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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

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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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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

Location: Oakland, California

Completion: Ongoing

Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

AE Interests: enerygy efficient, diagonal braced frame, spiral form

Location: center of Bahrain Bay

Completion date: 2011

Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

AE Interests: golden metal folden in intricate geometrical patterns, use of technology

  
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Coordinates: 26°14’59 “N 50°34’58″E

Completion: 2009

Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Contractor: Murray & Roberts

AE Interests: sculptural form, use of light

    
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Building: Central Chinese Television Headquarters (CCTV HQ)
Location: 32 E 3rd Ring Road Middle, Chaoyang, Beijing, China
Architects: Rem Koolhaas OMA
Associate Architects and Engineers: ECADI- East China Architecture & Design Institute
Structural Engineers: Arup
Completed 2012

AE Interests: the building is a contiunous loop of vertical and horizontal sections.  Earthquake design, complex angular tower. `
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Building: Oxley Woods
Location: Milton Keynes, England
Completion: Under Construction
Architect: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Manufacturer: Wood Newton Ltd.
Services Engineer: RYBKA

AE Interests: residential, Green building, pre-manufactured
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Building: New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion
Location: New York City, New York
Completion: September 9, 2009 (unveiling)
Architect: UNStudio
Lighting Design and Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection Engineering: Buro Happold

AE Interest: pinwheel shape, programmatic design for its functions
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Building Name: Chiswick Park
Location: London, England
Completion: Under Construction (Present)
Architect: Richard Rogers Partnership
Structural Engineer: Arup
Services Engineer: Arup
Civil Engineer:Laing O’Rourke

AE interests: aluminum solar shading, solar energy/control, natural environment
Awards: RIBA Award (2003), OAS Best Speculative Building Outside Central London (2006), and more
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Building Name: Parc 1, Yeouido
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Completion: Expected Completion 2011
Architect: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (Richard Rogers)
Co-Architect: Samoo Architects & Engineers
Structural Engineer: Arup/DongYang Structural Engineers Co. Ltd
Services Engineer: Arup/HIMEC Consultants

AE interests: skyscraper, structure
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Building: Grand Hyatt Hotel
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Expected Completion: 2009
Architect: UNStudio
Structural Engineer: Bollinger + Grohman
MEP Engineering, Facade Engineering, Fire Safety: Arup

AE Interest: consist of 3 different elevated sections, looks totally different from different directions, 30 hotel floors
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Building: The Museum of Middle Eastern Modern Art (MOMEMA)
Location: Dubai, UAE
Expected Completion: January 2011
Architect: UNStudio

AE Interest: peculiar shape, large spanning windows, intricately designed interior walls, flowing exterior lines
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Building: MahaNakhon
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Status: Expected completion in 2012
Architects: OMA
Structural Engineers: Arup
Facade Engineers: Front, Inc.
Seismic and Wind Engineering: CPI
Construction Manager: Archetype
Project Mgmt (early stage constr):  Archetype
Project Mgmt (final stage): Turner

AE Interests: 77-story high rise, three-dimensional pixels wrap around the entire height of the skyscraper, the skyscraper has the appearance of dissolving into the ground and sky by the use of indoor/outdoor terraces
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Location: 1600 Gendy St, Fort Worth, Texas
Completion: 2009
Architect: Legorreta & Legorreta
Structural Engineer: Datum Engineers
Exibit Design Firm: Bob Weis Design Island Associates

AE Interest: Relation with existing elements on site, sevearal parts of the building interacting with each other, Desing to appeal to children and students, outdoor spaces consisting of a partially flooded terrace and a shadowed garden, cluster of geometric forms including domes, pyramids, diamonds, and rectangles
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Building: Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge
Location: Dallas, Texas
Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Structural Engineer: Calatrava
Completed 2012

AE Interests: Cable-stayed bridge with 1,197′ main span, steel arch 400′ tall, 16′ diameter (25 segments).  Part of the Trinity River Project in Dallas, considered to be the largest urban park in the U.S.

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Building: Waterfront City
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Status: Under Construction
Structural Engineer: Arup

AE Interest: A masterplan of an brand new city/island built from the ground up including rare and fascinating shapes in architecture.
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Building:  The Opus Building
Location:  Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Completion:  2019
Architect:  Zaha Hadid
Project Architect:  Christos Passas
Local Architect:  Arex Consultans
Structural Engineer:  Whitbybird
Mechanical and Electrical Engineer:  Whitbybird
Facade Engineer:  Whitbybird
Fire Engineering:  SAFE

AE Interests:  Extensive use of curved glass in the void, use of lighting to enhance the view of the void at night, three separate buildings made to appear as one
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Location: 
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Architect: BIG
Engineers: Arup

AE Interests: bath, nature playground, bike trail, spiral, interactive building
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Building: Museum of Liverpool
Location: Liverpool, United Kingdom
Completion Due: 2010
Estimated Cost: $117 million
Architects: 3XN and AEW
Engineering: Buro Happold

AE Interests: Features a rainwater harvesting system and will be powered by a Combined Heat and Power plant so as to be more environmentally friendly.
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Building: Samitour Tower
Location: Hayden Ave. and National Blvd., Culver City, California
Completion: 2010
Architect: Eric Owen Moss Architects
Structural Engineer: Arup Los Angeles
Contractor: Samitaur Constructs

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AE Interests: structure, natural ventilation, internal and external uses
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Building: City of Culture of Galicia
Location: Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Date: 1999 – current
Completion planned for 2012
Architect: Peter Eisenman
Project Director: Sandra Hemingway
Structural Engineering: NB 35 SL Ingenieros
Mechanical Engineering: Iturralde y Sagüés Ingenieros / César Martín
General contractor: UTE Arqueología

AE Interests: external façade resembles rolling hills, thousand of custom designed windows, double roof: an inner, waterproof lining and an outer, stone-clad layer that routes heavy rain off the surface and hides roof machinery.
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Building: Putrajaya Waterfront
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Status: Unbuilt
Architect: Studio Nicoletti
Associate Architect: Hijjas Kasturi Associates
Architect of Record: Luca Maugeri, A. Dato’ Shamsir, Amir Hamzah
Façade Engineer: P. Bebington, ARUP
General Contractor: Putrajaya Holdings Ltd.

AE Interests: massive facades, natural ventilation,  bright skin controls daylight in units
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Building: Banyan Tree Corniche Bay
Location: La Gaulette, Mauritius
Completion: 2011
Architect: Foster + Partners Local architect: d’Unienville & Associates Architects Ltd
Structural Engineer: Arup
MEP Engineer: Arup

AE Interests: local, natural, sustainable materials, natural ventilation, solar power
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Building: Cloud Roof Fair Extension
Location: Riva del Garda, Italy
Completion: Unbuilt
Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au

AE Interest: Environmental Design, rendering
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Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
Status: Unbuilt
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects with Patrik Schumacher
Project Architects: Thomas Vietzke, Jens Borstelmann

AE Interests:  digital fabrication methods, intense use of technology to bring to life the fluidity and flow of the building, building envelope
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Building:  Foundation Louis Vuitton
Location:  Paris, France (Jardin d’Acclimatation)
Completed: 2014
Architect:  Gehry Partners, LLP
Consultants: Gehry Technologies
Executive Architect: Studios Architecture
Mep Engineer: Setec Batiment
Lighting: L’Observatoire International / Ingelux
Civil Engineer: Setec Bâtiment
Building Façade Consultant: RFR/TESS
Acoustical Engineer (Base Building): LAMOUREUX
Sustainable Building Consultants: S’PACE / TERAO
General Contractor: VINCI Construction

AE Interests: laminated wood + steel structure, complex form, sustainability

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Location: 166 Perry St., New York, NY
Completion: 2009
Architect: Asymptote Architecture
Developer: Perry Street Development Corporation LLC.
General contractor: J Companies LLC.

AE Interests: Shape-shifting Form, Computer Generated and Laser Cut Forms, Angled Glass Facade
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Location: 400 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL
Expected Completion: construction stopped
Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Architect of Record: Perkins + Will
Structural Engineer: Santiago Calatrava
Structural Engineer of Record: Thornton Tomasetti
MEP: Cosentini Associates
Construction: Case Foundation

AE Interests: twisting 2,000 ft skyscraper, will be tallest building in the US and tallest residential building in the world upon completion
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Updated by Miguel Yapur, June 2020

Building: Penang Global City Center
Location: Penang Turf Club, Panang, Malaysia
Completion: Proposed
Architect: Asymptote Architects
Developer: Abad Naluri, Equine Capital Bhd.

AE Interests: Sustainable Design, Curvilinear Forms, Glass Facade

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Location: Connecticut, USA
Completion: 1999
Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Structural Engineer: Hage Engineering, PC
Mechanical Engineer: P.A Collins, P.E
Civil  Engineer: CCA Engineering, LLC
Lighting Designers: ARUP Lighting
Windows: Steel Windows & Doors USA
Building Science Consultant: Simpson Gumphertz & Heger
Contractor: CN Renovation Co., Inc
Facade Contractor: A. Zahner Compan

AE Interests: Geometry (18 planes, 36 points, 54 lines), interior versus exterior space, “house in the landscape”

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Location: Al Raha Beach, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Expected Completion: Early 2011
Architect: Asymptote Architects
Principal Architects: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture
Structural and MEP Engineer: ARUP
Façade Consultant: Front Inc.
BIM Consultant: Gehry Technologies
Environmental Designers: Atelier Ten

AE Interests: Environmental Sustainability, Louver System, Cantilever (exoskeleton), Curvilinear Form

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Building: Infinity Tower
Location: Dubai Marina, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Completion: 2013
Architect: SOM
Structural Design: SOM
MEP: SOM
Civil: SOM
Contractor: Projacs, CAYAN

AE Interests: structure, twisting structure, curtain wall, solar shading

Updated by Miguel Yapur, June 2020

 
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Building: Dallas City Performance Hall
Location: Dallas, Texas
Completion: 2012
Architect: Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Corgan Associates, Inc
Structural Design: Skidmore Owings and Merrill
Construction: McCarthy
Acoustics: Jaffe Holden
Theater Consultant: Schuler Shook

AE Interests: daylighting, prefabricated exterior concrete walls, intuitive layout, LEED Platinum 2014

Updated by Miguel Yapur, June 2020