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Building: Nemausus Public Housing
Location: Nimes, France
Completed: 1987
Architect: Jean Nouvel
Engineers: OTH Mediterannée
CAD Design: OTH Informatique

AE Interests: Constructed from steel, aluminum, and garage doors.
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Building: Laban Dance Centre
Location: Creekside, London, England
Completion: February 2003
Architects: Herzog and de Meuron
Structural Engineers: Whitby Bird and Partners
Acoustic Engineers: Arup Acoustics
Main Contractor: Ballast Construction

AE Interests: Transparent and translucent curved polycarbonate cladding, color usage, interior “streetscape” design
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Building: Taipei 101
Location: Sinyi Rd, Taipei, Taiwan
Completed: 2004
Architect: C.Y. Lee & Partners
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Contractor: KTRT Joint Venture

AE Interests: Structural Stability, Mass Damper.

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Additional Pictures:

Picture of largest tuned mass damper

Floor Plan
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Building:  Berowra Waters Inn
Location:  Berowra Waters, Australia
Completed: 1983
Architect:  Glenn Murcutt

AE Interests: Used a corrugated tin roof, large glass louvre windows overlooking the river.
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Building:  Murcutt Guest Studio
Location:  Kempsey, NSW, Australia
Completed: 1992
Architect:  Glenn Murcutt

AE Interests: Extremely detailed, even the roof drains have a thought out design to them.
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Building Name: Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center
Location: Noumea, New Caledonia
Completed: 1998
Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Structural Engineer: ARUP
Landscape Architects: Desvigne & Dalnoky
Area: 8,188 sqm

AE Interests: sustainability, relationship with nature, culture, natural building materials, low maintenance, termite repellent iroko wood, ten multifunction pavilions of different sizes separated into 3 categories, integrated tree filled spaces into the ten pavilions which are all interconnected with a footpath, cooling and passive ventilation obtained through a double façade

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Building:  Museum of Local History and Tourist Office
Location:  Kempsey, NSW, Australia
Completed: 1982
Architect:  Glenn Murcutt

AE Interests: Designed in an effort to not take away from the land. Constructed of a number of volumes.
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Building:  Bowali Visitor Information Centre
Location:  Kakadu National Park,  Australia
Completed: 1994
Architect:  Glenn Murcutt
Builder: PW Baxter & Associates Pty Ltd

AE Interests: The long lineal structure was influenced by surrounding nature, specifically an Aboriginal Rock Shelter.
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Building:  Simpson-Lee House
Location:  Mount Wilson, Australia
Completed: 1994
Architect:  Glenn Murcutt

AE Interests: Murcutt’s careful design and choice of materials for this house is greatly influenced by his desire to allow light to permeate the house just as the light permeates the foliage that surrounds it. The roof serves not only as a shelter but also is designed to collect water which is then used as drinking water as well as toilet water.
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Building:  Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Artists Centre
Location:  Riversdale, Australia
Completed: 1999
Architect:  Glenn Murcutt

AE Interests: Incorporates the surrounding scenery.
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Building:  The Marika-Alderton House
Location:  Yirrkala Community, Eastern Amheim Land, Northern Territory, Australia
Completed: 1994
Architect:  Glenn Murcutt

AE Interests: Major goal of Murcutt was to cool the house. This is achieved by having the house on stilts to allow cool air to flow beneath it. Also, he uses pivoting tubes along the roof which expel hot air and vertical fins to direct cooling winds into the home.
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Building:  The Magney House
Location:  Bingie Point, Moruya, Australia
Completed: 1984
Architect:  Glenn Murcutt

AE Interests: Roof structure and windows design to capture sunlight.
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Building:  The Marie Short House
Location:  Kempsey, NSW, Australia
Completed: 1975, expanded in 1980
Architect:  Glenn Murcutt

AE Interests: Modifiable steel louvers manage the air flow throughout the home.
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Building:  The Ball-Eastaway House
Location:  North Sydney, Australia
Completed: 1983
Architect:  Glenn Murcutt

AE Interests: Designed in order to create minimal obstruction of the nature that surrounds it. Utilizes a linear roof vault of corrugated steel.
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Building: Mercedes Benz Design Center
Location: Sindelfingen (Stuttgart), Germany
Completed: 1998
Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Structural: Arup, IFB Dr. Braschel & Partner
Acoustics: Müller BB

AE Interests: geometry, façade, functionality, natural lighting
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Building: Light Rail Train Bridge
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Completed: June 2008
Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Structural Engineer: Calatrava

AE Interests: cable stayed bridge, single inclined pylon, built-in lighting, cable-system creates parabolic shape
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Building: High Museum
Location: 1280 Peachtree Street NE Atlanta, GA 30309
Completed: 2005
Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Collaborating Architects: Lord, Aeck, & Sargent, Inc.
Structural: Arup, Uzun & Case Engineers, Jordan & Skala Engineers, Inc.

AE Interests: daylighting, exterior spaces, grid of 1000 circular skylights
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Building: National Space Center
Location: Leicester, England
Completed: 2001
Architect: Nicholas Grimshaw
Structural Engineer: Arup
Project Manager: Gardiner and Theobold

Landscape architect: Land Use Consultants

Cladding consultant: Montressor Partnership

Acoustics engineer: Sandy Brown Associates

AE interests: grid steel frame, spiraling geometry, efficiency
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Building: Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
Location: Troy, New York
Completed: 2008
Architect: Grimshaw Architects
Architect of Record: Davis Brody Bond
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold
Acoustician: Kirkegaard Associates
Theater Consultant: Fisher Dachs Associates
Construction Manager: Turner Construction Company

AE interests: lighting, acoustics, glass walls
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Building: Five Boats Office Development
Location: Duisburg, Germany
Completed: 2005
Architect: Grimshaw Architects
Structural Engineer: LWS Ingenieure, Duisburg

AE interests: extensive use of fenestration, symmetry
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Building: Groningen University Research Laboratory
Location: Groningen, Netherlands
Completion: 2008
Architect: UNStudio
Contractor: Heijmans Bouw

AE Interest: straight and curved pieces on skin, cone-shaped voids with spiral stairs, strategically assigned colors for lighting purposes, pedestrian bridge
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Building: SEG Remise
Location: Vorgartenstraße, Vienna, Austria
Completion: 2000
Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Structural Engineering: Kollitsch + Stanek

AE Interests: Concrete Design
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Building: Schlachthausgasse
Location: Vienna, Austria
Completion: 2005
Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Structural Engineering: Fritsch, Chiari & Partner

AE Interest: Historical Preservation, Cantilevered Building Components
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Building: Academy of Fine Arts
Location: Munich, Germany
Completion: 2005
Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Structural Engineering: Planungsgruppe Brachmann

AE Interests: Steel Skin, Cantilevered Building Components
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Building: Groninger Museum
Location: Groningen, Netherlands
Completion: 1994
Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Structural Engineering: Ing. Bureau Wassenaar

AE Interest: Steel Skin Design
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Building: Arezzo Law Court
Location: Arezzo, Italy
Completed: 2007
Architect: Studio Nicoletti
Associate Architect: F. Pagliano Tajani
Architect of Record: Antonio Sorrento
Client: Comune di Arrezo
Structural Engineer: M. Mele

AE Interests:  curved façades made with rectilinear parts mimic natural flow of leaves and wind, silver foliage provides natural shading
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Building: Torres de Satélite
Location: Ciudad Satélite, Naucalpan, Mexico
Completed: 1958
Architect: Luis Barragán
Associate Architect: Mathias Goeritz

AE Interests: aesthetic structures meant to symbolize modern Ciudad Satélite
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Building: 3505 Hayden
Location: 3505 Hayden Ave., Culver City, California
(Los Angeles area)
Completion: 2000
Architect: Eric Owen Moss Architects
Structural Engineer: Englekirk Partners Consulting Structural Engineers

AE Interests: structure, large interior coil through building, building position on street
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Building: Ernsting’s Warehouse
Location: Coesfeld, Germany
Completed: 1985
Architect: Santiago Calatrava
ME Engineer: Calatrava
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Building: Belgo Zuid
Location: London, UK
Completion: 1999
Architect: F.O.A.
Structural Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor
Services Engineer: John Bradley Associates

AE Interests: Design style inspired by food items made in restaurant, multiple design styles implemented to allow for more natural lighting.
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Building:  Rapson Hall; College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota
Location:  89 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Status: Completed 2002
Awards: Progressive Architecture Awards, USA, 1990
Architect: Steven Holl Architects
Structural Engineer: Guy Nordenson & Associates
Contractor: Knutson Construction Services, Inc.

AE Interests: geometric/angular shape for different views of the court, natural day lighting, structure, multi-use of space (library, auditorium, offices, classrooms)
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Building: Lyon-Satolas TGV Station

Location: Lyon, France
Completed: 1994
Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Structural Engineer: Calatrava
ME Engineer: Calatrava
Project Architects: Alexis Bourrat, Sebastien Mamet
Major Contractors: E.I.-G.F.C-M.S, Eiffel, Berretta-Girardet-Instalux, Leon Grosse, G.T.M, Baudin-Chateauneuf

AE Interests: steel and concrete structure, steel arches
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Building: Helsingor Psychiatric Hospital
Location: Dryehaveve 48, 3400 Helsingor, Denmark
Completed: 2006
Architect: PLOT
Engineers: Moe og Brodsgaard
Programming consultans: David Mollerup, Lise Weile

AE Intrests: health, hospital, safe, control, protection
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Building: Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay
Location: Redding, California, USA
Completed: 2004
Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Structural Engineer: Calatrava
Erection Engineers: Buckland and Taylor

AE Interests: bridge never touches the water making it environmentally sensitive, functional sun dial, structural glass deck, cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge
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Building: P&C Department Store
Location: Cologne, Germany
Completion: 2005
Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Structural Engineer: Knippers & Helbig
Contractor: Hotchief Construction

AE Interests: The building’s exterior is a glass facade and it’s main structure is made out of wooden arches that form a dome shape.
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Building: Katehaki Bridge
Location: Athens, Greece
Completed: 2004
Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Structural Engineer: Calatrava

AE Interests: steel structure, single cantilever pillar from which 14 cables used to suspend bridge over the street
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Building: Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Completed: 2007
Architect: F.O.A.

AE Interest: Underground parking, roof is covered with gardens and extensive vegetation
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Building: Athens Olympic Stadium
Location: Athens, Greece
Completed: 1982
Renovated: 2004
Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Structural Engineer: Calatrava, SKM Anthony Hunts

AE Interests: “bent leaf” polycarbonate glass rooftop covers over 90% of seating, roof has total weight of 19,000 tons, roof can withstand 120 km/h winds, 75,000 seating capacity
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Building: Zollverein Kohlenwäsche
Location: Essen, Germany
Status: Completed 2007
Architect: OMA / Heinrich Böll Architekt BDA DWB

AE Interest: Exposed structural members and HVAC systems.
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Building: Beehive
Location: 8522 National Blvd., Culver City, California
Completion: 1998
Architect: Eric Owen Moss Architects
Structural Engineer: Kurily Szymanski Tchirkow Inc.

AE Interest: structure, curves, natural light
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Building:  Allianz Arena
Location: Munich, Germany
Address: Werner-Heisenberg-Allee 25, 80939 Munich, Germany
Completed: 2005
Architect: Herzog and de Meuron
Structural Engineer: Arup
Lighting Design: Werning Tropp Schmidt

AE Interests: Illuminated facade, transparant and translucent roof and facade made of ethylenetetrafluoroethylene (0.2 millimeters thick)
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Building: B&B Italia Offices
Location: Strada Provinziale, Novedrate, Italy
Completion: 1973
Architect: Studio Piano & Rogers
Structural Engineer: F. Marano

AE Interests: To make future expansions more easy, light/self supporting materials were used for the building’s structure and the walls and light fittings are mobile.
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Architects: PLOT
Location: Skaffervej 4-6, 2400 Copenhagen, Denmark
Completed: 2007
Client: Sjakket Youth Club, Realdania
Partner in Charge: Bjarke Ingels
Collaborator: Julien De Smedt
Project Leader: Sophus Sobye
Project Architect: Sophus Sobye

AE Interests: youth house, sports hall, hidden play area
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Building: Hermitage Guggenheim (Exhibition Space)
Location: 3355 Las Vegas Blvd S 89109, Las Vegas, Nevada
Status: Closed in 2008
Architect: OMA
Consultants: Martin & Martin, Martin & Peltyn, Arup, MSA Engineering, Skyska & Hennessy, Rolf Jensen

AE Interest: Rotating walls to change the size and shape of the museum spaces.
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Building: 
Maritime Youth House
Location: 
Amager Strandvej 13, DL-2300 Copenhagen, Denmark
Completed: 
2004
Architect: PLOT (JDS+BIG)
Project Team: Julien De Smedt, Bjarke Ingels
Consultants: Birch & Krogboe

AE Interests: youth house, wood deck, boat house, playground
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Building:  Sarphatistraat Offices
Location:  Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Completion Date: June 2000
Architect:  Steven Holl Architects
Structural engineers: Ingenieursgroep† Van Rossum
Contractor: VOF Van Eesteren

AE Interest: perforated walls for availability of passages & storage, overlapping interior spaces, geometric design, design reflects “Merger Sponge” principal, use of return air grilles.
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Building: McCormick Tribune Campus Center
Location: 3201 S State St, Chicago, IL‎ 60616
Status: Completed 2003
Architect: OMA

AE Interest: Stainless steel tube encasing elevated track with concrete slab buffering noise to student center below.
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Building:  Knut Hamsun Center
Location:  Hamaröy, Norway (above the Arctic Circle, near the village of Presteid of Hamarøy)
Completion Expected: 2009
Architect:  Steven Holl Architects

Design Development
Project Architect: Erik Fenstad
Project Team:
Gabriela Barman-Kraemer
Yoh Hanaoka
Justin Korhammer,
Anna Müller
Audra Tuskes
Structural Engineer: Guy Nordenson and Associates

Construction Documents
Associate Architects: LY Arkitekter AS
Project Team:
Francesco Bartolozzi
Ebbie Wisecarver
Structural Engineer: Rambøll Norge
Mechanical Engineer: Rambøll Norge
Mechanical Engineer: Ove Arup
Lighting Consultant: L’Observatoire International
Lighting consultant: Vesa Honkonen Architects
Landscape Architect: Landskapsfabikken

AE Interests: uses design/materials reflected by Norwegian culture, dramatic interior lighting effects based on the time of year, intuitive layout, environmental sustainability, angular geometry

For more info:
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/Steven_Holl/hamsun_museum/index.html
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Name: Casa da Música
Location: Porto, Portugal
Status:  Competition: 1999
Completed: 2005
Architect: OMA
Structural Engineer: Arup / AFA Lda

AE Interest: Shape played a huge factor in the creation of  the Casa Da Musica because it had to enhance the acoustical integrity of the concert hall without taking shape of a plain box.
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Building: Le Close Jordan Winery
Location: Lincoln, Ontario, Canada
Completion: 2006
Architect: Gehry Partners, LLP
Structural Engineer: Yolles Partnership Inc.
Landscape Architect: Janet Rosenberg & Associates
Planning Consultant: BLS Planning Associates

AE Interests: A gentle flowing metallic structure, the winery reflects its natural surroundings and the sky.
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Building: The New York Times Building
Location: 200 Park Avenue, New York, New York
Architects: Renzo Piano Building Workshop & FXFOWLE Architects
Structural  Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
MEP Engineer: WSP Flack + Kurtz
Construction Manager: AMEC

AE Interests: 52-storey glass and steel skyscraper. The building’s design shows the steel beams and columns that provide structural support – 95% of the structural steel contains recycled materials.
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Building: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Location: London, United Kingdome
Completion: 2008 (temporary)
Architects: Frank Gehry, Samuel Gehry
Engineers: Arup

AE Interests: Part amphitheatre, part promenade, the pavilion is a wooden timber structure that protects the inerior from wind and rain, yet provides shade and sunlight to pedestrans.
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Building: DZ Bank
Location: Berlin, Germany
Completion: July 2001
Architect: Gehry Partners, LLP
Engineer: Schlaich Bergermann and Partner

AE Interests: A curving glass floor and ceiling gives this building natural light that floods throughout the bank.
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Building: Corcoran Gallery of Art
Location: Washington D.C.
Status: Addition unbuilt
Architect: Gehry Partners, LLP
Project Designer: Edwin Chan
Renovation Architect: Smith Group
Structural Engineer: John A. Martin & Associates, Inc.
Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing: Cosentini Associates

AE Interests: The new atrium creates a unifying element between the old stone building and the addition’s boisterous appearance.
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Building: Broad Contemporary Art Museum
Location: 5905 Willshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California
Completion: 2008
Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Structural Engineering: Arup
Civil Engineering: KPFF
Cost Consultant: Davis Langdon

AE Interests: An expansion to the Los Angeles Contemporary Art Museum. Industrial design whose main materials are stone and steel. Three-storey building with an H-plan design.
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Building:  MARTa Herford
Location:  Herford, Germany
Completion: 2005
Architect: Gehry Partners, LLP
Design Partner: Frank Gehry
Project Partner: Randy Jefferson
Project Designer: Edwin Chan
Project Architect: Kamran Ardalan
Structural Engineer: Bollinger + Grohmann
Mechanical Engineer: Construct
Lighting Consultant: AG Licht

AE Interests: The curvature of bricks and steel reflect the museum’s aesthetic and artistic purpose.
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Building: Bluemoon Hotel
Location: Groningen, The Netherlands
Completed: 2001
Architect: F.O.A.
Architect of Record: Artes

AE Interests: Repetitive pattern of aluminum openable panels.
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Building:  Der Neue Zollhof
Location:  Düsseldorf, Germany
Completion: 1999
Design Principle: Frank O. Gehry
Project Principal:  Randy Jefferson
Project Designer: Craig Webb
Project Architects:  Terry Bell, Tomaso Bradshaw

AE Interests: Curvilinear structures constructed of concrete flat slab and brick with punched window openings on the exterior facade provide a unique shape with natural ventilation.
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Building Name: Awaji Yumebutai
Location: Hyogo, Japan
Completion: 2000
Architect: Tadao Ando

AE interests: intersecting geometric parts, built into the land

      
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Building: de Young Museum
Location: Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California
Architect: Herzog and de Meuron
Structural Engineers: Rutherford & Chekene
MEP: Arup
Completed October 2005

AE interests: perforated copper exterior skin, natural lighting. `

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Building: The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum 
Location: Biloxi, Mississippi
Completed: 2004
Design Principal: Frank O. Gehry
Project Principal: Randy Jefferson
Project Designer: Craig Webb
Project Architect: Jeff Wauer

AE Interests: A series of pavilions built around trees to create a juxtaposition of culture, history, and art.
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Building: Chichu Art Museum
Location: Kagawa, Japan
Completed:  2004
Architect: Tadao Ando

AE Interests: despite being built in the ground, its use of natural light illuminates the exhibits; was designed to show “the relationship between human and nature.”

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Building: Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium
Location: Olympic Park, Beijing, China
Architect: Herzog and de Meuron
Structural Engineer: Arup
Completed 2008

AE interests: complex structural form, built to withstand earthquakes.  Structural steel tube shapes.

For more information on the Bird’s Nest click here.
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Building: Emergency Services Center
Location: St. Gallen, Switzerland
Completed:  1998
Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Structural Engineer: Calatrava

AE Interests: underground building, elliptical glass roof, first use of moveable roof to control daylight, sculpture appearance set in a historic background
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Building: Gemini Residence
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Completed: 2005
Architect: MVRDV
Structural Engineer: Peter Lind
Construction: NCC Construction

AE Interests: Renovated cylindrical silos, natural light
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Building: Municipal Police Headquarters
Location: La Villajoyosa, Spain
Completed: 2004
Architect: F.O.A.
Architect of Record: Antonio Marquerie
Structural Engineer: NB35
Service Engineer: Angel Garrido

AE Interests: Compact design style, building designed to split into three job specific bands, skylights used for natural lighting.
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Building: 
Island Brygge Harbor Baths
Location: 
Island Brygge 9, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark
Completed: 
2003
Architect: PLOT (now JDS and BIG)
Project Architect: Jakob Møller
Technical Engineer: Birch og Krogboe
Constructed Area: 2,500 mô

AE Interests: playground, swimming pool, bath, harbo
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