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Building: Bord Gáis Energy Theatre
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Architects: Studio Liebskind, RHWL Architects (theatre specialists), McCauley Daye O’Connell
Area:148000 ft²
Year: 2009
Builder: John Sisk & Sons
Engineer: Arup
AE Interest: Double façade with angled column supports

Building: Titanic Belfast
Location: Belfast, Ireland
Architects: CivicArts- Eric R. Kuhne
Area: 14000 ft²
Year: 2012
Lead Consultants: Todd Architects
Exhibition Design: Event Communications Ltd
Facade Consultants/Contractors: Metallbau Frueh, Spanwall
Engineering Consultants: RPS Consulting, Arup Acoustics, Tavakoli Associates, AECOM – M&E and IT/AV consulting engineers
Lighting Design/Lighting Strategy: Sutton Vane Associates
Early Concept Lighting Design Consultants: Bliss Fasman
AE Interests: 153′ tall aluminum cladding with ship building influence in design

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Building: Incubator Building
Location: Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Architect: Foster & Partners

AE Interest: Ceramic fritting in the exterior filter light while minimizing heat, reducing solar radiation by almost 40%, Colors of fritting varies depending on intensity of solar radiation, Act as mirror to mimic surrounding architecture, Banked sides to maximize pedestrian space and minimize light, Built around a central core planted with drought-resistant plants to regulate temperature, Built from recycled structural steel and aluminum sheets.
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Building: World Wildlife Fund Headquarters
Location: Zeist, Netherlands
Architect: RAU
Services Engineer: Arup
Structural Engineer: ABT
Acoustics Consultant: DGMR
Building Physics Consultant: DGMR
Glass Manufacturers: AGC Glass Europe
Contractor: Van Zoelen

AE Interest: Renovated from an old agricultural laboratory, Self-sufficient and carbon-neutral, Temperature-regulating water runs through mud insulated tubes in the ceiling, Materials are either recycled or locally sourced and screened for fair labor practices, Rooftop photovoltaic panels, Triple glazed windows with adjustable wooden louvers, Bricks on facade act as nests for birds and bats
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Building: Generali Tower and CityLife Shopping District
Location: Milan, Italy
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Structural Engineers: Adams Kara Taylor, Redesco, Cap Engineering
Fire Engineer: Silvestre Mistretta
Transport Engineer: Systematica, Studio Corda, Alpina
Project Director: Gianluca Racana
Tower Project Architect: Paolo Zilli
Residential Project Architect: Maurizio Meossi

AE Interests: Entirely pedestrian neighborhood, largest car-free area in Milan, 50% of available area used for green spaces, making it the 2nd largest green public park in Milan, the largest urban shopping district in Italy, The Tre Torri offices are pre-certified LEED Gold, shopping center has aluminum cladding exterior.
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Building: Torre Mitikah
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, SMA
Interior Design/Architecture: HBA, spAce, Springall + Lira
Structural Engineers: CMF, McNamara⋅Salvia 
Completion: 2021

AE Interests

Neighborhood in the sky, two flowing glass and steel facades, envelope curves of towers elliptical shape. Architectural expression is “axis mundi” a spiritual representation of connection between earth and sky. Designed for high seismic zone using performance based design

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AE Interests:

Tallest building in Ecuador (449 feet). Each floor is rotated 6 degrees counter clockwise to form spiral shape. The swirls represent whirlpools that occur at confluence of the Babahayo and Daule rivers.

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Building: Torre Banco Macro
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, GSA and Associates
Architectural Acoustics Design: WSDG
Construction: Peri
Completion: 2016

AE Interests

Building fit into an irregularly 5-sided shaped site. Tower has a highly reflective glass curtain wall, nearly elliptical with an inward curve. Sloping/sinuousroof that echoes street level canopy. Facade is facated but looks like it is a softly curved surface.

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Building: Wong Dai Sin Temple
Location: Markham, Canada
Architects: Shim-Sutcliffe Architects
Area:3271.0 ft²
Year:2015
Structural : Blackwell Structural Engineers
Mechanical : BK Consulting Inc.
Electrical : Dynamic Designs and Engineering Inc.
Landscape : NAK Design Group
General Contractor: Gillam Group Inc.
Cladding: Krypton Steel Inc.
Custom Lighting: Lighting Nelson & Garrett Inc.

AE Interests: Reflects ancient religious beliefs and the modern environment of its practitioners, asymmetrical and counterbalanced, cantilever to provide additional parking, two-way slab concrete, 10.2m cantilever on west end and 5.2m cantilever on east end, cantilever concrete staircases, fins to control views to outside, memorial hall within, large skylights

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Building: Sothern Branch of the National Palace Museum
Location: Taibao City, Taiwan
Area: 38332.69 m²
Year Completed: 2015
Architect: KRIS YAO | ARTECH
Plumbing, Electrical & Fire Protection: Majestic Engineering Consultants Inc.
Building Physics Consultants: ARUP
Façade Consultants: maRco façade Studio
Lighting Consultants: Chroma 33 Architectural Lighting Design
Green Architecture Consultants: Taiwan Green Architecture
Landscape Bridge Design And Inspection Collaborator: T. Y. Lin Taiwan Consulting Engineers, Inc.

AE Interests: Inspired by three caligraphy strokes, composed of solid and void forms, reinforced concrete structure, cast aluminum disks cover the solid form, glazed curtain wall, Low-E glass, mosaic tile,

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Building: King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station
Location: Riyadh , Saudi Arabia
Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects
Area: 20,434 m²
Project Director: Gianluca Racana, Filippo Innocenti
Project Architect: Fulvio Wirz, Gian Luca Barone
Design Team: Alexandre Kuroda, Fei Wang, Lisa Kinnerud, Jorge Mendez-Caceres
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold
Services: Buro Happold
Transport and Civil Engineering: Buro Happold
Fire Engineering: Buro Happold
Façade Consultant: NewTecnic
Project Year: 2017-2020

AE Interests: five levels above ground with two below, anticipate 3.6M passengers a day, Mashrabiya screens, building layout to facilitate pedestrian traffic, exterior shaped by interior design, exterior represents natural curvature in sand dunes

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Building:Le Monde Group Headquarters
Location: Paris, France
Architect: Snøhetta
Structural: Bollinger-Grohmann
Completion: Ongoing

AE Interests: Vaulted ceilings to represent flow, surface embedded with LEDs that can represent data or flow, building facade is a matrix of pixelated glass with varying transparencies that look more complex as you get closer – representing headlines and news stories

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Building: Kuwait Ministry of Education Headquarters
Location: South Surra District, Kuwait
Architect: CambridgeSeven
Engineering Design: Gulf Consult
Construction Supervision: Gulf Consult
Total Area: 1,460,000 square feet
Media Mesh Screen: 10 m x 20 m

AE Interests: Inspired by Kuwait’s history of ship building, The two forms look like two dhows passing at sea as you approach, Southeast and northwest facades louvered while northeast and southwest facades are smooth and shimmering, center serves as a public atrium

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Building: Binhai Science Museum
Location: Binhai, China
Architect: Bernard Tschumi Architects
Engineer: Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute (TUPDI)
Area: 355200 square feet
Completed: 2019

AE Interests: Design based on the industrial history of the area, central cone connects all spaces, open cones provide even natural lighting and move warm air in and out, perforated aluminum facade helps reduce solar gain, central cone acts as a solar chimney 

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Building: New Museum Addition
Location: New York City, NY
Architect: OMA
Structural Engineers: Arup
Mechanical Engineers: Arup
Facade: Front Inc.
Completion: Ongoing

AE Interests: Expansion of New Museum by SANAA, atrium stairs for vertical circulation, laminated glass facade with metal mesh provides continuity between the two buildings, angular form language, cut for a plaza for openness,  triangular terraces

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Building: Western Australian Museum
Location: Perth, WA, Australia
Architect: OMA, Hassell
Lighting Design: Atelier Ten
Environmental Design: Atelier Ten
Construction: Multiplex
Completion: 2019

AE Interests: Seamless transition from historic to contemporary building, vertical and horizontal pathways, large open atrium, wooden beams span atrium, cantilevered volume, rectilinear and angular form, perforated metal facade

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Building: Odunpazari Modern Art Museum
Location: Odunpazari, Turkey
Architect: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Facade Engineer: ATTEC
Mechanical Engineer: TEMA Engineering and Consulting Trade Ltd.
General Contractor: Polimeks Holdings, INC.
Completion: 2019

AE Interests: Stacked volumes, scale museum to surroundings, central atrium framed with timber blocks, timber exterior, “Odunpazari” means “wood market” in Turkish, rectilinear form language

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Building: Via Verde – The Green Way
Address: 700 Brook Ave, The Bronx, NY 10455
Location: The Bronx, New York
Architect: Dattner Architects, Grimshaw Architects
Structural Engineer: Robert Silman Associates
General Contractor: Lettire Construction
Landscape Architect: Weintraub Diaz
Energy Management: Bright Power

AEInterests:
222 affordable housing units, retail, community health center, and live work units in one complex composed of three buildings. The complex is highly sustainable, featuring a green roof, community vegetable gardens, a 66kW solar panel system, onsite cogeneration,  rainwater harvesting and hardy landscaping. LEED Gold.
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Building: Solar Carve
Address: 40 10th Ave, New York, NY 10014
Location: New York, New York
Architect: Studio Gang
Structural Engineer: Arup
Facade Engineer: Arup
Acoustical Consultant: Arup
Daylighting Consultant: Arup
Geotechnical Engineer: RA Consultants
Landscape Architect: HMWhite
Lighting Consultant: Fisher Marantz Stone

AEInterests:
145,500 sqf mixed-use building targeting LEED Gold. The geometric facade allows for light to reach public green space of the High Line. The facade is achieved with one tilted diamond panel surrounded by four triangular panels that allow for standard stack joints.

                
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Building: 10 Jay Street
Address: 10 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Architect: ODA
Structural Engineer: Active Design Group  Engineering
General Contractor: MJM Associates Construction
Facade Consultant: AJL&P Surface Design Group
Consulting Engineers: Kallen & Lemelson
Curtain Wall Engineering: KPA Studio

AEInterests:
A renovation of an industrial building that required a remedial steel frame after years of disrepair. The reflective glass facade also required reconstruction of the slab edges.

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Building: Passenger Clearance Building
Location: Hong Kong, China
Completed: 2018
Architect: Aedas / Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold
Sustainability: Buro Happold
Facade Engineer: Buro Happold

AE Interests: serves as a gateway for passengers passing on Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (longest sea crossing), the flow through the building and the flow of surrounding waters is represented by waveform roof, canyons between allow natural daylight, environmentally friendly, prefabricated steel roof structures, tree-like structural columns

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Building: Seoul Floating Islands / Floating Island: Soul Flora
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Completed: 2011
Area: 9995.0 m²
Architect: Haeahn Architecture / Taeman Kim (President)
Collaborating Architect: H Architecture

AE Interests: located on the Han River, serves several cultural, educational, and recreational functions, represent the stages of a blooming flower: seed, bud, and blossom, aluminum metal panel shell with translucent panels, metal framed façade resemble petals, LED system for lights, floats via pontoon and automated mooring systems

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Building: United States Courthouse
Address: 351 S W Temple
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Completed: 2014
Architect: Thomas Phifer and Partners
Mechanical Engineer: Van Boerum & Frank Associates
Structural Engineer: Reaveley Engineers & Associates
Associates Building Enclosure: James Carpenter Design
Acoustics: Arup
General Contractor: Okland Construction

AE Interests: intended to be a symbol of the American judiciary system, primary form like buttes of southern Utah, garden terrace, LEED Gold, pattern of vertical aluminum sun screens and reflective glass façade that changes lighting and views by orientation of the sun, three-story spiral staircase in lobby

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Building: Huoshenshan Hospital (‘Mount Fire God Hospital’)
Use: Offices
Location: Wuhan, China
Architects: Xiqiu, Huang
Structural Engineer: China IPPR International Engineering Co., Ltd
MEP Engineer: China IPPR International Engineering Co., Ltd
Capacity: 1,000 beds
Construction: Jan 23,2020 – Feb 2, 2020

AE Interest:
designed and constructed under 10 days in response to the 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak, modeled after Xiaotangshan Hospital in Beijing (SARS pandemic), 35 excavator, 10 bulldozers, 300 prefabricated framework, 400 prefabricated rooms, 4G and 5G covered, Full Construction Progress video
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Building: Shenzhen North Station Huide Tower
Location: Shenzhen, China
Architect: HPP
Structural Engineer: Tongji Architectural Design Group CO., Ltd
MEP Engineer: Tongji Architectural Design Group CO., Ltd
Completed: 2019

AE Interest: Sky garden, LEED Gold, complex facade geometry, integrated “Town Square”

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Building: GVK Sky Tower
Location: Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai, India
Architect: HOK
Structural Engineer: Arup
Civil Engineer: Arup
Facade Engineer: Arup
Completed: 2013

AE Interest: Sloping skirts reduce wind vibration, concrete structure, tallest air traffic control tower in India

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Building: The Austonian
Location: Austin, Texas
Architect: Ziegler Cooper Architects
Structural Engineer: CBM Engineers
Contractor: Balfour Beatty Construction
Completed: 2010

AE Interest: Dampening sloshing tank, built with zero laydown area, elliptical shape

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Building: Nanjing International Youth Culture Centre (IYCC)
Location: Nanjing, China
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Structural Engineer: BuroHappld Engineering
Facade Engineer: BuroHappold Engineering
MEP: BuroHappold Engineering
Completion: 2018
AE Interests: dual earthquake resisting system, cast concrete skin, concrete core-wall system, external steel frame.
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Building: Xuzhou Sunning Plaza
Location: Xuzhou, China
Architect: AEDAS
Structural Engineer: BuroHappold Engineering
Facade Engineer: BuroHappold Engineering
Completion: 2017
AE Interests: multi-use commercial complex, Green building 2 star, optimised the shading strategy, Concrete Filled Steel columns,  single-layer latticed shell steel structure
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Building: Bee’AH Headquarter
Location: Sharjah, Dubai, UAE
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Structural engineer: BuroHappold Engineering
Facade engineer: BuroHappold Engineering
Environmental design consultant: Atelier Ten
Scheduled Completion: 2020
AE Interests：Fully powered by renewable energy (zero net energy consumption) inside a desert, zero waste to landfill, reusable material, pre-fabricated structural steel ribs, Light-weight glass fiber reinforced concrete, AI powered concierge services
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Building: Sabou Preschool
Location: Sabou, Burkina Faso
Completed: 2018
Size: 400 m²

Architect: 3RW Arkitekter
Collaborators: VZW Sabou Organization
Built by community and volunteers

AE Interests: lightweight roof with heavy shielding walls mimics local building tradition, network of steel trusses support corrugated iron sheets, solar panel powered ventilating fans, earthbuilt walls

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Building: Justice and Emergency Services Precinct
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
Completed: 2017
Area: 40000 m²

Architect: Warren and Mahoney (lead), Opus, Cox Architects
Structural, Civil, and Geotech Engineering: Holmes Consulting Group
Building Services Engineer: Opus International Consultants
Fire Engineering: Holmes Fire
Project Management: RCP
Main Contractor: Fletcher Construction Company

AE Interests: full height glazed public atrium, peripheral courtrooms bring views and natural light, design around indigenous cultures to preserve heritage, seismic design with isolation rubber bearings

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Building: The Link at Chadstone
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Completed: 2019
Architect: Make Architects
Manufacturers: Schindler, RUBNER, Maxim
Delivery Architect: Cera Stribley
Project Management: Pomeroy Pacific 
Lighting: NDY Light
Landscape Architect: LAT 27

AE Interests: curved glulam timber structure, sustainability elements such as cross-ventilation and natural daylighting

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Building: Cinépolis Headquarters
Location: Morelia, Mexico
Completed: 2010
Purpose: headquarters of leading theater operator in Mexico
Size: 75000 square feet
Architect: kmd+
Awards: Best Corporate Interior 2010 from AMDI (Asociación Mexicana de Diseñadores de Interiores), Architectural Digest (México) – Iconos de Diseño 2010 – Americas Commercial Property Awards – The Architecture Award

AE Interests: cantilevered 2nd floor, green patio on roof, structural glass, integrated with surrounding natural environment, LEED Gold Equivalent, green roof, natural lighting & ventilation

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Building: 401 Congress Street
Location: Boston, MA
Projected Completion: 2022
Purpose: office building
Size: 600000 square feet
Architect: Sasaki

AE Interests: will replace 1.1 acre surface parking lot, The team’s approach centers around the idea of an urban push/pull. doesn’t fill out entire site at base – establishing open urban space, almost completely transparent lower level

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Building: Shenzhen Yantian Technology
Location: Shenzhen, China
Completed: 2014
Purpose: office building
Architect: PLY+
Local Support: Shenzhen Heda International Design &Engineering CO.,LTD

AE Interests: louvers operated by a mechanical system programmed to track changing position of the sun across course of the day, maximizes visual amenities of site through focused views that orient the interior spaces toward the mountains and the harbor, facade composed of actively calibrated translucent louvers that shield interior from direct sunlight while maintaining uninterrupted views of surroundings, traditional window into Chinese architecture

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Name: Olympic House
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Address: Route de Vidy 9, 1007
Architect: 3XN Architects
Local Architects: IttenBrechbühl
Client: International Olympic Committee
Landscape Architects: Hüsler & Associés
Interior Design: RBSGROUP
Architectural Lighting Design: Jesper Kongshaug
Civil Engineer: INGENI SA – Ingenierie Structurale
Electrical Engineers: MAB-Ingenierie SA
Façade Engineers: Emmer Pfenninger Partner AG
Sustainability Engineers: ThemaVerde

Key elements: Movement, flexibility, transparency, collaboration, and sustainability. Has a dynamic, undulating façade. Rainwater is captured to be used in the building and solar panels have been installed on the roof. During the construction process more than 90% of material from buildings that were previously on the site were reused or recycled. Certified LEED Platinum.

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Building: Moscow School of Management
Location: Skolkovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Completed: 2010
Architect: Adjaye Associates
Manufacturers: Anwo, Alucobond

AE Interests: The central structure is a poured-in-place concrete disc 475 feet in diameter. A group of buildings stand above the disc. Of these, the Wellbeing Centre occupies a pivotal position in anchoring the disc to the sloping ground. The Wellbeing Centre is supported by the same structural grid as that of the disc, whilst the residential buildings are designed as bridge structures. Each of them is supported on two towers that cause minimum disruption as they pass through the disc to the ground.

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Building: Pearl Academy of Fashion
Location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Completed: 2008
Architect: Morphogenesis
HVAC: Design Centre
Electrical: Integral Designs
Plumbing: Tech Consultancy
Structure: N M Roof Designers Ltd.
Contractors: R G Colonizers Pvt. Ltd.
Design Team: Sonali Rastogi, Rudrajit Sabhaney, Anna Kristiana Bergbom, Shruti Dimri, John Alok Decruz

AE Interests: The architecture of the academy needed to be a confluence of modern adaptations of traditional Indo-Islamic architectural elements and passive cooling strategies prevalent in the hot-dry desert climate of Rajasthan, such as open courtyards, water body, a step-well or baoli and jaalis (perforated stone screen).  The entire building is raised above the ground and a scooped out under belly forms a natural thermal sink which is cooled by water bodies through evaporative cooling.

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Building: St. Mary Chapel (St. Mary Mercy Chapel) (St. Mary’s Mercy Hospital Chapel)
Location: Livonia, Michigan, U.S.
Completed: 2018
Architect: PLY+
Manufacturers: FritsJurgens, Endicott, Eastern Architectural Products, Goldray Glass, Hunter Douglas Brasil
Design Team: Craig Borum, Jen Maigret
Project Management: Andrew Wolking, Masataka Yoshikawa, William Carpenter
Design Professionals SD/DD: Markus Boynton, Annabelle Guan, Yibo Jiao, Michie Nimsombun, Maggie Shao, Andrew Wolking, Masataka Yoshikawa, Arvin Yu, Jiashi Yu, Yusi Zha, Dinghao Zhou
Structural: SDI Structure
Civil: IMEG corp.
MEP: Nederveld
Lighting: Illuminart
Acoustics: Arcgeometer
Cost Estimating: Granger construction
Building Code: PLY+
Specifications: PLY+
Security: St. Mary Mercy Livonia
Liturgical Space Consultant: Gilbert Sunghera

AE Interests: A high, east window to provide early morning light, a southern opening that holds a special installation of dichroic glass that bounces spectral colors into the space, and a western row of windows that establish a relationship with a future phase healing garden. The façade includes a “woven” pattern at the corner.

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