Al Wasl Plaza

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) is dedicated to the design of high-performance, energy-efficient, and sustainable architecture on an international scale. The firm approaches each project, regardless of size or scale, with an understanding that architecture has a unique power to influence civic life. We strive to create designs that aid society, advance modern technology, sustain the environment and inspire those around us to improve our world. We use a holistic, integrated design approach that emphasizes symbiotic relationship with the natural environment – a philosophy we’ve termed “global environmental contextualism.”
This approach, which takes into consideration building orientation, daylighting, generation of wind power, solar absorption, and a site’s geothermal properties, represents a fundamental change in the design process, in which form facilitates performance. It’s predicated on the understanding that everything within the built and natural environment is connected, and that a building’s design should stem from an understanding of its role within that context — locally, regionally and globally. Such a pluralistic approach acknowledges the interaction among building systems as well as between those systems and the natural environment and seeks to improve each individual system’s performance. By using this principle in the design of buildings, we can create structures that not only reduce their negative environmental impact, but in some cases, virtually eliminate it altogether.
AS+GG’s practice includes designers with extensive experience in multiple disciplines, including technical architecture, interior design, urban planning, and sustainable design. Architects also have expertise in a range of building types, including supertall towers, large-scale mixed-use complexes, corporate offices, exhibition facilities, cultural facilities and museums, civic and public spaces, hotels and residential complexes, institutional projects, and high-tech laboratory facilities. The firm was founded in 2006 by partners Adrian Smith, Gordon Gill and Robert Forest. Today there are 100 employees in offices in Chicago and Beijing.

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ISBN: 978-1-954081-83-3
Binding: Hardbound over 3mm boards, section sewn, square backed, separate ends, H&T bands, paper grain to run parallel to the spine
Case: 5c (CMYK + 1 metallic gold Pantone) + 1/s matt lamination + spot UV x 0c on 128gsm glossy art paper over 3mm boards
Ends: 2c x 2x on 140gsm woodfree paper (double hit of same Pantone color)
Trim size: 9.25” x 9.25” Square
Text: 4c x 4c on 157gsm matt art paper
Extent: 294pp text + ends + case

Gold cases finished with scuff free matt lamination, clear varnish over the 2c printing on cover, black UV printing to case (case to print 2c with white and black UV printing and black UV printing to overprint the white)

16pp pamphlet printing 4c x 4c on 157gsm matt art paper, self cover, folding accordion style