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. SHoP Architects

We are a new generation of architects.
Since 1996, SHoP has modeled a new way forward with our unconventional approach to design. At the heart of the firm’s method is a willingness to question accepted patterns of practice, coupled with the courage to expand, where necessary, beyond the architect’s traditional roles. We come to each new project with open minds, an expert team, and a collaborative process that adapts itself specifically to the problem at hand. This freedom to be nimble allows us to effectively address a broad range of issues in our work.

Some of SHoP Architects’s most prominent projects include:

• LaGuardia Airport Master Plan
• Uber Headquarters, San Francisco, CA, United States
• TalkBox, United States
• American Copper Buildings, New York, NY, United States
• Barclays Arena at Atlantic Yards

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

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34. Raad Studio

RAAD specializes in creating objects and spaces that
emphasize the process of construction — knowledge gleaned from close
and continued collaboration with builders. This collaboration leads to
clean, rich, imaginative designs that marry strikingly innovative
thinking about function with a deep respect for the traditions of
everyday living. A focus on the materiality, joinery and detail of
design is apparent in all of RAAD’s work and is always considered within
the context of the relationship between open space and cozy enclosure.
James Ramsey is the principal of RAAD — Ramsey
Architecture And Design. James’ experience in design began at Yale
University, where he won a Bates Fellowship to study cathedral design in
Europe. He then went to work as a satellite engineer for NASA, where he
was a part of the team that created the Pluto Fast Flyby and the Cassini
satellites.

Some of Raad Studio’s most prominent projects include:

• The Lowline Lab, New York, NY, United States
• The Strand
• Townhouse, New York, NY, United States
• Invasive Regeneration, Seoul, South Korea
• Soho Penthouse, New York, NY, United States

The following statistics helped Raad Studio achieve 34th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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33. VDA (Van Deusen & Associates)

VDA offers consulting services encompassing all phases of vertical transportation systems, and our diversified experience and skilled, professional personnel have earned the firm recognition as one of the world’s finest independent specialty consultants.
Since its founding in 1980, VDA has provided services for more than 12,000 projects. The firm is located in Livingston, NJ, and has branch offices in Atlanta, GA; Baltimore, MD; Boston, MA; Greensboro, NC; Minneapolis, MN; New York, NY; Norwalk, CT; Philadelphia, PA; and Washington, DC.
Visit our website for more information (www.vdassoc.com) VDA’s all-inclusive consulting services include comprehensive design and engineering for elevators, escalators,
moving walks, dumbwaiters, and lift systems in new and existing structures.

Some of VDA (Van Deusen & Associates)’s most prominent projects include:

• Columbia University Northwest Corner Building, Broadway, Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
• Infinity Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Novartis Office Building, East Hanover, NJ, United States
• Abu Dhabi International Airport Midfield Terminal Complex
• Yas Hotel, Abu Dhabi UAE, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

The following statistics helped VDA (Van Deusen & Associates) achieve 33rd place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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32. Handel Architects LLP

Handel Architects LLP is an architecture, interior design, and planning firm that began in New York City in 1994. Today the practice is led by Founding Partner Gary Handel alongside Partners Blake Middleton, Glenn Rescalvo, Frank Fusaro, and Michael Arad. Handel Architects is working on projects across North America, South America, the Middle East, and Asia, with more than 150 architects, interior designers, planners, and support staff from offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Hong Kong. The firm has gained national and international recognition for work such as the Dream Downtown Hotel in New York City, the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City, the Millennium Tower in San Francisco, and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington DC’s Georgetown neighborhood.
Handel Architects has won numerous Design Awards and is regularly featured in architectural journals and design publications.

Some of Handel Architects LLP’s most prominent projects include:

• 170 Amsterdam, New York, NY, United States
• National September 11 Memorial, New York City, NY, United States
• Millennium Tower Boston, Boston, MA, United States
• The House at Cornell Tech, New York, NY, United States
• The Pacific, San Francisco, CA, United States

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

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31. MASS Design Group

At MASS, we are committed to creating a just world. We shape environments that enhance physical and emotional health and that liberate people from undignified structures. Every human being, regardless of nationality, socioeconomic status, religion, race, or gender, has a fundamental right to design that improves their quality of life and is beautiful. We believe justice is beauty.

Some of MASS Design Group’s most prominent projects include:

• Ilima Primary School, Ilima, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Maternity Waiting Village, Kasungu, Malawi
• Butaro Doctors’ Housing, Butaro, Rwanda
• Butaro Hospital
• The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Montgomery, AL, United States

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

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30. Miró Rivera Architects

Miró Rivera Architects (MRA) is an internationally recognized architecture practice that has created a body of work that exemplifies design excellence, blurs art and architecture, and includes poetic and inspirational projects that enrich their landscapes.
The firm has garnered over 100 design awards, including the AR Emerging Architecture Award, the 2016 Texas Architecture Firm Award, and 38 local, state and national AIA Awards. Emerging as one of the leading new architectural voices in the nation, MRA has represented new architecture from the United States at exhibitions at the Museum of Architecture in Frankfurt and at the Aedes Gallery in Berlin. Their work has been extensively featured worldwide in numerous exhibitions and many prestigious publications, including Architectural Review, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, the New York Times, Arch Daily and the third edition of the 10 x 10 book series.
Miró Rivera Architects views each project as a unique undertaking.

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

• Hill Country House, Wimberley, TX, United States
• Vista Residence, Austin, TX, United States
• 1917 Bungalow, 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 30th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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29. 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:

• One World Trade Center, New York, NY, United States
• 432 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States
• Universiade 2011 Sports Center, Shenzhen, China
• Olympic Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Olympic Stadium, 3, Olympischer Platz, Bezirk Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany

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

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28. Ikon.5 Architects

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ikon.5 architects is an award-winning design firm, formed 2003, with a portfolio of projects serving higher education, non-profit organizations, cultural institutions and business corporations. Our mission is to bring design excellence to the clients we serve, to design sustainably to conserve our earth’s resources, and to improve the built landscape in which we live.  Each of our projects is rooted meaningfully in its place and informed by the ideas, values and traditions of the people with and for whom we work.

Some of Ikon.5 Architects’s most prominent projects include:

• School of Art & Design at New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, NY, United States
• Student Union | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, 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
• Kirkwood Public Library, New Castle, DE, United States

The following statistics helped Ikon.5 Architects achieve 28th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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27. Connie’s New Test Firm

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The following statistics helped Connie's New Test Firm achieve 27th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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26. ZGF

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’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
• Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel
• King Street Station, Seattle, WA, United States
• John E. Jaqua Academic Center for Student Athletes

The following statistics helped ZGF achieve 26th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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25. 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:

• Fostering Resilient Ecological Development
• Rethinking Refugee Communities
• Bridge for Laboratory Sciences building, Vassar College, Integrated Science Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, United States
• Heroic Food Farm
• Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

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

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24. 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 completed two of the largest architecture and planning initiatives in New York City’s recent history: the adaptive reuse of an obsolete, industrial rail infrastructure into the High Line, a 1.5 mile-long public park, and the transformation of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ half-century-old campus.

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

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23. CannonDesign

CannonDesign is an integrated global design firm that unites a dynamic team of strategists, futurists, researchers, architects, engineers, and industry specialists driven by a singular goal—to help solve our clients’ and society’s greatest challenges.

Some of CannonDesign’s most prominent projects include:

• Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montreal, Canada
• St. Louis Public Library, Central Library Renovation
• Kaleida Health System Clinical and Medical Research Building (Global Heart and Vascular Institute an, Buffalo, NY, United States
• CJ Corporation, CJ Blossom Park, Seoul, South Korea
• Froedtert Hospital & Community Health Clinical Cancer Center, Milwaukee, WI, United States

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

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22. Touloukian Touloukian

Touloukian Touloukian Inc. is an award-winning architecture and urban design firm specializing in complex and diverse building types. Our work includes commercial, residential, cultural, institutional and historic projects ranging from new construction to adaptive re-use. We provide comprehensive design services from feasibility and permitting through construction administration to a range of clients including municipal and private entities, non-profit institutions, developers and individuals. Our design approach encompasses a clear narrative about each client’s mission as well as the sustainable qualities of the site and the history of its place. The diversity of our professional experience is a strength and testament to our knowledge and leadership within the profession.
Our careful selection of material combinations and system technologies are the vehicle through which we explore the experiential and tangible qualities of a project.

Some of Touloukian Touloukian’s most prominent projects include:

• 6 Industrial Way
• Lumen at Beacon Park, Detroit, MI, United States
• 38 Newbury Street, Boston, MA, United States
• East 6th Street House, East 6th Street, Boston, MA, United States
• Canton Airport Park Pavilion , Canton, MA, United States

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

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21. 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:

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

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

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20. Charles M. Salter Associates

Charles M. Salter Associates, Inc. was founded in 1975. We consult in acoustics and design audiovisual, telecommunications, and security systems for buildings. With offices in San Francisco and San Jose, we are involved in over 900 projects per year worldwide. Our team of more than 55 comprises Professional Engineers, LEED Accredited Professionals, Certified Technology Specialists, Registered Communications Distribution Designers, Fellows of the Audio Engineering Society, Fellows of the Acoustical Society of America, and a PhD, as well as individuals with interdisciplinary and advanced degrees in architecture, music, linguistics, business, and forensics. We draw from this diverse expertise to develop solutions tailored to each project.

Some of Charles M. Salter Associates’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
• Windhover Contemplative Center, Stanford, CA, United States
• Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA, United States

The following statistics helped Charles M. Salter Associates achieve 20th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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19. 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:

• Allianz Tower, İstanbul, Turkey
• Linked Hybrid, 1, Xiang He Yuan Lu, Dongcheng Qu, Beijing, China
• Novartis Office Building, East Hanover, NJ, United States
• Novartis Visitor Reception, East Hanover, NJ, United States
• Duluth International Airport, Duluth, MN, United States

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

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18. 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
• 432 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States
• CTF Museum, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• 5 Broadgate, London, United Kingdom

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

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17. 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:

• One World Trade Center, New York, NY, United States
• Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Terminal 2, Mumbai, India
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center, 900, Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, United States
• Lunder Building, MA, United States
• Sperone Westwater, Manhattan, New York, NY, United States

The following statistics helped Cerami & Associates, Inc. achieve 17th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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16. Perkins+Will

Perkins+Will collaborates with globally recognized clients to set worldwide standards for design innovation and service. The firm recognizes the knowledge and insights gained from its colorful history with every new endeavor. Lawrence B. Perkins and Philip Will, Jr. (college roommates at Cornell University) established the firm in 1935, quickly gaining national and international recognition for client service and design accomplishments in education and healthcare. Expansion was fast paced. The firm was soon garnering acclaim for its corporate + commercial + civic, higher education, and science + technology work. Perkins+Will established a stronghold in the Interiors discipline that reaches across all areas of  the practice; Branded Environments, Planning + Strategies, and Urban Design expertise evolved in recent decades.The firm was able to leverage its core competencies and global reputation and opened offices around the U.S., forging success stories across North America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

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

• Exchange at 100 Federal
• Floatyard, Boston, MA, United States
• The Greater Accra Regional Hospital at Ridge, Accra, Ghana
• Vale Living With Lakes Centre, Greater Sudbury, Canada
• Bay Area Metro Center, San Francisco, CA, United States

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

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15. IwamotoScott Architecture

IWAMOTOSCOTT ARCHITECTURE is an award winning and internationally recognized architecture practice established in San Francisco by Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott in 2002. We create innovative designs at all scales – with work ranging from art installations to interiors to buildings to visionary cities. We rethink the constraints of the everyday to create unique architectural syntheses of program, site, material and experience that are functional, distinctive and beautiful.
IWAMOTOSCOTT spend more time on fewer projects to ensure engaging and original results. We have paid attention over the past decade to hone our designs through a process of research and experimentation, and are leaders in the arena of architectural technology.

Some of IwamotoScott Architecture’s most prominent projects include:

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

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

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14. 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
• High Meadow Dwellings at Fallingwater, 1491, Mill Run Road, Mill Run, PA, United States
• Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA, United States
• Blue Bottle South Park, San Francisco, CA, United States
• Apple Store, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, United States

The following statistics helped Bohlin Cywinski Jackson achieve 14th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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13. HDR

At HDR, we are committed to design excellence and innovation. By employing a highly participatory and collaborative design process, our team of talented professionals creates architecture that is both proud and humble, stays true to its purpose, and creates a sense of place that is meaningful to the society it serves.
Our employees, working in 225 locations around the world, push open the doors to what’s possible each and every day.

Some of HDR’s most prominent projects include:

• Wollongong Central Development, Wollongong, Australia
• Kolos Data Center
• Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, United States
• Novartis Australia HQ Building, Sydney, Australia
• Galveston Fire Station #4, Cessna Drive, Galveston, TX, United States

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

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12. 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
• Lotte Concert Hall, Seoul, South Korea
• 10 Hudson Yards, New York, NY, United States
• Sixty London, London, United Kingdom
• CITIC Tower, Beijing, China

The following statistics helped Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates achieve 12th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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11. 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
• Solar Carve (40 Tenth Ave)
• WMS Boathouse at Clark Park, Chicago, IL, United States
• MIRA, San Francisco, CA, United States
• Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation, 79th St, Manhattan, New York, NY, United States

The following statistics helped Studio Gang achieve 11th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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10. 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:

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

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

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9. Gensler

Gensler is a global design firm that partners with clients to create more livable cities, smarter workplaces and more engaging leisure destinations. Our 5,000 professionals networked across 46 locations believe quality design can transform organizations and improve people’s lives. Since 1965, we have helped clients achieve measurable business and organizational goals, delivering projects as large as a city and as small as a task light for an individual desk. For more information, visit our website (www.gensler.com)or blog (www.gensleron.com), follow us on Twitter (www.twitter.com/GenslerOnCities), or like us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/GenslerDesign).

Some of Gensler’s most prominent projects include:

• San Francisco International Airport, Boarding Area E, San Francisco, CA, United States
• COEX, Seoul, South Korea
• CBRE Masonic Temple, Glendale, CA, United States
• Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, United States
• Navy Pier, 600, East Grand Avenue, Chicago, IL, United States

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

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8. Steven Holl Architects

Steven Holl Architects: Design Excellence and Green InnovationSteven Holl Architects (SHA) is a 40-person innovative architecture and urban design office working globally as one office from two locations; New York City and Beijing. Steven Holl leads the office with partners Chris McVoy, Noah Yaffe, and Roberto Bannura.
Steven Holl Architects is internationally-honored with architecture’s most prestigious awards, publications and exhibitions for excellence in design among which are two recent recognitions in the ‘10 Best Architectural Marvels’ of Time Magazine’s December 2007 issue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri) was awarded first place, and the Linked Hybrid (Beijing, China) was voted as the third most promising project internationally for 2008.
Steven Holl Architects has realized architectural works nationally and overseas, with extensive experience in the arts (including museum, gallery, and exhibition design), campus and educational facilities, and residential work.

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
• Maggie’s Centre Barts, London, United Kingdom
• The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, United States

The following statistics helped Steven Holl Architects achieve 8th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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7. 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 7th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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6. L’Observatoire International

L’Observatoire International is a lighting design firm, created in 1993 by Hervé Descottes. The firm is comprised of skilled lighting designers, architects, interior designers, engineers, and artists.
Emphasizing a collaborative effort, L’Observatoire provides lighting design to a range of spatial expressions including museums, performing arts centers, concert halls, airports, universities, towers, landscapes, hotels, private residences, commercial properties, retail stores, and art direction for international luxury brands. To account for such a cross-section of programmatic and geographically specific requirements, we have developed a rigorously contextual and individualized approach to lighting design.
As architectural lighting designers, our role is to leverage light as a medium through which architectural intentions can be heightened and spaces transformed.

Some of L’Observatoire International’s most prominent projects include:

• Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States
• Sliced Porosity Block
• High Line at the Rail Yards, New York, NY, United States
• Fondation Louis Vuitton, Île-de-France, France
• Daeyang Gallery and House, Seoul, South Korea

The following statistics helped L’Observatoire International achieve 6th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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5. OMA T

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 T’s most prominent projects include:

• Milstein Hall, Ithaca, NY, United States
• 11th Street Bridge Park, Washington, DC, United States
• Omar’s Testing Project 2
• Rebuild by Design
• Faena District, Miami, FL, United States

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

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4. 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
• LEGO House, Billund, Denmark
• Grove at Grand Bay, Miami, FL, United States
• 79&Park, Stockholm, Sweden
• noma, Copenhagen, Denmark

The following statistics helped BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group achieve 4th place in the 35 Best Architecture Firms in United States:

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3. Mecanoo

Mecanoo architecten, officially founded in Delft in 1984, is made up of a highly multidisciplinary staff of creative professionals from 25 countries. The team includes architects, engineers, interior designers, urban planners, landscape architects and architectural technicians.
The company is led by creative director/founding partner, Francine Houben, design and research director/partner Dick van Gameren, and technical director Friso van der Steen.
The extensive collective experience, gained over three decades, results in designs that are realised with technical expertise and great attention to detail. Mecanoo’s projects range from single houses to complete neighbourhoods and skyscrapers, cities and polders, schools, theatres and libraries, hotels, museums, and even a chapel.
Discovering unexpected solutions for the specifics of programme and context is the foremost challenge in all of our assignments.

Some of Mecanoo’s most prominent projects include:

• National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts (Wei-Wu-Ying), Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• HUBB – Learning Environments, Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Delft City Hall and Train Station, Delft, Netherlands
• Palace of Justice, Córdoba, Spain
• Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The following statistics helped Mecanoo 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
• 160 EAST 22ND STREET, New York, NY, United States
• VALDEMINGOMEZ FOREST PARK. LANDSCAPE RESTORATION OF VALDEMINGOMEZ WASTE LANDFILL, Madrid, Spain
• 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 LLP ( SOM )

SOM has completed more than 10,000 architecture, interior design and planning projects in more than 50 countries. Currently, SOM employees represent more than 70 countries and speak more than 40 different languages.Company OverviewSkidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is one of the leading architecture, urban planning, interior design, and engineering firms in the world, with a 75-year reputation for design excellence and a portfolio that includes some of the most important architectural accomplishments of the 20th and 21st centuries. Since its inception, SOM has been a leader in the research and development of specialized t…echnologies, new processes and innovative ideas, many of which have had a palpable and lasting impact on the design profession and the physical environment.

Some of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP ( 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
• Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Terminal 2, Mumbai, India
• One World Trade Center, New York, NY, United States
• JTI Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland

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

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