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BUILDING ON PAST SUCCESSBY TIMOTHY REEDY

Simply put, the ultimate recognition that Arquitectonica can receive as a direct result of our hard work is another commission. Repeat clients are the best way to gauge our performance; If they return, we obvi-ously performed well enough to make the selection of an architect for their next proj-ect an easy one. As if this were not enough, Arquitectonica’s global presence gives us the opportunity to not only work with these great clients again, but to expand the rela-tionships worldwide.

Consider how simple it would be for a client to shop elsewhere. These decisions are often political, and at high levels in the companies we work with. Going to another architect can achieve several objectives and often appease the senior level executives of the firm who have their favorites.

So why do clients come back?

Clients come back to an architect for sev-eral reasons. Obviously, we hope, design is the most important. Listening to the clients’

needs and translating that into a building design that accommodates their program requirements is not an easy undertak-ing. When the clients are as large as ours typically are, the task becomes even more challenging. While we represent a unified design front, clients are not typically uni-lateral in their decision making process. This translates into a need for us to listen to everyone. As professionals, we need to continue to listen to what our clients are looking for. This is an edge we have over

others who often strive to impose what they want onto the client, creating more battles than consensus.

Speed and accuracy allow us to get to the next project sooner. Without committing to it being a good or a bad circumstance, time is money for our clients. The faster our clients can get people into their build-ings, the faster they see the return on their investment. As architects, we often have some information on the timing of a proj-ect coming on line. Our work in both the design phases of the project and with the contractor during construction is key to the timely completion of a project.

While Arquitectonica is a corporation, this corporation is represented by people. I per-sonally never feel the need or the inclination to go back to a service provider with whom I was dissatisfied or one that provided a less than superior service, there are just too many options out there. The same is true of architects. We have very formidable competition and they are always waiting in the wings. How we interact, respond, react and perform as professionals determines the future of our working relationship with our clients.

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Faria Lima and Rua Lopes Neto Office Tower, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tishman Speyer

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Campus @ North First, San Jose, California, Tishman Speyer

Repetition, in the context of clients, is good. Those of us that have been in this profes-sion for seven or more years know just how cyclical it can be.

When slow periods present themselves, it is often repeat clients that carry the firm through the toughest times. The com-petition is more fierce and projects more sparse. We have performed well for a client and now they can confidently return to us.

Returning clients are also important to our portfolio. When a potential new client looks at our work and sees that the same repu-table clients have come back to us repeat-edly, it is held in the same regard as an indi-vidual holding a job for a formidable period of time as opposed to job hopping. It instills a feeling of confidence and a comfort that the firm has been tested and passed over and over again. It also works to justify our

fees when it is appropriate to use them as a comparison.

When we have a client that undertakes mul-tiple developments and they do not come back, getting them to return is a difficult undertaking. Pride, lack of information, reputation and a myriad of other factors all stand in the way. We need to think of every client in terms of their next project, and our ability to secure it by performing well on the current one.

Arquitectonica is fortunate to have some of the greatest repeat clients in the world. Whether it is Related in Miami or New York, Swire Properties throughout Asia, Tishman Speyer and Hines throughout the world, Ransom Everglades Schools, Rockrose, Bouygues, Orco Development, W. Torre in South America, Hyatt, Four Seasons, the City of Miami, or even the senior executive

that retains us to do their pri-vate residence because of our performance on their Head-quarters, these are all superior additions to our resume and reflectively, one of the most impressive lists in architec-ture.

Our next repeat client should always be a consideration. It does not matter if they are a developer we have been work-ing with for years or a cultural entity with whom we are doing our first project. We always need to be thinking in the con-text of how we can perform to a level that will allow Arquitec-tonica to be the only firm con-sidered for the design of their next project.

All of your hard work and dedi-cation to our clients is what will make this possible.

The Infinity, San Francisco, California, Tishman Speyer

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EOS Generali, Paris, France, Bouygues Immobilier

Exaltis, La Defense, France, Bouygues Immobilier

Bouygues Telecom Tower, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, Bouygues Immobilier

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GROWTH IN LATIN AMERICA

Bandeirantes Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil• Type : Mixed-Use (Residential, Office)• Client : Tishman Speyer - Método

WT Brooklin, São Paulo, Brazil• Type : Office• Client : W Torre

WT JK BLOCO “A”, São Paulo, Brazil• Type : Office Tower• Client : W Torre

WT Botafogo • Type : Office• Client : W Torre

Neto Office Tower, Sao Paulo, Brazil• Type : Mixed-Use (Office, Parking Garage)• Client : Tishman Speyer - Método

Alphaville / Videolar, São Paulo, Brazil• Type : Mixed-Use• Client : Tiner and Videola

Petrobras Headquarters - Sao Paulo• Type : Office• Client : W Torre

Cipriani Hotel & Residences and Iguatemi Retail Shopping Mall, São Paulo, Brazil• Type : Hotel, Residential, Retail• Client : W Torre

In recent months, Arquitectonica has experienced an enormous growth with new design commissions in Latin America. Repeat clients Tishman Speyer and Walter Torre & Partners have been a primary source. The following projects represent this recent growth and the continued efforts to expand the presence of Arquitectonica in the region and around the globe.

IRVINE VALLEy AT CENTER STAGE

After an 18-year wait, Irvine Valley College has its own performing arts center, the Irvine Valley College Performing Arts Center. On Tuesday, 30th of October the college had its official opening for the 53,200 SF, 388-seat theater with an invitation-only gala concert that opened with a trumpet fanfare and featured the college’s master chorale and wind symphony.

REVEL CASINO A REALITyConstruction is underway

Revel Entertainment Group, LLC has received preliminary site plan approval from the City of Atlantic City Planning Board for its beachfront casino entertainment resort on twenty acres of land along the Atlantic City Boardwalk in New Jersey.

The destination Resort will feature approxi-mately 3,800 Rooms, 150,000 SQ. FT of casino space and 500,000 SQ. FT of din-ing, retail and entertainment space including a 5,500 seat theater, an expansive health club and spa, meeting space and an outdoor oceanfront beach on approximately one acre. Revel is in the process of determining whether both hotel towers will be completed in the first phase of construction.

Kevin DeSanctis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Revel Entertainment, said, “This is a significant regulatory step forward in commencing construction of the Company’s resort entertainment casino project. Our plans are nearly complete, we expect to commence footing and foundation work shortly and be-lieve that construction will last approximately 36 months.”

NEW PROJECTSExpanding our presence with new designs

Arquitectonica was recentlty awarded a new 500,000 SF mixed-use project (office, hotel, possibly retail & residential) with one of our repeat clients, Hines. The project is located at Bird Road and Ponce de Leon Boulevard in Coral Gables, Florida.

Also the 4.8 million SF New Jiangwan Town Center, Shanghai- with clients Hines and Shanghai Chengtou Yuecheng Real Estate. Still in development, the project is conceived as a collection of streets and plazas in the manner of traditional town centers.

MAITRADE INAUGURATIONSM Composite another step forward

The SM Exhibit and Conference Center, the largest private meeting facility in the Philip-pines opened on November 5th at the SM Central Business Park in Pasay City, Manila.

Located at the heart of the SM Central Busi-ness Park, the three-storey, 46,000 square meter building consists of open exhibition ar-eas, multi functional halls and flexible meet-ing rooms designed for international and local events. For conventions and meetings, there are also five function rooms that can be combined so the area can sit from 500 to 4,100 guests.

The nine meeting rooms can also be com-bined to accommodate a simple meeting of 10 people to a seminar of 300 attendees.Arquitectonica designed the masterplan for this project.

TRINITy PLACE TO BREAK GROUND

After a six-year entitlement battle, Trinity Place owner Trinity Properties is gearing up to break ground on phase one of what will eventually be a 1,900-apartment complex on 1177 Market Street, San Francisco, CA.

Trinity Properties Walter Schmidt said shor-ing and excavation will begin shortly and take the project into 2008 when the “pile and foundation program” will start. Trinity Prop-erties estimate it will take two years to finish the first phase with the project including four phases overall.

PROJECT WEBSITEArquitectonica’s projects in Realtime

Arquitectonica’s Generali Office Complex, EOS for Generali Assicurazioni and Bouygues Immobilier in Paris, France has unvailed their new website www.eos-generali.com.

For a list of other project websites, go to www.arquitectonica.com, click on Realtime heading, then select Project Websites.

REGALIA AT THE GUGGENHEIMRegalia sponsors Annual Gala

The Regalia project was the title sponsor for the Annual Guggenheim Gala on November 8th in New York City. The event has been described in previous years as the “top fund-raising gala” and most exciting event of the year.

As one of the biggest events of the year, reaching a highly affluent and stylish crowd,

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From Left to Right: Hines “Bird Road”, Jiangwan Town Center, SM Exibit & Conference Center, Irvine Valley Performing Arts Center, Revel Resort and Casino

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The Guggenheim Gala was viewed by The Regalia team as the perfect match for their one of a kind collection of “mansions in the sky” which they describe as “living art installations” on the beach.

SKy TOWER ON SCHEDULE

Construction work on Sorouh Real Estate’s Sky Tower Development, part of The Gate District Development in Abu Dhabi, is run-ning on schedule according to Mounir Hai-dar, CEO for Sorouh Real Estate.

Due for completion by late 2009, the 74 storey elliptical-shaped tower launched in April 2006 will rise to 300 m once complet-ed. Facilities for the Sky Tower project will include a 145,000 SQ.FT retail mall and an exceptionally large sports and leisure center covering the entire podium deck featuring a state of the art fitness center, swimming pools, tennis courts, squash courts, spa and more.

CITy OF DREAMS ON SCHEDULE

Construction of The City of Dreams Resort and Casino on Cotai in Macau remains on time and on budget with the June 15, 2007 announcement from MPEL (Melco PBL En-tertainment) indicating that the direct cost of the construction of City of Dreams, excluding the co-located apartment hotel tower, would be US$1.85 billion and that the cost of the land would be US$279 million.

Mr. Lawrence Ho, Co-Chairman and CEO of

Melco PBL Entertainment, remarked: “Our City of Dreams casino and resort will set a new benchmark for a “must-see” desti-nation in Asia. The rapid pace of construction progress on site is exhilarating. Full praise is due to the efficiency and professionalism of the Macau government, the DSSOPT, our managing contractor and site personnel.”

BENTLEy BEACH JOINS HILTON

The Bentley Beach Hotel in South Beach, has joined the Hilton Hotel Corporation in Miami Beach; the Hiltons first franchise on Miami Beach. Mr. Alexander Mirza, the senior vice president, Corporate Development, Hilton Hotels Corporation remaked,

“Our addition of the Bentley Beach Hotel is consistent with The Hilton Hotel Corpora-tion’s strategy of operating the finest proper-ties in the most outstanding locations. Our company has waited a long time to select the right property to carry the Hilton name on South Beach; Bentley Beach Hotel possesses a sense of style and elegance that was ideal for our inaugural Miami Beach property.”

REGENT LEAVES SOUTH BEACH

The Regent South Beach changed operators in mid September 2007 to Vincci Hotels. Regent Hotels & Resorts officially left on September 13th at midnight, nine months after opening the condo-hotel.

Vincci Hotels, a chain based in Spain with properties in New York and Palo Alto, Calif., took over the beachfront property on Friday September 14th.

CITySCAPE DUBAIArquitectonica on display

Cityscape Dubai on October 16-18 2007 welcomed more than 50,000 regional and international investors, property developers, governmental and development authorities, leading architects, designers, consultants and other senior professionals from more than 120 countries. More than 1,000 exhibi-tors showcased their projects and services on 753,473 SFT (70,000 SQM) of prime exhibition space.

Arquitectonica was represented by Peter Brannan, Michael Grimshaw, Cathy Lee, Ben-son Wright and Claire Young.

HUDSON SQUARE WINS SILVERArquitectonicaGeo blooms again

Geo recently won a silver medal award from the Miami + Beach Bienal for their design of Hudson Square. Geo participated in the Hudson Square project, along with other firms FLAnk, LTL Architects, SpaN, and also Zakrzewski + Hyde Architects in association with Starr White House Landscape Architects.

Congratulations also to Roberto Rivera from GEO for winning the Landscape Architect of the Year award from Miami AIA.

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From Left to Right: Trinity Place, Regalia, The Gate, City Of Dreams Macau, The Bentley Beach Hotel, Vincci South Beach

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AWARD WINNING DESIGNSArquitectonica recipient of AIA Awards

Five of Arquitectonica’s projects recently received design awards from the Miami Chap-ter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). An awards ceremony was held on November 17th. The winning projects were:

Sarasota Herald-Tribune Headquarters, Sarasota, FL

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AWARDS PODIUM

In addition to the Miami AIA Awards, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune Media Headquar-ters and The Bronx Museum of the Arts also received design awards from the Society of American Registered Architects.

City Park, Aventura, Florida ArtéCity, Miami, Florida

Marquis, Miami, FLRegalia, Sunny Isles, FL

DEVELOPERS AWARD EXCELLENCEArquitectonica achieves multiple sucesses

The Developers & Builders Alliance was founded by five of the most influential indi-viduals in the industry. The group consists of Donald Trump, Jorge Perez (The Related Group), Don Peebles (Peebles Corporation) and the Dezers (father and son).

The gala awards ceremony took place at Don-ald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Estate in Palm Beach Florida. Four Arquitectonica projects received various awards from the Alliance including:Regalia – “Project of the Year” for High-Rise Development. The winner was Paul Murphy and his development partners.Marquis – “Excellence in Contracting” for High-Rise Residential Structural. The winner was KM Plaza construction company.ArtéCity – “Project of the Year” for Condo Ho-tel, Hotel, Resorts. The winner was The Wave Group Development (Alessandro Ferretti).City Park Aventura – “Project of the Year” for Mixed-Use Properties. The winner was Sky Development Group (Yizhak Toledano).

Menara Karya, Jakarta Indonesia

The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx Ny

The Related Group Corporate Headquar-ters Office Interiors, Miami, FL

Exaltis Tower at La Défense, Paris, France

MOZART WINS GRAND PRIX

Arquitectonica recently prevailed over some of the best-known sustainability architects in Europe and the United States to claim a prestigious honor, The “Grand Prix” award, a top international prize for achievements in sustainable design.

The award was presented to our client Bouygues Immobilier and Arquitectonica for the Bouygues Telecom Tower which was honored as the best building in the High-Rise category during the Eco-Building Per-formance Forum on September 18, 2007 at Porte de Versailles Expo.

Bernardo Fort-Brescia, FAIA:“This is an exceptional honor for us as we complete several large and highly visible buildings around Paris. The recognition of our design work in France, which is unparal-leled among U.S. firms, is now matched by our capabilities in green building.”

The design of the Bouygues Telecom Tower complex features green-building innovations in energy production and efficiency, water retention and reuse, air conditioning, and in building envelope construction.

INTERNATIONAL AWARDSTwo Arquitectonica projects receiveinternational praise

ICON Brickell, the $1.2 billion luxury con-dominium development on Brickell Avenue, in downtown Miami, has earned one of the building industry’s most prestigious honors-The International Property Award for the World’s “Best Development.”

Arquitectonica shares the award with our client The Related Group, ICON Brickell’s developer, and Designer Philippe Starck. The Related Group’s Founder and CEO, Jorge Perez accepted the international award in London on September 14, 2007 stating “This immense honor illustrates ICON Brick-ell’s caliber in the highly competitive global property arena,”

The International Property Awards, the larg-est of its type in the world, is now in its 13th year. Supported by five media partners and nine professional organizations, the Awards attracted entries from a record 57 different companies in 2007. The panel of judges consisted of some of the industry’s top pro-fessionals. Factors considered included lo-cation, target market, external appearance of the development, innovation and outstanding architectural and interior design.

The Related Group’s ICON Brickell, Miami, FL

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Constructed with a highly unique double-skin facade, the 936,000 SF structure features a shading system between the two skins. Trig-gered by light and heat detectors, the shades automatically climb and descend as befits the energy needs of the structure and the comfort needs of its occupants. Other areas make use of shutters and fins to control light penetration and distribution. A lower building roof is designed as a “green roof,” planted with landscaping and gardens for cool-ing and water retention. Other features that helped Mozart win the “High-Rise” category award include:

• Solar thermal panels (for hot water) and photovoltaic cells (for electrical power) installed on rooftops within glass fins.

• Steam heat from an adjacent waste treatment facility.• Use of elevator motion to cogenerate electricity. • Use of a CO2 detection system, which

triggers fresh outdoor air circulation only when and where occupants require it.

• A rainwater collection system, which filters and stores the water for use in toilets and landscape watering.

Bouygues Telecom Tower, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

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Arquitectonica employees who possessed the will power and the determination to run for charity and perhaps simply for personal growth, recently took part in the ING New York City Marathon on November 4th 2007.

The premier event of New York Road Runners, the ING New York City Marathon is one of the world’s great road races, drawing more than 90,000 applicants. The race attracts many world-class professional athletes, not only for the more than $600,000 in prize money, but also for the chance to excel in the media capital of the world before two million cheering spectators and 315 million worldwide television viewers. As any one of the more than 700,000 past participants will attest, crossing the finish line in Central Park is one of the great thrills of a lifetime.

The first New York City Marathon, in 1970, was four-plus laps of Central Park. In 1976, in celebration of the U.S. bicentennial, NYRR moved the marathon to the streets of New York’s five boroughs: Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Manhattan. The course united dozens of culturally and ethnically diverse neighborhoods, passing over five bridges, and finishing up at Tavern on the Green in world-famous Central Park.

Thirty-one years later, the course continues to challenge thousands of athletes every year and has become a model for big-city marathon courses around the world.

Congratulations to the following staff for completing the 26.2 mile event.

Anne Cotter (Miami Office)

Michael Grimshaw (Hong Kong Office)

Chul Moon (New York Office)

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ON THE ROAD AGAINArquitectonica staff in the great race

CANSTRUCTIONBuilding to fight hunger

“The Face of May West That CAN Be Used to Fight Hunger.”

Clockwise from top left:Anne CotterMichael GrimshawChul Moon

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The New York office took part in this year’s Canstruction, a charity event run by The Society for Design Administration (SDA).Canstruction® is a design/build competition currently held in cities throughout North America and recently in Australia. Teams of architects and engineers compete to design and build giant structures made entirely from full cans of food.

The results are displayed to the public as magnificent sculptures. At the close of the exhibitions the food is donated to local food banks for distribution to emergency feeding programs.

Cangratulations to the following NY team members who cantributed to our design:Captains: Eric Hofmann, Bradley Bartholomew Support Team: Sam Luckino, Charles Paray, Michael Sargent, Benay Betts, Annie Kwon, Chris Barker, Aaron Bowen, Ed Kasparek, Kyle Freeman, Jonathan Kinsley and Michael Hirsch.

OUR NEWEST EMPLOyEESArquitectonica extends welcome wishes to the following newest members of the firm.

MIAMI Daziano Smith, Miguel GonzalezNEW yORK Hank Byron, Thomas DelSordo,Lisha Jiang, James Neville, Sanghyun Ahn, Lourdes GavilanesARQUITECTONICA GEO Mariela Davalos, Donia Hopkins, Daniel StevensSHANGHAI Vicky Zhou, Erica Wang, Celine Bory, John Zhang, Yahya Morad, Ying Zhou, Sam Xue, Lily ZhanHONG KONG Esther Ho, Chris LeeMANILA Jordan Tatlong Hari, Angel Ciscar, Gerard Gomez

ARQUITECTONICA PUBLISHEDA sampling of recent articles featuringArquitectonica and the firm’s designs.

Arquitectonica was the cover story in the October 2007 edition of PODER magazine. The seven page article credits Arquitectonica and its principals with reshaping Miami’s image of itself, re-sculpting its built envi-ronment while simultaneously touching the world with global form and function.Featured projects: The Miami Children’s Museum, The Pink House, The Atlantis and The American Airlines Arena.

Recent articles featuring Arquitectonica:• San Francisco Business TimesNovember 12, 2007 - Massive excavation to begin at

Trinity Plaza, By J.K. Dineen. Projects #2338 Trinity

Place, #2238 Infinity

• Miami TodayNovember 8, 2007 - Latitude project cashes in on

residential, office markets, Page 17, By M.Bowden.

Projects #2199 - Latitude on the River Condominium

and Latitude One Office Bldg, Miami, FL

• Courier PostNovember 6, 2007 - Board to consider casino plan, By

W.H. Sokolic. Projects #2527 Revel Beachfront Casino

Entertainment Resort, Atlantic City, NJ

• The Big ProjectIssue 10 - Grand Prix Award Page 10, Project #2361

Bouygues Telcom Headquarters, Issy les Moulineaux

(Paris), France

• The Robb Report CollectionNovember 2007 issue - Looking Up, The Meteoric rise

of luxury condominium living Page 75, By K. Fredericks

Project #2146 Canyon Ranch Living, Miami Beach, FL

• The Organge County RegisterOctober 27, 2007 - Irvine Valley College at center stage By L. BLEIBERG, Project #2214 Irvine Valley College

Performing Arts Center, Irvine, CA

• Home MiamiSeptember 2007 issue - XL L M S Regalia XL, Page 64,

Project # 2440 Regalia, Sunny Isles Beach, FL

• Gaming & LeisureFall 2007 issue - The Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino

CEO Ian Bruce Eichner & COO Audrey Oswell, Page 52,

By J. Caruso, Project #2255 The Cosmopolitan Resort

& Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

• Que NewspaperOctober 23 2007 - Camara da el Visto bueno al nuevo

techo de Murcia, Page 6, Project # M02315.00

Residential Tower Development, Murcia, Spain

• Florida InsideOut Sep/Oct 2007 issue - The Caribbean Boom, Page 64,

By E. Beck, Project #2472 Icon Vallarta, Puerto Val-

larta, Mexico - 2007 AIA Honor & Design Awards, Page

38, Project #2122 High School of Construction Trades,

Engineering & Architecture New York, New York

• Haute LivingSep/Oct 2007 issue - Miami’s Backyard, Page 81,

By S. Wilson, Project #2255 The Cosmopolitan, #2412

Las Ramblas, #2490 Las Palmas, #2267 Icon LV

• Mississippi MagazineSeptember 2007 issue - TelCom Center monument to

Jackson’s renaissance Page 24, Project #2114 Missis-

sippi Telecommunications & Conference Center

• Real Estate & Investment Middle EastSeptember 2007 issue - Arquitectonica: Internation-

ally renowned for excellence and innovation, Page 54,

Project #2370 The Gate, Reem Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE

• Justice Facilities Review2007 issue - Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. United States

Courthouse, Page 30, Project # 9750 Wilkie D. Fergu-

son, Jr. United States Courthouse Miami, FL

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Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. Courthouse featured on coverBernardo Fort Brescia featured on cover The Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino featured on cover

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