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Building: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010
Location: London, England
Complition: July 2010
Dismantled: October 2010
Architect:Jean Nouvel
Structural Engineer: Arup Advanced Geometry Unit
Client: Serpentine Gallery
AE Interest: lightweight materials contasted with metal cantilevered structure, vivid red color, and retractable awnings

Building: Deutsche Post AG head office
Location: Bonn, Germany
Completion: 2002
Architect: Murphy/Jahn
Structural engineer: Werner Sobek Ingenieure
Building physics: Horstmann und Berger
Building services: Brandi Consult
Artificial lighting: L-plan
Climate Engineers: Transsolar

Structure: Kurilpa Bridge
Location: Brisbane Australia
Complition: 2009
Architect: Cox Rayner Architects
Structural Engineers: Arup Advanced Geometry Unit
General Contractor: Baulderstone Queensland Pty Ltd
Clinet: City of Brisbane
AE Interest: advanced geometry, world’s largest tensegrity bridge

Building: Housing and Dining Services Admin Building at the University of California San Diego
Location: La Jolla, California
Completion: 2009
Architect: Studio E Architects
MEP Engineers: Syska Hennessy Group, Inc.

AE Interests: glass facades, LEED certified

Building: Pontiac Silverdome
Location: 1200 Featherstone Road, Pontiac, Michigan 48342
Completion Date: December 6, 1975
Estimated Cost: $55.7 million ($220 million 2010)
Structural Engineer: Geiger Engineers, David H. Geiger

AE Interests: first “permanent” low profile air-supported fabric roof to cover a stadium (very innovative)
Note: roof collapses in 2010 due to heavy snow storm

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Building: TWA Terminal
Location: New York, New York
Completed: 1962
Architect: Eero Saarinen
Consulting Engineer: Kenneth Morris
Contractor: Grove Shepherd Wilson & Kruge
Engineers: Amman and Whitney, Jaros Baum and Bolles

AE Interests: Concrete complex form, thin shell roof.
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Building: Main Station Strasbourg
Location: Strasbourg, France
Completion: 2007
Architect: AREP
Climate Engineers: Transsolar
Structural Engineer: RFR

AE Interest: Glass foyer over existing station

Building: University of Maine Michael Klahr Holocaust Resource Center
Location: Augusta, Maine
Architect: Hon and Wooten
MEP & Lighting Engineers: Syska Hennessy Group, Inc.

AE Interests: complex geometries

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Building: World Cup Stadium
Location: 515-6, Seongsan-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea Republic
Completion Date: November 10, 2001
Estimated Cost: $200 Million
Users: Korea Republic national football team (2001-present), FC Seoul (2004-present)
Capacity: 68,476
Architect: Beyond Space Group Architects
Structural Engineers: Geiger Engineers (responsible for roof canopy), Samsung Engineering Co. Ltd.

AE Interests: The canopy is a unique spatial network of truss members suspended from 16 masts. The canopy structure is clad with a prestressed tensile membrane of PTFE coated fiberglass fabric and polycarbonate glazing resulting in the entire roof being either translucent or transparent.

Building: Pheonix Convention Center
Location: Pheonix, Arizona
Completed: 2008
Architect: HOK Venue Architects
Lighting Engineers: Syska Hennessy Group, Inc.
Construction: Hunt Construction

AE Interest: glass facade, cantilevered roof, architectural lighting design

Structure:  Edutainment Center Klimahaus
Location: Bremerhaven, Germany
Completion: 2009
Architect: Klumpp Architekten und Städteplaner
Climate Engineer: Transsolar

AE Interest: Curved Structural Shell, uses renewable energy, silk screened glass.

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Building: World Trade Center: WTC 1 and 2
Location: New York, USA
Status: Demolished
Architect: Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth & Sons
Architect of Record: Emory Roth and Sons, P.C.
Structural Engineer: Leslie E. Robertson, John Skilling
Contractor: Tishman Realty & Construction Company
Mechanical: Jaros Baum and Bolles
Electrical: Joseph R. Loring & Associates
Foundation: Port Authority Engineering Department

AE Interests: Tube frame structural system, height, early use of prefabricated components.

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Building: Weave Bridge
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Complition: 2009
Architect: Cecil Balmond/Amman and Whitney
Structural Engineer: Arup Advanced Geometry Unit
Project Manager: Brenda Loewen
Client: University of Pennsylvania
AE Interest: advanced geometry, weaving structure

Building: Indiana Convention Center
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Completed: 2010
Architects: Ratio Architects
MEP & Lighting Engineers: Syska Hennessy Group, Inc.
Construction Managers: Shiel Sexton/Powers and Sons

AE Interests: glass facade, cantilevered roof

Building: Water + Life Museums
Completion Time: 2007
Architect: Lehrer Architects and Gangi Architects
MEP engineer: IBE Consulting Engineers

AE Interests: First platinum LEED certified museum, earthworks project, solar installations, heat blocking glass, drip irrigation system

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Project Cost: $80 Million
Completion Date: 1986
Owner: Ministry of Health and Youth Welfare, Saudi Arabia.
Architects: Ian fraser, John Roberts & Partners.
Roof Design and Engineering: Geiger Berger Assoc. P.C.; Horst Berger, Principal-in-charge of design.

Building: Neuapostolische Church
Location:  Zuchwil, Switzerland
Structural Engineer: Conzett, Bronzini, Gartmann AG

Location: Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Project Cost: 18 Million
Completion Date: 1985
Owner: City of Vancouver
Architects: Zeidler Roberts and Partners, Toronto, Canada.
Design Consultants and Structural Engineers for the Roof Structure: Geiger Berger Assoc.P.C.; Horst Berger, Principal-in-charge of design.

Building: MOMA Cullman Education Building
Size: 63,000 sq. feet
Location: 4 West 54th Street, New York, NY, USA
Completed: November 2006
Architect: Yoshio Taniguchi (Taniguchi and Associates)
General Contractor: Structure Tone
Consulting Engineer: Jaros Baum & Bolles
MEP: Severud Associates

AE Interest: Curtain wall, specialized lighting.

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Building: The Frick Collection
Location: New York, New York
Completion: 1914, renovated in early 1930s
Architects: Thomas Hastings and John Russell Pope
Engineer: Syska & Hennessy Engineers, John F. Hennessy

AE Interest: (historic) first fully air conditioned museum in the world

   
Building: Pedro and Ines Footbridge
Location: Coimbra, Portugal
Comletion: 2006
Architect: Cecil Balmond
Structural Engineer: Arup Advanced Geometry Unit
Client: City of Coimbra
AE Interests: dislocated center, asymmetrical structure

The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center For The Performing Arts – Woodlands, Texas, 1990,2009
Original Structure – Horst Berger Partners, Cons. Eng.
Expansion/Renovation – Horst Berger with De Nardis Engineering, LLCand Walter P. Moore

Sebonack G.C. – Club House – Southhampton, NY, 2006
Architect: Hart Howerton, NYC
Engineer: De Nardis Engineering, LLC

Structure: Traversina Foot Bridge II
Location: Viamala, Switzerland
Structural Engineer: Conzett, Bronzini, Gartmann AG– Jürg Conzett

Structure: Punt da Saransuns
Location: Viamala, Switzerland
Structural Engineer: Conzett, Bronzini, Gartmann AG – Jürg
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Building: Virginia Center Canopy
Location: Reno, NV
Date Completed: 2007
Cost: $3 Million
Structural Engineer: Geiger Engineers, David H. Geiger

AE Interests: The 17,000 square foot cable stayed canopy covers an ice rink in winter and a 3,500 seat amphitheater in summer. The iconic structure is supported on 2 freestanding steel towers.

San Diego Convention Center – San Diego, California – 1990
Structural – John A. Martin & Associates, Inc.
Structural for Roof – Horst Berger
Mechanical – Syska & Hennessey
Construction – Perini Construction
Architect – Arther Erikson

    
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Building: One World Trade Center (Freedom Tower)
Location: New York, NY
Architect: SOM
Structural Engineer: WSP Cantor Seinuk
MEP: Jaros Baum and Bolles
MEP Concept, Facade Design, Renewable Energy and Vertical Wind Farm Integration: Battle McCarthy Limited
Completed 2014

AE Interest: Height, increased strength against disaster, BIM and other technology based design.
Tallest building in the U.S. (2013) at 1,776 feet tall.   `

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Building: White Cube Masons Yard
Location: London, UK
Date Completed: 2006
Architect: MRJ Runndell + Associates
Structural Engineer: Atelier One

AE Interests: column-free basement, none of the structure is visible, complex use of trusses

Structure: Antilia (Residence)
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Completion: 2010
Owner: Mukesh Ambani
Architect: Perkins & Will
AEInterest: Vaastu based structural design, curtain wall and applied masonry façade system, hanging garden, helipads, open atrium/terrace, water falls

Building: Des Moines Central Public Library
Location: 1000 Grand Ave, Des Moines, Iowa 50309 MAP
Completion: 2006
Architect: David Chipperfield
Structural Engineer: Jane Wernick Associates
Services Engineer: Arup
General Contractor: The Weitz Company
Facade Consultant: W. J. Higgins & Associates, Inc.
Client: Des Moines Public Library

AE Interests: Glass facade with integrated copper mesh, green roof

Structure: Netherlands Embassy
Location: Klosterstraße 50
Architect: OMA Rem Koolhaas
Engineer: Royal Haskoning + Arup Berlin
Project Management: Royal Haskoning

AE Interests: Odd geometries, load-bearing glass mullions, main path through building is integrated with HVAC

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Building: Salk Institute
Location: 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, MAP
Completed: 1967
Architect: Louis Kahn
Structural Engineer: August Komendant
Landscape Architect: Luis Barragan
Client: Jonas Salk
AE Interests: Vierendeel Truss structure, exposed concrete facade, accentuated concrete design features, research facility
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Building: Oslo Opera House
Completed: 2008
Architect: Snøhetta
Structural Engineer: Reinertsen Engineering ANS
Acoustical Consultant: Brekke Strand Akustikk, Arup Acoustic
Feasibility Design: Jane Wernick Associates
Structural Engineer of Theatrical Equipment: Jane Wernick Associates

AE Interests: Horseshoe shape dof main auditiorium is compromise between acoustics and intimacy. Built on both land and water built on 12,000 m2 of steel sheet piling around perimeter to stabalize foundation

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Building: Nowegian Embassy
Architect: Snøhetta
Structural & MEP Engineers: IGH, Berlin
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: Ragnhild Momrak

AE Interests: Set in pre-existing master plan and building complex. Monumental size of building mimics those characteristic of the fjord mountains in Norway.

Architect: Souto de Moura
Structural Engineer: AFA Associados
Landscape Design: Daniel Monteiro
General Contractor: Soares da Costa/Assoc/Ace
Completion: 2004

AE Interests: Steel cables form canopy which is modelled after acient Peruvian Inca’s suspension bridges. Under the field is a 5,000 square meter plaza to move from one side of the field to the other.

Building: National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion
Location: World Trade Center Site
Architect: Snøhetta
Expected completion: 2011
Structural Engineer: WSP Cantor Seinuk
Mechanical/Electrical Engineer: Jaros Baum and Bolles

AE Interests: Two original steel tridents from the Twin Towers will be enclosed within the Pavilion’s glass atrium.
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Building: Mahler 4 Office Tower
Location: Claude Debussylaan 14a, 1082 MD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Project Status: Completed 2005
Architect: Rafael Viñoly
Structural Engineer: Ingenieursgroep Van Rossum

AE Interests: Design avoids the typical formal structure of base, shaft and crown, associated with traditional high- rise building design. Dynamic design with exterior stair, vertical aluminum mullions. An enclosed two-story patio is protected by a glass roof.

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Building: Miramar Resort Hotel
Locations: Elgouna, Egypt
Associate Interior Architect: Ibrahim Nagy, Cairo Egypt
Architect: Micheal Graves
AE Interests: uses landscape features, brick vaulted, domed ceiling, traditional Egyptian construction, reflected by desert and water

Building: Akron-Summit County Library
Locations: Akron, Ohio
Completion: 2004
Associate Architect: Richard Fleischman Architects,Inc
Architect: Gwathmey Siegel and associations
AE Interests: transparency and light, glass walls, functional, glass facade

Building: Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Location: 260 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Project Status: Completed December 2001
Architect: Rafael Viñoly
Structural Engineers: Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners, in association with Goldreich Engineering, PC
Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing Consultants: Arup
Fire Safety Engineers: Hughes Associates, Inc.
Civil Engineers: Ang Associates
Lighting Design: Claude R. Engle Lighting Consultant
Graphic Design: Wojciechowski Design
Security Consultant: Aggleton & Associates
Geotechnical Engineer: McClymont & Rak

AE Interests: “The building is surmounted by a transparent, folded plate-glass barrel vault that extends the length of the structure and ends on both sides in a colossal glass arch.”

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Building: The Jewish Children’s Museum
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Commissioned: Tziros Hashem
Architect: Gwathmey Siegel and Associations
MEP: Cosentini Associates

AE Interests: exterior geometry, uses different materials for facade
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Building: Lerner Hall Student Center, Columbia University
Location: New York, New York
Structural Engineer: Severud Associates
Completion: 1999
Architect: Bernard Tschumi

AE Interests: Intersecting triangular steel planes create form for criss-crossing glass ramps. Corner bolts keep glass plane transparent.
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Building: Acropolis Museum
Location: Athens, Greece
Completion: 2009
Architect: Bernard Tchumi
Structural Engineering: ADK and Arup
General Contractor: Aktor
AE Interests: Museum contains glass ramp with overlooks archeological excavation. Top portion rotates.

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Building: BLUE Residential Tower
Location: New York City, New York
Completion: Summer 2007
Architect: Bernard Tchumi
Structural Engineering: Thornton Tomasetti
General Contractor: On The Level Enterprises, Inc.
AE Interests: Cantilevers over an existing building. Blue pixilated façades. Urban garden on top of adjacent structure.
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Building: Research Laboratory
Location: Groningen, Netherlands
General Contractor: Heijmans Bouw
Completion: 2008
Architect: UNStudio
AE Interests: Slats placed in bowed forms. Wave shaped walls create open or closed facade dependent upon view point.

Building: Athletics Center, University of Cincinnati
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
General Contractor: Turner
Structural Engineer: THP Limited, Inc.
Completion: 2006
Architect: Bernard Tschumi
AE Interests: Column elements spaced closely in a diagonal pattern creating a grid frame.

Building: Las Arenas
Construction Time: 2000—2006
Client: Metrovacesa
Architect: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Structural Engineer: Expedition Engineering and BOMA
Services Engineer: JG and BDSP
Quantity Surveyor:TG3
Retail Consultant: Sociedad Centros Comerciales España (S.C.C.E)
Main Contractor: ACS
Facade Engineer: Expedition Engineering and BOMA
Acoustic Consultant: BDSP and Audioscan
Cost: £67.2 million
Area: 102,816m²; 46,973m² (Bullring); 5,500m² (Eforum); 50,343m² (Parking)

AE Interest: structurally independent internal “segment”, transformation of redundant bullring, old base excavation and new base insertion for existing walls with composite arches, giant roof terrace with domed roof, and natural energy sources used.
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Building: Communication, Culture, & Technology Building
Location: University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario
Completion: 2004
Architect: Saucier + Perrotte
Structural Engineer: Quinn Dressel
Mechanical & Electrical Engineer: RYBKA, Smith and Ginsler
Landscape & Interiors: Saucier + Perrotte
Contractor: Ellis Don

AE Interests: Serves as a connection to the different environments surrounding it, glazed vertical surface, completely transparent at the ground level, shifted solids throughout the building to increase the flow of the space

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Building Name: Tokyo International Forum
Location: 5-1 Marunouchi 3-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Project Status: Completed May 1996
Architect: Rafael Viñoly

AE Interests: home of the Yurakucho Canopy: the world’s largest free-standing glass structure, steel frame with mega trusses, interesting ship-like design

Tokyo International Forum

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Building: Free University Library
Location: Berlin, Germany
Completed: September 2005
Owner: Free University
Architect: Foster + Partners

AE Interests:  Double skinned facade that uses natural ventilation, separation of the flooring structure from the outer facade allows natural light to penetrate into the stacks, interesting dome shape and interesting floor slab shapes.

Building: Soldier Field
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Architect: Wood + Zapata, Inc.
Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Completion: 2003

AE Interests: Building new stadium inside of old historic stadium facades, extensive use of 3-D modeling, paperless project, design-build project, narrow site between old stadium, large cantilevers to allow for more seats and preservation of original stadium

Stadium Engineer Drives Toward ‘Paperless’ Project

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Building: Meadowlands Stadium
Location: East Rutherford, New Jersey
Architect: Ewing Cole, 360 Architecture
Design­ Build CM: Skanska USA
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
MEP Engineer: Ewing Cole
Completion: 2010

AE Interests: Structural steel, aluminum exterior, green construction and building practices, lighting schemes change color based on which team is playing

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Building: Shibuya Subway Station, Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Completed: June 2008
Architect: Tadao Ando Architect & Associates
Collaborative Engineer(s): Nikken Sekkei Ltd., Tokyu Architects & Engineers Inc
Cost: $2.976 billion (¥250bn)

AE Interests: Fresh air and light circulates via open atrium and a ventilation shaft; oval, vaulted walls; prefabricated glass fiber-reinforced concrete (GFRC) used for every surface: floors, walls, ceilings and columns; concrete skin incorporates a water-cooling system (Water pipes lining the outer shell)

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Building: Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium
Location: Austin, Texas
Architect: Heery International Inc.
General contractor: Hensel Phelps Construction Co.
MEP engineer: O’Connell Robertson
Fire protection engineer: Schirmer Engineering Corp.
Civil engineer: Jose | Guerra Inc.
Structural engineer: Rogers Moore Engineers LLC
Audio-visual systems consultant: Datacom Design Group LLC
Landscape designer: Coleman & Associates
Waterproofing consultant: Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates
Completion: 2008

AE Interests: Expansion brought stadium capacity to over 100,000, construction during football season, some work performed out of sequence, joining new addition to the old parts of the stadium, special types of formwork were developed to speed up construction

Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium North End Zone Expansion

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Building: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Location: 1-1-1 Wakihama Kaigandori, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Client: Hyogo Prefectural Government
Completed: 2001
Architect: Tadao Ando Architect & Associates
Structural Engineer(s): Toshihiko Kimura Structural Engineers, Kanebako Structural Engineers
Disaster Prevention: Ataka Fire Safety Design Office
Construction: Obayashi, Shimizu, Konoike, Shinko Kosan Construction, Meiwa and Yamada Joint Venture
Total floor area: 27,461.41 sq. m.

AE Interests: Steel reinforced concrete structure; foundation of cast-in-place concrete steel piles; seismic isolation devices; flat concrete slab overhangs; three glass enclosed, rectangular volumes; grey water system

Building: Lucas Oil Stadium
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Architect: HKS Inc
Engineer: Walter P Moore
Completion: 2008

AE Interests: Grand Award for Engineering Excellence in 2009, first stadium to have a retractable roof that divides lengthwise, 2 760′ long super trusses, roof panels weigh 2.9 million pounds

Building: Ramot Polin Apartments
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Architect: Zvi Hecker
Completion: 1972
Team: Meir Drezner, Shmuel Groberman
Contractors: Mordecai Aviv Ltd., Matetiahu Lifshitz Ltd.
Budget: $45,000,000

AEInterest: beehive clattered design; almost no straight walls or windows; overall project shaped like five fingers; totaled 720 units with untraditional design; units prefabricated off site

Building: NRG (Reliant) Stadium
Location: Houston, Texas
Design Architect: HOK Sport
Architect: Hermes Architects and Lockwood, Andrews, Newnam, Inc.
Engineer: Walter P. Moore
Completion: 2002
Construction: Linbeck

AE Interests: National Honor Award for Structural Engineering Excellence in 2003, Retractable roof, Playing field on removable pallet system, 2 967′ long super trusses support roof, Roof made of a PTFE architectural fabric membrane

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Building: De Cecco Business Center
Location: Pescara, Italy
Architect: Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas
Structural Engineering: Studio Ing. Toniolo, Sirmione, Italy
Completion: 2009

AEInterest: low height building with punctured planes, plus top “annular” building; lower building receives natural light through punctured holes, the random placements of the holes create diagonal views between levels; water plane on sixth level recalls the Pescara River.

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Building: Menara Mesiniaga
Location: SS 16 Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Architect: Ken Yeang (TR Hamzah and Yeang Sdn Bhd)
Completion: August 1992
Client: International Business Machines (IBM)

AEInterest: bio-climatic design; implements idea of vertical landscaping; natural ventilated core; two spirals of green gardens are incorporated into side of building for both shade and natural beauty; outer shading windows on east and west sides

Building: Longley Park
Location: Sheffield, England: Horninglow Road
Completion: 2004
Architect: Ellis Williams

AE Interest: Solar Orientation design, slab cooling and photovoltaic panels.

Building: UK Pavilion
Location: Shanghai, China
Architect: Thomas Heatherwick
Structural Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor
Environmental Design Consulting: Atelier Ten

AE Interest: Slender transparent rods, daylight illuminates interior.

Building: East Beach Café
Location: Littlehampton, United Kingdom
Completion: June 2007
Architect: Thomas Heatherwick
Structural Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor

AE Interest: Exterior made of mild steel.

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Building: Community Centre
Location: Hereford, United Kingdom
Completion: 2002
Architect: Thomas Heatherwick

AE Interest: Highly insulated, minimizes the amount of energy usage.