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Structure: Millennium Bridge
Type: Suspension
Location: Bankside to the City of London, England
Completed: February 2002
Architects: Arup, Foster and Partners and Sir Anthony Caro
Contractors: Monberg Thorsen and Sir Robert McAlpine
Images: Arup and Foster+Partners websites

AE Interests: pedestrian bridge, delicate steel cable structure, horizontal frequency dampeners.
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ARUP White Paper on the Millennium Bridge – pdf

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Building: 88 Wood Street
Location: 88 Wood Street, London, England
Completed: 1999
Architect: Richard Rogers Partnership
Structural/M&E Engineers: Arup
Main Contractor: Kajima/Laing Management
Client: Daiwa Europe Property

AE Interests: In situ concrete office wings, steel-framed service towers, fully glazed stairs and main office floors, triple-glazed active facade contains motorized blinds, external twin 72mm diameter Macalloy cross bracing, brightly coloured air intakes and extracts located at street level.

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Building: Tate Modern
Location: London, England
Address: Bankside, London, SE1‎ – 020 7887 8888‎, United Kingdom
Completion: 2000
Architect: Herzog and de Meuron
Structural Engineer: Arup
Services Engineer: Arup

AE Interests: Adaptive reuse by converting from Bankside Power Station into an art museum
Image: Anish Kapoor art installation in Turbine Hall 2002, 2003

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Photo provided by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

Building Name: Millennium Experience
Location: London, England
Completion: 1999
Architect: Richard Rogers Partnership
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold Consulting Engineers
Service Engineer: Buro Happold Consulting Engineers
Civil Engineer: WS Atkins

Millenium Dome was built to commemorate beginning of third millenium, and its dimensions are based on measures of time. It is a marquee dome held by twelve posts – corresponding to twelve months in a year – and the diameter of its canopy is 365 metres – corresponding to 365 days in a year. Lastly, its PTFE-coated glass fiber fabric is 52 metres at its highest peak thus corresponding to the 52 weeks in a year.

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Building: Queen Elizabeth II Great Court at the British Museum
Location: Great Russell Street, London WC1
Renovation completed: December 2000
Architect: Foster and Partners
Structural and MEP Engineer: Buro Happold

AE Interests: daylighting, complex double-curved glass roof over square space, grid -shell structure.

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Building: International Space Station
Completion: May 2010
Location: click here for current location
Design/Construction: joint effort by Russia, U.S., Japan, Canada, Europe.

AEInterest:
Architecture in Space. Orbiting Earth, this laboratory houses 12 people for 6months at a time.
Solar powered, extremely water-efficient, aluminum material technology. Assembled over 12 years and over 100 missions.

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Building: Aldar HQ
Location: Al Raha Beach, Abu Dhabi
Completion: 2009
Architect: MZ & Partners
Structural Engineer: ARUP

AE Interests: The first of its kind, this circular 23 story skyscraper was voted as the Best Futuristic Design 2008 by the Building Exchange Conference. Hundreds of pylons and twin concrete support cores are required to counter the substantial wind loads and the aluminum and glass façade is comprised of numerous triangular panes.

Building: Lake Point Tower
Location: 505 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois
Completion: 1968
Architects: John Heinrich & George Schipporeit

AE Interests: This 645 foot, high-rise residential building was the tallest apartment building in the world at the time of its completion. The tower was designed with a 59 foot triangular core, which contains the elevators and stairs and allows the structure to withstand high wind loads. The façade consists of a bronze-tinted glass-curtain wall system framed by gold-anodized aluminum, which reflects the sun.

Building: Habitat 67
Location: 2600, Pierre Dupuy Avenue in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Completion: 1967
Architect: Moshe Safdie

AE Interests: Built as part of Expo ’67 it was a thematic pavilion that served as a temporary residence for the many dignitaries who came to Montreal. The concept was to integrate variety and diversity of private homes with the economic benefits and density of a modern apartment building. Constructed from interlocking modular, concrete forms, it was meant to serve the lifestyle of those who would live in crowded cities.

Building: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Mather Expansion
Location:  Richmond, Virginia
Completed: May 2010
Architect: Rick Mather
Structural Engineers: Hankins and Anderson Consulting Engineers
Environmental Engineer: Atelier Ten
Building Services Engineers: Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners
Contractor: Whiting-Turner Contracting Company

AE Interest: 3-story atrium with 5 bridges, limestone walls and large glass boxes

Building: Cave Restaurant
Location: Maroubra, Sydney, Australia
Architect: Koichi Takada Architects
Completion: 2009

AE Interest: Form, Material

Building: VitraHaus
Location: Weil am Rhein, Germany
Architect: Herzog and de Meuron

AE Interest: Materials, Form

Building: Daycare Center for Benetton
Location: Treviso, Italy
Date Completed: 2007
Architect: Alberto Campo Baeza

AE Interest: Geometry, Lighting, Color

Building: Surry Hills Community Center
Location: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
Completion: 2009
Architect: Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp
Structural Engineering: Taylor Tomson Whitting

AE Interest: Intricate skin

Building: Denver International Airport
Location: Denver, Colorado
Status: Completed
Date Completed: 1995
Architect: Fentress Bradburn Architects
Roof Engineer: Horst Berger
AE interests: Fabric Structure Roof

Building: Neues Tempodrom
Location: Berlin, Germany
Completion: 2001
Architect: Meinhard von Gerkan, Marg & Partners
Structural Engineering: Krupp Stahlbau
Project Manager: Stephan Schütz
Acoustics: BeSB Schalltechnisches Büro
Landscape design: Krafft-Wehberg

AE Interests: This tent-like concrete and wooden structure is supported by 12 structural steel columns and reaches a height of more than 120 feet. The large interior volume has seating for 3,800 and hosts rock concerts and sporting events.

Building: Water Tower
Location: Zaragoza, Spain
Completion: 2008
Architect: Enrique de Teresa

AE Interests: This 250 foot tower consists of a transparent structure built to resemble a water droplet and was constructed of concrete, steel and glass. 

 

Building: Grand Lisboa Location: Macau, China Completion: 2008 Architect: Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man (DLN) Structural Engineers:  Maunsell Consultancy Services Ltd. AECOM MEP: Parsons Brinckerhoff Consultants Private Limited, later acquired by WSP AE Interests: This 856 foot tall skyscraper was designed to reflect the shape of a lotus and has cantilevers over 65 feet on each side supported by a cable stayed structural assembly. The sphere at the base is a thin shell structure braced by a skeletal steel frame enclosed by an aluminum curtain wall.

Building: Pabellon de Aragon
Location: Zaragoza, Spain
Completion: 2008
Architect: Daniel Olano Aragonese, Olano y Mendo Architects, Inc.

AE Interests: This pavilion, supported by nine monumental vertical cores, is shaped like a wicker basket while the façade is composed of woven  layers of opaque glass and micro-concrete.

Building: Museum of Contemporary Art
Location: Niteroi, Brazil
Completion: 1996
Architect: Oscar Niemeyer
Structural Engineer: Bruno Contarini

AE Interests: This saucer-shaped modernist structure, comprised of structural concrete, is situated on a cliff overlooking the beach. Compared to a flying saucer, it is cantilevered from a 9m thick central core with three circular floor plates. 

Building: Jumeirah Emirates Towers Complex
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Completion: 2000
Architect: Hazel W.S. Wong Norr Group Consultants Int. Ltd.

AE Interests: These twin towers, a 54 story office building and a 56 story five-star business hotel, are connected by a retail boulevard. This structure reaches 1,020 feet tall at its highest point, making it the 19th-tallest building in the world.
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Building:  John Curtin School of Medical Research
Location: Canberra, Australia
Completion: 2009
Architect: Lyons

AE Interests: This biomedical research center has external glazed panels and metal clad fins on the façade. The interior has flexibly designed laboratory areas for collaborative research.

Building:  Solar Furnace
Location: Odeillo, France
Completion: 1970
Designer: Prof. Felix Trombe

AE Interests: This array of curved mirrors is used to harness the sun’s rays to produce high temperatures for industrial uses. The parabolic reflector focuses light at the focal point, which may reach as high as 6,330°F, to generate electricity, melt steel produce hydrogen fuel and nanomaterials. 

Building: Montreal Biosphère
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Completion: 1967
Architect: Richard Buckminster Fuller

AE Interests: This massive, geodesic dome was constructed from a frame of steel pipes with 1,900 acrylic panels. The surface of the 250 foot diameter dome consists of a system of retractable shading screens, angled with respect to the sun, to control the heat.

Building: Chapel of the Holy Cross
Location: 780 Chapel Road, Sedona, Arizona
Completion: 1956
Architect: Marguerite Bruswig Staude

AE Interests: Situated on a twin-pinnacled spur 250 feet high, the most prominent feature of this modern chapel is the massive cross on its façade, with a window behind it. 

Building: The Esplanade
Location: Singapore
Completion: 2002
Architect: DP Architects Pte Ltd. & Michael Wilford & Partners
Structural Engineer: Atelier One
AE Interests: This waterside performing arts center houses five auditoriums, several outdoor performance spaces, and a mix of offices, stores, and apartments. The main concert hall has controllable resonance chambers and an adjustable acoustical ceiling. The interior steel structure supports a façade of glazing with 6,200 aluminum panels which are angled according to the position of the sun. 

Building: Arche de la Défense
Location: La Défense, France
Completion: 1989
Architects: Johann Otto von Spreckelsen & Paul Andreu
Engineer: Erik Reitzel

AE Interests: Created to be a monument to humanity, the structure is almost a perfect cube, resembling a tesseract in 3D. The Arche is composed of a prestressed concrete frame with a façade of glass and Carrara marble. The sides house government offices and the roof has an exhibition center within. 

Building: Sculptured House
Location: Genesee Mountain, Jefferson County, Colorado
Completion: 1963
Architect: Charles Utter Deaton

AE Interests: This elliptical curved house is an example of organic architecture and sculptural art. The structure is meant to reflect the simplicity of nature in its form and the complexity of nature in its construction.

Building: Stata Center
Location: 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA‎
Completion: 2004
Architect: Gehry Partners, LLP
Associate Architect: Cannon Design
MEP Engineers: R.G. Vanderweil Engineers, Inc
Structural Engineers: John A. Martin & Associates, Inc.
Construction Manger: Skanska USA Building, Inc

AE Interests: This 720,000 square foot academic complex on the MIT campus contains the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, as well as the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Above the fourth floor, the building is divided into two separate structures, the Gates tower, “G Tower”, and the Dreyfoos tower, “D Tower”.

Building: Puerta de Europa Towers
Location: Madrid, Spain
Completion: 1996
Architects: Philip Johnson, John Burgee
Structural Engineer: Leslie E. Robertson Associates
Contractor: FCC
Developer: Kuwait Investment Office

AE Interests: These post-modern, twin office buildings consist of 26 stories and have a 15° inclination, making them the first ever sloping skyscrapers. The structure has vertical, horizontal and diagonal structural steel members that surround a vertical reinforced core. The façade is composed of metal filled tinted glass panels that have a red grid-like imprint. 

Building: The Chrysler Building
Location: 405 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, NY, United States
Completion: 1930
Architect: William Van Alen

AE Interests: This iconic, Art Deco office building was the first to exceed 1,000 feet and was constructed with nearly 400,000 rivets and 3,826,000 manually laid bricks. Reaching 1,046 feet, this structure remains the world’s tallest steel-supported brick building and is capped with a stainless steel ornamented top.

Building: Suite Vollard
Location: Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Completion: 2004
Architect: Bruno de Franco

AE Interests: Constructed mainly from concrete, this is the world’s first fully rotating structure, turning 360 degrees every hour. Each floor has double sheets of tinted glass on the façade and is independent of the other 10 levels.

Building: Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption
Location: 1111 Gough Street, San Francisco, California
Completion: 1971
Designers: Pier Luigi Nervi and Pietro Belluschi
Architects: John Michael Lee, Paul A. Ryan and Angus McSweeney
Structural Engineer: L.F. Robinson

AE Interests: This modern, structural expressionist structure, composed entirely of reinforced concrete, has been named one of San Francisco’s top 25 buildings. The saddle roof, often said to resemble a washing machine agitator, is composed of segments of hyperbolic paraboliods. Along each of the four edges, stained-glass windows extend from floor to ceiling and allow for interior illumination.

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Building: Notre Dame du Haut
Location: Ronchamp, Haute-Saône, France
Completion: 1954
Architect: Le Corbusier

AE Interests: Primarily comprised of concrete and stone, this pilgrimage chapel is illuminated by soft, indirect light from deep inset stained-glass windows, some as thick as 7 feet. The most striking feature, the billowing roof, slopes toward the rear where rain run-ff pours into an abstract fountain.

Building: Frost Bank Tower
Location: Austin, Texas
Completion: 2004
Architect: Duda/Paine Architects, LLP and HKS, Inc

AE Interests: This 33 story, Class A office building used a cast-in-place concrete frame, 7,000 tons of reinforcing steel and a limestone and glass curtain wall. The façade features a stair-step exterior terminating in a steel and glass ‘crown’ illuminated by 220 high-intensity lights. The street level features a landscaped urban plaza with restaurants and conference facilities. The lobby floor is unique pattern of various types of stone, and houses a glass granite water feature, with limestone and wood adding architectural finishes.

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Building: LEGO House
Location: Surrey, England
Completion: 2009
Designer: James May

AE Interests: Demolished soon after its completion, this fully functioning, two story house consisted of appropriately 3.3 million LEGO bricks. The structure had a full staircase and even a working shower and toilet, all made from LEGO bricks.

Building: Vila Sari
Location: Pori, Finland
Architect: ARRAK Architects
Designer: Hannu Kiiskila
Date Completed: 2000

AE Interests: Horizontal design soaks in winter sun, deep overhangs provide shade in summer, uses 75% less energy than average house in Finland.

Building: Solar Tube
Location: Vienna, Austria
Architect: Driendl Architects
Designer: George Driendl
Date Completed: 2001

AE Interests: 21st century tree house design, concrete core, exterior steel frame, takes maximum advantage of light year round.

Building: Sea Train House
Location: Los Angeles, California
Architect: Office of Mobile Design
Designer: Jennifer Siegal
Date Completed: 2003

AE Interests: The home is almost completely recycled, the structural elements are old sea-going storage containers, some of which had been on site before the project began, glass curtain wall facade.
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Building: 1310 East Union Street
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: The Miller/Hull Partnership
Date Completed: 2001

AE Interests: Glass box with exposed steel structure, Argon gas infused windows.
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Building: Colorado Court
Location: Santa Monica, California
Architect: Pugh + Scarpa Architecture
Designer: Angela Brooks
Date Completed: 2002

AE Interests: Produces enough energy from its 199 blue solar panels to power 92% of energy needs

Building: 156 Reade Street
Location: New York, New York
Architect: Studio Petrarca
Date Completed: 2001

AE Interests: Glass and steel facade, heated and cooled using a geothermal pump, effectively uses natural light.
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Building: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E Project
Location: Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Architect: Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten
Date Completed: 2001

AE Interests: Unique contrast between old warehouse and green angular building, construction was prefabricated, relates to the city by taking advantage of existing systems.

Building: Lippo Centre
Location: 89 Queensway, Admiralty, Hong Kong, China
Completion: 1987
Architect: Paul Rudolph
Developer: Alan Bond

AE Interests: This pair of twin office buildings was designed to relieve the severity of skyscraper walls by using clusters of obtruding windows. The structures are said to look like koalas climbing a tree and therefore know as ‘the Koala Tree’ among the locals.

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Building: Macquarie Bank
Location: 1 Shelley Street, Sydney 
Completion: 2009
Architect: Fitzpatrick & Partners
Structural Engineers: Arup
Prime Frame Contractor: BlueScope
Subcontract Fabricators: S & L Steel
Stair structures: Allmen Engineering

AE Interests: The façade of this building features a unique ‘diagrid’ support structure, the only one of its kind in Sydney. The structure contains many innovative, environmentally sustainable technologies such as passive chilled beams and harbor water for heat rejection giving the building a 6 Star Green Star rating.

Building: Umeda Sky Building
Location: Umeda district of Kita-ku, Japan
Completion: 1993
Architect: Hiroshi Hara

AE Interests: This 40-story structure is the seventh-tallest building in Osaka City and has two towers connected at the top by bridges and escalators allowing access to ‘The Floating Garden Observatory’. The roof features a circular opening that provides an unobstructed 360-degree view.

Building: Bahá’í House of Worship
Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India‎
Architect: Fariborz Sahba
Structural Engineer: Flint & Neill
Completed 1986

AE Interests: This expressionist structure is based on a flower-like design consisting of a concrete frame and precast concrete ribbed roof. The nine-sided façade is composed of twenty-seven free-standing, white marble clad forms which resemble lotus petals. Since its completion, it has won numerous awards and has attracted more than 50 million visitors.
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Building: Darcons Headquarters Building
Location: Delicias City, Chihuahua, Mexico
Completion: 2008
Architects: Jorge Cajiga, Raúl Rodríguez, Roberto Villarreal, Reyes Baeza
Structural Design: Estructuristas y Consultores
Project Management: Urbanismo y Edificación Mexicana
Structural Engineering: EASA Construcciones

AE Interests: This office structure consists of three orthogonal, stacked volumes with glazing on the opposite sides and shaded by opaque, concrete walls on the western façade. The multifunctional skin of the building is transparent, allowing for views to the exterior and also defines the shape of the frame.

Building: Cathedral of Brasilia
Location: Brasilia, Brazil
Completion: 1970
Architect: Oscar Niemeyer

AE Interests: This hyperboloid structure is constructed from sixteen, 90 ton, concrete columns. The exterior façade resembles a circular plan and is ribbed, allowing light to enter between them.

Building: Scottish Parliament Building
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Completion: 2004
Architect: Enric Miralles
Structural Engineer: ARUP
Main Contractor: Bovis Lend Lease

AE Interests: This multipurpose complex houses committee rooms, debating chambers and administration offices. The unique design is meant to reflect the Scottish landscape, its people and its culture; especially the bay windows which are made of  stainless steel and framed in oak, with oak lattices covering the glass. The structure has won many awards including the 2005 Stirling Prize.

  

Building: Gas Natural Headquarters
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Completion: 2007
Architect: Enric Miralles / Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT
Project Director: Josep Ustrell
Structural: Julio Martinez Calzón

AE Interests: The primary goal of this design was to combine several objectives: create an urban landmark, to reconcile with the surrounding low-rise houses and create quality public spaces. The glass façade of this structure, meant to reflect a bite from a shark, is made of 100 trapezoidal panels of stratified glass with high rigidity for safety.
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Building: The National Library
Location: Minsk, Belarus
Completion: 2006
Architect: M.K. Vinogrdov and V.V. Kramarenko

AE Interests: The library is 22 stories and its main architectural component is that is has the shape of a rhombicuboctahedron. Situated on a river bank, it has an observation deck that overlooks Minsk while the front area is commonly used for public concerts and shows. 

 

Building: Olympic Stadium
Location: 4141 avenue Pierre-De Coubertin, Montreal,  QC H1V 3N7, Canada
Completion: 1977
Architect: Roger Taillibert

AE Interests: This very elaborate structure, features a retractable roof which utilizes a 574 foot tower, the tallest inclined structure in the world. Often referred to as a Organic Modern architecture, the design was based on plant and animal forms, while including vertebral structures with tentacles. 

Building: UCSD Geisel Library
Location: San Diego, California
Completion: 1993
Architect: William L. Pereira

AE Interests: Originally designed as a sphere, the structural elements required too much internal space, and were relocated to the exterior, resulting in the present “lantern-like” façade. This structure is a great example of brutalist architecture with the lower section creating a pedestal for the upper levels of the tower. 

Building: Neues Museum
Location: Folkwang In Essen, Germany
Completed: Feb 2010
Architect: David Chipperfield Architects,
Client: Neubau Museum Folkwang Essen,
Structural engineer: Ingenieurberatung Pühl and Becker VBI, Seroneit and Schneider,
Services engineer: Giesen-Gillhoff-Loomans, BBT Engineers,
Facade consultant: KonTec Fassadenberatung, Pazdera AG,
Lighting engineer: Arup,
Landscape architect: Planungsbüro Meinholf Hasse

Building: Church of Hallgrímur
Location: Reykjavík, Iceland
Completion: 1986
Architect: Guðjón Samuelssondesign

AE Interests: This is the largest church in Iceland and was designed to resemble the basalt flows in the Icelandic topography. The interior has seating for 1,200 people and houses a large mechanical-action pipe organ, which is 50 feet tall and weighs 25 tons.
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Building: United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel
Location: Colorado, United States
Completion: 1962
Architect: Walter Netsch, Jr., Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Main Contractor: Robert E. McKee, Inc

AE Interests: This structure is a tubular steel frame of 100 identical, 75 foot, five ton tetrahedrons, enclosed with clear aluminum panels. Overall the chapel is 150 feet in tall, 280 feet long and 84 feet wide, with the most prominent characteristic being the row of 17 spires. In 2004 the chapel was named a U.S. National Historic Landmark.

Building: National Center for the Performing Arts
Location: No.2 West Chang’an Avenue, Xicheng District, Beijing
Completion: 2007
Architect: Paul Aandreu

AE Interests: The structure is comprised of an ellipsoid dome made of titanium and covered in glass surrounded by an artificial lake. The interior houses 5,452 seats for operas, ballet, and dances and is nearly 129,166 square feet in size.

Building: Manchester Civil Justice Centre
Location: Manchester, England
Completion: 2007
Architect: Denton Corker Marshall
Structural Engineer: Mott MacDonald
Contractor: Bovis Lend Lease

AE Interests: Best known for the ‘fingers’ at each end that cantilever out over the lower levels and the western side has an 118,403 square foot suspended glass wall, the largest in Europe. The building has won numerous awards for sustainability, prominent architecture and innovative engineering including Best Public Building Award 2007.

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Building: Willis Tower
Location: 233 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606
Completion: 1973
Architect: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Structural Engineer: Fazlur Khan
Mechanical/Electrical Engineer: Jaros Baum and Bolles
Contractor: Diesel Construction

AE Interests: Formerly the Sears Tower, this 108 story structure is the third tallest in the United States and twenty-sixth tallest in the world. The design consists of nine square “tubes” clustered in a 3×3 matrix and contains steel, belt trusses, and louvers. `

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Building: Rainier Tower
Location: 1301 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, Washington
Completion: 1977
Architect: Minoru Yamasaki
Structural Engineer: John Skilling

AE Interests: This forty-story tall skyscraper consists of 29 stories of occupied office space supported by a steel superstructure. While the remaining levels make up the concrete pedestal that tapers inward toward the ground which allows for the maximum amount of open space on the block.
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Building: Columbia Center Tower
Location: 701 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, Washington
Completion: 1985
Architect: Chester Lindsey Architects
Structural Engineer: Skilling Ward Rogers Barkshire

AE Interests: Seventy-six stories of office space make this the tallest building in Washington State and the Pacific Northwest region. With a framed tube structural system, the façade is clad in Rosa Purino Carnelian granite and its structure is composed of three geometric arches.
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Building: Richmond Olympic Oval
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Architect: Cannon Design
Structural Engineering: Fast + Epp, Glotman •  Simpson Group of Companies
Civil/Marine Engineering: Delcan
Refrigeration Engineering: Sterling Engineering, Inc.

AE Interests: LEED® Silver certification, reusing thermal waste, Green building process

    
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Building: New Museum of Contemporary Art
Location: 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
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Architects: SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa)
Structural Engineer: Guy Nordenson, Sasaki and Partners

AE Interests: Staggered box structural scheme, Exterior cladding: expanded metal mesh on corrugated aluminum panels. `

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Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
Completed: 2003
Architect: Future Systems
Client: Selfridges & Co
Engineers: Arup
Contract Value: £60 million
Contractor: Laing O’Rourke
Gross Area:  25,000m²
AE Interests: Skins is made up of thousands of aluminum disks which reflect current weather conditions and at night it is brightly illuminated in bright blue.