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Building: Meret Oppenheim Tower
Location: Basel, Switzerland
Architect: Herzog & de Meuron
Contractor: Drees & Sommer
Structural Engineer: Weischede, Herrmann und Partner wh-p GmbH
Facade Planning: Drees & Sommer
HVAC Engineering: Drees & Sommer
Site Area: 31,754 sqft / 2,950 sqm
Year: 2018

AE Interests: Stacked volume form, facade shutter system, design solution to growth of the city

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Building: Eystur Town Hall
Location: Faroe Islands
Architect: Henning Larsen Architects, Ósbjørn Jacobsen
Engineer: Spenn, Veri-Con and SMJ
Contractor: KBH
Landscape Architect: Henning Larsen North Atlantic
Year: 2018

AE Interest: Green Roof and bridge, built into the land

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Building: Google at 1212 Bordeaux Offices
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Architect: Parabola Architecture
Architect of Record: Devcon Architecture
Structural Engineer: Nishkian Menninger / IMEG
Daylighting / Integrated Design: Integral Group
MEP: Design Point Energy Innovations
Acoustical: Charles M. Salter Assoc. Inc
Civil Engineering: Kier & Wright
Year: 2017

AE Interests: Construction duration 10 months, LEED Platinum certification, design-build project, intensive application of sustainability, optimization of daylight, air quality, and acoustics for human comfort, integrated biophilic design principles, exposed unfinished-steel structure

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Building: Independence Library and Apartments
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Completed: 2015
Architect: John Ronan Architects
Structural: Thornton Tomasetti
Mechanical: dbHMS
Glass: Technoglasss
Contractor: Leopardo Companies
AE Interests: sustainability, cast in place reinforced concrete, fast construction time, corrugated metal facade, exposed concrete, glazing,

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Building: Columbus Metropolitan Library Dublin Branch
Location: Dublin, Ohio
Completed: 2019
Architect: NBBJ
Structural: Korda Engineering
Mechanical: Korda Engineering
Civil: EMH&T
General Contractor: Turner
AE Interests: exterior glazing, landscape design, double height atrium, reduced footprint,

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Building: The University of Miami School of Architecture
Location: Coral Gables, Florida
Completed: 2004
Architect: Arquitectonica
Structural: GMG
Mechanical: Stantec
Acoustics: Shen Milsom & Wilke LLC
Construction Manager: Coastal Construction Group
AE Interests: LEED accredited, structural glass, vaulted roof, sustainability, thin shelled concrete structure, passive ventilation

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Building: Sofi Stadium
Location: Inglewood, California
Completed: July 2020
Architect: HKS, Inc.
General Contractors: Turner Construction, AECOM
Structural Engineer: Walter P Moore
Services Engineer: Henderson Engineers
Capacity: 70,240 (stadium has the ability to accommodate 30,000 more people for larger events)

AE Interests: 70,000 square-foot oculus display over the field, side openings allow passive cooling, transparent ETFE roof covering the playing field and adjacent pedestrian plaza

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Building: Allegiant Stadium
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Completed: 2020
Design Architect: MANICA Architecture
Architect of Record: HTNB
General Contractors: Mortenson Construction, McCarthy Construction
Structural Engineer: ARUP
Civil Engineer/Transportation Planning: Kimley-Horn & Associates Inc.
MEP Engineer: Smith Seckman Reid, Inc.
Capacity 65,000

AE Interests: largest design-build stadium ever built in the NFL, fluorine-based plastic ETFE roofing system, 99% of steel was fabricated in the US, retractable field consisting of the playing ground and irrigation/drainage systems, tinted curtain wall system, home to the world’s largest 3D print

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Building: Globe Life Field
Location: Arlington, Texas
Completed: May 2020
Head Architect: HKS, Inc.
Associate Architect: VLK Architects
General Contractor: Manhattan Construction Company
Structural Engineer: Walter P Moore
Services Engineer/MEP Consultant: ME Engineers
BIM Services: Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates (SDL)
Electrical Coordination Studies: RWB Consulting Engineers
Capacity: 40,000

AE Interests: first retractable roof truss, natural sky lighting, synthetic turf field, two massive video-boards (150’x58′, 111’x40′)

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Building: Delas Frères Winery
Location: Tain-L’Hermitage, France
Architect: Carl Fredrik Svenstedt
Design Team: Carl Fredrik Svenstedt, Boris Lefevre, Pauline Seguin, Thomas Dauphant, Marion Autuori, Benoit- Joseph Grange

Clients: Champagne Deutz, Delas Frères
Structural Engineering: Becamel Mallard
MEP Engineer: MAYA
Landscape: Mélanie Drevet, Christophe Ponceau

AE Interests: The solid stone walls enclose the new wine cellar and shop, providing thermal insulation and creating ideal conditions for wine storage. The cellar and visitor gallery surround the manor house creating a clean interior with spectacular views of the hills and the vineyards close by.

   
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Name: Under
Location: Lindesnes, Norway
Architect: Snohetta
Structural Engineering: Asplan Viak AS
Wave Impact Consultants: CoreMarine
Lighting: ÅF Lighting
Year: 2020

AE Interests:
Restaurant and research center for marine biology, dramatic transition from a rugged land to a serene underwater space, lighting adapts to water conditions, half meter concrete structure resists water loads and acts as an artificial reef, accompanying furniture collection

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Name: The Twist Bridge at Kistefos Museum
Location: Jevnaker, Norway
Architect: BIG
Structural Engineering: AKT II
MEP: Ramboll
Year: 2019

AE Interests:
Exhibition center and bridge between two sections of sculpture gardens, stacked aluminum panels create the twist of the structure, 3 unique spaces inside made to partner with landscape

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Building: The Shed
Location: New York, New York
Architects: Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Kinetic Systems Consultant: Hardesty and Hanover
MEP and Fire protection: Jaros Baume & Bolles
Sustainability: Vidaris
Completed: 2019

AEInterests:
Extremely adaptable space for the arts and collaboration, outer shell can be moved along railway and doubles as a crane for adding to art exhibits, steel diagrid with ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) to make it lightweight, strong, and insulating, LEEDSilver status

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Building: The Corniche
Location: London, England
Architect: Foster + Partners
Structural Engineer: Davies Maguire and Whitby
Façade Engineer: Wintech
Energy and Sustainability Consultants: Hodkinson Consultancy
Environmental Engineer: Hoare Lea
Landscape Architect: Townshend Landscape Architects
Year: 2019

AE Interests: Mixed Use. Curvilinear form meant to give panoramic view to individual apartments. Partially redesigned during construction to avoid windows falling out. Includes three sperate towers/complexes. Minimal columns that are at times rotated in plan to maximize internal space. Two story basement made next to a river and a major railway.

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Building: Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Location: Los Angeles, California
Architect: Renzo Piano
General Contractor: Morley and Taslimi, Matt Construction, Paratus Group
Civil Engineer: KPFF Consulting Engineers
Consulting Engineers: Knippers Helbig
Geotechnical Engineer: Shannon and Wilson
Stuctural Engineer: Buro Happold
MEP: Buro Happold
Lighting: Buro Happold
Year: 2020

AE Interests: Orb shaped theatre can move 30 inches in any direction during an earthquake. Flexible connections between two separate structural buildings. The sphere is made of curved precast concrete panels. Steel tension cables are used to help support the roof the dome. The dome is seismically isolated from the ground

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Building: Marina Bay Sands- Hotel and Skypark
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Architect: Moshe Safdie
Civil Engineer: ARUP
Structural Engineer: ARUP
Acoustics: ARUP
Geotechnical Engineer: ARUP
MEP Design: R.G. Vanderweil LLP
MEP Construction: Parsons Brinckerhoff (rebranded now as WSP)
Year: 2010

AE Interests: Creates two windows in order to see through the three towers for a view of the city from the waterfront, or vice versa. Has a 1.2 hectare, or about 130,000 square-foot, garden capping the towers, which includes a large swimming pool. Continues underground to connect to subsurface travel. World’s largest public cantilevered platform. Continuous lobby at base. Longer than the Eiffel towers total height. Curved asymmetric towers. World’s longest elevated swimming pool. In 2019 it was announced that a fourth tower is in the works. Building shape partially inspired by cards.

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Name: The Ace Hotel
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Architect: Kengo Kuma
Interior Design: Commune Design
Year: 2020

AE Interests: Set to open by 4/16/2020. Stretches over a new and existing historical fragment (Kyoto Central Telephone Company), “Cultural Catalyst”. Seamless relationship with Kyoto’s community, vibrant gathering space, blends in and portrays city’s nature, art, craft, etc. Thoughtfully landscaped gardens. 

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Building: Hunan Conference Center
Location: Changsha, China
Architects: DXH Studio
Chief Architect: Xinghui Deng, Zhimin Zeng
Design Team: Xian Liu, Guannan Tang, Lixia Ou, Yonghong Jiang
Steel Structure: Bin Liu
Landscape Design: Lala Huang
Interior Design: Yong Liu, Kai Yan
Construction: Hunan prosperous construction co., LTD
Year: 2019

AE Interests: Hunan University Student Science and Technology Industrial Park. Innovative. East, Northeast, South, and West sides serve different purposes like a park square, comprehensive building, entrepreneurship plant, etc. Externally, visual “visual window” enhances park image. Internally, “shared living room” of the park. Blends the boundaries of indoor/outdoor, building/landscape. Organic fusion.

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Building: Suzhou Swan Harbor Park
Location: Suzhou, China
Architects: Lacime Architects
Lead Architects: Zhaoqing Song, Guangxian Jin
Landscape Design: Shanghai Wendao Landscape Design
Year: 2019

AE Interests: Transcends Confusion ethical cods and follows nature. Aesthetic: unique, delicate, tenacious, graceful and gentle. Harmony and unity between realistic demands and natural environment. Facade: transparent floor to ceiling glass.

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Building: Second Home Hollywood Office
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Client: Second Home
Architect: Selgascano
Structural Engineer: Walter P Moore
MEP: Henderson Engineers INC
Landscaping: Selgascano / Second Home
Civil Engineering: KPFF Consulting Engineers
Lighting And Furniture Design: Alejandro Cano

AE Interests: Sustainability, experimental interaction, landscaping, natural shading, cross-ventilation, water collection,

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Building: WuliEpoch Culture Center
Location: Beijing, China
Client: Sino Ocrean Real Estate
Architect: Atelier Alter Architects
Structural Engineer: Beijing Saturni Engineering Consultant Co., Ltd.
Landscape Design: LANDAU International Design
MEP: Gong Cheng, Zhenwei Li
Lighting Design: Beijing Guanghu Purilighting Co., Ltd.
General Contractor: Sino Ocrean Real Estate
Curtain Wall Construction: Sino Ocrean Real Estate

AE Interests: Response to site, masonry wall construction, recycled concrete blocks, wooden laminated aluminum panels, nature immersion

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Building: The Cheryl and Philip Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning
Location: New York, NY
Completed: 2018
Client: Barnard College, New York
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
Construction Manager: Turner Construction
Structural Engineer: Robert Silman Associates
Site/Civil Engineer: Langan Engineering 
MEP Engineer: WSP Group
Landscape Architect: Quennell Rothschild & Partners
Programming Consultant: Brightspot Strategy
Cost Estimating: AECOM
Lighting Design: Brandston Partnership
Acoustics Design: Cerami & Associates
Sustainable Design: SOM Sustainable Engineering Studio

AE Interests: lighting design, sunlight analysis, energy savings, sustainability, rain screen system, zinc facade, LEED v3 Silver Certification, water savings, waste diversion

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Name: Pemulung House
Location: Denpasar, Indonesia
Architects: IBUKU
Year: 2011

AE Interests: Social Housing, Transient Housing, Modular, Recycled Materials, Sustainable Materials, Bamboo, Tetra Pack, Simple Construction, Storage Space, Indonesia, Southeast Asia

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Name: 26 Passive Apartments
Location: Montreuil, France
Architects: Benjamin Fleury Architects
Structural Engineers: EVP
MEP Engineers: Synapse
Environmental Engineers: MDTEC
Year: 2019

AE Interests: Social Housing, Apartments, Renting-Purchasing, MINERGIE-P, Green Space, Passive Ventilation, Solar Panels, Triple-Glazed Windows, Double-Layered Facade, Vertical Circulation, France, Western Europe

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Name: Casa Volcán
Location: Escuintla, Guatemala
Architects: DEOC Architects
Civil Engineer: FEDEPHASA
MEP Engineer: CCI
Construction: G-22
Year: 2018

AE Interests: Social Housing, Disaster Relief, Rural, Open Facade, Concrete, Bamboo, Natural Ventilation, Traditional Masonry Construction, Guatemala, Latin America

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Building: Crosswaters Ecolodge
Address: China, Guangdong Province, Huizhou, Longmen County, 355省道龙门南昆山国家森林公园
Location: Huizhou, China
Architect: Paul Pholeros
Bamboo Architect: Simon Velez
Feng Shui Master: Michael Chiang
Landscape Architect: EDSA
Principal Architect: Ken Luo

AE Interests: bamboo used as a structural member, largest project in the world to use bamboo, boardwalks made from railway ties, clay roof tiles from demolished village buildings, 260 sq. km park, 3D terrain analysis programs used to determine best areas for construction

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Building: Linea Apartments
Address: 215 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60606
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Architect: Thomas Roszak Architecture
Structural Engineer: Sowlat Structural Engineer
Efficient & Green Design: BuroHappold Engineering
Development Manager: MOCERI + ROSZAK
Contractor: Clark Construction

AE Interest: LEED Gold certification, sound-engineered glass, Eco Terrace, exposed concrete ceilings, MEP constructed through design-build method, concrete shear walls, post-tensioned concrete floor slabs, 421,000 sq. ft., green mullions on curtain wall mirror prairie grass from Chicago

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Building: Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa
Address: 1600 Disneyland Dr, Anaheim, CA 92802
Location: Anaheim, California
Architect: Peter Dominick of 4240 Architecture
(2017 Renovations)
Interior Designer: Katrina Mosher
Art Director: Bo Bolanos

AE Interests: Modeled after the craftsman’s era of architecture and design in late 19th & early 20th century, two suites and board room inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture, glass rose mural inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, wide sweeping roofs, projecting beams, exaggerated bracing

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Building: Pearl River Tower
Location: Jinsui Road/Zhujiang Avenue West, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, China
Architect: Skidmore, Owings, & Merill(SOM), Guangzhou Design Institute
Structural Engineer: SOM
Main Contractor: Shanghai Construction Group
Sustainable and MEP Design: SOM

AE interest:

Sustainability goal “Towards Zero Energy“. The aerodynamic form, which includes the two open spaces on both facades, helps direct wind flow to push wind turbines. Internally ventilated, high performance double wall facade(N/S facade), triple-glazed facade(E/W facade), chilled radiant ceiling, solar panels. Daylighting design. This building is the most energy efficient super-tall building in the world.

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Building: Zhuhai Opera House
Location: Zhuhai, China
Architect: Ma Long Architects, Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD)
Completed: 2017

AEInterests: In collaboration with the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design, the opera house sits on the converging coast of the Pearl River and the South China Sea. The outer translucent shell allows for the incorporation of natural light into both the opera house and multipurpose theater. At night the spherical shells catch the interior lighting to create a glowing beacon on the peninsula. The Opera house was constructed to encapsulate the “ancient poetic concept of ‘The river tides fluctuate along the sea level and the moon cycles together.’”

 
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Building:  UCCA Dune Art Museum
Location:  Qinhuangdao, China
Architect: OPEN Architecture
Structural Engineer: CABR Technology
Lighting Design: X Studio, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China
Completed: 2018

AEInterests: The museum gets its name from the sea dunes which it was integrated into.In collaboration with the School Of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China for lighting design, the concrete cavities that make up ten underground galleries and a cafe are connected to the outside world by skylights and glass curtain walls oriented towards the sea. The concrete shell was hand shaped onto a wooden strip framework and left in its irregular texture to inform viewers of its construction process. By placing the museum underneath the dunes, there is no need for an air conditioning system due to the sand’s thermal protection. Instead there is only a zero-emission heating system for the winter.

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Building: San Shan Bridge
Location: Beijing, China
Architect: Penda
Structural Engineer: ARUP
Scheduled Completion: 2022

AEInterests: The double helix bridge will span 452 meters across the Gui River, connecting central Beijing to Zhangjiakou, where several outdoor events will be held for the 2022 Winter Olympics. The three sets of rings of the double helix allude to the rings of the Olympic logo. The main structure will be constructed using tubular stainless-steel struts to support the steel cables that will support the road decking. Using this method, “the bridge will use five times less steel than a conventional box-girder frame.” This bridge will have pedestrian crossing areas and is intended to spur recreational development in the area in order to connect inner Beijing to the surrounding areas.

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Building: Chengdu University Library
Location: Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China
Architect: China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute
Construction: Sichuan Huating Construction Co., Ltd.
Completed Spring 2019
Photographs: Arch-Exist

AE Interests: “Dou” shaped atrium, natural light through use of skylights and side atrium opening, curtain wall system, steel and aluminum, orange-red porcelain plates

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Building: The Light of World Expo Center
Location: Wuzhen, China
Architects: Fab-Union, Archi-Union Architects
Design and Digital Fabrication: Fab-Union Architectural Technology and Digital Fabrication Co, Ltd.
Principal Architect: Philip F. Yuan
Digital Construction Manager: Wen Zhang
Structural Consultant: AND office
Landscape Consultant: Innovative Urban Green
Lighting Consultant: RDI Lighting
Contractor (Exhibition Halls): Yadu Construction Group
Completed 2019

AE Interests: multi-use pavilion, suspended roofs with I-beams, string beams and catenary beams, curved brick facade on pavilion,  radial steel structure, no vertical structural columns

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Building: Beijing South Station
Location: Beijing, China
Architects: TFP Farrells
Structural Engineering: ARUP
MEP Engineering: ARUP
Construction start date: December 2005
Completed 2008
Photos: Zhou Ruogu, Fu Xing

AE Interests: scalloped roofs, lightweight canopy roof structure, skylight made primarily of high solar low-e coated glass

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Building: Harbin Grand Theatre
Location: Harbin, China
Completion: Under Construction
Architects: MAD Architects
Associate Engineer: Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD)
Structural Engineer: Inhabit Group, China Jingye Engineering Co., Ltd
Mechanical Engineer: Chinese PLA General Armament Institute of Engineering Design
Acoustics: Zhanggui Acoustics Research Institute of Shanghai Modern Design Group
AE Interests: Theater and cultural center, custom-made pure white aluminum cladding, skylight for natural daylight, while white stone and concrete are used as part of the structural walls. Contains a wooden structure within the building to create optimal acoustics, blends well with nature.
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Building: Huangshan Mountain Village
Location: Huangshan Shi, China
Architect: MAD Architects
Executive Architects: HSarchitects
Interior Design: Suzhou Gold Mantis Construction Decoration
Landscape Design : Broadacre Source Landscape
Curtain Wall Design : Xi’an Aircraft Industrial Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd
Lighting Design : Shanghai Mofo Lighting
Completed: 2017

AE Interests: Designed to reflect the cultural importance of the Huangshan Mountains, each building is different in height and appearance in order to maintain the original mountain levels, want a new landscape where “architecture becomes nature, and nature dissolves into architecture”, creates a space where people can reconnect with nature on a spiritual level, organic shape of the buildings is in response to the topography around it.

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Building: Alila Yangshou
Location: Yangshou, Guilin, China
Completion: 2017
Architect: Vector Architects
Structural: Zheng Wenzhao, Li Bo, Zhou Xianzhong
Lighting Consultants : Klaasen Lighting Design
Interior Design: Ju Bin, Horizontal Space Design
MEP: Sen Lin, Haijia Li, Fuliang Wei, Jiaorong He, Yu Gao / Shenzhen JS M&E Engineening Desing Co.Ltd
Area: 16,000 square meters

AE Interests: Sugar mill repurposed as hotel ,keeps consistent with the original industrial aesthetic, reflecting pool, sunken plaza, shear walls, hollow concrete blocks and cast-in place concrete used to keep new structure light and blend in with the old masonry, surrounded my mountains and faces the Li River so the main building has 3 main cave-like structures connected by a pathway to represent the interaction between man-made and the natural, caves located to visually connect with the mountainscape, perforated screens for natural ventilation and lighting and protects the building from the road, new buildings are simple in shape to not take away from the re-purposed sugar mill

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Building: Longfu Life Experience Center
Location: Puyang,China
Completion: 2018
Architect:Luo Studio
Construction: Jia Mingzhong
Metal Processing Company: Henan Zhongyuan Antai New Energy Equipment Co., Ltd.
Area: 1588 square meters

AE Interests: Designed to not have functional constraints of spaces, general timber materials, clustered column, horizontal dodecahedron, vertical tree-shape, rapid assembly- 49 total workdays by dividing building into units and subdividing the work, “smart” cavity resembling human body, furniture is an extension of the structure, equipment and systems are integrated into the structure to minimize space, “universal space”, any part of the building can be modified, re-purposed, or removed based on need.

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Building: Nicolas G. Hayek Center
Location: Ginza, Japan
Architect: Shigeru Ban
Year Completed: 2007

AE Interest: Retractable glass facade that opens and closes like a store front

Building: Shibaura House Office 
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Architect: Kazuyo Sejima
Year Completed: 2011

AE Interest: Structural steel and glass design with a vertical park concept, mixed use office and community space

Building: Risonare Garden Chapel
Location: Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
Design and Engineering: Arup
Retractable Wall: Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Year: 2019

AE: Use of glazed glass and perforated wall for light quality, Retractable Wall 

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Building: Shanghai Opera House
Location: Shanghai, China
Architect: Snøhetta
Local Partner: ECADI
Completion: 2023

AE Interests: Identified by the 13th 5-year Plan set out in the 2010 Shanghai EXPO as a major cultural landmark. Three separate auditoriums housing 2000, 1200, and 1000 seats. Large spiral staircase with prominent cantilevers which expresses vertical motion and opens up the roof to pedestrians.

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Building: Floating Hotel
Location: Huzhou, China
Architect: MORE Architecture
Structural Engineer: ECADI
MEP/HVAC: ECADI
Completion: 2020

AE Interests: Traditional space, large open roof used for gatherings and socializing, multi-use space, specially designed to fit into its environment without overshadowing natural beauty, challenging site to work with, three separate room designs to add variable space, steel columns.

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Building: Cyrus Tang Foundation Center
Location: Suzhou, China
Architects: UAD
Interior Design: Woods Bagot, Hangzhou Dianshang Building Decoration Design
Structural Engineers: Mingshan Zhang, Chen Xu, Benyue Li
Landscape Design: The Design Institute of Landscape & Architecture China Academy of Art (Zheng Jie Studio)
MEP Engineers: Haojun Li, Zengrong Gong, Shaobing Dong, Zhengjie Huang, Haifeng Liu
Completion: 2019

AE Interests: Site is located in a natural park, so the building was designed carefully to not intrude on the natural beauty of the location. Facade is engineered to mimic bamboo forests. Perimeter of the building is designed to allow for expansion of the building in the future. Multi-use space featuring a museum and multiple spaces for events.

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Architects: Mario Cucinella Architects
Area: 1300.0 sqm
Completion: 2008
Structural engineering: Luca Turrini
Project and Site Management; Chris Jagger, Charles Lee, Orlando Shi
On-site Implementation of Energy equipments and technologies: Prof. Jo Darkwa
Construction Management: WEG, Ningbo
MEP and lighting design: TiFS Engineers Srl.

AE Interests:
Facade made to mimic paper lanterns and different Chinese fan-shapes, folds in the facade create a dynamic outer shell, double skin facade made of glass and screen-printed patterns, exposed rooftop allows natural light to illuminate all floors, natural efficient ventilation from rooftop creating a flue effect, underfloor heating panels using geothermal energy.

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Building: Yang Liping Performing Arts Center
Location:  Dali, China
Architect: Studio Pei-Zhu
Structural Engineer Consultant: Professor Fu Xueyi
Façade Design Consultant: Shenzhen Dadi Facade Technology CO.
MEP Engineering Consultant: CCDI
Acoustic Consultant: China IPPR International Engineering CO.

AEInterests:
cantilevered rectangular roof spans over open landscape underneath, flow for people to explore the indoor and outdoor space, the roof reflects the surrounding landscape and its curvature, overhanging canopy roof creates an interior plaza

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Building: Digital Beijing
Location: Beijing Olympic Park, Beijing China [map]
Architect: Pei Zhu
Structural Engineer Consultant: China Institute Building Standard Design & Research 
Area: 98,000 square meters
Construction: 2005 – 2007

AEInterests: 
 The 57-meter tall building was designed to have a north and south elevation resembling a barcode, while the east and west facades were made to look like a circuit board. The building was designed to be viewed as four disconnected blocks, but actually, are connected in a large central area. Digital Beijing also uses reinforced concrete and a steel frame.

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Building: Omoken Park
Location: Kumamoto, Japan
Completed: 2019
Area: 67.77 square meters
Architects: Yabashi architects & associates
Construction: CLT

AE Interest: steel frame and cross-laminated timber to create high fire performance, “public space of private space,” large step-like plateaus that carry pedestrians from busy exterior to calm, soothing back

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Building: AKO Kindergarten
Location: Matsuyama, Japan
Completed: 2019
Architects: HIBINOSEKKEI, Kids Design Labo, Youji no Shiro
Area: 2220 square meters
Construction: GANTAN BEAUTY INDUSTRY, Lunon, KIDS DESIGN LABO, Bozo

AE Interest: miniature doorways accommodate for size of children, designed so that students would learn 36 fundamental body motions

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Building: Honai Children’s Center
Location: Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Completed: 2019
Area: 2223.28 sq meters
Architect: UmbreArchitects
Lead Architects: Hiroshi Matsuo + Yuki Matsuo
Construction: A&A

AE Interest: integrated childcare support facility, heavy emphasis on wood construction, radical use of apertures, terraced roofing, environmental matching

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Location: Zhangjiagang, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Architect: Büro Ziyu Zhuang/RSAA
Construction status: Not yet built

AEInterests:
61,400 sqft basilica, with a ring of smaller buildings including prayer rooms, counselling spaces,  a cafeteria, library, museum and a smaller church. Interior lined with 2 cm thick metal plates, 18 cm apart. These fins create the appearance of different spaces depending on a person’s location within the church.

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Location: No.6393 of Guangfu Road
Architect: Rocco Design Architects
AEInterests:
A 538,000 sqft museum space constructed from 2008 to 2015. Conceptualized as large, strong boxes stacked together holding fragile art. A major motif of the project is the dramatic rock formations Kunming is known for. 

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Location: Dongyang River, Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China
Architect: MAD Architects

AE Interests:
“Floats” on Dongyang River as a Chinese junk. Envisioned as a community space with many entrances and incorporated green space. Passive solar design uses translucent glass facade as warming “greenhouse” in the winter, allows airflow and ventilation in the summer. Includes two theaters that seat 1600 and 1200 respectively, and a conference center that seats 2000. Seats Construction will begin in 2020.

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Building: China Museum Of The South China Sea 
Location: Hainan, China
Architect: Architectural Design Research Institute of SCUT
Construction Consultant: Han Yong
Year: 2017
AE Interest: Museum built to represent a ship/big house/layer on waves on the sea. It has a fully covered double sloping roof with a tropical porch space to incorporate the building into its surrounding rustic and tropical beach area. There is a sea-view corridor parallel with the sea surface as an intermediary between the landscape and exhibition hall. 

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Building: Jiangshan Martyrs Memorial Hall
Location: Jiangshan City, China
Architect: UAD
Design Team: Changqing Ye, Guolei Shi
Year: 2018
AE Interest: The building consists of non-load-bearing walls with symmetrical layouts to give a solemn ambience to honor the martyrs. The orderly arrangement of the walls lead to interactions between light and shadows. It also incorporates green space. 

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Building: Volleyball Arena of 2nd National Youth Games of China 
Location: Taiyuan, China
Architects: China Architecture Design & Research Group 
Year: 2019
Design and Engineer: CUI Kai
AE Interest: The top of the building has sloping roof with 12 arches, each of which has a rhombic side view. The building was cost effective, built with fair-faces concrete and red bricks that lowered cost and construction time but also conveyed simplicity. 

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Building: Sayama Lakeside Cemetery Community Hall
Location: Saitama, Japan
Architect: Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP
Structural Engineer: ARUP
Contractor: Matsui Kensetsu
Completion: 2013


AE Interests: Steel frame with sections of steel-reinforced concrete and wood construction pilings, mat foundation, passive air-conditioning.

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Building: Hotel Ninja Black
Location: Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Architect: Eastern Design Office
Structural Engineer: Ihara Structure Design Office
Landscape: Eastern Design Office
Construction: Soushin Kensetsu Co., Ltd. (2019)
Owner: ICHIKA Corporation

AE Interests: Hotel, Tourism, Shadow, Garden, Immersive Experience

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Building: Asahi Facilities Hotarugaike Dormitory
Location: Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Architect: Takenaka Corporation (Testuo Kawai, Yasushi Goda, Shunsuke Daimatsu)
Construction: 2019

AE Interests: Residential, Community, Concrete, Central Courtyard

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Building: KB Primary and Secondary School
Location: Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Architect: HIBINOSEKKEI, Kids Design Labo, Youji no Shiro
Construction: 2019

AE Interests: School, Renovation, Modular Furniture, Wood

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Building: blossom pavilion
Location : shanghai, China
Architects: Atelier Deshaus
Design team: Liu Yichun, Wang Longhai, Ding Jieru
Completion : 2015
Artist collaborator : Zhan Wang
Structural design: Zhang Zhun

AE interests: It is an sculptural pavilion, it is made out of stainless steel. It is a reinterpretation of the first human shelter, consisting in thin flat slab supported by columns that resemble rocks.

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Building : Modern art museum
Location : shanghai, China
Architects: Atelier deshaus
Design team: Yichun Liu, Yifeng Chen, Weishi Wang, Wen Shen, Chen Hao, Longhai Wang, Xiaoyi Chen, Jieru Ding, Mengdie Zhou
Completion : 2016
Photographs: Fangfang Tian
Client: Shanghai Pudong Waterfront Development and Construction Investments Co., Ltd.
Construction: China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Co., Ltd.
AE interests: The long museum west bund in Shanghai china it was made by the transformation of an old coal bunker. The idea was to preserve as much as possible the precedent structure and it spaces, that is why they used Steel hanging trusses supported by the old structure.

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Building : The Long Museum West Bund
location : Shanghai, China
Architects: Atelier deshaus
Architects in charge: Liu Yichun, Chen Yifeng
Completion : 2014
Photographers: Xia Zhi
Photographs: Fangfang Tian
Client: Shanghai Pudong Waterfront Development and Construction Investments Co., Ltd.
Structure, electrical & mechanical engineer: Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co, Ltd.
Structure, electrical & mechanical design team: Chao Si, Zhang Zhun, Shao Xiaojian, Shao Zhe, Zhang Ying, Shi You, Li Weijiang, Kuang Xingyu, Zhou Zhili
Lighting design: Shanghai Guangyu Lighting Design Co., Ltd.
Client: Shanghai Xuhui Waterfront Development, Investment & Construction Co., Ltd.

AE interests: The building is shaped in an umbrella over hanged vaults, that creates different spaces where the exhibition takes place. It is made of in situ concrete and it is meant to create a series of overlapped spaces to let the exhibition flow, with a more regular reading from the outside.

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Building: R&F Center
Use: Offices
Location: Guangzhou, China
Architects: Aedas
Local Design institute: Guangzhou Residential Architectural Design Institute
Structural Engineer: Guangzhou R&F Co. Ltd
MEP Engineer: Parsons Brinckerhoff Asia
Height: 795ft (242.3 m)
Principal Structure Materials: Concrete Steel
Completion: 2007

AE Interest:
Exterior inspired by China’s historical jade vase, translucent and glow under natural lighting while retaining a similar quality at night, remarkable aesthetics for the end users and significant energy efficiency. MIPIM Awards 2008.
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Building: Langham Place
Location: Hong Kong, China
Architects: Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd
Structural Engineer: Arup
Geotechnical Engineer: Arup
Façade Engineer: Arup
Wind and fire Engineer: Arup
Gross Floor Area: 200,000m²

AE Interest:
60m tall Grand Atrium 26m span portal frames on pinned, modernism, structural design employed steel composite mega columns and steel outrigger structures to form the skeleton of the office tower, Digital sky screen, Xpresscalator
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Location: Guangzhou, China
Architects: Rocco Design Architects
Design Team: Rocco Yim, William Tam, C. M. Chan, Derrick Tsang, Christopher Wong, Ricky Wang, Lucia Cheung, Grace Lin, Ivan Chui,
Structural Engineer: Arup
Façade Engineer: Arup
Acoustic: Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd
Lighting: Light & View Design
Site Area: 41,000 sq m
Gross Floor Area: 67,000 sq m
Cost: RMB 884 million
Completion: 2010

AEInterest:
Hanging main exhibition space in the center of the museum. Exterior inspired by antique Chinese lacquer box. Spatial arrangement with multi-layer and transparent spatial configuration (inspired by the traditional Cantonese ivory puzzle ball), cultural landmark, aluminum panels, fritted glass and GRC panels.

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Building: S-House
Location: Chichibu, Japan
Completed: 2013
Architect: Yuusuke Karasawa Architects
Structural Engineering: Alan Burden, Hiroaki Inukai
General Contractor: O’hara Architectural and Construction,Ltd / Akira Ohara,Satoshi Kikuch

AE Interests: intertwined elevated floors, intricate diagonal elevation, thin, fluoropolymer-painted steel plate

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Building: Japan House São Paulo
Location: Bela Vista, Brazil
Completed: 2017
Architect: FGMF, Kengo Kuma & Associates
Wood Structures: Ejiri Architectural Design Office
Construction: Toda Construction

AE Interests: washi interior facade, wired Kiso hinoki cypress supported by carbon fiber, museum

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Building: IDUMI Cafe + Residence
Location: Chofu, Japan
Completed: 2017
Architect: Tenhachi Architect & Interior Design
Construction: OGAWA co

AE Interests: wood frame structure, diagonal structural columns, concrete casing, cafe and residential

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Building: Musashino Art University Museum & Library
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Architects: Sou Fujimoto Architects
Mechanical Engineer: Taku Satoh Design Office
Structural Engineer: Kankyo Engineering
Contractors: Taisei Corporation, Tsukasa Sakata
Completion: 2010

AE interests: Exterior made up of timber shelves covered by planes of glass, 9m high interior walls made up of bookshelves, Steel framing with reinforced concrete, Polycarbonate plate ceiling

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Building: Fa-bo
Location: Nomi City, Japan
Architects: Kengo Kuma
Structural Engineer: Ejiri Structural Engineers
Fiber Manufacturer: Komatsu Seiren
Completion: 2016

AE interests: World’s first use of carbon fibers as earthquake-resistant material, carbon fiber rods (3,089 total) provide structural support and shading, Carbon fiber composite (CABKINA Strand Rod) is sustainable and weighs 90% less than steel counterpart, roof garden and porous spongy ceramic for green space

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Building: Namba Park
Location: Osaka, Japan
Architects: JERDE Partnership, Obayashi Corporation
Landscape Architect: EDAW, Inc.
Lighting Designer: Joe Kaplan Architectural Lighting
Completion: 2003

AE interests: Rooftop park provides natural intervention in Osaka’s dense urban condition, canyon carves out a path through a wide variety of commercial spaces, sloping park connects to streets providing accessibility to green spaces

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Building: Guilin Wanda Cultural Tourism Exhibition Center
Location: Qixing District, Guilin City, Guangxi Province, China
Year of Completion: September 2016
Area: 26,118 sm
Architect: TengYuan Design Institute co., LTD, WAT Studio
Design Team: Peng Wei, Guang jun Zhao, Zhen ming Wang,Bo Zhang, Wei Wang
Construction group: Wanda Group
Structural Engineer: Xing Xing
MEP Consultant: Zhiguang Qu, Juan Wang

AE Interests: Digital-colored glaze-painted art glass curtain wall, connects humans art and nature, has vertical glass ribs to represent mountains, reflections in surrounding water, inspired by a style of Chinese painting

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