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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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Building: 
Welfairytales, Shanghai World Expo Danish Pavilion
Location: 
Shanghai, China
Completed: 
to be completed 2010
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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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

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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

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