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Building: Minister of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture – Doha, Qatar
Location: Doha, Qatar
Architect: Aesthetics Architects
Status: Conceptual (competition entry)

AE Interest: Individual sunshade panels that open and close relative to the sun’s intensity, designed to mimic the appearance of a cactus in the desert, connecting botanical dome houses plants that could be used as a source of food or a way to clean wastewater [1]

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Project: 70-story tower (proposed)
Location:  Dallas, Texas
Architect: Foster + Partners
Developer: H. Ross Perot Jr.’s Hillwood real estate firm

AE Interest:  70-story, 1 million-square-foot tower, round plan, diagrid mega-frame lateral stability system.  If built, will be tallest building in Dallas, Texas.

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Building: Seoul’s National Assembly Smart Work Center
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Client: South Korean Government
Status: Planned
Architect: Haeahn Architecture
Collaborating Architect: H Architects
Landscape Architect: Hyung-seok Lee

AE Interest: Green Roof, Photo voltaic panels, reflected sunlight louvers, public space, innovative office space

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Building: Miraflores-Barranco Pedestrian Bridge
Location: Lima, Peru
Expected Completion Date: 2016
Architect: OOIIO Architecture

AE Interests: Design inspired by Peruvian piñatas, crystals, and ancient Incan jewelry.  Uses recycled wood. Multipurpose space for gathering or commuting. Angular form.

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Building: Camp Nou Renovation
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Architect: Nikken Sekkei +Pascual Ausio Arquitectes
Projected Construction: June 2026
Projected Cost: 600 million Euros

AE Interest: Adds 5,000 seats, bringing total to 105,000, canopy covering the stands, steeper first seating tier for better viewing, addition of ice rink and parking lots surrounding stadium, improved restaurants and luxury boxes (suites)

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Building: World Expo 2017
Location: Astana, Kazakhstan
Architect: Adrian Smith+Gordon Gill Architecture LLP
Structural Design: Werner Sobek
MEP: PositivEnergy Practice (PEP)
Completion: 2017 (predicted)

AE interests: Two phase existence (phase 1:expo mode, phase 2: conversion to office and research park/residential neighborhood), focus on sustainable energy to match theme of expo, designed to maximize solar harvesting while minimizing sites energy use

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Building: Administrative Complex on Varshavskaya Street
Location: Varshavskaya St., St.Petersburg, Russia
Architect: Architectural Bureau A.Len
Project Manager: S.Oreshkin
Project Chief Architect: R.Andreeva
Project Chief Engineer:A.Vainer
Completed: Proposed Design (2013)

AE Interests: Internal terraced atrium,  textured metal patterned facades, varying office building height to create terraced effect, stained glass designs in atrium and first floor glazing give feeling of “lightness” to complex, large cantilever over street level

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Building: Antalya Tower
Location: Antalya, Turkey
Completion: To be finished by 2016
Architects: NITA (Nitelikli Tasarımlar Atölyesi)
Structural Engineers: Yapı Statik Proje
Mechanic: TSO
Electric: KEY
Facade Consultant: Guvendiksoy Facade Consultancy

AE Interests: Tripartite in form, viewing decks tapering into a single shaft at the building’s base, concrete service core which provides rigidity against on-site wind forces, facade also designed against strong winds

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Building: 2 World Trade Center (2 WTC)
Location: New York, New York
Completion: Proposed Design
Architects:  BIG
Partners In Charge: Bjarke Ingels, Thomas Christoffersen
Project Manager: Ute Rinnebach
Structural Engineers: N/A

AE Interests: Manhattan’s third-tallest building if built today, responds to both low and high rise, mix-use spaces, maximizes buildable space

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Building: European Central Bank
Location: Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Completion: 2014
Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Structural Engineer: B+G Ingenieure
Climate Design: Arup
Plumbing & Hvac: Ebert-Ingenieure
Lightning Design: Bartenbach LichtLabor

AE Interests: 607′ linked double-tower, dynamic spatial sequences.

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Building Name: Chausseestrasse 43
Location: Berlin, Germany
Architect: Studio Daniel Libeskind
Structural & MEP Engineer: PORR
Completion: 2015

AE Interest: Complex form. Libeskind-designed 3D metallic stoneware tile facade designed to clean themselves and the air.

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Building: Guosen Securities Tower
Location: Shenzhen, China
Status: Ongoing proposal since 2010
Client: Guosen Securities Co, Ltd.
Architect: Massimiliano + Doriana Fuksas
Structural Engineer: Arup

AE Interest: 228 m tall office building, first ecological skyscraper in Shenzhen, explores new concepts in vertical public spaces

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Building: Blossom Gate
Location: Xiangyiang, China
Completion: Expected Completion in 2013
Design Team: Prechteck (now penda designhouse)

AE Interest: This entrance to China’s largest myrtle garden serves as an entrance and a gathering space. The influence for the form comes from Chinese calligraphy which can be seen in the massive arches that are meant to look like the the trailing strokes of a calligraphy brush. The structure is to be composed of large bamboo space frames covered in long, single, bamboo poles. In order to mimic the trailing ends of a brush stroke the poles will be spaced-out at the intersection of the frames on each side.

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Building: North Point Harbour Urban Planning Concept
Location: Hong Kong, China
Status: Winning Design, Proposed
Architect: Chris Y. H. Chan + Stephanie M. L. Tan

AE Interests: Organic architecture, ‘wall of cells’, building relationships, and improvement of living quality in heavy urban areas. Other interests include the use of free flowing forms to transform a typical square grid city structure into an interactive and expandable urban model.
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Building: Hongqiao Central Business District
Location: Shanghai, China
Architect: MVRDV + Aedas

AE Interests: Received a 3-star ‘green building label’ for its sustainable design, the highest in China (equivalent to LEED Platinum in the US). Other interests include green architecture, sky gardens, space optimization, high performance insulation, and a sunken retail hidden away from vehicle traffic.

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Building: Trans Ganga Masterplan
Location: Kanpur, India
Status: Proposed
Architect: Studio Symbiosis

AE Interests: Solutions to over-population, green roofs, earth cooling, solar facades, and natural CO2 consumption. Other interests include the design and planning of a large central park created in an effort to provide better air quality to future residents.

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Building: Huizhou Masterplan
Location: Huizhou, China
Status: Proposed
Architect: dom arquitectura

AE Interests: Solar energy, wind energy, rainwater collection for self-irrigation, and double-skin latticed facades to grow plants on the exteriors of the towers. Other interest include the optimization of CO2 consumption through the design and use of a large green park.
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Building: Almere City Plan for Floriade 2022
Location: Almere, Netherlands
Status: Proposal approved, to be completed by 2022
Architect: MVRDV (masterplan)

AE Interests: Integration of ultra-sustainable systems with everyday facilities such as universities, hotels, marinas, offices, homes and more. Other interests include development of biodegradable concrete, botanical library, water retaining roofs/facades, and city lights produced by fluorescent plants, insects and microbes.

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Building: Phoenix Towers
Location: Wuhan, China
Completion: Conceptual Design
Architect: Chetwood Architects
Design Team: HuaYan Group

AE Interest: Reaching 1km upon completion, this pair of buildings will be the tallest in the world. These towers will be composed of a steel superstructure, concrete core with ‘hat’ trusses, a trussed structure at the base, out-riggered for lateral stability and concrete buttresses. They will be outfitted with wind turbines,  photo-voltaic panels, thermal chimneys, rainwater harvesting systems, biomass boilers and hydrogen fuel cells.
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Building: Sand Babel
Location: China
Completion: Conceptual Design
Design Team: Qiu Song, Kang Pengfei, Bai Ying, Ren Nuoya and Guo Shen

AE Interest: These towers will be manufactured from adjacent sand by a solar-powered 3D printer. The lower root-like structures will stabilize and reinforce the dynamic flowing sands while the upper spiral skeleton would be constructed using continuous transmission of tensional forces and house a water-generating system located in the mushroom-shaped roof exploiting temperature differences to produce condensation.

Building: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013
Location: London, United Kingdom
Expected Completion: October 2013
Architect: Sou Fujimoto
Structural Engineer: Aecom – Harriet Eldred

AE Interest: Lightweight steel pole structure

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Building:  Medical Education Building
Location: New York City, New York
Completed: 2016
Architect:  Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Structural Engineer:  Leslie E. Robertson Associates

AE Interest:  Angular in shape, mainly glass facade, timber-clad boxes slotted into the glass facade will provide decked balconies, floors intertwine with one another, a network of social and study spaces distributed across oversized landings along an intricate 14-story stair.

Building: Kingdom Tower
Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Completion: 2016-2017 (expected)
Engineer: Langan International
Architect: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Main Contractor: Saudi Binladin Group
Developer: Emaar Properties, Jeddah Economic Company (JEC)

AE Interests: Estimated to cost $1.23 billion and reach a staggering 3,280 feet in height,  the total construction area will encompass 5.7 million square feet.  The building will serve a multi-purpose design consisting of office spaces, apartments, retail stores, luxury condominiums, exterior sky terrace as well as the world’s highest observatory.

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Building: Skolkovo Univerity District
Location: Skolkovo, Russia
Building Status: Conceptual Masterplan
Partners: Herzog & de Meon, Stefan Marbach, David Koch
Project Architects: Olga Bolsnina, Tomislav Dushaov, Tobias Winkelmann
Client: Skolkovo Foundation, Moscow, Russia
AE Interest: The University’s scheme integrates into its surroundings by disappearing into the landscape with features such as: low-rise (2-3 story) architecture, numerous openings and views into the interior, the gardens and traditional materials.

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Building: Arlanda Hotel

Location: Stockholm Sweden

Architect: BIG

AE Interests: Custom Facade, Complicated Structure

Building: Montenegro Residences

Location: Montenegro

Architect: Bjarke Ingels Group

AE Interests: Minimal environmental impact, high density living.

Space: The Copenhagen Experiments

Locations:
New York, NY
Chicago Illinois

Designers: Bjarke Ingels Group

AE Interests: Prefabrication, Green Roofs, high density living

Building: Estadio das Dunas – “The Stadium of the Dunes”
Location: Natal, Brazil
Expected Completion: FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014
Architect: Populous
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold
Client: State Government Rio Grande do Norte
AE Interests: Focuses on “grand space”, obstructs direct sunlight while allowing on-shore breezes to reach the fans.
Capacity: 40,000 – general seats, 2,500 – club seats, 22 suites

Building: Grand Stade de l’Olympique Lyonnais
Location: Lyon, France
Expected Completion: 2013
Architect: Populous
AE Interests: The roof will not only provide shelter, shade and comfort, but it will also have the ability to make the stadium reach out to the sky by illuminating into a glowing object.
Capacity: 60,000

Building: Music Cloud (Philharmonie de Paris)
Location: Paris, France
Architectural Firm: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Project Partner: Michael Volk
Project Architect/Design Architect: Andrea Graser
3D Visualization: Jorg Hugo, Jens Mehlan
Structural Engineering: B+G Ingenieure/ Bollinger and Grohmann GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Acoustics and Theater Planning: ARTEC Consultants
Mechanical Engineering: INGEROP Courbevoie
Environmental Engineering: BEHI-SA
Landscape Architect: Agence Ter
Lightning Design: L’Observatoire International
Media Facade: ART+COM AG
Cost & Management Consultant: Mazet & Associates
Client: Association Philharmonie de Paris
Status: Competition (01/02 2007)
Budget: EUR 118 Mio

AE Interest: Large Concert Hall has 2 400 seats. Sensor activated interactive media facade that can illustrate music, movement, or events happening inside the building for the outdoors public to watch.  Designed to maximize sustainable principles of energy consumption and natural ventilation. Includes photovoltaic cells and a system of geothermal tubes.
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Building: National Archive of Denmark
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Design Completion: 1997, for invited competition in Copenhagan
Architect: Antoine Predock

AE Interest: Glass elevator, panoramic tower views, large naturally lit rooms and smaller, diffused light study areas

Building: Mixed Use Center Baku (high density Landmark Building Complex)
Location: Baku, Azerbaijan
Architectural Firm: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Design Principal: Wolf D. Prix
Project Partner: Frank Stepper
Project Architect: Voker Kilian
Design Architect: Sophie Grell
Model Building: Paul Hoszowski, Vincenzi Del Monaco
Client: Arena JSC
Status: Proposed in 2008
AE Interest: Building height of 150 m, 40 floors above ground

Building: Football Stadium Zaragoza
Location: Zaragoza, Spain
Architectural Firm: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Planning: U.T.E Coop Himmelb(l)a/Katsura S.L
Principal in Charge: Wolf D. Prix
Project Partner: Andrea Graser
Model Building: Nam La Chi, Vincenzo Del Monaco
Client: Zaragoza Ayuntamiento
Status: Competition 2nd Prize, 07/2008
Budget: EUR 75 Mio
AE Interest: Concept based on a sculptural umbrella, the inner ring is covered with a translucent fabric that allows sunlight to penetrate and prevent rain to get in. Has a capacity of 43 000 seats.

Building: Sports City Stadium
Location: Doha, Qatar
Expected Completion: FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
Architect: Populous
AE Interests: One of 12 conceptual stadiums for the winning 2022 Qatar World Cup whose design has inspiration from a nomadic Bedouin tribe tent. The venue’s infrastructure will harness its energy directly from the sun to provide lighting, cooling, heating and electricity. This stadium is to be the most environmentally sustainable one in the world as it will achieve zero carbon emissions.
Capacity: ~47,000

Building: The Spa
Location: Culver City, California
Completion: 2000
Architect: Eric Owen Moss
AE Interest: excercise, private therapy rooms, exterior deck, courtyard, juice bar, and offices

Building: Torngasok Cultural Centre
Firm: Saunders Architecture
Architects: Todd Saunders with Attila Béres, Ken Beheim-Schwarzbach and Rubén Sáez López
Location: Nain, Labrador, Canada
Completion: 2013
Size: 1800 m²
AE Interest: With an estimated completion date in 2013, the new center will include offices for the Nunatsiavut government and for the Torgnat Mountains National Park.

Building: Queens Museum of Art
Location: Queens, New York
Completion: 2001
Architect: Eric Owen Moss

AE Interest: It appears that a sea of glass is flowing from the building facade.
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Building: Dance Palace
Location: St. Petersburg, Russia
Status: Competition winner
Client: Petersburg City LLC
Architect: UNStudio
Structural Engineer: Arup

AE Interests: curved exterior facade, mixture of opaque and transparent panels causes the building to emit scattered light

Building: The Lighthouse
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
Status: Completed 2022
Architects: UNStudio, 3XN, Jan Gehl
Engineers: Grontmij, Carl Bro

AE Interest: Mixed-use facility including housing and social function, facade designed to mimic light reflected off water

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Building: Mariinsky Cultural Center, New Mariinsky Theater
Location: St. Petersburg, Russia
Completion: 2003
Architect: Eric Owen Moss Architects
AE Interest: A representation of the old Russia going into a new stage of architecture.

Building: Conjunctive Points Theater Complex
Location:Culver City, California
Architect: Eric Owen Moss Architects
AE Interest: This building has multiple uses from office, retail and restaurants, the shape transforms as its goes along the horizontal.

Building: Youth Wellness Center
Location: Bremerton, Washington
Architect: Steven Holl Architects
Project Architect: Filipe Taboada
Currently in Design Phase

AE Interest: Structural, Environmental, and Space Management

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Building: King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Design: 2008-2009
Architect: Morphosis
Structural and MEP Engineer: Burp Happold

Building: New U.S. Embassy
Location: London, United Kingdom
Status: Designed 2009-2010, construction will be completed by 2017
Architect: Kieran Timberlake
Sustainability and MEP: Arup
Structural Engineering: Weidlinger Associates
AE Interest: Targeted to be both BREEAM Outstanding and LEED Platinum, thin PV films in the facade
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Building: Garibaldi Exhibition Building
Location: Milan, Italy
Competition won: 2006
Architect: Grimshaw

AE Interest: form

Location: Hereford, Herefordshire
Completion: due 2013
Partner: Hereford Futures
Developer/Development Manager: Stanhope
Architect: Leslie Jones
Masterplanner: Allies & Morrison
Structural Engineer: Ramboll (formerly Ramboll Whitbybird)
Services Engineer: Cudd Bentley Consulting
Cost Consultant: Cyril Sweett
Construction Manager: Pinnacle Transportation

AE Interests: regeneration of the historic city of Hereford

Building: UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation
Location: London, UK
Completion: due 2015
Architect: PLP Architecture and HOK Architects

AE Interest: roof form, advance bio-medical research facility

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Building: Oxford Street Visitor Information Kiosk
Location: London, UK
Architect: PLP Architecture

AE Interest: ‘soaring’ glass roof

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Building: Four Seasons Hotel and Residences
Location: London, UK(Heron Plaza)
Completion: due 2015
Architect: PLP Architecture

AE Interest: Skyscraper in urban London

Building: Four Seasons Hotel and Residences
Location: Abu Dhabi at Sowwah Island
Architect: PLP Architecture

Building: World Wildlife Fund Headquarters
Location: Woking, UK
Architect: Hopkins Architects
Structural Engineers: Expedition Engineering

AE Interest: maximizes on-site sustainable features, aims for ‘Outstanding’ BREEAM rating

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Building: Guy’s and St Thomas’ East Wing
Location: London, UK
Architect: Hopkins Architects
Engineering Consultant: Arup

AE Interest: creates a thermal buffer zone and two new triangular atria

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Building: Victoria & Albert Museum Extension
Location: London, UK
Architect: Amanda Levete Architects

AE Interests: complex geometry

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Building: Cultural Centre
Location: Lisbon, Portugal (on Tagus River)
Architect: Amanda Levete Architects

AE Interests: complex geometry

Building: Cloud 360
Architect: Kyungam Architects (Changki Yun)
Partner: Jaeyoo Yoo
Designer: Taehyung Lim, Kyeongmin Kim, Yunmi Kang
Client: Sungam District

AE Interests: complex geometry, glass technology

Building: Moynihan Station
Location: New York City, United States
Proposed Completion: 2018
Architect: Skidmore Owings & Merrill
Structural Engineer: Schlaich Bergermann and Partner
Client: New York City

AE Interests: Advanced geometry, long span glass roof, converting the old Farley Post Office into a railway station

Building: Geodesic Dome City
Location: Proposed for Manhattan, New York
Completion: Proposed Design
Designer: Buckminster Fuller
 

AE Interest: Enclosed city under dome, climate controlled, dome made of glass.

Project: Grand Theatre
Location: Rabat, Morocco
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Structure Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor (AKT)
MEP engineer: Maxfordham
Acoustics & Theatre: Artec Consultant
Facade: Donnell Consultants Incorporated
Lighting: Office for Visual Interaction Inc

Info: 27,000 m2
Est Budget: $163m

AE Interest: Complex Geometry

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Building: Caen Library (Bibliothèque Multimédia à Vocation Régionale / BMVR)
Status: Competition winner – announced 9/10/2010
Architect: OMA (Rem Koolhaas)

AE Interest: Massing response to context, open middle floor, exposed diagonal bracing, large openings in floor diaphragm. For similar work, see Seattle Central Library.

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Building: Raffles City Bahrain
Location: Bahrain Bay, Manama City, Bahrain
Project Status: Expected Completion 2012
Architect: Rafael Viñoly

AE Interests: Three curving high-rise apartment buildings create an interesting design. It also has elevated infrastructure.

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Building: Kuching Hotel
Location: Isthmus Site, Kuching, Malaysia
Architect: Saucier + Perrotte
Civil Engineer: Jurutera Minsar Consult
Structural Engineer: J. K. Bersatu
Mechanical Engineer: Primetech Engineers
Electrical Engineer: Uni Kenyalang Engineering

AE Interests: Multiple folded planes, designed to mimic the form of a tree

Building: Urban Forest
Location: Chongqing, China
Completion: Design-in-progress
Architect: MAD ltd
Engineer: ARUP group ltd

AE Interests: Steel and concrete city center, each floor has its own unique design, the building itself is structurally complex and visually seems unstable

Building: Wuensdorf Church
Location: Wuensdorf, Germany
Architect: GRAFT Architects
Structural Engineering: To be determined
Completion: Design Competition Winners

AEInterest: spiritual center and multifunctional assembly hall, “scene-o-graphic background,” diamond-shaped crystal envelope from 3 different geometric prefigures; previously closed land in which nature has flourished.

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Structure: Torre Huerta/Sociopolis
Location: Valencia, Spain
Completion: In Progress
Co-architect: MG arquitectos
Landscape architect: Copijn, Utrecht
Structural Engineer: GIA, grupo de ingenierias y arquitectura

AEInterests: 5 apartments on each floor arranged around a central core; every apartment has its own terrace with a tree; Solar cells and the water tank located on roof.

Building: Republic Square
Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan
Completion: Proposed Design
Approximate Size: 126,000 sq. meters
Architects: Eric Owen Moss
AE interests: 38 meter diameter structural spiral, exterior geometry, season themed courtyards

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Building: Dynamo Stadium
AKA: VTB Arena Central Dynamo Stadium
Location: Petrovsky Park, Moscow, Russia
Status: International competition won in June 2010
Approximate Completion: 2016
Architects: Erick van Egeraat and Mikhail Posokhin
Structural Engineer: Bollinger + Grohmann
Primary Investor: VTB Bank
AE Interests: Historic preservation, multifunctional urban regenerator, supports bid for 2018 World Cup, year round commercial use
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Building: The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
Location: Athens, Greece
Completion: 2015
Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Structural Engineer – Expedition Engineering
MEP and Acoustic Engineers – Arup
Client: The Stavros Niarchos Foundation

AE Interests: Delicate ferrocement roof with steel columns and cable cross-bracing, sustainable design, solar power, wind power.

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