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Building: Kingdom Tower
Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Completion: 2016-2017
Engineer: Langan International
Architect: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Main Contractor: Saudi Binladin Group
Developer: Emaar Properties, Jeddah Economic Company (JEC)

AE Interests: This 900,000 ton structure is estimated to cost $1.23 billion and reach 3,280 feet. The tower will flaunt an exterior sky terrace with an area of over 7,500 sq ft and the total construction area will encompass an estimated 5.7 million square feet. The building will serve a multi-purpose design consisting of office spaces, apartments, retail stores, luxury condominiums and the world’s highest observatory.

Building: Hyatt at Capital Gate
Location: Abu Dhabi
Completion: Under Construction
Architect: ADENC & RMJM Architects
Project Director: Tony Archibold

AE Interests: This 5 star, 35 story, 200 room hotel is in the Guinness Book of World Records are the “World’s Most Inclined Tower”, leaning 18º, four times farther than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Supported by a pre-cambered reinforced concrete core. Foundation is comprised of nearly five hundred 100-foot piles and a 7-foot deep reinforced concrete base. The exoskeleton diagrid facade is comprised of diamond-shaped glass panels.

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: 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: Macao, China
Completion: 2007
Architect: Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man

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. 

Building:  John Curtin School of Medical Research
Location: Canberra, Australia
Completion: 2009
Architect: unknown

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: Ryugyong Hotel
Location: Pyongyang, North Korea
Under Construction: 1987-1992 (On hold since 1992)
Architect: Baikdoosan Architects & Engineers
Contractor: Baikdoosan Architects & Engineers

AE Interests: This 105 story skyscraper is currently being constructed with reinforced concrete and covered in mirrored glass and is the largest structure in the country. The structure consists of three wings, each measuring 330 feet long and sloped at 75° angle which meet to form the pinnacle. 

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 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 sq. ft. 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.

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 22o 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.

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: Lippo Centre
Location: 89 Queensway, Admiralty, Hong Kong
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.

Building: Burj al-Taqa
Location: Dubai
Completion: Proposed Design
Architect: Gerber Architekten international GmbH

AE Interests: Designed to generate all its own energy, the name means ‘Energy Tower’ and will have a massive 197 ft. diameter wind tower on the roof along with numerous solar cells arrays totaling 131,459 sq. ft. Louvered openings in the façade will allow cool air into the building which will sink and dissipates throughout the interior. 

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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
Completion: 1986
Architect: Fariborz Sahba
Structural Engineer: Flint & Neill

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 27 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.

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 16, 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. 

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 ft 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: Aqua Tower
Location: 200 block of North Columbus Drive, Chicago, Illinois
Completion: estimated Spring 2010
Architect of Record: Loewenberg & Associates
Designer: Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang Architects

AE Interests: This 82-story mixed residential/office skyscraper has cantilevered balconies out as far as 12’ in some places; these terrace extensions maximize solar shading. The irregularly-shaped concrete slabs give an undulating characteristic to the façade.

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 1200 people and houses a large mechanical-action pipe organ, which is 15m tall and weighs 25 tons.

Building: Singapore Residential Tower
Location: At the intersection of Scotts Road and Cairnhill Road, Singapore
Completion: Proposed Design
Architect: Eric Chang
Designer: Ole Scheeren
Contractor: Office for Metropolitan Architecture

AE Interests: Composed of four towers, vertically offset from each other and suspended from a central core, it is proposed to house 68 luxury apartments with panoramic views. The elevated tower design will reduce the overall footprint of the building.

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 12,000 m² large.

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 11,000 m² 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.

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 tallest in the United States and fifth tallest in the world. The design consists of nine square “tubes” clustered in a 3×3 matrix and contains steel, belt trusses, and louvers.

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.

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.

Building: Gewild Wonen Expo 2001, Water Villas
Location: Almere, Netherlands
Completion: 2001
Architect: UN Studios

AE Interests: freestanding, individual and clustered blocks of homes,  steel-framed and timber-clad, concept: create a living environment with maximum flexibility to meet individual needs; customizable and extendable allows to elaborate and increase the volumetric potential.

Building: Sound Wall Houses
Location: Hilversum, Netherlands
Completion: 2001
Architect: VHP

AE Interests: Twelve residential houses, overlooking an adjoining park were constructed into an embankment along a main road, forming an acoustic barrier.

Building: De Maere Textile School
Location: Enschede, Netherlands
Completion: 2001
Architect: Brookes Stacey Randall
Designer: Brookes Stacey Randall Architects & IAA Architects

AE Interests: Refurbished surrounding buildings sensitively adapted to new functions. Distinctive ‘pods’ introduced, integration of old and new.

Building: Mobius House
Location: Stadhouderskade 113, 1073 AX, Utrecht, Netherlands
Completion: 1998
Architect: Ben van Berkel
Designer: UN Studios
Landscape Architect: West 8
Structural Engineer: ABT

AE Interests: large residential structure, comprised of concrete and glass, designed to respond to needs of occupants, inspired by the mobius band, the interior is arranged on a continuous loop, concrete walls extend into fixed pieces of furniture and external glass walls slide into the structure to create partitions.

Building: De Verbeelding Centre for the Arts
Location: De Verbeelding Park, Zeewolde, Netherlands
Completion: 2000
Architect: Rene van Zuuk 
Designer: Rene van Zuuk Architects 

AE Interests: international cultural pavilion situated on a narrow peninsula, comprised of wood, glass and metal cladding, supports a three-hinged frame roof system, similar to those used in local barns,  identical trusses are situated at different angles resulting in a shifted roof which provides indirect lighting.

Building: Posbank Tea Pavilion
Location: Rheden, Netherlands
Completion: 2002
Architect: Bjarne Mastenbroek
Designer: SeARCH

AE Interests: commercial structure, comprised of steel (for tension loads), unprocessed oak timber and concrete (for compression loads) and glass, energy efficient and unified with the natural surroundings, floor rises in a continuous spiral, terminating in a 14 meter long cantilever.

Building: De Brink Centre
Location: Brink 184, 7551 JE Hengelo Ov, Netherlands
Completion: 1999
Architect: Bolles + Wilson
Design Team: Rem Koolhaas, Stefano de Martino, Georg Ritschl, Jeroen Thomas, Paul de Vroom, Alex Wall

AE Interests:  44 meter-tall, commercial tower with mixed-use development, includes apartment blocks, department store, shopping arcade, and underground parking structure. Constructed of white, pre-cast concrete panels, the tower houses an LED digital clock at the top and digital billboards at the pavilion level.

Building: The Aluminum Forest
Location: Voorveste 2, Houten, Utrecht, Netherlands
Completion: 2001
Architect: Micha de Hass
Design Team: Micha de Hass, Stephan Verkuijlen and Machiel Bakx

AE Interests: urban, commercial building, concrete, steel and aluminum structure poised above an artificial lake, supported by 368 narrow aluminum columns, which elevates the structure nearly 20 feet above the ground. This design was derived from the Dutch landscape where groups of trees are planted in a square arrangement and an early model consisted of a matchbox propped up on pins.

Building: Town Hall and Theatre
Location: IJsselstein, Netherlands
Completion: 2000
Architect: Ben van Berkel
Designer: UN Studios

AE Interests: merges functions of town hall, theatre and a grand café; the exterior is clad in green glass, reflecting the vegetation on the green side and framed by strips of concrete on the urban side.

Building: Museum Het Valkhof
Location: Kelfkensbos 596511 TB Nijmegen, Netherlands
(appx. 100 miles from Amsterdam)
Completion: 1999
Architect: UN Studios
Project Manager: Berns Project Management
Technical Manager: ABT Bouwkostenservice

AE Interests: contemporary, hybrid museum, located near the medieval city wall, built to house collections of archaeological artifacts and classical and modern art. the structural core is a central staircase and joins the museum with the library and café.

Building: Central Library, University of Technology
Location: Julianalaan 67, 2628 Delft, Netherlands
Completion: 1997
Architect: Mecanoo

AE Interests: central library for the campus with a sloped plane, extending the grass from the ground to the very edge of the roof. Surrounding the perimeter, glass walls provide light exposure to the interior. The pinnacle feature, the cone, emerges from within the library and protrudes from the roof. Within the cone, there is a spiral staircase which leads to the four stories of reading rooms inside. Atop the cone is a skylight that provides interior illumination.

Building: Lloyd’s Building
Location: 1 Lime Street, London, United Kingdom
Completion: 1986
Architect: Richard Rogers
Contractor: Bovis

AE Interests: This office space building is similar to the Pompidou Centre by Renzo Piano, this structure has the staircases, electrical conduits, water pipes and elevators on the exterior of the façade. It also has a large barrel-vaulted glass roof above the galleries 

Building: Glenwood Waterfront
Location: Yonkers, New York, USA
Completion: Proposed Design
Architect: SMC Alsop

AE Interests: The project will transform unused power plant smokestacks into residential housing complexes.

Building: Clarke Quay
Location:   3 River Valley Rd, Singapore
Completion: 2006
Architect: SMC Alsop
Architect of Record: RSP Architects
Concept Engineer: AtelierOne
Environmental Engineer: ARUP

AE Interests: elegant canopies, structural steel frames.

Building: Stratford DLR Station
Location: Station St, Newham, London E15, United Kingdom
Completion: 2007
Architect: SMC Alsop
Architect of Record: Paul Shakespeare

Project Director: Shaun Russell

AE Interests: sculpted steel canopy supported by cantilevered columns.

Building: Putney Place Buildings
Location: London, United Kingdom
Completion: Proposed Design
Architect: SMC Alsop
Project Architect: Max Titchmarsh

AE Interests: mosaic-like cladding, prefabricated bathroom facilities with factory-finished components and surfaces, sustainability/passive design, on-site renewable energy production, central water feature with ground jets.

Building: Ben Pimlott Building
Location: Goldsmiths College, University of London,
Lewisham Way, London, SE14, United Kingdom
Completion: 2004
Architect: Alsop & Partners
Structural Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor
Project Management: Buro Four

AE Interests: industrial aesthetic, nine meter-high steel “scribble” terrace, naturally ventilated studios, cantilevered self-supporting external staircase.

Building: Fawood Children’s Centre
Location: 35 Fawood Avenue, Stonebridge, NW10 8DX, United Kingdom
Completion: 2004
Architect: Alsop & Partners
Design & Build Contractor: Durkan Construction
Structural Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor
ME Engineer: Fulcrum Consulting/Pinnacle Building Services

AE Interests: opal polycarbonate roof cladding, galvanized steel frame, stainless steel mesh walls.

Building: AMEC Blizard Building
Location: Queen Mary University, 4 Newark Street,
London E1 2AT, United Kingdom
Completion: 2005
Architect: Alsop Design Ltd./AMEC
Main Contractor: Laing O’Rourke
Structural Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor
ME Engineer: WSP

AE Interests: open-plan environment, transparent building envelope, multi-colored glass bridge, three-story glass pavilion, suspended amenity pods, won the prestigious LEAF Award at the Leading European Architects Forum. 

Building: The Public Art Centre
Location: New Street, West Bromwich, B70, United Kingdom
Completion: 2008
Architect: Alsop Architects Ltd.

Project Direction: DCA Consultancy Ltd.
Construction Manager: ISG Interior Exterior
Structural Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor

Building Services Engineering and Environmental Design: Battle McCarthy Limited

AE Interests: multi-faceted/curved forms, large-scale ramps, interior designed as a bioclimatic environment for high energy efficiency and natural ventilation in many interior areas.

Building: Sharp Centre for Design
Location: 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, Canada
Completion: 2004
Architect: Alsop Architects Ltd.
Architect of Record: Robbie/Young & Wright Architects
Structural Engineer: Carruthers & Wallace Ltd.
ME Engineer: MCW Consultants Ltd.

AE Interests: black and white pixilated exterior, twelve multi-colored props support the structure, given the “Award of Excellence” by the Toronto Architecture and Urban Design Awards.

Building: Palestra
Location: Blackfriars Road, London, United Kingdom
Completion: 2006
Architect: SMC Alsop
Main contractor: Skanska
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold
Project Manager: CB Richard Ellis 

AE Interests: patchwork of color, tilted & cantilevered base, double glazed curtain walling system.

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