Project Name: Leeza SOHO

Company Name: Zaha Hadid Architects

Project Location: Beijing, China

Project Information/Details: Zaha Hadid Architects has released newLeeza SOHO images of Leeza SOHO, their mixed-use design in Beijing’s Lize Financial Business District. The project is notable for its 190-meter tall atrium, which rises the full height of the building, uniting two twisting sections which contain 172,800 square meters of office and residential space. At the base of the tower, a new transit hub straddles a subway tunnel that is currently under construction. Project Team: Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects Design: Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher Project Director: Satoshi Ohashi Project Associates: Kaloyan Erevinov, Ed Gaskin, Armando Solano Project Architect: Philipp Ostermaier Project Team: Yang Jingwen, Di Ding, Xuexin Duan, Samson Lee, Shu Hashimoto, Christoph Klemmt, Juan Liu, Dennis Brezina, Rita Lee, Seungho Yeo Competition Project Directors: Satoshi Ohashi and Manuela Gatto Competition Team Lead Designers: Philipp Ostermaier, Dennis Brezina, Claudia Dorner Competition Team: Yang Jingwen, Igor Pantic, Mu Ren, Konstantinos Mouratidis, Nicolette Chan, Yung-Chieh Huang

Project Name: Warrior Ice Arena

Company Name: Aggregate Industries US

Project Location: Boston, Massachusetts United States

Project Information/Details: When the Warrior Ice Arena was built, the architect wanted to bring the imagery of hockey from the interior to the exterior of the complex. With a landmark 68-foot-high hockey stick, the new 75,000-square-foot practice complex of the Boston Bruins hockey team includes an ice rink with seating for 660 fans, a lobby featuring displays of Bruins accomplishments, a modern locker suite and team lounge and expansive training and weight rooms. Aggregate Industries US (AIUS), a subsidiary of LafargeHolcim Ltd., designed and developed the product that allowed the vision to come to life. To achieve the aesthetic and LEED-certification goals of the project, AIUS created custom-designed mixes of its Artevia® brand of decorative concretes that contained unique colors, aggregates and textures, as well as treatments to reduce the urban heat island effect. The Warrior Ice Arena hardscape was awarded the Scofield Decorative Concrete Award during the 2017 World of Concrete show in Las Vegas, Nevada for its creative and sustainable sidewalks and courtyards. “We’re proud to have played a part of this project which, for Boston, is closely tied to our passion for sports,” said René Marais, Ready Mix sales manager for the Northeast Region of Aggregate Industries US. “The hockey imagery concepts for the arena’s main entrance were very detailed and creative. For example, the curvature lines by the hockey stick reflect the lines a player makes when he cuts hard on the ice, and the additional exposed white stones illustrate ice shavings kicked over by the skating blade.” To achieve the design goals for the hardscape, AIUS developed Artevia® Color and Artevia® Exposed samples with white and gray cement. The specialized concrete mix incorporated an integral coloring admixture from L. M. Scofield Company to create vibrant solar-reflective colors that conform to LEED 2009 requirements for reducing the urban heat island effect. This cool pavement technology helps keep concrete temperatures lower and provides a high solar reflective index value that qualifies the Warrior Ice Arena for a credit under the sustainable sites section of LEED.

Project Name: Golden 1 Center

Company Name: AECOM

Project Location: Sacramento, California United States

Project Information/Details: ACEC California named Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center as its 2017 Golden State Award Winner for its exceptional and unique sustainable design features. The Golden 1 Center – home of the National Basketball Association’s Sacramento Kings – was designed by AECOM in association with Henderson Engineering, Inc. and is the first indoor sports arena in the world to achieve LEED platinum certification. The Golden State Award is the highest honor ACEC California bestows as part of its Engineering Excellence Awards program. “Golden 1 Center is a dynamic example of how engineers and designers can create a structure that movingly captures the pride, the culture, and the priorities of a community. AECOM and Henderson Engineering should be very proud of their contribution to the City of Sacramento and we could not be more pleased to recognize the unique and environmentally innovative concepts implemented throughout this impressive project,” said Brad Diede, Executive Director of ACEC California. With a specific focus on sustainability, the arena contains several groundbreaking features that were designed to reduce energy use and harness Sacramento’s natural environment. Such features include: five-story high aircraft-hangar doors that open to the city and the natural cooling of the Sacramento Delta breeze; and a first-of-its-kind displacement ventilation system that saves energy and improves comfort by delivering conditioned air directly beneath the seats – even allowing fans to influence the temperature through an app on their cell phones. The 100% solar-electric venue will also achieve a 45 percent reduction in water use and 30 percent reduction in energy use of a typical arena. Beyond sustainability, the building is designed to provide fans with an unprecedented entertainment experience. The seating bowl puts over 60 percent of the fans close to the action in the lower bowl, while the hangar doors and unique indoor-outdoor atmosphere reflect the regional lifestyle. Golden 1 Center will demonstrate environmental leadership to an estimated 1.2 million visitors each year at over 200 events. The building has earned the highest score for a sports venue in the LEED program and placed in the top three percent of all LEED certified buildings. AECOM’s role on the project included architecture, engineering (MEP, structural, civil and high-performance buildings), programming, interior design, environmental design, urban planning, landscape design and sustainability consulting.