35 Best Architecture Firms in United States

With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs. Fortunately, Architizer is able to provide guidance on the top design firms in United States based on more than a decade of data and industry knowledge.

How are these architecture firms ranked?

The following ranking has been created according to key statistics that demonstrate each firm’s level of architectural excellence. The following metrics have been accumulated to establish each architecture firm’s ranking, in order of priority:

• The number of A+Awards won (2013 to 2024)
• The number of A+Awards finalists (2013 to 2024)
• The number of projects selected as “Project of the Day” (2009 to 2024)
• The number of projects selected as “Featured Project” (2009 to 2024)
• The number of projects uploaded to Architizer (2009 to 2024)

Each of these metrics is explained in more detail at the foot of this article. This ranking list will be updated annually, taking into account new achievements of United States architecture firms throughout the year.

Without further ado, here are the 35 best architecture firms in United States:

35. Woods Bagot

Woods Bagot Global Studio continually expands and challenges the expectations of multi-disciplinary architectural practice in a shifting, fast-moving digital era. Its portfolio is worldwide in scope, diverse in scale and discipline, and encompasses some of the highest-profile projects currently underway in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East.
The firm’s work is defined by its clarity of narrative and by the extensive use of state-of-the-art analytics as a platform for design. Its 16 studios, located in major cities around the globe, consistently inspire the firm’s work with a rigorous vocabulary that references urban and regional context, ecological and social sustainability, and innovation.

Some of Woods Bagot’s most prominent projects include:

• Short Lane, Sydney, Australia
• SUONE Gemdale Plaza, Suzhou, China
• BRC Century Business Plaza Regeneration, Chengdu, China
• The Amberly, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, United States
• St Mary’s Calne School Library, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom

The following statistics helped Woods Bagot achieve 35th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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34. Miró Rivera Architects

Miró Rivera Architects is an internationally recognized architecture practice whose body of work exemplifies design excellence, blurs art and architecture, and reflects a unique sense of place. The studio offers a wide range of architectural services including: institutional, commercial, and residential architecture; urban planning; and interior design.

Miró Rivera Architects has garnered over 100 design awards, including the AR Emerging Architecture Award; the Texas Architecture Firm Award; ArchDaily’s list of the “World’s Best Architects”; and 40 local, state and national awards from the American Institute of Architects. The firm has represented architecture from the United States at exhibitions across Europe, Asia, and Latin America; their work has been featured worldwide in numerous prestigious publications, including Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, and The New York Times.

Some of Miró Rivera Architects’s most prominent projects include:

• 1917 Bungalow, Austin, TX, United States
• Hill Country House, Wimberley, TX, United States
• Vista Residence, Austin, TX, United States
• Lady Bird Lake Hike and Bike Trail Restroom, Austin, TX, United States
• Residence 1414 Renovation, Austin, TX, United States

The following statistics helped Miró Rivera Architects achieve 34th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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33. Wheeler Kearns Architects

Wheeler Kearns is a collective practice of architects. We work with people who seek to enrich their lives in spaces that embody their purpose, energy and vision.

When a space we design resonates with your deepest intention, it has a lasting and powerful impact. As we work with you, we devote all our energies to understanding your core purpose, the transformation you seek, your mission. We want to see your challenge through your eyes. Doing this guides us to what we call the “emotional center,” the heart around which your entire project revolves. We return to that central idea as we craft concepts, help you make decisions, and refine our responses to those choices.

Some of Wheeler Kearns Architects’s most prominent projects include:

• North Lawndale Employment Network, Chicago, IL, United States
• Great Lakes Academy Expansion, Chicago, IL, United States
• Intrinsic School, Chicago, IL, United States
• Granor Greenhouse, Three Oaks, MI, United States
• Art Institute of Chicago – Ryan Learning Center Renovation, Chicago, IL, United States

The following statistics helped Wheeler Kearns Architects achieve 33rd place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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32. LMN Architects

LMN Architects specializes in designing convention centers, cultural arts venues, higher education and sports facilities, commercial and mixed-use developments and urban environments that celebrate and enrich communities. Founded in 1979, LMN has earned an international reputation for high quality design, successfully managing complex projects and delivering progressive, sustainable solutions.
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Some of LMN Architects’s most prominent projects include:

• University of Iowa School of Music: Suspended Theatroacoustic System, Iowa City, IA, United States
• Sound Transit University of Washington Station, Seattle, WA, United States
• Voxman Music Building Terracotta Facade, University of Iowa, IA, United States
• Voxman Music Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
• Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA, United States

The following statistics helped LMN Architects achieve 32nd place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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31. Signum Architecture

Signum’s most valuable design tool is the trust clients place in them to craft personal spaces that reflect what they already know about themselves and what they discover about themselves through the collaboration. Whether conspiring on a winery estate, a modest, sustainability-forward passive house or a private retreat, this relationship infuses each work with originality and meaning.
Located in Napa Valley wine country, Signum specializes in custom residential and winery design.

Some of Signum Architecture’s most prominent projects include:

• Aperture Cellars, Healdsburg, CA, United States
• Odette Estate Winery, Napa County, CA, United States
• Domaine Fondugues Pradugues, Saint-Tropez, France
• Covert Estate Winery, Napa, CA, United States
• HALL Wines, Saint Helena, CA, United States

The following statistics helped Signum Architecture achieve 31st place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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30. The Miller Hull Partnership

Founded in 1977 by David Miller and Robert Hull, partners with a defining background in the Peace Corps, The Miller Hull Partnership is strongly influenced by site and environmental conditions. The heart of our work is understanding the power of natural surroundings. Our legacy of environmentally responsible buildings is inspired by the efficiency and elegance of passive systems and regional materials. We leverage the openness and flexibility of modernist form to celebrate connections inside and out. We continually explore the boundaries of current thought, pulling from the latest technology, materials and cultural context. Miller Hull is widely recognized for innovative, timeless designs that provide enduring value by harmoniously elevating the ordinary with nature.
Partnership is at the core of our practice.

Some of The Miller Hull Partnership’s most prominent projects include:

• Loom House, Bainbridge Island, WA, United States
• The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design, Atlanta, GA, United States
• Renton Public Library, Renton, WA, United States
• Health Sciences Education Building, Seattle, WA, United States
• C Concourse Expansion (CCE) at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), Seattle, WA, United States

The following statistics helped The Miller Hull Partnership achieve 30th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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29. Form4 Architecture

Form4 Architecture believes in returning a sense of humanity to Modernism through emotional meaning and poetic design. The San Francisco-based award‐winning firm measures success by our contributions to society through a 2nd Century Modernist approach that balances expressive design, rigor, empathy, and sustainability to create captivating buildings and spaces that resonate with people and enhance their lives.

Some of Form4 Architecture’s most prominent projects include:

• Corten Ribbon, Walnut Creek, CA, United States
• Sanguine Lily, 1916 Centenary Chapel at Glasnevin Cemetery
• Glass Butterfly
• The Museum of No Spectators, Pershing County, NV, United States
• The Innovation Curve, Palo Alto, CA, United States

The following statistics helped Form4 Architecture achieve 29th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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28. seele

The seele group, with headquarters in Gersthofen in Bavaria, is one of the world’s top companies specialising in the design and construction of façades and complex building envelopes made from glass, steel, aluminium, membranes and other high-tech materials. The technology leader in façade construction was founded in 1984 by master glazier Gerhard Seele and steelwork engineer Siegfried Gossner.

Based on a profound understanding of design and materials, seele provides everything necessary to achieve ambitious one-off designs true to the original ideas of engineers and architects. seele offers its building sector and industrial customers a complete package of services ranging from R&D, individual advice and joint conceptual design right up to the planning, detailed design and construction of their projects.

Some of seele’s most prominent projects include:

• Maggie’s Centre Barts, London, United Kingdom
• Canary Wharf Crossrail, London, United Kingdom
• CTF Museum, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• 432 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States
• Butterfly Pavilion, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

The following statistics helped seele achieve 28th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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27. Sasaki

For 70 years, Sasaki has pioneered interdisciplinary design by integrating planning, urban design, landscape architecture, civil engineering, architecture, interior design, graphic design, and data science to shape the places in which we live.

We are a diverse practice of 350 professionals whose vision and ideas shape the structure and organization of the firm. Collaboration is at the core of what we do. We see it not as just a working style, but as one of the fundamentals of innovation. Our design is a process, not just an outcome. We conceive of sustainability in its multiple forms – environmental, societal, and economic – and believe that our clients are best served by built environments that respect, advance, and preserve all three.

Some of Sasaki’s most prominent projects include:

• Chicago Riverwalk, Chicago, IL, United States
• Bai’etan Exhibition Center Landscape, Guangzhou, China
• Rebuild by Design
• Shanghai Hongkou Stadium and Luxun Park
• The Ellinikon Metropolitan Park and Coastal Front, Athens, Greece

The following statistics helped Sasaki achieve 27th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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26. Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Founded in 1981, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) is a design studio whose practice spans the fields of architecture, urban design, installation art, multi-media performance, digital media, and print. With a focus on cultural and civic projects, DS+R’s work addresses the changing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio is based in New York and is comprised of over 100 architects, designers, artists and researchers, led by four partners—Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro and Benjamin Gilmartin. DS+R’s cross genre work has been distinguished with TIME’s “100 Most Influential People” list and the first grant awarded in the field of architecture from the MacArthur Foundation, which identified Diller and Scofidio as, “architects who have created an alternative form of architectural practice that unites design, performance, and electronic media with cultural and architectural theory and criticism.

Some of Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s most prominent projects include:

• High Line, New York, NY, United States
• High Line Lighting, New York City, NY, United States
• MA Curatorial Practice at School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, United States
• Columbia University Medical Center, Graduate Education Building, New York, NY, United States
• The Shed, New York, NY, United States

The following statistics helped Diller Scofidio + Renfro achieve 26th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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25. Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects [LOHA]

Founded in 1994 by Lorcan O’Herlihy, FAIA, LOHA is an award-winning architecture and urban design firm of twenty-five talented designers, with offices in Los Angeles and Detroit. Collectively and collaboratively, driven by O’Herlihy, passion and creative vision, we have built a robust portfolio of work that is rooted in embracing architecture’s role as a catalyst for change. With a conscious understanding that architecture operates within a layered context of political, developmental, environmental, and social structures, LOHA seeks to elevate the human condition via the built environment. We work with a diverse group of stakeholders to deliver work ranging from art galleries, bus shelters, and large-scale neighborhood plans, to large mixed-use developments, supportive housing, and university residential complexes.

Some of Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects [LOHA]’s most prominent projects include:

• Granville1500, Los Angeles, CA, United States
• Jeanette301, Santa Ana, CA, United States
• MLK1101 Supportive Housing, Los Angeles, CA, United States
• Cloverdale749, Los Angeles, CA, United States
• Nike Icon Studios LA, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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24. Cerami & Associates, Inc.

Cerami & Associates is a premier, national acoustical, audiovisual, and technology design consulting firm. Our experience provides us with the background expertise needed to provide comprehensive design services on projects of any size. From corporate facilities to hospitals, museums to educational facilities, courthouses to hotels, and transportation hubs to data centers, we have successfully completed projects of all types.

Some of Cerami & Associates, Inc.’s most prominent projects include:

• Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Terminal 2, Mumbai, India
• One World Trade Center, New York, NY, United States
• Columbia University Medical Center, Graduate Education Building, New York, NY, United States
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center, 900, Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, United States
• Lunder Building, MA, United States

The following statistics helped Cerami & Associates, Inc. achieve 24th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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23. CannonDesign

CannonDesign is an integrated design solutions firm focused on helping people continuously flourish. Whether designing for innovations in health, new scientific discoveries, equity in education or the next big idea in business, we use our Living-Centered Design approach to improve human life and catalyze widespread, systemic change. Our ability to help organizations solve challenges and seize opportunities is why Fast Company named us a World Changing Company and one of the most innovative design firms in the world.

Some of CannonDesign’s most prominent projects include:

• St. Louis Public Library, Central Library Renovation, St. Louis, MO, United States
• Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montreal, Canada
• Kaleida Health System Clinical and Medical Research Building (Global Heart and Vascular Institute an, Buffalo, NY, United States
• 201 Ellicott, Buffalo, NY, United States
• Daley College: Manufacturing, Technology and Engineering Center, Chicago, IL, United States

The following statistics helped CannonDesign achieve 23rd place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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22. NADAAA

NADAAA is a design firm with expertise in architecture, landscape, and urban design. With a defined culture of research, collaboration, and fabrication, the firm has challenged the building industry by taking on its means and methods, while also developing innovative ways of building at many scales– from the scale of infrastructure to furniture. Led by Nader Tehrani the firm operates with twenty-five collaborators, between offices in Boston and New York City.

Some of NADAAA’s most prominent projects include:

• MIT Site 4, Cambridge, MA, United States
• Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
• Rock Creek House, Washington, DC, United States
• University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, Toronto, Canada
• Villa Varoise, France

The following statistics helped NADAAA achieve 22nd place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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21. Tim Griffith Photographer

Award-winning architectural photographer working worldwide.

Some of Tim Griffith Photographer’s most prominent projects include:

• Abu Dhabi National Oil Company Headquarters, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
• China Merchants Tower & Woods Park Master Plan, Shenzhen, China
• The Line, Lockeford, CA, United States
• Cayan Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Hamad International Airport, Doha, Qatar

The following statistics helped Tim Griffith Photographer achieve 21st place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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20. Feldman Architecture

Feldman Architecture is an innovative residential and commercial studio known for creating buildings that sit lightly on the earth: beautiful, healthful, and soulful spaces that enhance our clients’ lives, our communities, and the environment.

Some of Feldman Architecture’s most prominent projects include:

• Mill Valley Cabins, Mill Valley, CA, United States
• Slot House, Los Altos, CA, United States
• Surf House, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
• Sunrise, Healdsburg, CA, United States
• The Sanctuary, Palo Alto, CA, United States

The following statistics helped Feldman Architecture achieve 20th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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19. Feinknopf Photography

Feinknopf Photography is a nationally recognized, award winning, commercial photography studio which specializes in Architectural, Corporate & Portrait Photography. Feinknopf has been in existence for over 20 years and has built a reputation for quality and excellent service. Feinknopf photography has shot project both domestically and internationally and our work has been published all over the world. Additionally, Feinknopf’s work has been a critical component in nearly 100 AIA Local, State & National awards

Some of Feinknopf Photography’s most prominent projects include:

• Mori Hosseini Student Union | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States
• School of Art & Design at New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, NY, United States
• Youngmeyer, Elk County, KS, United States
• Bully Hill House, North Branch, NY, United States
• John and Frances Angelos Law Center, University of Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States

The following statistics helped Feinknopf Photography achieve 19th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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18. ZGF Architects

ZGF is a design firm with a focus on architecture, interior design and urban design. Founded 70 years ago in Portland, Oregon, with a mission to strive for design excellence, stewardship of our natural and built environment, and exceptional client service, ZGF has grown to include over 500 employees and additional offices in Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington DC, New York, and Vancouver BC.
ZGF’s design philosophy is centered on the premise that design excellence should be reflected in each and every aspect of a building—its fit with the community, its function and relationship to its users, its building systems, and its…

Some of ZGF Architects’s most prominent projects include:

• The Assembly, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
• J. Craig Venter Institute La Jolla, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, United States
• Expensify Portland Office, Portland, OR, United States
• Expensify Office, Portland, OR, United States
• University of California, San Francisco, Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

The following statistics helped ZGF Architects achieve 18th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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17. Salter

Salter consults on over 900 worldwide projects each year with headquarters in San Francisco and branch offices in San Jose, Los Angeles, Honolulu, and Seattle. In 1975, Charles Salter founded the company on principles of sound engineering, scientific process, inquisitive problem solving, and personal integrity. His motto was simple: to be better every day. Having grown from 1 engineer to a team of 50 that includes acoustical, audiovisual, telecommunications, and security experts, that commitment remains the same.

At Salter, our legacy is 45 years of award-winning projects. We are a team of Professional Engineers, LEED Accredited Professionals, Certified Technology Specialists, Registered Communications Distribution Designers, Fellows of the Audio Engineering Society, and Fellows of the Acoustical Society of America.

Some of Salter’s most prominent projects include:

• Pinterest HQ, San Francisco, CA, United States
• The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
• The Strand, American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.), San Francisco, CA, United States
• Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA, United States
• Windhover Contemplative Center, Stanford, CA, United States

The following statistics helped Salter achieve 17th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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16. IwamotoScott Architecture

IwamotoScott Architecture is an award winning architecture and design firm established by Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott. Based in San Francisco, California, the firm has gained national and international recognition for innovative design with projects around the country and overseas. Committed to pursuing architecture as a form of applied design research, IwamotoScott proceeds from the belief that each project can achieve a unique design synthesis. IwamotoScott’s client list includes arts organizations, educational institutions, media firms, commercial developers, and private clients. Our projects consist of work at all scales including urban design, buildings, interiors, full-scale fabrications, museum installations and exhibitions, and theoretical proposals.

IwamotoScott has received over eighty design awards and honors.

Some of IwamotoScott Architecture’s most prominent projects include:

• Pinterest HQ2, San Francisco, CA, United States
• Pinterest HQ, San Francisco, CA, United States
• Heavybit Industries, 325, 9th Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
• Geode ADU, Burlingame, CA, United States
• Pinterest NY – Scissor Stair, New York, NY, United States

The following statistics helped IwamotoScott Architecture achieve 16th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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15. Field Operations

Field Operations is a leading-edge landscape architecture and urban design practice based in New York City, with offices in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Shenzhen and London. Field Operations is renowned for strong contemporary design across a variety of project types and scales, from large urban districts, master plans and complex planning sites, to small well-crafted, detailed design projects. Regardless of scale, there is a special commitment to the design of a vibrant and dynamic public realm, informed by the ecology of both people and nature, rooted in place and context.

The ultimate aim is to bring beauty, health and vitality to the different kinds of environments where people live and interact.

Some of Field Operations’s most prominent projects include:

• Qianhai’s Guiwan Park, Shenzhen, China
• West End Square, Dallas, TX, United States
• The Underline’s Brickell Backyard, Miami, FL, United States
• High Line, New York, NY, United States
• Navy Yard Central Green, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The following statistics helped Field Operations achieve 15th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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14. HLB Lighting Design

Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design is a women owned (WBE) internationally recognized architectural lighting design firm with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami, Denver, and Austin. Founded in 1968, HLB specializes in interior and exterior electric lighting, controls, and daylighting integration.

Some of HLB Lighting Design’s most prominent projects include:

• Billerica Memorial High School, 35, River Street, Billerica, MA, United States
• Hayward Field, Eugene, OR, United States
• West End Square, Dallas, TX, United States
• The Underline’s Brickell Backyard, Miami, FL, United States
• Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

The following statistics helped HLB Lighting Design achieve 14th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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13. schlaich bergermann partner

schlaich bergermann partner are independent consulting engineers. Since the founding of our office in 1980 by Jörg Schlaich and Rudolf Bergermann, our aim has been to design and develop innovative structures. Our projects range from long-span lightweight roofs, a wide range of bridge types, slender towers and innovative buildings, to pioneering solar power plants.

Over 200 motivated members from well over 20 nations make up the international team of sbp. Together we work on small and large tasks – always with commitment, cooperation and enthusiasm for innovative ideas and developments.

Since 2002, the office was managed by Knut Göppert, Andreas Keil, Sven Plieninger and Mike Schlaich.

Some of schlaich bergermann partner’s most prominent projects include:

• Fass School and Teachers’ Residences, Senegal
• Moynihan Train Hall, New York, NY, United States
• Quzhou Sports Campus, Quzhou, China
• One World Trade Center, New York, NY, United States
• Salesforce Transit Center Park, San Francisco, CA, United States

The following statistics helped schlaich bergermann partner achieve 13th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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12. Fisher Dachs Associates

Fisher Dachs Associates is dedicated to creating performig ats spaces that work brilliantly for all constituents; the artists, the audience, management and staff.  Our expertise is in planning and designing intimate, dynamic, technically superb and highly functional theatres, opera houses, concert halls, and arts education facilities. FDA’s practice continues to expand throughout the world.

Some of Fisher Dachs Associates’s most prominent projects include:

• University of Iowa School of Music: Suspended Theatroacoustic System, Iowa City, IA, United States
• Henderson-Hopkins School, Baltimore, MD, United States
• Columbia University Northwest Corner Building, Broadway, Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
• David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, United States
• Xiqu Centre, Kowloon, Hong Kong

The following statistics helped Fisher Dachs Associates achieve 12th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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11. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson is noted for elegant and humane design, ranging from modest houses to large academic, civic, cultural, commercial, and corporate buildings. Our principals and staff are deeply committed to active collaboration with our clients, emphasizing thorough research and analysis of each situation’s particular human, technical, and economic circumstances. The result is exceptional architecture that resonates within its place.
Since 1965, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has received more than 675 regional, national, and international design awards, including three AIA Committee on the Environment Top Ten Green Project awards, nine AIA National Honor awards, and the AIA Architecture Firm Award—the most prestigious honor bestowed upon an architectural practice.

Some of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s most prominent projects include:

• Apple Store, Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, United States
• Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA, United States
• Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA, United States
• High Meadow Dwellings at Fallingwater, 1491, Mill Run Road, Mill Run, PA, United States
• Blue Bottle South Park, San Francisco, CA, United States

The following statistics helped Bohlin Cywinski Jackson achieve 11th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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10. DeSimone Consulting Engineering

DeSimone Consulting Engineers provides high-quality structural engineering, facade consulting, and forensic services, in addition to risk management and construction claims consulting for all types of buildings. Known for the highest quality of service, the firm provides each client with personal, dedicated, and inspiring engineering solutions.

Some of DeSimone Consulting Engineering’s most prominent projects include:

• Grove at Grand Bay, Miami, FL, United States
• 170 Amsterdam, New York, NY, United States
• P.S. 62 The Kathleen Grimm School for Leadership and Sustainability, Staten Island, New York, NY, United States
• Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, United States
• Centra Metropark, 186, South Wood Avenue, Woodbridge Township, NJ, United States

The following statistics helped DeSimone Consulting Engineering achieve 10th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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9. Rockwell Group

Based in New York with offices in Los Angeles and Madrid, Rockwell Group is an interdisciplinary architecture and design firm that emphasizes innovation and thought leadership in every project. Founded in 1984 by David Rockwell, FAIA, and led by David and partners Shawn Sullivan and Greg Keffer, the firm merges performance and architecture to create extraordinary experiences and built environments across the globe.

Merging theater, performance, and architecture to create unique narratives for each project, the firm’s work includes hotels and restaurants, theaters, cultural and educational institutions, set designs, products, and exhibitions.

Some of Rockwell Group’s most prominent projects include:

• Sage by David Rockwell for Benchmark
• Moynihan Train Hall Ticketed Waiting Room, Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
• Edge, New York, NY, United States
• NeueHouse, New York City, NY, United States
• Warner Music Group, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The following statistics helped Rockwell Group achieve 9th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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8. Cosentini Associates

Cosentini Associates was established in 1952 to provide consulting services in the mechanical and electrical engineering disciplines. The firm now has more than 300 design professionals and offices in New York, NY; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; Freehold, NJ; Houston, TX; Calgary, Canada; Mexico City, Mexico; Shanghai, China; and Paris, France. The firm’s design services include HVAC, electrical power, fire protection and engineering, plumbing, telecommunications, security, audiovisual, specialty lighting, LEED/sustainable design, LEED facilitation, mission-critical design, commissioning, construction services, and code consulting.Our firm’s unparalleled combination of engineering expertise and innovation has led architects and owners throughout the world to entrust us with many of the greatest buildings of our time.

Some of Cosentini Associates’s most prominent projects include:

• Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, United States
• WeGrow, New York, NY, United States
• Allianz Tower, İstanbul, Turkey
• ARO, New York, NY, United States
• Linked Hybrid, 1, Xiang He Yuan Lu, Dongcheng Qu, Beijing, China

The following statistics helped Cosentini Associates achieve 8th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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7. Perkins&Will

About Perkins&Will
Perkins&Will, an interdisciplinary, research-based architecture and design firm, was founded in 1935 on the belief that design has the power to transform lives. Guided by its core values—design excellence, diversity and inclusion, living design, research, resilience, social purpose, sustainability, and well-being—the firm is committed to designing a better, more beautiful world. Metropolis named Perkins&Will “Firm of the Year” in 2022 for its industry leadership in advancing climate action and social justice. Fast Company named Perkins&Will one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in Architecture three times, and in 2021, it added the firm to its list of Brands That Matter—making Perkins&Will the only architecture practice in the world to earn the distinction.
With an international team of more than 2,000 professionals, the firm has over 20 studios worldwide, providing integrated services in architecture, interior design, branded environments, urban design, and landscape architecture.

Some of Perkins&Will’s most prominent projects include:

• MIT Site 4, Cambridge, MA, United States
• Billerica Memorial High School, 35, River Street, Billerica, MA, United States
• First Year student Village
• The Exchange at 100 Federal, 100, Federal Street, Boston, MA, United States
• University of California, San Francisco, Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

The following statistics helped Perkins&Will achieve 7th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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6. HDR

HDR is an integrated design practice that creates human-centered, inspiring places grounded in smart ideas substantiated through data and research and informed by global best practices. We embrace unconventional thinking in order to elevate the human spirit and inspire human endeavors.
Our work is guided by three primary tenets:
Design for a Regenerative Future – Rather than focus on “sustainable design,” which calls for doing no harm, we are investing in new ways to design built environments that give more than they take. Regenerative design moves beyond basic high-performance design toward renewal-focused impacts and metric-driven targets for carbon, water, nutrients, air, biodiversity, social and health categories.
Transform Design Delivery – We believe that the way we approach project delivery and the technological tools we use can significantly improve outcomes for clients and drastically change the entire industry.

Some of HDR’s most prominent projects include:

• Wollongong Central Development, Wollongong, Australia
• The Six Willows, Jinan, China
• Kolos Data Center
• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Models
• Queen’s University John Deutsch University Centre, Kingston, Canada

The following statistics helped HDR achieve 6th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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5. Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) is a global architecture practice dedicated to clients that represent the most forward-thinking companies and institutions around the world – visionaries that believe that value is not just producing return on investment but also in contributing to our urban environment and communities. Our portfolio spans more than 40 countries, and includes a wide range of projects from office and residential buildings to civic and cultural spaces to educational facilities.

Some of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates’s most prominent projects include:

• Centra Metropark, 186, South Wood Avenue, Woodbridge Township, NJ, United States
• 18 Robinson, Singapore
• Lotte Concert Hall, Seoul, South Korea
• 10 Hudson Yards, New York, NY, United States
• One Crown Place, London, United Kingdom

The following statistics helped Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates achieve 5th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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4. Steven Holl Architects

Steven Holl Architects is a 28-person innovative architecture and urban design office working globally as one office from three locations: New York City, Rhinebeck, NY and Beijing. Steven Holl leads the office with partners Chris McVoy, Noah Yaffe, Roberto Bannura, and Dimitra Tsachrelia.

Steven Holl Architects is recognized for the ability to shape space and light with great contextual sensitivity and to catalyze the unique qualities of each project to create a concept-driven design at multiple scales, from minimal dwellings, to university works, to new hybrid models of urbanism. The firm has realized architectural works around the world, with extensive experience in the arts, campus and educational facilities, and residential work, as well as mix use and office design, public works, and master planning.

Some of Steven Holl Architects’s most prominent projects include:

• Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States
• Sliced Porosity Block
• Daeyang Gallery and House, Seoul, South Korea
• Abstracting Morphology, NY, United States
• Maggie’s Centre Barts, London, United Kingdom

The following statistics helped Steven Holl Architects achieve 4th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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3. Gensler

Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 53 locations and more than 7,000 professionals networked across Asia, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and the Americas. Founded in 1965, the firm serves more than 4,000 clients across more than 29 practice areas spanning the work, lifestyle, community, and health sectors. Gensler designers strive to make the places people live, work, and play more inspiring, more resilient, and more impactful.

Some of Gensler’s most prominent projects include:

• 550 Madison Lobby, New York, NY, United States
• Fifth + Tillery, Austin, TX, United States
• Willis Tower, Chicago, IL, United States
• San Francisco International Airport, Boarding Area E, San Francisco, CA, United States
• Avon Lake Renewable Master Plan, Avon Lake, OH, United States

The following statistics helped Gensler achieve 3rd place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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2. Olson Kundig

Olson Kundig is a Seattle-based design practice founded on the ideas that buildings can serve as a bridge between nature, culture and people, and that inspiring surroundings have a positive effect on people’s lives. Led by five owners, the firm’s work can be found across the globe, with projects as wide ranging as huts to high rises, homes—often for art collectors—to academic, cultural and civic projects, museums and exhibition design, places of worship, creative production, urban design and interior design.
The firm began its creative existence in 1966 with the architect Jim Olson, whose work at that time centered on explorations of the relationship between dwellings and the landscapes in which they inhabit.

Some of Olson Kundig’s most prominent projects include:

• ANOHA—The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin , Berlin, Germany
• 242 State Street, Los Altos, CA, United States
• Martin’s Lane Winery, Kelowna, Canada
• Shinsegae International, Seoul, South Korea
• Charles Smith Wines Jet City, Seattle, WA, United States

The following statistics helped Olson Kundig achieve 2nd place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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1. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is an influential collective of architects, designers, engineers and planners, responsible for some of the world’s most technically and environmentally advanced buildings, and significant public spaces. From a strategic regional plan to a single piece of furniture, SOM’s designs anticipate change in the way we live, work and communicate, and have brought lasting value to communities around the world. The firm’s approach is highly collaborative, and its interdisciplinary team is engaged on a wide range of international projects, with creative studios based across the globe.

Some of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)’s most prominent projects include:

• Poly International Plaza, Beijing, China
• P.S. 62 The Kathleen Grimm School for Leadership and Sustainability, Staten Island, New York, NY, United States
• JTI Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland
• Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Terminal 2, Mumbai, India
• Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank Headquarters, Shenzhen, China

The following statistics helped Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) achieve 1st place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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