Building: Fuji Kindergarten
Location: Tachikawa,Tokyo
Architects: Tezuka Architects
Engineers: Takenaka Corporation
Completion: 2007
AE Interest: triangular steel structure for the roof; the roof was designed with openings for skylights and for the existing trees; no walls between the classrooms, this way the children learn to develop their own concentration in open and loud places.

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Building: Apartment Mound in Copenhagen
Location: Øresund City – between Copenhagen’s center and its airport
Architects: BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group)
Structural Engineers: Moe & Brodsgaard

AE Interest: Concrete structure, timber exterior wall, staircase of terraces, integration of two buildings into one, larger glass doors providing a beautiful view of the landscape.

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Location: St John’s College, Oxford, England
What it is: Senior Common Room
Architects: MJP Architects (MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, London)
Structural Engineers: Price and Myers, London; Buro Happold, Bath
Glass Engineers: Dewhurst MacFarlane & Partners, London

AE Interests: Electrically powered oak shutters, two story glass box extension.

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Building: Olympic Swimming Facility
Location: Munich, Germany
Architects: Behnisch + Partner and Frei Otto
Engineers: Bergermann und Partner and Auer + Weber
Cost: 1.35 billion German Marks to complete
Construction Time: 1968 to 1971

AE Interest: Structural design of roof and complex geometry

Building: Sino-Italian Ecological and Energy Efficient Building, Tsinghua University
Location: Guanghua Rd, Tsinghua University, Haidian, China, 100084
Completion: 2006
Architect: Mario Cucinella Architects (Bologna, Italy)
Engineers: Favero & Milan Ingegneria (Milan, Italy), China Architecture Design & Research Group (Beijing, China)

AE Interests: Solar Panel Shading, Adjustable Louvers, Integrated Energy Systems

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Building: Durance Theatre
Location: Chateau-Arnoux, France
Architect: Philippe Gazeau
Structural Engineers: Iosis/Oth Méditeranée
AE Interest: Exposed structure. Reinforced concrete main building with interesting steel truss roof structure.

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Building: Blumen Primary School and Bernhard Rose School
Location: Berlin, Germany
Architect: Huber Staudt Architekten
Structural Engineer: Reinhard Damm
AE Interest: Environmental Facade Addition

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Building: Student Housing, University of Copenhagen
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Architects: Lundgaard & Tranberg
Structural Engineer: Peter Bjersing, COWI
Landscape Architect: Marianne Levinsen Landscape

AE Interest: Precast concrete cantilevered sections

Building: Kulturzentrum
Location: Paris, France
Architects: Jakob + MacFarlane Architects
AE Interest: Structural, Architectural

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Building: Vacation Home

Location: Lake Huron, Canada

Architects: MOS

Structural Engineer: David Bowick, Blackwell Engineers

AE Interest: Floating Foundation

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Building: Sport Campus
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
Architect:   Wiel Arets Architects, Maastricht, Amsterdam, Zurich
Structural Engineer:  ABT, Velp

AE Interest:  Structural, Material, Architectural

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Building: Residential Villa
Location: Cahuita, Costa Rica
Architects: Gianni Botsford Architects
Structural Engineer: Tall Engineers
Contractor: Lechenne Construction

AE Interest: Structural, Environmental

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Building: Residential Home
Location: Holland, Netherlands
Architects: Powerhouse Co., Copenhagen/Rotterdam
Assistants: Nanne de Ru, Charles Bessard, Alexander Sverdlov, Nolly Vos, Wouter Hermanns, Anne Luetkenhues, Bjorn Andreassen, Joe Matthiessen
Structural Engineer: Breed ID Gilbert van der Lee, Den Haag

AE Interest: The structure of the house is rather unique. The main support lies in the exterior concrete structure, with one steel column supporting the roof over the center of the house, a bookshelf that doubles as a Vierendeel girder.

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Location: Jussieu University 10, rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France

Architect: Périphériques Architectes
Structural Engineer: OTH batiments
Project Managers: Stephanie Razafindralambo & Sebastien
Contractor: CBC-SICRA

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Building: University Hall of Residence
Location: Austin, TX
Architects: Alejandro Aravena and Ricardo Torrejon
Assistants: Tiffani Erdmanczyk, Adam Pyrek, Travis Hughbanks, Joyce Chen, Leyla Shams, Victor Oddo, Rebecca Emmons.
Structural Engineers: Datum Engineers

AE interests: handmade bricks used in exterior facade to roughen texture and provide a monastic tone.  Some bricks were placed in smooth stretcher bond patterns along the facade.

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