35 Best Architecture Firms in United States

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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 2023)
• The number of A+Awards finalists (2013 to 2023)
• The number of projects selected as “Project of the Day” (2009 to 2023)
• The number of projects selected as “Featured Project” (2009 to 2023)
• The number of projects uploaded to Architizer (2009 to 2023)

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. 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 35th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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34. ikon.5 architects

Founded in 2003 and dedicated to providing its clients with innovative design solutions that exhibit a high level of craft, ikon.5 architects has earned a reputation among clients and peers as a forward-thinking studio of nimble and creative designers that see every project as an opportunity for design excellence. Proceeding with the belief that every site and client has a unique history or story to tell, we approach architecture as storytelling using the language of built form and landscape. Working collaboratively and across a range of building typologies, including libraries, university facilities, offices, cultural facilities, and government buildings, our work celebrates and reflects in its form-giving the great diversity of the communities and people we are privileged to serve.

Some of ikon.5 architects’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
• Health & Wellness Center | Suffolk County Community College, Riverhead, NY, United States
• Campus Commons at SUNY New Paltz – Student Center, New Paltz, NY, United States
• Louis Vuitton NY Offices and Showroom, New York, NY, United States

The following statistics helped ikon.5 architects achieve 34th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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33. 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:

• Jeanette301, Santa Ana, CA, United States
• MLK1101 Supportive Housing, Los Angeles, CA, United States
• Cloverdale749, Los Angeles, CA, United States
• Flynn Mews House, Dublin, IE
• Dillon617, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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32. 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:

• 108 Chambers, New York, NY, United States
• Short Lane, Sydney, Australia
• 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 32nd place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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31. 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
• Luminous Moon-Gate: Taichung City Cultural Center, Taichung, Taiwan
• Portal of the Winds: Jeju International Airport

The following statistics helped Form4 Architecture achieve 31st place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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30. 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 30th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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29. Ennead Architects

We create architecture that shapes the public realm; this has been central to our practice since 1963. Our 180-person firm, based in New York City, works primarily with educational, cultural and scientific clients, including some of the most venerable institutions in North America: from Stanford to Yale Universities, from the American Museum of Natural History to the Clinton Presidential Library, from Carnegie Hall to the Standard Hotel on the High Line. Our diverse portfolio—including new construction, renovation and expansion, historic preservation, interior design and master planning—ranges from museums and performing arts centers to complex laboratory, research and teaching facilities for higher education to a wastewater treatment plant.

Some of Ennead Architects’s most prominent projects include:

• Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact at University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
• Fostering Resilient Ecological Development
• Rethinking Refugee Communities
• Heroic Food Farm
• Bridge for Laboratory Sciences building, Vassar College, Integrated Science Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, United States

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

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28. 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
• RICHARD J. DALEY COLLEGE ENGINEERING + ADVANCED MANUFACTURING CENTER, 7500, South Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL, United States
• Cboe Global Markets Headquarters, Chicago, IL, United States

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

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27. 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:

• 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
• Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel, Portland, OR, United States
• Federal Center South Building 1202, Seattle, WA, United States

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

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26. 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 26th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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25. HOK

HOK is a global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm with 24 offices.
HOK designs buildings and spaces that respond to the needs of people and the environment. HOK designers are rooted in technical excellence, driven by imagination and focused on a solitary goal: to deliver solutions that inspire clients and communities.

Some of HOK’s most prominent projects include:

• Abu Dhabi National Oil Company Headquarters, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
• Hamad International Airport, Doha, Qatar
• Yas Arena, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
• Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Concourse D Annex, Seattle, WA, United States
• 535 Mission Street

The following statistics helped HOK achieve 25th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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24. 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 24th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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23. 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, US
• 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 23rd place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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22. Feinknopf

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’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
• Bully Hill House, North Branch, NY, United States
• John and Frances Angelos Law Center, University of Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore, MD, US
• Ohio State University South Campus Central Chiller Plant, Columbus, OH, United States

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

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21. 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 21st place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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20. 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, AU
• Rock Creek House, Washington, DC, United States
• University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, Toronto, CA
• Villa Varoise, France

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

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19. 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, AE
• Hamad International Airport, Doha, Qatar

The following statistics helped Tim Griffith Photographer achieve 19th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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18. 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
• Pinterest NY – Scissor Stair, New York, NY, United States
• City View Garage, Miami Design District, Miami, FL, United States

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

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17. James Corner Field Operations

James Corner Field Operations is a leading-edge landscape architecture and urban design practice with offices in New York, San Francisco and Philadelphia. The practice is renowned for strong contemporary design across a variety of project types and scales, from large urban districts and complex post-industrial sites, to small well-crafted, detailed design projects. In all of the work, there is a deep commitment to the design of a vibrant and dynamic public realm that integrates ecology, program and people.
Major projects in our portfolio include the design of the High Line in New York City; Tongva Park and Ken Genser Square in Santa Monica; Chicago’s newly redesigned Navy Pier and Polk Bros.

Some of James Corner Field Operations’s most prominent projects include:

• High Line, New York, NY, United States
• Navy Yard Central Green, Philadelphia, PA, United States
• Tongva Park and Ken Genser Square, Santa Monica, CA, United States
• High Line at the Rail Yards, New York, NY, United States
• High Line Lighting, New York City, NY, US

The following statistics helped James Corner Field Operations achieve 17th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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16. 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 16th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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15. 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
• Salesforce Transit Center Park, San Francisco, CA, United States

The following statistics helped HLB Lighting Design achieve 15th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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14. schlaich bergermann partner

schlaich bergermann partner are independent consulting civil and structural engineers.
We strive to design sophisticated engineering structures ranging from long span and lightweight structures, roofs, a diversity of bridges and slender towers to innovative solar energy power plants. Our ambitions are efficiency, beauty and ecology.
For the sake of holistic solutions we seek collaboration with architects and engineers from all fields of expertise who share our goals.
In 1980 Jörg Schlaich and Rudolf Bergermann founded our office.
Since 2002 schlaich bergermann partner has been in the capable hands of Andreas Keil, Knut Göppert, Sven Plieninger and Mike Schlaich.
Knut Stockhusen joined the partnership in 2015.
The qualification and sound performance of our engineering company is based on experienced staff members who have been working together successfully for many years now.
Currently there are 100 employees and 9 partners employed by schlaich bergermann partner.

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 14th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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13. 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 13th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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12. DeSimone Consulting Engineers

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 Engineers’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 Engineers achieve 12th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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11. 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 11th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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10. Studio Gang

Founded by MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang in 1997, Studio Gang Architects is a collective of architects, designers, and thinkers whose work engages pressing contemporary issues and their impact on human experience. Honored with the 2013 National Design Award for Architecture from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the Studio acts as a laboratory—testing ideas on various scales, from cities and environments to material and physical properties. Cross-field research, collaboration, and iterative experimentation using both digital and analog technologies are integral to the Studio’s process. Each project is designed to resonate with its specific site and culture while addressing global themes such as reuse and sustainability.

Some of Studio Gang’s most prominent projects include:

• Writers Theatre, Glencoe, IL, United States
• Beloit College Powerhouse, Beloit, WI, United States
• Solar Carve (40 Tenth Ave), New York, NY, United States
• WMS Boathouse at Clark Park, Chicago, IL, US
• One Hundred, St. Louis, MO, United States

The following statistics helped Studio Gang achieve 10th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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9. 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
• CITIC Tower, Beijing, China

The following statistics helped Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates achieve 9th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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8. Miguel de Guzmán

Architect and Architectura Photographer. His work is commisioned by most important spanish Architecture Offices. He has been a proffesor in the Graphic Ideation Department at CEU Architecture School and the Photography Department of Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid. Since 2008 Imagen Subliminal is the broadcast platform for the work of Miguel de Guzmán as architectural photographer and videographer. AWARDS As an Architect, he has been awarded with the Dionisio Hernadez Gil Prize for the Diocesan Priest House in Plasencia (work done together with Andres Jaque and Enrique Krahe), and was selected for the 2005 Spanish Architecture Bienal As a Photographer he has been finalist in ABC Journal Art Awards 2000, El Mundo Photography awards 2001.

Some of Miguel de Guzmán’s most prominent projects include:

• El Espinar House, Segovia, Spain
• 160 EAST 22ND STREET, New York, NY, United States
• Valdemingomez Forest Park. Landscape Restoration of Valdemingomez Waste Landfill, Madrid, Spain
• MO House
• Ojalá, Madrid, Spain

The following statistics helped Miguel de Guzmán achieve 8th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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7. OMA

OMA is a leading international partnership practicing architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. OMA’s buildings and masterplans around the world insist on intelligent forms while inventing new possibilities for content and everyday use. AMO, a research and design studio, works in areas beyond architecture that today have an increasing influence on architecture itself: media, politics, renewable energy, technology, publishing, fashion.
OMA is led by nine partners – Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon, Reinier de Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, David Gianotten, Chris van Duijn, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Jason Long – and maintains offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, Doha and…

Some of OMA’s most prominent projects include:

• Milstein Hall, Ithaca, NY, United States
• Rebuild by Design
• 11th Street Bridge Park, Washington, DC, United States
• Faena District, Miami, FL, United States
• MPavilion 2017, Melbourne, Australia

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

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6. Steven Holl Architects

Steven Holl Architects is a 30-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 and Roberto Bannura.
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 6th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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5. Gensler

Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 50+ locations and more than 6,000 professionals networked across Asia, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and the Americas. Founded in 1965, the firm serves more than 3,300 active clients in virtually every industry. 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:

• San Francisco International Airport, Boarding Area E, San Francisco, CA, United States
• Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, United States
• COEX, Seoul, South Korea
• 550 Madison Lobby, New York, NY, United States
• CBRE Masonic Temple, Glendale, CA, United States

The following statistics helped Gensler achieve 5th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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4. L’Observatoire International

L’Observatoire International is a lighting design firm, founded in 1993 by Hervé Descottes.
As architectural lighting designers, our role is to leverage light as a medium through which architectural intentions can be heightened and spaces transformed. With light as our tool, we reveal the aesthetic qualities of a space and accentuate the experience of an environment, creating a bespoke ambiance.

Some of L’Observatoire International’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
• High Line, New York, NY, United States
• The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, United States

The following statistics helped L'Observatoire International achieve 4th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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3. BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group

BIG is a Copenhagen, London and New York based group of architects, designers and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. BIG has created a reputation for completing buildings that are programmatically and technically innovative as they are cost and resource conscious. In our architectural production we demonstrate a high sensitivity to the particular demands of contexts and mixed use programs. By practicing ’programmatic alchemy’, BIG often mixes conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking and shopping into new forms of symbiotic architecture. The Mountain which was completed in 2008, counts as one of the first realized examples of this practice.

Some of BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group’s most prominent projects include:

• Amagerforbrændingen Waste to Energy Plant, 31, Kraftværksvej, København S, København, Denmark
• THE TWIST / KISTEFOS GALLERY, Jevnaker Municipality, Viken, Norway
• LEGO House, Billund, Denmark
• Grove at Grand Bay, Miami, FL, United States
• 79&Park, Stockholm, Sweden

The following statistics helped BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group achieve 3rd place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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2. Imagen Subliminal

Architectural Photography + Film
MIGUEL DE GUZMAN + ROCÍO ROMERO
Architect and Architectural Photographer.
“Imagen Subliminal Architectural Photography + Film was founded by architect and architectural photographer Miguel de Guzmán. The firm, comprised of Miguel de Guzman and Rocío Romero, is a New York and Madrid-based practice whose work is commissioned by many internationally renowned architecture, construction, and real estate firms.
Imagen Subliminal’s photographs have been published worldwide in print magazines such as Architect, Dwell, El Croquis, Arquitectura Viva, A+U Japan, Domus, Casabella, Mark, C3, and many other books and newspapers. The practice also collaborates with online media as Archdaily, Dezeen, Designboom, and Divisare.
Miguel de Guzmán:
His work is commisioned by most important spanish Architecture Offices.

Some of Imagen Subliminal’s most prominent projects include:

• EMPIRE STORES, Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States
• El Espinar House, Segovia, Spain
• Valdemingomez Forest Park. Landscape Restoration of Valdemingomez Waste Landfill, Madrid, Spain
• 160 EAST 22ND STREET, New York, NY, United States
• MO House

The following statistics helped Imagen Subliminal 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
• Moynihan Train Hall, New York, NY, United States

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

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