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Building: Nouveau Stade (New Stadium)
Location: Bordeaux, France
Architect: Herzog and de Meuron
Structural Engineer: Cabinet Jaillet-Rouby
Mechanical Engineer: Egis Batiments Sud Quest
Client: ADIM Sud-Quest
To Be Completed: late 2015 (broke ground in April 2015)

AE Interests: “forest” of white columns, surrounded by bright green lush vegetation, it is a huge volume that contrasts the elegant, monumental, graceful appearance, combines functionality with unique identity, won the 2010-2011 contest for new soccer stadiums

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Building: Towers Aillaud
Location: Paris, France
Architect: Emile Aillaud
Completed: 1977

AE Interests: the shape is a “superpostion” of cylinders, paintings on facades represent clouds in the sky, 18 total buildings and 1,607 total apartments, low income housing, curvilinear form

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Building: Cheonggyecheon Stream Restoration Project
Client: Seoul Metropolitan Government
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Completion: 2011
Architect: SeoAhn Total Landscape
Civil Engineer: Cheongsuk Engineering
Contractor: Daelim, LG Construction, Cheil Engineering

AE Interest: Conversion of old highway back into a river, artificial river half the year, new public space

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Building:  Seoul City Hall
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Client: Seoul Metropolitan Government
Architect: IArc Architects – Yoo Kerl (HYerlink to firm)
Structural Engineer: Arup & Partners
MEP Engineer: HANA Consulting and Engineers

AE Interest: Promote public space, triangular windows create the illusion of curved glass, solar shading, worlds largest green wall, geothermal heating and cooling system, perforated floor to absorb thermal energy.

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Building: GT Tower East
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Client: Garak Construction
Architect: Consort Architects–  Peter Couwenbergh / Edgar Bosman
Structural Engineer: Hankil Architects & Engineers, Seoul, South Korea
Mechanical Engineer: Hankil Architects & Engineers
Contractor: Daelim Industries
Completed: 2011
Building height: 130 meters

AE Interest: Structural slabs offset on each floor, glass facade to mimic wave motion, optical illusion, light as a decoration, architectural unit with a GT Tower West, solar panels,

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Building: Palazzo Lombardia
Location: Milan, Italy
Architect: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
MEP Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners
General Contractor: Consorzio Torre
Completion: 2011
Height: 161 m
Stories: 39

AE Interests: curved glass facades, enclosed urban space covered with transparent Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) film, climate walls, geothermal heat pump system connected to an underground river, photovoltaic panels laminated into the south façade.

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Building: Kraanspoor Office Building
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Architect: OTH Architecten
Structural Engineer: Aronsohn Raadgevende Ingenieurs, Rotterdam
Mechanical Engineer: Huygen Installatie adviseurs, Rotterdam
Contractor: Contractors combination MJ de Nijs en Zn, Warmenhuizen / Bot Bouw, Amsterdam
Project Team: 1
Completion: 2007

AE Interests: Pre-existing craneway used as a foundation, Lightweight steel construction, hollow infra+ floor system, curtain wall facade, glass building, cantilevered building

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Building: The Wave / Block 16
Location: Koetsierbaan, Almere, The Netherlands
Architect: Rene van Zuuk Architekten
Structural Engineer: Pieters Bouwtechniek Delft b.v.
Mechanical Engineer: Loodsluis b.v.
Contractor:   Dura Vermeer Bouw Hengelo b.v.
Project Team
Completion: 2005

AE Interests: Tunnel formwork, wavy facade surface, silver-colored anodized aluminum cladding facades

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Building: La Defense Offices
Location: Almere, Netherlands
Architect: UN Studio
Structural Engineer: JVZ Ingenieurs
Contractor: Hegeman Bouwgroep
Completion: 2004

AE Interests: variegated mirror film curtainwall, aluminum plating, silver glass

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Building: Funen Blok K Verdana
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Architect: NL Architects
Structural Engineers: Ingenieursbureau Zonneveld bv
Mechanical Engineers: Sweegers en de Bruin bv
Building Physics: Cauberg Huygen
Contractor: IBC Woningbouw Amersfoort bv
Completion: 2009

AE Interests: Green roof, elastic building bay, modern residences

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Building: Garden Santa Fe
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Architect:  KMD Arquitectos, Arquitectoma
Construction Engineer: Grupo COPRI
Deep: 35 meters
Completed: 2014

AE Interest: crystal cones designed with photovoltaics, natural light, tempered glass, 35 meters deep, 8000 m² garden, 1600 parking spots, concrete structure, won “Project of the Year 2014” Award

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Building: Ipera 25
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Architect: Alatas Architecture & Consulting
Completion: 2011
Structural: Peter Bauer
MEP: Baray Heat Systems, Bordo Engineering
General Contractor: Ipera Group

AE Interests: Responds to sunlight/climate with natural air circulation and glass facade covered by wooden shell.

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Building: Centro Roberto Garza Sada de Arte (Gate of Creation)
Location: Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Architect: Tadao Ando
Masterplanner: Page Southerland Page
Structural Engineer: WSP Cantor Seinuk
Landscape: PEG Office
LEED Consultant: Spizle Group
Project Management: Lend Lease
Contractor: Constructora Garza Ponce
Completion: 2012

AE Interest: First building in Latin America by Tadao Ando, LEED Silver

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Building: Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
Location: 610 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Completed: November 2007
Architect: Krueck & Sexton Architects
Associate Architect: VOA Architects
Structural Engineers: Tylk, Gustafson, Reckers, Wilson, Andrews
MEP Engineer: Environmental Systems Design
General Contractor: W.E. O’Neil

AE Interests: folded glass façade, window wall built from 726 individual pieces of glass in 556 different shapes, high-efficiency air filtration, LEED Silver

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Building: Place of Remembrance
Location: Lima, Peru
Architects: Barclay & Crousse
Structural Engineer: Ing. Raul Rios
Contractor: ALTESA
Project Year: 2013

AE Interests: In memory of Peru’s recent violent past during the 1980’s. Form integrated into surrounding landscape, floor made from materials of the cliffs, designed to protect from noise pollution by creating openings near cliff walls, envelope material is prefabricated reinforced concrete panels with cobbles. Rectilinear and angular form.

Coordinates: -12.110053, -77.053789

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Building: PUCP Engineering and Science Classroom Building
Location: Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima, Peru
Architects: Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos
Construction Team: Proyecta

Project Year: 2014

AE Interests: seismic isolation system, cast concrete walls, LEED Gold, post-tensioned slabs, rectilinear form

Coordinates: -12.072369, -77.080169

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Building: PUCP Science, Engineering, and Architecture Library
Location: Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima, Peru
Architects: Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos
Construction Team: Proyecta
Project Year: 2014

AE Interests: red pigmented concrete walls, large vertical spaces, rectilinear and angular form

Coordinates: -12.072100, -77.080265

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Building: Cicada
Location: Taipei City, Taiwan
Architect: Marco Casagrande
Project Managers: Delphine, Peng Hsiao-Ting / JUT Group
Completed: 2011

AE Interests: cocoon-like structure, crisscrossed woven bamboo strips that allows for small holes to filter in light, surrounded by broken rocks and concrete that turn into a pathway to the entrance all within a small grass space, central fireplace underneath an aperture in the roof, the structure is meant to be an organic void in a highly urban area, small benches throughout the structure, other materials used are broken glass steel, earth

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Building: HAUS Santa Fe
Location:  Mexico City, Mexico
Architect: De Yturbe Arquitectos S.C & Orozco Arquitectos
Construction Company: Grupo Deptos
Completion: 2006

AE Interests: 120 meters (341.69 ft), aluminum skin, reinforced concrete and glass, curtain wall facade system, 40 seismic designed to withstand an earthquake of 8.5 on the Richter Scale.

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Building: Liverpool Altabrisa, also known as Tienda Departamental Altabrisa (Department Store)
Location: Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
Architect: Iñaki Echeverria
Structural Design: Ingeniería Estructural Aplicada
Precast Concrete: ARQme / FAPRESA
Completion: 2012

AE Interest: concrete structure, façade from 5 different types of precast pieces shaped like propeller blades, heights of blades varies between 16 to 20 meters.

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Building: Torre BBVA Bancomer (BBVA Bancomer Tower)
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Architect: LegoRogers, (Legorreta + Legorreta and Rogers Stirk Harbour)
Structural Engineer: Arup, Grupo Colinas de Buen
Construction Engineer: Turner with local partner Marhnos Engineering & Construction
M+E design: Arup
HVAC Engineer: DYPRO
Lighting Engineer: Fisher Marantz Stone
Cost Consultant: INPROS
Height: 781 ft, 52 floors above ground, 7 below
Completion: To be completed by late 2015, started on 2010

AE Interest: LEED Gold, sky gardens every ninth floor, geometry of the exterior shading used to create a lattice design protecting the façade from sunlight and heat while optimizing natural daylight.

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Building: Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Architect: Oscar Neimeyer
Completion: 1996
Structural Engineer:Bruno Contarini
Lighting: Peter Gaspar

AE Interests: winding slabs, radial structure, prestressed concrete, triplex glass plates, reflecting pool at base to give feeling of lightness

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Building: Leblon Offices
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Architect: Richard Meier & Partners Architects
Completion: 2011-2015
Client: VINCI Partners

AE Interests: louvres for shade, illuminated glass bridge, white aluminum and glass, rough concrete exposure, LEED Silver

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Building: Museu de Arte do Rio
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Architect: Bernardes + Jacobsen Arquitetura
Structural Engineer: Cerne-Engenharia e Projetos, GOP- Gabinete de Organização e Projectos
MEP: ADDAGE Engenharia e Planejamento
Management: Engineering Construção
General Contractor: Concrejato

AE Interests: undulated concrete canopy, suspended catwalk connecting the two buildings, translucent glass facade, pilotis, public square for displaying sculptures between two buildings

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Building: ArtScience Museum
Location: 10 Bayfront Ave, Singapore
Completion: 2011
Design Architect: Moshe Safdie & Associates
Associate Architect: Aedas Pte Ltd
Sturctural/Civil Engineers: Arup
MEP Engineers: L&K Engineering Co., Ltd
Steel Fabricator: Yongnam Engineering and Construction
Construction: Penta-Ocean Construction Co., Ltd.

AE Interests: Inspired by a lotus flower, intricate steel structure, polymer skin is similar to material on boats, rainwater and light can seep through an oculus into an internal pond, and the rainwater can be filtered for use throughout the museum.

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Building: Reflections (Complex)
Location: Keppel Bay View, Singapore
Completion: 2011
Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Architect of Record: DCA Architects
Structural/Civil Engineers: T.Y. LIN International
Landscape Architect: Hargreaves Associates + Sitetectonix
MEP Engineers: Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner S.E. Asia
Contractor: Woh Hup

AE Interests: Composed of six uniquely-shaped high-rises linked by sky bridges, highlighted by their double curvature with tapering sides, use of reinforced concrete in structural systems, and gardens are located the top of the towers.

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Building: Jinbocho Theater
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Status: Completed 2007

AE Interests: maximize column-free interior space with a light structural frame composed of anti-seismic panels, external heat insulating skin; 5 floors, the main theater being on the first; minimal thickness of reinforced concrete for acoustic control;

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Building: K-Museum
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Status: Completed 1996, closed to the public but viewable from outside
Architect: Makoto Sei Watanabe

AE Interests: Use of both physical miniature models and CAD images using a 3D scanner; simple, abstract forms part of a complex whole; direction gives sense of movement; aluminum and stainless steel panels on exterior, reflective surface; interior walls are made of two acrylic sheets with aluminum honeycomb in between, called “Acry honeycomb”; completed as part of a wave of construction in the new “Tokyo Waterfront City” Odaiba, but closed when the economic bubble burst

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Building: Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower University
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Status: Completed 2008
Height: 203.65 m (second tallest education building in the world
Architect: Tange Associates
Structural Engineering: Arup
Mechanical Engineering: Kenchiku Setubi Sekkei Kenkyusho
General Contractor: Shimizu Corporation

AE Interests: steel and reinforced concrete, covered with a skin of glass and aluminum parts network; accommodates approximately 10,000 students across the three vocational schools: fashion, information and technology, and medical welfare; 50 floors of three rectangular classroom areas, rotating 120 degrees, arranged in a curvi-linear form around the inner core; inner core consists of elevators, staircases and shafts; three-story student lounges located between the classrooms, facing three directions: east, southwest and northwest; a co-generation system installed within the building produces about 40% of the structure’s power and thermal energy, which reduces greenhouse gas emissions and increases efficiency; elliptic shape allows for even distribution of sunlight, limiting heat radiation to the surrounding area, and aerodynamically disperses strong wind streams

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Architect: Foster & Partners
Completion Date: Undecided

Details: Recently approved, team yet to be assembled.
1500 seat theater, Rehearsal Rooms, Restaurant on the 15th floor, Exhibition Hall, School of Performing Arts with a special block for children and one for adults, which has a library, video library, listening room, computer center, auditorium for 300 people, cafes and classrooms and trials for up to 1500 students

AE Interests: Translucent skin, cantilevers, combination steel and concrete structure, multifunctional purpose

    
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Architects: Plan B Arquitectos
Location: Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia
Project Architects: Felipe Mesa, Federico Mesa
Project Area: 4500.0 m2
Project Year: 2012
Construction: Acecuma Constructores LTDA

AE Interests: Double skin of metal and glass, six cantilever rooms on main facade, room sized glazing

  
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Building: Memory, Peace and Reconciliation Center
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Competition Architects: Santiago Fonseca G, José Vallejo C.
Project Development Architects : Santiago Fonseca G., Jose Vallejo C., Manuela Guzman, Mateo Cely
Project Supervision Architects: Santiago Fonseca G, Mateo Cely
Structural Engineer: Nicolás Parra
Hydraulic Engineer: Jorge Granados 

Ingeniero
Acoustics: Daniel Duplat
Mechanical Engineering: Alvaro Tapias y Cia

AE Interests: Underground concrete structure, reflecting pools supported on top of the structure, perforated exterior walls

 
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Building: Los Nogales School Chapel
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Design Architect: Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos
Chair Design: Lorenzo Castro
Completion: 2002
Construction: Jaime Pizzaro

AE Interests: Concrete structure, exterior walls can open to outside to increase capacity

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Building:Polur Rock Climbing Hall
Location: Polour, Mazandaran, Iran
Architect: New Wave Architecture (Lida Almassian/Shahin Heidari)
Client:Development and Maintenance of Sports Facilities
Area: 4500 sqm.
Design Approved: 2012
Status: Under Construction

AEInterests: Connection between climbers and the surrounding landscape, fragmented mass invites nature, white fiber cement panels, steel moment resisting frames, tubular trusses transmit loads, geological process inspired shape

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Building: Apartment No. 1
Location: Mahallat, Markazi, Iran
Architect: Architecture by Collective Terrain (AbCT)
Structural Engineer: Reza Mehdizadeh
Mechanical Engineer: Ehsan Mehdizadeh
Contractor: Mehdi Mehdizadeh
Completion: 2010

AEInterests: recycled stone from stone cutting plant, recycled doors from the area, wooden shutters control heat and light

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Building: Vali-Asr Commercial Office Building
Location: Vali-Asr, Tehran, Iran
Architect: Abbas Riahi Fard and Farinaz Razavi Nikoo of RYRA Studio
Structural Engineer: Houman Farrokhi
Mechanical Consultant: Mohammad Reza Zomorrodi, Behrooz Noori
Electrical Consultant: Abbas Ahmadi, Amir Hossein Azmayesh
Contractor: Problem Company
Area: 1100.0 sqm
Project Year: 2009

AEInterests: facade as the “city skin”, Brazilian white marble, black Nadjafabad marble, contrasting interior and exterior color scheme

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Building:  High Court of Justice and Supreme Court
Location: Madrid, Spain
Architect: Foster + Partners
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold
Client: Comunidad de Madrid
Appointment: 2006

AE Interests: Building communities, full height atrium, glass and steel façades allowing for transparency yet minimize unwanted solar gain

     
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Building: Museum at the China Academy of Art
Location: Hangzhou, China
Architect: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Structural Engineer: Konishi Structural Engineers
Mechanical Engineer: P.T. Morimura & Associates, Ltd.
Completed 2014

AE Interests: cross-sections that blend in with the mountain slope, facade incorporates recycled clay tiles and stones from old houses in the area

     
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Building: Shanghai Houtan Park
Location: 2010 Shanghai Expo Park, Shanghai, China
Architect: Turenscape (Beijing Turen Design Institute)
Construction: Shanghai Landscape Construction Company
Completed 2010

AE Interests: built on a brownfield of a former industrial site, flood control, ecological restoration, reclaimed industrial structures and materials

  
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Building: Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral
Location: Santiago, Chile
Architects: Cristian Fernandez Arquitectos, Lateral Arquitectura & Diseno
Structural Engineering: Luis Soler P & Asociados
Area: 44000.0 sqm
Project Year: 2010

Interest: “Materials include weathering steel, reinforced concrete in sight, glass, steel, and wood. Weathering steel (with holes) creates a visual link between past, present, and future (Article 1).”

   
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Building: School of Economics and Business Diego Portales University
Location: Santa Clara, Huechuraba, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Architects: Rafael Hevia, Rodrigo Duque Motta, Gabriela Manzi
Structures: Luis Soler P. & Asociados
Project Area: 16644.0 m2
Project Year: 2013

Interests:  To reduce solar impact on the building, the design included central voids for indirect sunlight, reflective glass filtering light through highly controlled openings on walls, concrete lattice with vegetation shading corridors and classrooms, and a roof garden that provides thermal insulation and humidity during the hottest months.
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Building: Foro Boca
Location: Boca Del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico
Architects: Rojkind Arquitectos
Project Arquitect: Michel Rojkind
Acoustic Consultant: Auerbach Pollock Friedlander
Structural Engineer: EMRSA
Project Year: 2014

AE Interests: The most sophisticated concert hall in the country, concert hall for audience of 850, other theatrical spaces for dance and solo performances.

  
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Building: Parque Biotecnológico del Pacífico
Location: Culiacan Rosales, Sinaloa, Mexico
Architect: Tatiana Bilbao
Project Year: 2012

AE Interests: space for both student research and corporate offices. Shifted levels that provide shade to the lower levels, underground parking garage.

 
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Building: Orquideorama
Location: Medellin, Colombia
Architect: Plan B Arquitectos
Project Architects: Felipe Mesa , Alexander Bernal

AE Interests: serves as a botanical garden, interconnected modular structures,  wooden structure allows for sunlight to come through, plants are sustained by rainwater collected by the petals.

  
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Building: Suites Avenue Hotel
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Architect: Toyo Ito
Project Architect: Makoto Fukuda
Completion: 2009

AE Interests: previously an office building, remodeled into a hotel, 8 mm aluminum facade inspired by Gaudi’s organic shapes, facade added for privacy and masking of the black elevation behind it

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Building: Sancaklar Mosque
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Architect: Emre Arolat Architects
Completion: 2014
Structural Engineer: Balkar Engineering
MEP: Setta Engineer, HB teknik
General Contractor: Sancaklar Foundation

AE Interests: Follows topography, natural lighting, utilizes steel, concrete, and stone.

   
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Building: Alvear Tower
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Design Architect: Oscar Alberto Zurdo
Structural Engineers: Alberto Hugo Fainsterre
Main Contractor: CRIBA
Status: Under Construction
Completion: 2016 (Projected)
Height: 771 feet

AE Interests: tallest residential building in Latin America, second tallest building in South America (behind Gran Torre Santiago)

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Building: Marie – Elizabeth Luders Haus
Architect: Stephan Braunfels
Structural Engineer: SSP Sailer, Stepan & Partner GmbH
Project management: Schüßler-Plan Ingenieurgesellschaft GmbH
Light Engineer: Licht Kunst Licht AG
Facade Consultant: Ingenieurbüro R+R Fuchs

Completion: December,  2003
Cost: 220 million Euros
Area: 65,000 m2

AE Interest: Glass facades, concrete walls, sustainability, low energy usage, renewable energy incorporation, government buildings

    
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Building: Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Architect: Richard Meiers & Partners
Structural Engineer: Brufau, Obiol, Moya & Associats
Contractor: C.O.M.S.A.
Mechanical Engineer: Estudi d’Arquitectura G.L. Francesc Labastida i Azemar

AE Interests: stark contrast to Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, top lit through louvered skylights, entrance through cylindrical gallery, natural light screened by external louvers

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Building: Circa Art Gallery on Jellicoe
Location: Rosebank Johannesburg, South Africa; 2 Jellicoe Ave.
Architects: studioMAS architects + urban design
Structural Engineer: Vela VKE Consulting
Chief Contractor: Murray-Dickson
Project Year: 2009
Size: 3 levels of exhibition space

AE Interests: used as an art gallery and is an attempt at making the actual gallery a part of the art as well, inspired by nature utilizing order with chaos and a unique spiral walkway 360 degrees around the oval-shaped structure

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Building: Vallecas 51
Location: Madrid, Spain
Architect: SOMOS Architects
Structural Engineer: Deroman SL
MEP Engineer:  GD Inco SL
Façade Engineer: Proesga + Gallina.IT Aislux
Constructor: IMASATEC
Completion: 2009
Presented at Architecture Week 2009

AE Interests: Poly-carbonate paneled façade on aluminum substructure creates a sustainable and recyclable skin, Multipurpose building(residential and commercial)

 
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Building: Piazza Garibaldi Subway Station
Location: Piazza Garibaldi, 80142 Naples, Italy
Architects: Dominique Perrault Architecture
Project Manager: Metropolitana di Napoli et Metropolitana de Milano, Naples
Structural Engineer: Bollinger + Grohmann, Francfort
Client: Ti Metropolitana di Napoli, Ing. Giannegidio Silva
Site Area: 59,000 m²
Built Area: 21,000 m²
Completion: 2013

AE Interests: Complex transportation hub. Vast prismatic surface composed of different types of perforated metal in varying densities. Triangular patterns of roof.

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Building: Norton Rose Fulbright Building
Location: Sandton Johannesburg, South Africa; 15 Alice Ln.
Architect: Paragon Architects
Structural Engineer: Sotiralis Consulting Engineers
Mechanical Engineer: Adaptive Resource Engineers
Chief Contractor: Tiber Construction
Facade Contractor: Andrew Riley & Associates
Completion: May 2014
Size: 6 floor basement, 16 story highrise

AE Interests: north and south facades are wrapped in a glass skin of randomly alternating clear, grey, and translucent glass; the east and west facades implement hand-formed aluminium boxes that are set around incised glass lines, due to the abstract patterns and unique surfaces these materials alter dynamically according to light and atmosphere changes; has achieved a Four Star Green Star SA – Office Design rating because of these factors

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Building: Essener Geschichte Archive Building
Location: Essen, Germany
Architect: Ahlbrecht Felix Scheidt Kasprusch
Structural Engineer: SchulkeWiesmann Ingenieur GmbH
Acoustics Engineer: Grand and Partner Ingenieure GmbH
HVAC Engineer: Gertec Ingenieurs

Completion: 2010
Cost: 5 Million Euros
Area: 6700 m2

AE Interest:  Corten steel, natural ventilation, steel facades, additions to historical buildings, archives

   
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Building: Masseria Ospitale Restaurant Coverage
Location: Lecce, Italy
Architect: Gridshell and CMMKM Architettura e Design
Structural Consultants: F. Portioli with B. D’Amico
Completion: 2011

AE Interests: Parametrically modeled, lightweight structure. Semi-coverage through an integrated wood skin system. Use of salvaged and renewable resources, such as wood. Known for its economically and environmentally innovative method. Sustainable design. Complex form, timber gridshell.

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Building: Office Building and Logistic Center
Location: Naples, Italy
Architect: modostudio
Consultants: engineering and coordination; Studio Visone & associati
Contractor: Edilizia Cinquestelle + Canova Prefabbricati
Client: Giorgia & Johns Spa
Site Area: 20,235 m²
Built Area: 13,760 m²
Completion: 2011

AE Interests: Strong and recognizable facade. Main structural envelope made of precast concrete. Faceted reinforced concrete panels with a rhomboidal pattern. Glass curtain wall. Steel frame system and metal sheet plates join concrete panels with main envelope. Glass partitions.

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Building: Spiral Cafe
Location: St Martin’s Square,Bullring, Birmingham, UK
Architect: Marks Barfield
Structural Engineers: Price & Myers 3D Engineering
Completed: 2004

AE Interest: Shell like design, 3D modeled to allow steel plates to be cut, cantilevered structure

  
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Building: Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM) Research Building
Location: Oxford, UK
Architect: MAKE
Structural Engineers: Price & Myers
Contractor: Maceplus
Completion: 2013

AE Interest: Cantilevered timbre staircase, anodised aluminium louvres, full triangular height atrium

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Building: Talca Hotel & Casino
Architects: Rodrigo Duque Motta + Rafael Hevia García-Huidobro
Location: San Miguel 2789-2945, Talca, Maule, Chile
Structural Engineer: Eduardo Valenzuela
Area: 15.0 sqm
Project Year: 2008

Interests: Thermal considerations such as double walls, ventilated façade, roof garden, heightened spaces, and a “free cooling” A/C system which acts by stopping mechanical cooling and injecting exterior air when interior temperature is higher, were taken into account.
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Building: Uber Headquarters
Location: 1455 Third Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Architect: SHoP Architects & Studio O+A
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Geotechnical Engineer: Langan Treadwell Rollo
MEP Engineer: Alfa Tech Engineering
Completion: Expected beginning of 2018

AE Interests: 423,000-square-feet, integrated shops, steel structure, three double-level slanted bridges connecting the two buildings, one rising up 11 stories and the other six stories, glass facade.

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Building Name: National Museum of China
Location: Beijing, China
Architect: gmp International GmbH
Structural Engineer: Schlaich bergermann und partnerm
Area: 191,000 sq meters
Interior Ceiling Height: 27 meters
Project Year: 2010

AE Interest: Traditionally designed for harmony in Tienanmen Square, Large structural columns, Immense cavernous interior,

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Building: Park Tower at Transbay
Location: 250 Howard Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Architects: Goettsch Partners & Solomon Cordwell Buenz
Engineering: Goettsch Partners
Completion: Expected 2018

AE Interests: 605 feet high, 740,000 square feet, LEED Gold Certification, 5,000-square-foot outdoor plaza that connects to retail and the building’s main lobby, floor-to-ceiling glass facade, fritted glass to control transmitted light, solar gain, privacy, and views.

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Building: Salesforce Tower
Location: 415 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli
Production Architecture: Kendall/Heaton Associates Inc.
Structural Engineering: Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Geotech Engineering: Arup
MEP Engineering: WSP
Construction: Clark Construction
Completion: Expected 2018

AE Interests: 1,070 feet tall, 60 stories, when completed it will be the tallest tower in San Francisco, integrated metal sunshades, earthquake engineering, high performance, low-​emissivity glass to help reduce the building’s cooling load, heat-​exchanging coils wrapped around the tower’s foundations, comprehensive water recycling systems, high efficiency air-​handlers will take in fresh air on every floor.

   
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Building: Transbay Transit Center
Location: 150 1st Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Owner: Transbay Joint Powers Authority
Design Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli
Landscape Architect: Peter Walker Partners Landscape Architecture
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Services Engineer: BuroHappold
Construction Management: Turner Construction Company
Engineering Design: Arup
Collaborators: Adamson Associates, WSP Flack + Kurtz
Completion: Expected Fall 2017

AE Interests: 1.5 million square feet, rooftop park, natural ventilation, geothermal regulation, greywater/stormwater reuse, natural lighting, LEED Gold certified. `

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Building: Ryerson University Student Learning Centre
Location: Toronto, Canada
Completed: 2015
Architect: Snøhetta, Zeidler Partnership Architects
MEP Engineer: Crossey Engineering LTD.
Construction Manager: Ellis Don
Lighting Designer: Consullux Lighting Consultants

AE Interest: glass skin creates varying light intensities within the building, LEED silver, half of the roof is dedicated to urban green space

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Building: Costanera Center (Gran Torre Santiago)
Location: Providencia-Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
Architects: Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects / Alemparte Barreda y Asociados
Engineer: Thornton y Tomasetti
Structural Engineer: René Lagos y Asociados Ingenieros Civiles Ltda
Construction Years: 2006-2013

Interests: This is the tallest building in South America. It casts a shadow of over 1 mile long. LEED Gold (Shell and Core) certification in progress. Has a curtain wall façade.
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Building: Sunset Park Materials Recycling Facility
Location: 30th Street Pier of South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT)
Architect: Selldorf Architects
Operated by: Sims Municipal Recycling

AE Interests: LEED Certified, 98 percent of the complex made out of recycled steel; has an education center, classrooms, offices, a theater, and a large outdoor terrace with views to Lower Manhattan as well as a recycling plant; processes and markets more than 200,000 tons of plastic, glass, and metal each year; protection against a rise in sea-level significantly above city requirements; site fill is made from a recycled glass, asphalt, and rock composite.

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Building: The Infinity Centre
Architect: McBride Charles Ryan
Project Architect: Andrew Hayne
Landscape Architect: Oculus
Engineering: ARUP
Type: Educational
Year: 2012

AE Interests: Whole structure like two wings result an infinity symbol to stand for infinite possibilities of learning. Color strategy reinforces the identity of the academic disciplines. use natural materials like timber to stay green.

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Building: Bagnolia Futura Cultural Center
Location: Naples, Italy
Architects: Silvio d’Ascia Architecture
Design Team: Silvio d’Ascia Architecture, ATI Servizi Integrati, IDI
General contractors: SLED SpA with Studio Graziani, Studio Lenzi, Ing. Majorano, Gi.Pi.Gi.
Area: 44,230 m²
Completion: 2011

AE Interests: Steel structural system. Layered facade. Opaque acoustical curtains. Domed structure.

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Building: Town Hall Hotel
Location: London, England, U.K.
Architect: rare architecture
Structural Engineer: O’Connor Sokolowski Partnership
M & E Consultant: Mendick Waring
Contractor: MP Brothers Ltd
Subcontractors and Suppliers: Euroclad (extension and skin), DuPont (coating)
Completion: 2010

AE Interests: laser cut powder coated aluminum skin reduces heat gain and allows for the entry of natural light while preserving the privacy of the hotel rooms, 98-room hotel, bar and restaurant, addition to buildings originally erected in 1910 and 1937

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