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Building: Calabar International Convention Center
Location: Calabar, Nigeria
Architect: Henning Larsen Architects
Engineer: BNL Engineering
Completion: 2013
AE Interests: Massing, Volumes, Nature, Local Materials, Low Energy Consumption, Panoramic View, Natural Amphitheater

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Building: Hangzhou South Railway Station
Location: Hangzhou, China
Status: Complete in 2014
Architect: GMP Architekten
Design: Meinhard von Gerkan and Stephan Schütz with Stephan Rewolle

AE Interest: grey granite, perforated vertical slats, free-spanning construction without columns

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Building:  Ben Thanh Towers
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Status: Under Construction
Architect: Arquitectonica
Structural Engineer: Leslie E. Robertson Associates
Mechanical & Electrical Design: DSA Engineering

AE Interest:  high rise tower, glass facade, two towers on top of a podium for stability, steel design structure, represents the Vietnamese myth of the Two Dragons, two cantilevers at the top represent the heads of the dragons while the glass cube right beneath represents pearls in the dragons’ mouths

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Building: Ningbo Gate Serviced Apartments
Location: Ningbo, China
Status: Under Construction
Architect: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Co-Architect: Ningbo LDI
Engineering Services: Ningbo LDI
Structural Engineer: Arup

AE Interest: Steel bracing systems around the perimeter of each tower allow the structural flexibility needed in an earthquake, and provide greater freedom in layouts by moving them to the outside,  large cantilevers, the two wings of the building are connected by a central concrete core

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Building: James Simon Gallery
Location: Museum Island, Berlin, Germany
Status: In Construction
Architect: David Chipperfield Architects
Structural Engineer: Ingenieurgruppe Bauen

AE Interest: Modern Minimalism / Classical style, new center of activity for Museum Island.

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Building: Elbe Philharmonic Hall
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Completion expected: April 2014
Architect: Herzog and de Meuron
Associate Architect: Hohler + Partner
Structural Engineering: WGG Schnetzer Puskas Ingenieure AG, Rohwer Ingenieure VBI GmbH
Acoustician: Nagata Acoustics Inc.
Contractor: Hochteif
AE Interests: Tent-like structure built on existing warehouse, glass facade shaped like waves.
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Building: Sochi 2014 Olympic Stadium
Location: Sochi, Russia
Expected Completion: 2012
Architect: Populous
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold

AE Interests: Transparent building skin and exposed structural elements to leave view corridors to mountains and sea. Also, will illuminate at night to represent the spectacle of the Games. The stadium also has a legacy plan to serve as a key stadium in the 2018 FIFA World Cup after it is used for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
Capacity: 40,000 Olympic mode, 45,000 FIFA mode

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Building: Peace Bridge (Footbridge)
Location: Over the Bow River in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Expected Completion: Mid 2011
Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Engineer: Calatrava

AE Interests: No piers were placed in water; minimal ecological footprint; helical steel structure with glass roof
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Building: Crystal Towers
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Architect: Henning Larsen Architects
Structural Engineers: Thornton Tomasetti
MEP: Hoare Lea Consulting Engineers
Completion: 2013
AE Interests: Erratic window placement creates a very unique, natural appearance. The buildings are not perfectly squared, instead slightly twisting in a very organic progression. Vastly different than the normal, rectangular shapes of high rise buildings.
Photo: http://www.henninglarsen.com/projects/1000-1099/1025-crystal-towers.aspx

Building: Ponte Parodi
Location: Genoa, Italy
Scheduled Completion: 2013
Architect: UNStudio
Structural Engineer: Arup

AE Interests: blends nicely into old harbor area, green roof

Building: Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Location: Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada|
Completion Time: Projected for 2012
Design Architect: Antoine Predock
Engineers: Smith Carter Architects and Engineers

AE Interest: Glass cloud encapsulating building, average 5.2 meter floor-to-ceiling height, spiraling glass tower, four anchoring talons

Building: Arena da Amazônia
Location: Brazil, Manaus
Scheduled for Completion in 2013
Architect: GMP Architekten
Lighting Design: Conceptlicht, Traunreut

AE Interest:  The stadium significantly symbolizes a soccer net, it’s surroundings rain forest and sea (fishing net). Roof structure has fiberglass fabric which reflects radiation and cools the spectators in a hot Amazon climate.
Capacity of 45,000 and LEED Certified.

Building: Lotte Super Tower 123
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox
Project Manager: Lotte
Completion: 2015

AE Interests: Among the tallest skyscrapers in the World.  The unusual geometry and color of the facade represent traditional Korean ceramics.

Building: Villas in the Sky
Location: Riyahd, Saudi Arabia
Architect: Henning Larsen Architects
Structrual Engineers: Thornton Tomasetti
MEP: Hoare Lea Consulting Engineers
Completion: Projected 2013
AE Interests: Edges become jagged and deformed as they approach the top which breaks up the skyline, as well as differentiates it from the other skyscrapers. Designed to achieve LEED certification.
Photos: http://www.henninglarsen.com/projects/1000-1099/1025-villas-in-the-sky.aspx

Building: Palacio de Congresos
Location: Lanzarote, Spain
Architect: Henning Larsen Architects
Completion: Projected 2013
AE Interests: Even with the building’s large geometric shapes and structure, the lighting installations gives a sense of depth and weightlessness. An elevated, grand entrance into the building creates a dramatic entry. Very energy efficient sporting the latest solar cells in order to reduce carbon footprint.
Photo: http://www.henninglarsen.com/projects/0900-0999/0965-palacio-de-congresos.aspx

Building: CityLife Milano
Location: Milan, Italy
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Completion Date: 2013
Structural Engineers: Adams Kara Taylor, Redesco, Cap Engineering
Fire Engineer: Silvestre Mistretta
Transport Engineer:  Systematica, Studio Corda, Alpina
Project Director: Gianluca Racana
Tower Project Architect: Paolo Zilli
Residential Project Architect: Maurizio Meossi

AE Interests: Structural, environmental, geometric

Building: Queens Library
Location: Queens, NY
Architect: Steven Holl Architects
Project Architect: Filipe Taboada
Completion Date: November 2013
Engineer: Robert Silman Associates and ICOR Associates

AE Interest: Exposed concrete design, complex geometry, and energy efficient design

Building: Daeyang Gallery and House
Location: Seoul, Korea
Architect: Steven Holl Architects
Completion Date: June 1, 2012
Structural Engineer: SQ Engineering
Mechanical Engineer: Buksung HVAC+R Engineering
Lighting Consultant: L’Observatoire International
General Contractor: Jehyo
AE Interest: Natural lighting of gallery through underwater skylights, heated and cooled with geothermal wells.
Updated: September, 2012 by Michael Van Shellenbeck.
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Building: Napoli Afragola Railway Station
Location: Napoli Afragola, Italy
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Structural Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor
Environmental Engineer: Max Fordham
Completion Date: 2013

AE Interests: Inter-seasonal ground water cooling and heating, solar hot water generation, rainwater recycling, north light day lighting, mixed-mode ventilation

Building: National Museum of Qatar
Location: Doha, Qatar
Expected Completion: December 2014
Architect: Jean Nouvel
Client: Qatar Museums Authority

AE Interests: The interlocking disks that compose the building are of varying curvature and diameter, both the exterior and interior are made up of interlocking disks, seeks LEED Silver certification relying mostly on creating shady and cool areas with thermal buffer zones within the disks

Building: De Rotterdam
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Completed: Under Construction
Architect: OMA Rem Koolhaas
Structural Engineer: Corsmit, Rijswijk
MEP Engineering: Roodenburg, Krimpen aan den IJssel
Lighting Engineering: Arup

AE Interests: Bold and Simple Geometry, Multi-Functional Spaces

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Building: Emerson College Los Angeles Center
Location: Los Angeles, California
Expected Completion: 2012
Architect: Morphosis
Structural Engineer: John A. Martin Associates
Civil Engineer: KPFF
MEP Engineering: Buro Happold
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Building: London 2012 Water Polo Arena
Location: London, UK
Completion: due 2012
Architect: David Morley Architects
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold

AE Interest: air-inflated rippling roof made of recycled PVC cushions, temporary for 2012 London Olympics

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Building: Glasgow Museum of Transport
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Completion: 2011
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Structural/Services/Facade Engineer: Buro Happold

AE Interest: dynamic form shows relationship of the city and seafaring industry; interesting zinc wall-roof structure

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Building: University Square Stratford
Location: East London, UK
Completion: due 2013
Architect: Make Architects

AE Interest: highly flexible teaching and administrative spaces

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Building: Barts and the Royal London New Hospitals Programme
Location: London, UK
Project Manager: Skanska
Completion: due 2016

AE Interests: Construction in urban London
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Building: Metropol Parasol
Location: Seville, Spain
Completion: 2012
Architect: Jürgen Mayer H
Structural Engineer: ARUP
AE Interests: Upon completion, the Metropol Parasol will be the largest wooden structure in the world

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Building: Incheon 151 Tower
Location: Incheon Metropolitan City, Republic of South Korea
Architect: John Portman & Associates, Inc.
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Estimated date of completion: 2014
Cost: $11 billion

AE Interests: Two interconnected trapezoidal sections after a split at the 44th floor. Wind Tunnel Analysis in consideration of wind and seismic loads while maintaining original design vision. The two halves of the tower are tied together by three pedestrian bridges comprised of “steel truss outriggers”(Thornton Tomasetti website).

More Info: Incheon 151 Tower by Cori Kwitkin at the 2009 Annual Meeting

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Building: Kohinoor Square
Location: Mumbai, India
Architect: GKK Works India
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Date for Completion: 2012

Building: The Bow
Location: Calgary, Canada
Completion: 2011
Architect: Foster & Partners
Structural Engineer: Halcrow Yolles
Climate Engineer: Transsolar
MEP: Cosentini Associates

AE Interest: First steel tower in Calgary, three sky gardens, Radiant heating and cooling systems.

  
Building: ArcelorMittal Orbit
Location: London, UK
Completion: due 2011
Architect: Anish Kapoor
Structural Engineer: Cecil Balmond/ Arup Advanced Geometry Unit
Project Management: Sir Robert McAlpine
Client: City of London

AE Interest: advanced geometries, modular construction

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Building: BC Place Stadium Revitalization, New Roof
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Completion Date: 2011 (Under Construction)
Structural Engineer: Geiger Engineers

AE Interests: new retractable roof, 60,000 seat multipurpose stadium with air-supported roof made of light-weight material

Project: Revolution Tower
Location: Panama City
Architect: Pinzon Lozano
Developer: F & F Properties / A2SN
Status: Under Construction
Expected Completion: 2011

  
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Project: Beekman Tower (“New York”)
Location: New York City, New York
Architect: Gehry Partners, LLP
Structure Engineer: WSP Cantor Seinuk
Developer: Forest City Ratner
Completed: 2011

AE Interest: 76 stories with steel paneled facades, complex geometry, contains hospital as well as an elementary school below the residential tower.
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Building: Nanjing Museum of Art & Architecture
Location: Nanjing
Status: Under Construction
Client: Nanjing Foshou Lake Architecture and Art Developments Ltd
Designer: Stephen Holl
Structural Engineer: Guy Nordenson and Associates
Lighting Design: L’Observatoire International

AEInterest: Galleries composed primarily of cantilevered walkways. Full story box truss above a rammed earth base.

  
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Building: Sagrada Familia
Location: Plaça de la Sagrada Família, Mallorca, 401, 08013 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Completion: 2026
Architect: Antoni Gaudi
Structural Engineer: Antoni Gaudi

AEInterests: Parabolic and catenary arches, Gothic structure, interior constructed of reinfoced concrete.

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Project: Oyster on Walsall Waterfront
Location: 10 Wolverhampton Street, Walsall, WS2
Start: July 2008
Current status: On site
Completion: December 2011 [phase 1]
Architect/s: SMC Alsop, shedkm, Grant Associates
Key consultants: Adams Kara Taylor [Structural Engineers], Max Fordham [M&E], DBK Back [QS]
Partners: Advantage West Midlands, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council, Walsall Regeneration Company
Planning authority: Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council
Developer: Urban Splash
Size: 50,000 sq ft [phase 1]

AE Interests: Re-purposed land; Improvements to canal-side environment; glass panel facade

Building: National Arena Scotland
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Architect: Foster + Partners
Completion: Under Construction
Structural Engineer: ARUP
Client: Scottish Exhibition Centre Ltd

AE Interests: Will be the largest indoor arena in Scotland, translucent material allows light to exit at night, steel roof that spans 120 meters.

  
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Building: The Absolute Towers
Location: Mississauga, Canada
Completion: Under Construction
Architect: MAD ltd
Structural Engineers: SIGMUND, SOUDACK & ASSOCIATES INC.
Mechanical & Electrical Engineers: ECE Group
Landscape Architects: NAK Design

AE Interests: Each level is rotated at different degrees from the level immediately below it, goal is to provide each residential unit a full 360 degree view, balcony is continuous on each level around entire building

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Building: Cidade da Musica
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Completion: 2011
Architect: Atelier Christian de Portzamparc
Structural engineering: BETON Engenharia

AE Interests: Acoustics, 1800 seat music hall that converts into 1300 seat opera hall, concrete walls 30m high

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Project: Orange County Great Park Renovations
Location: Irvine, California
Architect: TEN Arquitectos
Landscape Architect: Mia Lehrer
Landscape Engineer: Pat Fuscoe

Awards: AIA’s 2009 Institute Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design
Status: Under construction

AE Interests: large outdoor amphitheater, active man-made canyon, botanical garden in passage way, metropolitan park of the 21st century

Project: Visual & Performing Arts Library
Location: Intersection of Flatbush Ave & Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, Kings, New York 11217 (small triangle of land)
Status: Under Construction
Architects: TEN Arquitectos
Mech/Electrical/Plumbing Engineers: ARUP
Structural Engineer: Guy Nordensen and Associates/Robert Silman Associates
Client: Brooklyn Public library (BPL)

AE Interests: irregular ‘V’ shape for pedestrian fluidity, houses studios & performance spaces and a black box theater, horizontally layered planes, public mixed use areas & courtyards, “reinforcing urban interconnections…and dissolving distinctions between interior and exterior spaces”-Norten

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Building: Brauerei Liesing
Location: 23rd Viennese District Liesing, Vienna, Austria
Completion: estimated 2011
Project Architect: Helmut Holleis
Planning: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Client: ARWAG Bautrager Gasellschaft

AEInterest: transitions from enclosed to open space, snake-shaped structure, a built urban landscape, green spaces

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Building: Docks De Paris
Location: 70 Avenue République, Paris, France 75011
Status: First elements opened in 2008
Architect: Jakob + Macfarlane
Curtain Wall Facade: Rice Francis Ritchie
Lighting: Yann Kersale
Landscape: Michel Desvignes

AEInterests: External skin covers the existing building, glass covered steel tube structure, wooden decks and grass areas on roof
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Structure: Market Hall
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands [Advancements can be seen at Blaak Market]
Completion: 2014
Architect: MVRDV
Co-architect: INBO, Netherlands
Structural Engineer: D3BN/ DHV, The Hague, Netherlands: Maurice Hermens

AEInterests: Sustainable combination of food, leisure, living and parking; shaped by arch of apartments; interior of arch covered in lcd technology; flexible suspended glass facade.

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Project: The Danish Maritime Museum
Location: Elsinore, Denmark
Architect: BIG
Collaborators: Alectia, Rambol, Freddy Madsen Engineering, Kossman Dejong
Completion: 2011

AE Interest: Located in and around (underground) a decommissioned dry dock, museum gets consistently deeper underground from entrance, series of bridges spanning the dry dock

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Building: Trinity Place
Location: 1188 Market Street, San Francisco, California
Status: Under Construction
Architect: Arquitectonica
Structural Engineer: Magnusson Klemencic Associates
General Contractor: Cannon Constructors, Inc.

AE Interests: three phase construction, six building complex, mixed-use: retail, residential, park, dining; pre-cast concrete exterior walls, concrete structure, courtyard

Building: Taekwondo Park
Location: Muju, Korea
Completion: expected 2015
Architect: WEISS/MANFREDI
Construction: Samoo Architecture PC

AE Interests: Topography, bringing together landscape and Taekwondo

Articles:
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Building: Tori Tori Restaurant
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Completion: 2010
Architect: Rojkind Arquitectos
Structural Engineer: Juan Felipe Heredia
Construction: ZDA Desarrollo + Arquitectura (Yuri Zagorin)

AEInterest: two-layer steel lattice facade, complex geometries

Building: Greenland central Plaza
Architect: Skidmore Owings & Merrill
Completion: In construction as of Spring 2010
Location: Nanchang, China

AE Interests: Uses Parametric Modeling Software. Office Buildings, with observation deck at top. Derived from studies of molten metal. 300 meters tall. Con-caved Facades.

Project: Military History Museum (new extension)
Location: Olbrichtplatz 201076 Dresden, German
Expected Completion: 2010
Architect: Daniel Libeskind AG
Structural Engineer: GSE Ingenieur-Gesellschaft mbh

AE Interests: 140 ton glass, concrete, and steel, composite steel beam construction, transparent glass (spans up to 14.0 m)

Building: Hotel Full Moon
Location: Baku, Azerbaijan
Completion: Under Construction [started in 2008]
Architect: Heerim Architects

AE Interests: Curved façade creates spherical illusion, “Death Star” hole provides some solution to wind pressure problems.

Building: The Pinnacle (formerly Bishopsgate Tower)
Status: Completion expected 2012.
(As of mid February 2011, the core has reached floor 9 (45 meters) and is now clearly visible from the site’s immediate vicinity) (ref.)
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)
(KPF split in Sept 2009 – the original project team is now PLP Architecture)
Structural, Acoustics, Security and Access Engineer: Arup
Services Engineer: Hilson Moran
Main Contractor: Brookfield Multiplex
Cost Consultant and Project Manager: Davis Langdon
Façade Consultant: Emmer Pfenninger Partner AG
Specialist Lighting: Speirs and Major
Façade Access and Maintenance Consultant: REEF
Lift consultant: Jappsen Ingenieure from Berlin

AE Interests: parametric design process, Generative Components software, complex geometry, photovoltaics, wind-testing at pedestrian canopy.

“The building will contain more photovoltaic solar cells than any other building in the UK with 2,000 square metres of panelling generating up to 200 kilowatts of electricity. It will also have a double-layered skin like the Gherkin which reduces energy consumption, and just to make it a bit less expensive as £1 billion is quite a bit, all the panels in the facades will be the same size.”(ref.)

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Building:  Olympic Aquatic Center, 2012 Summer Olympics
Location: Stratford, London, UK
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Structural Engineer: Arup
Services Engineer: Arup
Construction: Balfour Beatty
Roof Completed August 2009
Building Completed 2011

AE Interests:  2012 London Summer Olympics, Complex Geometry, large-span (3 supports), Olympic Mode (w/stands) and Legacy Mode, Steel Roof Fan-Truss Structure, Software Process Maya to Rhino to Revit. Underside of roof will be red louro timber. Roofing is standing seam metal.
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Building: Hyatt at Capital Gate
Location: Abu Dhabi
Completion: 2011
Architect: RMJM Architects
Project Director: Tony Archibold

AE Interests: This 35-story, 200-room, five-star hotel is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “World’s Most Inclined Tower”, leaning 18º, four times farther than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The structure is supported by a pre-cambered reinforced concrete core. The specialized foundation is comprised of nearly five hundred 100-foot piles and a 7-foot deep reinforced concrete base. The facade consists of a diagrid exoskeleton (one of the few in the world) made of interlocking diamond-shaped glass panels.

Building: Masdar Headquarters
Location: Masdar City, United Arab Emirates (outside Abu Dhabi)
Status: Under construction
Architects: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
MEP engineers: Environmental Systems Design
Structural engineers: Thornton Tomasetti

AE Interest: Energy-positive building (creates more energy than it consumes), 11 heat chimneys, natural ventilation, natural day-lighting, world’s largest solar panel array (1.4million sf), integrated wind turbines. Roof is built first to power construction of the building. $300million estimated cost.

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Name: OVO (Hilton Wroclaw)
Location: Wroclaw, Poland
Client: Wings Properties
Completion: 2016
Architect: Gottersman Szmelcman Architecture
Architect of Record: Broadway Malyan Polska
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold
Building System Engineer: Buro Happold

AE Interests: form, located in a regeneration area, acrylic polymer facade, glass fiber reinforced gypsum

Building: Ryugyong Hotel
Location: Pyongyang, North Korea
Under Construction: 1987-1992 (on hold since 1992)
Architect: Baikdoosan Architects & Engineers
Contractor: Baikdoosan Architects & Engineers

AE Interests: This 105 story skyscraper is currently being constructed with reinforced concrete and covered in mirrored glass and is the largest structure in the country. The structure consists of three wings, each measuring 330 feet long and sloped at 75° angle which meet to form the pinnacle. 

Building: Aqua Tower
Location: 200 block of North Columbus Drive, Chicago, Illinois
Completion: 2009
Architect: Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang Architects
Structural Engineer: Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Developer: Magellan Development Group
Architect of Record: Loewenberg & Associates

AE Interests: This 82-story, 859 feet, mixed use residential/office skyscraper has cantilevered balconies out as far as 12 feet; these terrace extensions maximize solar shading. The irregularly-shaped concrete slabs give an undulating characteristic to the façade. The lower portion of the Aqua is home to Chicago’s largest green roof. Aqua is seeking LEED certification

Expected completion date: November 2010
Owner: City of Irving/Irving Convention and Visitors Bureau
Owners Project Manager: Beck Group
Architect: RMJM Hillier Architecture
Construction Manager: Austin Commercial
Structural Engineer: Datum Engineers
MEP Engineer: Vanderweil
Civil Engineer: Jacobs Carter Burgess
Operators: SMG Worldwide

AE interests: Complex steel structure as well as pier foundation system.  Some of the spans are in excess of 150 feet.  The main convention floor is spanned by a combination of 3 catenery trusses and one arch truss that are approximately 1 1/2 stories, extending into the partitions walls of the third floor. The concept is a box on top of a box with the upper level rotated approximately 20 degrees.  Additionally, the terrace on the second level over the main entrance is supported by two cantilevered trusses.  The skin of the building is a combination of glass and perforated copper.

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Building: Tate Modern 2 – addition to the Tate Modern
Architect: Herzog & de Meuron
Completion expected: 2012
Structural and facade engineering: Ramboll Whitbybird (new name Ramboll UK)
Mechanical and electrical engineers: Max Fordham LLP
CDM coordination: Cyril Sweett
Construction management: Mace
Project manager: Gardiner & Theobald
Cost Consultants: Davis Langdon

AE Interests: complex form, perforated brick facade.

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Project: 20 Fenchurch (nickname: The Walkie Talkie)
Location: 20 Fenchurch, London, U.K.
Completion: 2014
Architect: Rafael Viñoly
Structural Engineers: Halcrow Yolles
Cost Estimating: Davis Langdon
Access Consultant: Buro Happold Consulting Engineers PC

AE Interest: Skyscraper, construction in urban London, double and triple glazed panelized aluminum cladding.

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Building: Castle House
Location: London, U.K.
Status: in progress – wind turbines being fabricated October 2009
Architect: Hamiltons Associates
Engineer: WSP Group

AE Interests: 3 large wind-turbines at top of tower, alternative energy, sustainability.

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Building: 1 Dubai
Location: Jumeirah Garden City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Status: project cancelled in 2009
Architect: Adrian Smith + Gorden Gill Architecture & Meraas

AE Interest: three skyscraper towers, 3280 ft. tall, tripedal base called a saddle, extra support from sky bridges

Building: Zlota 44
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Expected completion: 2010
Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Developer: Orco and CEO Jean-François Ott

AE Interests: 192m tall luxury apartment building; sweeping glass facade and bending walls; sun terrace; designed to high level of sustainability; thermal efficiency; natural ventilation

  
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Building: W Hotel
Location: Austin, Texas: 200 Lavaca Street (Block 21)
Completion expected: 2010
Design Architect: Andersson-Wise Architects
Structural: Thornton Thomasetti
MEP: JJA
Executive Architect: BOKA Powell
Contractor: Austin Commercial

AE Interest: Concrete structure, mixed-use: new Austin City Limits studio location, luxury hotel and residential.

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Building: King Abdulla Financial District Parcels 3.04 and 3.05
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Expected Completion: 2011
Design Build Contractor: El Seif Engineering

Building: King Abdulla Financial District Parcels 2.09, 2.14, 4.07, and 4.08
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Expected Completion: 2011
Design Build Contractor: Saudi Binladin Group
Architect: FX – FOWLE
Structural Design: Buro Happold
Building System Design: Buro Happold

AE Interest: LEED, Environmental Modeling Analysis, Natural Lighting, Solar Shading, Fast Track, Design-Build

Building: King Abdullah Financial District Hotel
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Expected Completion: 2011
Architectural Design: Goettsch Partners
Contractor: Saudi Oger Ltd.
Developer: Rayadah Investment Co.

AE Interests: LEED accredited, large opening

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Click here for timelapse videos of the construction: aerial, columns.

Building: Kimbell Museum Addition
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Architect of Record: Kendall/Heaton Architects
Structural Engineer: Guy Nordenson and Associates
Local Engineer: BDD BrocketteDavisDrake
Construction: H.C. Beck Group
Construction from 2010-2012

AE Interest: 104′ span laminated douglas-fir beams, Cast concrete walls, steel/glass roof, underground, context, approach/entry sequence, expressed structure/detail.

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Building: Masdar City
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Completion Expected: 2016
Architect: Foster + Partners

AE Interest: Carbon-neutral, Zero-waste