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners
AE Interest: Heated and cooled geothermally by 400 wells, structure shaped by natural light requirements of surrounding buildings, high performance glazing, plaza water gardens harvest recycled rainwater, LEED gold
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Location: Harrison St, Oakland, CA‎

Completion: 2008

Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Structural Engineer: Mark Sarkisian

AE Interests: structure, use of light, material, and form

Architect: Antoine Predock
Owner’s Representative: Brown Reynolds Watford Architecture, Inc.
Structural Engineer: Jaster-Quintanilla and Associates
Mechanical, Civil, Electrical Engineer: Lopez Garcia Group
Engineer (other): Meers Engineering
Completion: 2008
Total Area: 21,000 sq. ft.
Cost: $14 million

AE Interests: deeply wooded site, built atop illegal dump, integration of nature, on-site wastewater treatment, uses recycled materials, conservation, photovoltaic roofing, sustainability
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Building: Chapel of St. Ignatius
Location: ‪901 12th Avenue, Seattle, Washington
Architect: Steven Holl
Structural Engineer: Monte Clark Engineering, Datum Engineering
Contractor: Baugh Construction
Lighting consultant: L’Observatoire International
Acoustical consultant: Peter George and Associates
ME Engineer: Abacus Engineered Systems
Completed 1997

AE Interest: Using orientation, shape, and Glass to provide different lighting throughout the day. `
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Building: Jewish Museum Berlin
Location: Lindenstrasse 9-14, 10969 Berlin (Kreuzberg), Germany
Completion: 1999
Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Landscape Architect: Müller, Knippschild, Wehberg
Structural Engineer: GSE Tragwerkplaner, IGW Ingenieurgruppe Wiese
Civil Engineer: Cziesielski + Partner
MEP Engineer: Klimasystemtechnik
Lighting Designers: Lichtplanung Dinnebier KG
Contractors: Fischer Bau (Raw Construction), Werner & Sohn (Facade), Trube & Kings (Windows)

AE Interests: the design of the Museum engenders a fundamental rethinking of architecture in relation to its program; the social, political and cultural history of the Jews in Germany from the 4th century to the present

Location: Dallas, Texas
Completion: 2003
Architect: Legorreta & Legorreta
Executive Architect: Halff Associates
Structural Engineer: Halff Engineers
Contractor: Thomas S. Byrne Ltd.

AE Interests: Function, Space, Color,modular terra-cotta veneer system of tiles

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Building: New Residence at the Swiss Embassy
Location: ‪2900 Cathedral Ave NW‬
Washington, DC 20008‬
Completion Date: September 2006
Architect: Steven Holl
Structural Engineer: A. F. & J. Steffen Consulting Engineers, Robert Silman Associates
Contractor: James G. Davis Construction, Niersberger Gebäudetechnik Pforzheim GmbH
Landscape architect: Robert Gissinger
ME Engineer: B2E Consulting Engineers, B+B Energietechnik AG
AE Interest: Passive Solar Heating, “sedum” green roof, “Minergie Standards”

Building:Imperial War Museum
Location: Trafford Wharf Road, Manchester M17 1TZ, Great Britain
Completion: 2001
Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Association with Architect of Record: Leach Rhodes Walker
Project Management: Gardiner and Theobald Management Services
Structural Engineer: ARUP
Mechanical Engineer: Mott MacDonald
Contractor: Sir Robert McAlpine, Ltd.

AE Interests: the building is the interlocking of three shards representing earth, air, and water; the concept for the project is that of a globe shattered into fragments and then reassembled as an iconic emblem of conflict

Building:Glass Courtyard
Location: Jewish Museum Berlin, Lindenstrasse 9-14, 10969 Berlin, Germany
Completion: 2007
Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Architect of Record: Reese Architekten
Structural Engineer: GSE, Ingenieur;gesellschaft mbH
Raw Construction: Markische Ingenieur Bau
MEP Engineer: Clean Room Consulting Gmbh
Lighting Designer: Studio Dinnebier

AE Interests: has a transparent glass roof and curtain walls that offer unobstructed views of the garden. In the summer, sliding doors can be opened along the lower front elevation to transform the courtyard into an outdoor space

Building: Simmons Hall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: 229 Vassar St
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Completion Date: 2002
Architect: Steven Holl in collaboration with Perry Dean Rogers Architects
Structural Engineer: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Contractor: Daniel O’Connell’s Sons
Lighting Engineer: lighting consultant, Fisher Marantz Stone
ME Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners
AE Interest: Using Shape to provide Natural Lighting and Air Movement

Location: 39 Battery Pl, New York, NY 10280
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Contractor: Tishman Construction
Structural Engineers: SOM

AE Interests: polished stainless steel floors and ceiling creates a infinitely vertical space, use of materials
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Building: Billingsgate Market
Location: London, England
Completion: 1988
Architect: Richard Rogers Partnership
Structural Design: Ove Arup & Partners
Contractor(s): Taylor Woodrow, Management Contracting Ltd.

AE Interests: culture, leisure, renovation, historic building, conversion,

Building: Felix Nussbaum Museum
Location: Heger-Tor-Wall 28, 49078 Osnabrück, Germany
Completion: Summer 1998
Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Architect of Record: Reinders & Partner
Structural Engineer: Watermann
Landscape Architect: Müller, Knippschild, Wehberg
Mechanical Engineer: Jäger & Partner, Beratende Ingenieure
Lighting Designer: Dinnebier Licht
Contractor: Reinders and Partner

AE Interests: precise symbolic programme with an unusual way of arranging space, questions the regular geometries of Berlin’s historical blocks

  
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Building: Linked Hybrid
Location: Beijing, China
Architect: Steven Holl
Structural Engineer: Guy Nordenson and Associates, China Academy of Building Research
Lighting consultant:L’Observatoire International
ME Engineer:Transsolar, Beijing Capital Engineering Architecture Design Co. LTD, Cosentini Associates
Curtain wall consultant: Front Inc., Xi’an Aircraft Industry Company LTD, Yuanda Curtain-wall, Jianghe, Xi-Fei
Landscape architect: Steven Holl Architects, EDAW Beijing, TSLD
Completed 2009

AE Interest: Geothermal Wells, roof gardens, At 220,000 square meters(~2,368,080 square feet) it is one of the largest Green residential projects in the world, LEED Gold Rating.  Pedestrian bridges between buildings, earthquake design.

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Building: The Highline
Location: New York City, New York
Architect: Diller + Scofidio
Completion: 2009

AE Interest: turned an abandoned elevated railroad in the middle of New York City into a park, emphasis on  blending  architecture and nature. 
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Building: Writing with Light House
Location: Long Island, New York
Status: Complete, 2004
Architect: Steven Holl Architects
Structural engineer:  Silman Associates, PC.
General contractor:  Koral Bros. Inc.

AE interests: free-form design, wood beams, open balloon frame, geometric shape, interesting  natural lighting

For More info:
http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=houses&id=49&page=0

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Building: San Francisco International Airport International Terminal
Location: San Francisco, California, U.S.
(Junction of Highways 101 and 380)
Completion: 2000
Architecture: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Structural and Civil Engineering: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

AE Interests: structure, aesthetics, base-isolated structure

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Building: London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre
Location: Graduate Centre, 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB, England
Completion: 2004
Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Structural Engineer: Cadogan Tietz
Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing: WSP Group
Contractor: Costain

AE Interests: a very “Libeskind-like” form which animates a rather dull and grey part of northern London, serves not only as a facility to enhance the staff and student experience, but also as a rentable community space

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Building Name: St. Jakob-Park
Location: Basel, Switzerland
Completion: 2001
Architect: Herzog and de Meuron

AE Interests: solar-powered, unique shape, outer skin with color changing effects
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Building: Memoria e Luce (9/11 Memorial)
Location: Giardini delle Porte Contarine, Via Giotto, 35137 Padua PD, Italy
Completion: 2007
Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Structural Engineer: AMIS Agenziamilanostrutture
Lighting Design: iGuzzini
Contractor: Permasteelisa

AE Interests: features a twisted steel beam salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center, lighting and architecture make the memorial intriguing and effective
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Building: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Location: 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64111
Completion Date: June 2007
Architect: Steven Holl
Structural Engineer: Guy Nordenson and Associates
Lighting Consultant: Renfro Design Group
Glass Consultant: R.A. Heintges & Associates
Landscape architect:Gould Evans Goodman Associates
ME Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners / W.L. Cassell & Associates

AE Interests: Museum design, natural lighting, glass, green roof, translucent.
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Building: Royal Ontario Museum
Location: 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C6, Canada
Completion: 2007
Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Landscape Architect: Quinn Design Associates
Structural Engineer: Arup, Halsall Associates
Mechanical Engineer: Arup, TMP Consulting Engineers
Electrical Engineer: Arup, MBII
Joint Venture Partner: Bregman+ Hamann Architects
Contractor: Vanbots Construction

AE Interests: geometry and combination of planes, intended as a renovation, but became an addition, it has become a dynamic center for the city
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Building: Studio Weil
Location: CMO. San Carlos, Port d’Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Completion: 2003
Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Structural Engineers: Adolfo Alonso Dura, Gracia Lopez Pationo
Joint Venture Partner: Jaime Vidal Contesi
Lighting Designers: Studio Dinnebier
Contractor: Goccisa

AE Interests: The architecture in its form, materiality and geometry illuminates, complements and gives voice to the art of Barbara Weil
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Building: Prada Epicenter Store
Location: 343 North Rodeo Drive Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California
Status: Completed 2004
Architects: Rem Koolhaas OMA
Associate Architects: Brand+Allen Architects
Structural Engineers: Ove Arup & Partners
Hydraulic Wall Engineers: Hamilton Engineering

AE Interests:  Re-interpretation of high-end retail experience including:  front entry with no doors (air-curtain, plasma imaging in dressing rooms, custom artificial sponge wall material, structural laminated-glass grand stair, glass that switches from translucent to transparent electronically, hydraulic storefront wall that “closes” store at night.

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Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Architect: Lab architecture studio
Built by: Dubai Contracting Company
Expected Completion: 2010

AE Interests: fractured and offset structure, underground parking, central location, residential and office use
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Building: Crystal Cathedral International Center for Possibility Thinking
Location: Garden Grove, California
Completed: 2003
Architect: Richard Meier and Partners Architects LLP
Structural Engineer: Syska Hennessy Group

AE Interests: Made energy efficient by high performance glazing, automated day light controls, high efficiency lighting, and energy efficient HVAC systems
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Building: Former Swissair North American Headquarters Building
Location: Melville, New York
Completed: 1995
Architect: Richard Meier and Partners Architects LLP
Structural Engineer: Ove Arup and Partners

AE Interests: Prefabricated slab and cast-in-place concrete columns for more economic design
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Building: Theater de Stoep
Location: Spijkenisse, The Netherlands
Completion: 2008
Architect: UNStudio

AE Interest: efficient and logical design elements, sculptural stairway
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Building: Music Theatre
Location: Graz, Austria
Completion: 2008
Architect: UNStudio
Engineering: Arup

AE Interest: glittering mesh envelope, repetitive exterior pattern, spiraling constuction in interior
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Building: New German Parliament Reichstag
Location: Ebertstraße 10117 Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Completed: 1999
Architect: Foster and Partners
Architect of Record: Foster and Partners
Structural Engineer: Leonhardt, Andrae und Partner
Project Manager: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Projektsteuerung

AE Interests: Radical energy strategy, uses vegetable oil as bio-fuel
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Location: Beijing, China
Architects: Lab architecture studio, Chinese Design Institute, CABR
Principal Architect: Peter Davidson (Lab)
Landscape Architect: Oculus
Engineer: Arup
Lighting: Light Design partnership
Completion: July 2007

AE Interests: faceted glass and aluminum surfaces, specialized LED/reflector lighting system, inverted triangles with 4 meter cantilever, heat control
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Building: ZVE (Centre for Virtual Engineering) Fraunhofer Institute
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Completion: 2006
Architect: UNStudio
Structural Engineer: BKSI
Mechanical Engineer: Rentschler und Riedesser
Electric Engineer: Müller und Bleher

AE Interest: open fluid design, diagrammatic, blended into the campus
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Building: Raffles City Hangzhou
Location: Hangzhou, China
Completion: 2008
Architect: UNStudio
LEED Enigineer: Arup
Facade Engineer: Meinhardt Façade Technology

AE Interest: curving and twisting exterior walls, extremely unique shape for multistory buildings
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Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Architect: Lab architecture studio
Site Area: 39,124 sq. meters
Total Floor Area: 90,000 sq. meters

AE Interests: Perforated aluminum skin, ‘domino’ structure, solar protection

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Building (group of buildings): I’Park City
Location: Suwon, Korea
Completion: 2008
Architect: UNStudio
Landscape Architect: Lodewijk Baljon
Local Architect: Heerim architects and planners

AE Interest: utilizes form and color, displays 6 different themes separating the clusters
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Building: Hudson Riverfront Performing Arts Center
Location:1500 Harbor Boulevard Weehawken, New Jersey 07086
Architect: Diller + Scofidio
Expected Completion: 2010

AE Interests: structural stability, womblike performance space
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Building: Alice Tully Hall
Location: Performance Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City, New York
Architect: Diller + Scofidio
Completion: 2009
Original Architect: Pietro Belluschi
Original Construction:1969
Structural/Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing Engineers: Arup

AE Interests: instead of completely demolishing the original building it was used as part of the renovation, three-story high glass-enclosed lobby
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Building: Eyebeam Museum of Art and Technology
Location: Chelsea District, New York City, New York
Architect: Diller + Scofidio
Expected Completion: 2011
Structural and Mechanical Engineer: Arup–Markus Schulte, Mahadev Ramen, Nigel Tonks
Geo-Technical Engineers: Mueser Rutledge

AE Interests: façade, functionality, structural stability
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Building: Y House
Location: Catskills, New York
Status: Complete, 1999
Architect: Steven Holl Architects
Structural engineer: Robert Silman Associates

AE Interest: splitting two arms, color scheme, natural light, steel framing, iron-oxide red, geometric shape, cantilevered outdoor balconies

For more info:
http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=houses&id=44&page=0

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Building Name: Antwerp Law Courts
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Completion: 2005
Architect: Richard Rogers Partnership
Co-Architect: VK Architects
Structural Engineer: Arup/Bureau Van Kerckhove
Services Engineer: Arup/Bureau Van Kerckhove

AE interests: use of natural light, steel, environmental issues including energy
Awards: International Architecture Award (2008), RIBA European Award (2007)
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Building: Museum of Image & Sound
Location: Copacana Beach Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Architect: Diller + Scofidio
Expected Completion: 2011

AE Intersets: geometry, façade , Structural Stability
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Building: Planar House
Location: Paradise Valley, New Mexico
Status: Completed, 2005
Architect: Steven Holl Architects
Structural engineer:  Rudow & Berry
Mechanical engineer: Roy Otterbein
Civil engineer: Fleet Fisher Engineering

Awards: NY AIA Merit Award, USA, 2006

AE Interest: perforated sheets of Cor-Ten steel, tilt up concrete walls, natural light, ramp leading to rooftop sculpture garden, geometric design

For more information:
http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=houses&id=57&page=0
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Building: Institute of Contemporary Art
Location:100 Northern Ave Boston Massachusetts 02210
Architect: Diller + Scofidio
Completion: 2006
Collaborating Architects: Perry Dean Rogers & Partners
Consultant Engineers:  Arup 
Contractor: George B. H. Macomber Company

AE Intersets: exterior grand staircase, interior theater wrapped in glass on three sides, gallery area floating above the structure below like an overhead canopy
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Building: Banca Popolare di Lodi Headquarters
Location: Lodi, Italy
Completion: 2001
Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Structural Engineering: M.S.C.
Acoustics: Müller BBM

AE Interests: Cylindrical bodies, terracotta cladding upheld by a steel base.
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Photo provided by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

Building Name: Bordeaux Law Courts
Location: Bordeaux, France
Completion: 1998
Architect: Richard Rogers Partnership
Structural Engineer: Arup, OtH Sud-Ouest
Services Engineer: OtH Sud-Ouest, Arup

AE interests: wood, flask-volumes, daylight use
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Buiding: EMI Music France Heaquarters
Location: Paris, France
Completion: 2005
Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Structural Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners
Cost Consultant: GEC Ingénierie
Acoustics: Peutz & Associés

AE Interests: Glass shed roofs for natural lighting, terracotta cladding.
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Picture provided by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

Building Name: European Court of Human Rights
Location: Strasbourg, France
Completion: 1995
Architect: Richard Rogers Patnership
Co-Architect: Atelier d’Architecture Claude Bucher
Structural Engineer: Arup, Omnium Technique Européen
Services Engineer: Arup, Omnium Technique Européen

AE interests: function, steel
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Building Names: Madrid Barajas Airport
Location: Madrid, Spain
Completion: 2005
Architect: Richard Rogers Partnership
Co-Architect: Estudio Lamela
Structural Engineer: Anthony Hunt Associates/TPS with OTEP/HCA
Services Engineer: TPS/INITEC
Façade Engineer: Arup

AE interests: size, form, materials, use of natural daylight
Awards: AIA/UK Excellence in Design (2006), RIBA European Award (2006), and more
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Building Name: Techno Plaza
Location: Gifu, Japan
Completion: 1995
Architect: Richard Rogers Partnership
Structural Engineer: Umezawa Structural Engineers
Services Engineer: ES Associates

AE interests: form, thermal efficiency
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Picture provided by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

Building Name: Bodegas Protos, winery
Location: Peñafiel (Valladolid), Spain
Completion: 2008
Architect: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (Richard Rogers)
Structural Engineer: Arup/Boma/Agroindus
Services Engineer: BDSP/Grupo JG/Agroindus

AE interests: form, function, wood
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Building: What Wall?
Location: 3524 Hayden Avenue, Culver City, California
(Los Angeles area)
Completed: 1998
Architect: Eric Owen Moss Architects

AE Interests: form, glass, continuously changing surface
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Building: Burnham Pavilion
Location: Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois
Completion: June 2009, temporary structure
Architect: UNStudio
Structural Engineer: Chris Rockey

AE Interest: gives a floating structure perception, flowing lines, both straight and curved angles
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Building Name: Walker Art Center Expansion
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Completion: 2005
Architect: Herzog and de Meuron
Engineer: Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, Inc. (HGA)

AE Interests: aluminum “crumpled paper” exterior which always looks different
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Building: Museum of Television and Radio
Location: Beverly Hills, California
Completed: 1996
Architect: Richard Meier and Partners Architects LLP
Structural Engineer: Robert Engelkirk, Inc.
Contractor: Peck/Jones Construction

AE Interests: Lighting and material achieve low-light facility while maintaining a sense of transparency
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Building Name: Portsmouth Stadium
Location: Portsmouth, England
Expected Completion: 2011 – on hold
Architect: Herzog and de Meuron
Engineer: Arup

AE Interests: unique veiled tree-like structure
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Building: Seattle Central Library
Location: 1000 Fourth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104
Design Architect: OMA
Associate Architect: LMN (Seattle)
Engineers: Arup, Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Awards: 2005 Honor Award for Outstanding Architecture, 2005 Outstanding Library Building Award, and 2005 Platinum Award for Innovation and Engineering
Completed 2004

AE Interests: natural lighting, five platforms and four planes placed in-between these make up the shape of the building, the “Books Spiral” is a giant spiralling bookcase containing all the libraries collection of literature. `

Joshua Prince-Ramus was partner-in-charge for OMA New York (firm has been renamed REX) for the Seattle Central Library.
REX features an interactive panorama-tour of the building here

ArchDaily article

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Building Name: Helsinki Waterfront Hotel
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Expected Completion: 2010
Architect: Herzog and de Meuron
Construction Management: Skanska

AE Interests: offset of cross layers, wave-shaped glass facade
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Building: Rickmers Reederei Headquarters
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Completed: 2001
Architect: Richard Meier and Partners Architects LLP
Structural Engineer: Arup
Contractor: Richard Ditting GmbH

AE Interests: curtain wall elements provide connection between areas of discrete workspaces
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Building: San Jose City Hall
Location: San Jose, California
Completed: 2005
Architect: Richard Meier and Partners Architects LLP
Structural Engineer: Englekirk and Sabol
MEP Engineer: Arup
Contractor: Turner Devcon

AE Interests: Eight-story glass rotunda attatched to a 18-story tower
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Building: Burda Collection Museum
Location: Baden-Baden, Germany
Completed: 2004
Architect: Richard Meier and Partners Architects LLP
Structural Engineer: Schumer and Kienzle
Lighting Consultant: Zumtobel Staff

AE Interests: Natural lighting
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Building: The Wohl Centre
Location: Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
Completion: 2005
Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Architect of Record: The Heder Architecture
Project Management: Vinko Yeeffet
Structural Engineer: Josef Kahan & Partners
Mechanical and Sanitary: Ben-Zvi Consulting Engineers
Acoustic Engineer: Abraham Melzer & Uzi Livni
Electrical Engineer: Kannewischer Ingenieurbüro
Contractor: Ortam-Sahar Ltd.

AE Interests: Apparent in the form of the building is the interrelation between the dynamics of knowledge, the Book, and the unifying role of faith, the Spine.
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Building: Eli and Edyth Broad Art Center
Location: Los Angeles, California
Completed: 2006
Architect: Richard Meier and Partners Architects LLP
Structural Engineer: John A. Martin and Associates
Civil Engineer: Psomas, Inc.
Contractor: Swinerton Builders

AE Interests: Use structural buttresses to handle seismic loads
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Building: Westside Shopping and Leisure Centre
Location: Riedbachstrasse 100, 3027 Bern, Switzerland
Completion: 2008
Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Project Management: Sulzer and Buzzi Baumanagement AG
Structural Engineer: Ingenieurgemeinschaft Westsideb B+S Ingenieur AG / Moor Hauser & Partner AG
Mechanical and Electrical Engineer: Kannewischer Ingenieurbüro
Landscape Architect: 4d AG Landschaftsarchitekten
General Contractor: ARGE TU Westside, Rhomberg Bau AG/Strabag AG

AE Interests: The architecture radically reinvents the concept of shopping, entertainment and living
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Building: Arquitectonica Bronx Museum of the Arts
Location: 1040 Grand Concourse,Bronx, NY 10456
Status: Complete, October 2006
Architect: Arquitectonica
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Contractor: PMS Construction Management

AE interest: irregular folded screen shape, glass & metallic panels, semi-transparent glass, curtain-like geometry, black & white brick layout, concrete floors & ceilings, steel cable railings, natural lighting
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Building: Grand Rapids Art Museum
Location: 101 Monroe Ctr NW., Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503
Status: Complete, 2007
Architect: wHY Architecture
Structural Engineer: Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners
Awards: First Art museum to receive a LEED certified status

AE interest: projecting canopies, natural light, louvers, glass & shades, latern skylights, geometric shape, structure
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Building: Loisium Hotel
Location: Langenlois, Austria (60 min. west of Vienna)
Status: Complete, 2005
Architect: Steven Holl Architects
Structural engineer: Retter & Partner GmbH, A-Krems
Mechanical engineer: Altherm Engineering, A-Baden

AE Interests: Incorporation of 900-yr old stone passages, earth-like materials to blend in with the surroundings, natural lighting, geometric shape, perforated aluminum walls/ceilings, glass panels

For more info:
http://www.stevenholl.com/recent-press-detail.php?id=138

For More about
http://moreaedesign.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/loisium-hotel-langenlois-austria/
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Location: Los Angeles, California
Completion: 1993
Architect: Legorreta & Legorreta
Executive Architect: Langdon Wilson Associates
Landscape Architect: Laurie Olin

AE Interest: Color scheme, two spacious plazas linked by walkway, water feature, wide range of geometry, sculptural forms, walkway resembling an earthquake faultline
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Location: San Francisco, California
Completion: 2005
Architect: Legorreta & Legorreta
Executive Architect: MBT Architecture
Contractor: Hensel-Phelps

AE Interest: Natural light, Color Scheme, Function- designed to be the cultural, educational, social and recreational hub of campus, space
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