Union Centre Tower located at the intersection of many of Toronto&#;s public transit systems at Union Station. It is connected to a major data center serving the greater Ontario area and allowing for the provision of heat energy by reuse of waste heat from the center. The project is integrated with the city grid by transforming the disused &#;Station Street&#; into a pedestrian green way. The tower is accesses through an elevated walkway, as well as from the street. Both are lined with retail in a new low-rise street facing building. The building is composed of an efficient diagrid which stretches to become mega columns at ground level, allowing the building to float above the street. Beneath this hovering mass, a new concert venue is hug. The building iconic feature is the glass elevator core located on the outside of the building and transforming the building function into an urban spectacle.

In this study, the equilibrium equation of available potential, which reveals the relation of available potential and local exergy destruction rate, is determined, and the expressions of available potential and local exergy destruction rate are given. To improve heat transfer enhancement and reduce increase amplitude of flow resistance, a method termed as fluid-based heat transfer enhancement is proposed relative to surface-based heat transfer enhancement. An optimal mathematical model by constructing Lagrange function with exergy destruction corresponding to irreversibility loss of heat transfer process and fluid power consumption to flow loss of fluid is adopted to validate this method. To obtain the optimal flow structure in a tube, the tube flow is divided into two parts: core flow and boundary flow. For reducing the irreversibility loss in the core flow, we take fluid exergy destruction as optimization objective with prescribed fluid power consumption. For reducing the flow resistance in the boundary flow, we take fluid power consumption as optimization objective with prescribed fluid exergy destruction. The optimization equations for the convective heat transfer in laminar flow are derived, which are solved numerically. The longitudinal swirling flows in the tube are found at different parameters. In the optimized flow, heat transfer is enhanced greatly while accompanied with a little increase of flow resistance. Comprehensive performance, the ratio of increases in heat transfer and flow resistance, reaches at . after optimization.

The pool program is composed of a circuit pool, a diving pool, a play pool and a relaxation pool. The basins are differentiated as pockets along the promenade of the lap pool. Together they form a lake in the landscape, a continuous waterscape that embraces an island in its core. The pool basins are conceived as a concrete relief imbedded in the landscape. The views to the landscape are framed precisely by the façade of the above programs: the monolithic drum compresses the opening down to eye level, controlling views rather than dispersing them.

Sjakket Youth Club is situated in Copenhagen&#;s Nordvest neighborhood, densely populated with old industrial buildings and contemporary housing. In , when BIG and JDS were hired to convert the building, the area was mainly populated by lower income households and immigrant families. BIG decided to refurbish the factory without gentrifying its raw beauty and alienating its original occupants.

Virgin Hyperloop has gained significant momentum on the regulatory front, having unveiled West Virginia as the location for the Hyperloop Certification Center (HCC), also designed by BIG. The advancements at the HCC and the historic safety demonstration achieved with this test paves the way for the certification of Hyperloop systems around the world – the future of time and space, warped by Pegasus.