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Ravensbourne College – London, UK
Building:Ravensbourne College
Location: London, UK
Completion: 2010
Architect: Foreign Office Architects (FOA)
Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor (AKT)
AE interests: Complex exterior envelope. Also perforated concrete walls and central columns provide large open spaces for use as lecture halls and other academic functions
UTL2011-A?, UTL2011-E
360 London – London, UK

Building: 360 London
Location: London, UK
Architect:Rogers Stirk Harbour+Partners
Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor
AE interests: structure provides for a flexible internal layout, skyscraper in urban London
Asticus Building

Building: Asticus Building
location: London, UK
completion: 2006
Architect: Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor (AKT)
ae interests: the shape and positions of the interior columns maximize the enclosed circular space.
Exhibition Pavilion – Oslo, Norway
Building: Exhibition Pavilion, Norwegian Museum of Architecture
Location: Oslo, Norway
Completion: 2008
Architect: Sverre Fehn
Contractor: Kare Hagen AS
Construction: Statsbygg
AE interests: curved concrete roof, concrete column supports, glass facade for natural effect, glass louvers for sun screening.
Roy Thomson Hall – Toronto, Canada
Building: Roy Thomson Hall
location: 60 Simcoe Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Original Architect: Arthur Erickson and Mathers and Haldenby
Construction: 1982
Renovation: 2002
Architect: KPMB Architects
Engineering: Carruthers & Wallace Ltd
AE interests: feeling of intimacy, no seat further than 107 ft from the stage with unobstructed views. Double shell blocks external noise, renovation equipped with adjustable acoustical canopy, glass exterior transparent at night and refelctive during the day.
Greenwich Millennium Village – London, England
Building: Greenwich Millennium Village
Location: London, England
Completion: 2006
Architect: Ralph Erskine, EPR Architects LTD
Developer: Greenwich Millennium Village LTD
Structural Engineer: Ramboll, Price & Myers
Landscape Architecture: Battle McCarthy Limited
Integrated Ecological Design: Battle McCarthy Limited
AE interests: environmentally sustainable development, large high performance windows, non-polluting paint, CO2 emissions reduced by Combined Heat and Power system, series of infrastructure layers (heating, electrical distribution, water drainage, gas routes), pre-engineered steel framed structures allow for versatility.











