All profile articles – Page 2
-
Information - BD
WONG TUNG & PARTNERS
Wings, Hong Kong Wong Tung Partners 2013 rank: =52 Country: China (Hong Kong) Last rank: =50 Architects employed: 200 The Hong Kong practice celebrates its 50th anniversary this year looking as strong as ever. In the past year it has ...
-
Information - BD
PAGE SOUTHERLAND PAGE
Lakeway Regional Medical Center, Austin, Texas Page Southerland Page 2013 rank: =83 Country: USA Last ranking: 84 Architects employed: 125 The Texas practice added its 21st US embassy/ compound project to its portfolio last year: Antananarivo in Madagascar. It became the first building on the island to be LEED-certified. Previous ...
-
Information - BD
NIKKEN SEKKEI
Tokyo Skytree Nikken Sekkei 2012 rank: 4 Country: Japan Last ranking: 5 Architects employed: 1,109 Japan’s biggest architect by far, and one of the WA100’s top three earners, Nikken Sekkei pursued its expansion into China with vigour last year. It opened its second office in the country — in Beijing ...
-
Information - BD
NIHON SEKKEI
Loop Road Tower, Central Tokyo Nihon Sekkei 2012 rank: 25 Country: Japan Last ranking: =24 Architects employed: 426 Japan’s second-biggest practice, along with its subsidiary Nihon Sekkei International, is focusing on creating architectural and urban designs in Indonesia, Burma, Vietnam and India. This year will see the completion of its ...
-
Information - BD
NBBJ
Yanlord Zhuhai Beachfront Centre, Zhuhai, China NBBJ 2013 rank: =29 Country: USA Last rank: 31 Architects employed: 405 The healthcare specialist is by no means a one-trick pony. It also tackles high-profile corporate projects, sports stadiums, courts, retail and higher education schemes. Possibly its highest-profile project in the first of ...
-
Information - BDMORPHOGENESIS
Morphogenesis’ Chettinad Health City Auditorium Chennai Morphogenesis 2013 rank: =93 Country: India Last ranking: 85 Architects employed: 110 The smallest of the three Indian practices in this year’s WA100, New Delhi-based Morphogenesis is a collective founded in 1996. It employs more than 100 architects, though its fee income remains among ...
-
Information - BD
RONALD LU & PARTNERS
Kowloon Xiqu Centre Ronald Lu Partners 2013 rank: 62 Country: China (Hong Kong) Last ranking: 54 Architects employed: 169 As WA100 2013 was going to press, Ronald Lu discovered its shortlisted design for one of the first buildings in the £1.7 billion West Kowloon Cultural District (prepared in ...
-
Information - BD
LEIGH & ORANGE
Dream Island, Bahrain Leigh Orange 2013 rank: 40 Country: China (Hong Kong) Last rank: 42 Architects employed: 288 Hong Kong and mainland China continue to provide the lion’s share of work for this venerable 139-year-old practice. But Hong Kong slowed slightly last year, and other parts of South-east ...
-
Information - BD
LANGDON WILSON
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah Hospital, in Kuwait Langdon Wilson 2013 rank: 72 Country: USA Last ranking: 65 Architects employed: 153 This West Coast practice has a decidedly eastern outlook. In late 2012 it was appointed to design a $500 million cancer hospital in Kuwait, where it maintains one ...
-
Information - BD
KUNWON
Songdo Bio Research Center, Incheon, Korea Kunwon 2013 rank: =26 Country: South Korea Last ranking: 19 Architects employed: 421 Last year Kunwon was neck and neck with Heerim in the battle for Korea’s second-largest practice. This year Heerim has managed to widen the gap, although both practices have slimmed their ...
-
Information - BD
KUME SEKKEI
Gubei International Fortune Center, Shanghai, China Kume Sekkei 2013 rank: 33 Country: Japan Last rank: 32 Architects employed: 376 A veteran of the Japanese architectural scene, Kume Sekkei was founded in 1932 by Gonkuro Kume, whose PhD research into earthquake- resistant wooden structures eventually led to the establishment of a ...
-
Information - BD
SMITHGROUP JJR
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan SmithGroup JJR Rank: =26 Country: USA Last ranking: 21 Architects employed: 421 “These are strange times,” reflected Carl Roehling, SmithGroup’s president and chief executive, as he looked back on 2012. “We’re seeing uneven trends across regions and markets.” SmithGroup works largely in the US, ...
-
Information - BD
MITSUBISHI JISHO SEKKEI
SOLAE Mitsubishi Electric Inazawa Works Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei 2013 rank: =34 Country: Japan Last rank: 35 Architects employed: 320 Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei’s story began in 1894, when it completed the first office building in Tokyo’s commercial Marunouchi district. What started life as ...
-
Information - BD
JACOBS
Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia Jacobs Rank: 18 Country: USA/UK Last ranking: =24 Architects employed: 547 Architecture is just one of many of the services offered by the Pasadena-based multi-disciplinary engineering giant. Last year it accounted for more than $200 million of its total revenue of over $10 billion ...
-
Information - BD
KEO INTERNATIONAL
Al Othman Complex Kuwait KEO International 2012 rank: 44 Country: Kuwait Last rank: 40 Architects employed: 256 Once again KEO tops the chart for fee income in the Middle East with $114 million, clearing its nearest rival, the UAE’s Dewan, by almost 100%. A good chunk of that comes from ...
-
Information - BD
HOK
Kaiserslautern Military Community Medical Center, Germany HOK 2013 Rank: 08 Country: USA Last rank: 26 Architects employed: 715 Nearly half of HOK’s fees last year came from significant infrastructure projects in healthcare, aviation/transportation, science and research facilities. These are the sectors, along with justice, where it expects the most growth ...
-
Information - BD
HKS
Source: Kristen McCluskie Interior of the Salford Royal Hospital HKS 2013 rank: =37 Country: USA Last rank: 33 Architects employed: 300 The Texas-based practice has spent the latter part of its 73-year history trying to become fully international. So far only seven of its 30 offices are outside the ...
-
Information - BD
HBO+EMTB
Craigieburn Train Maintenance Facility, Melbourne, Australia HBO+EMTB 2013 rank: 42 Country: Australia Last rank: 38 Architects employed: 279 Operating out of 23 studios in 13 countries from Qatar to New Zealand, this Australian practice has steered a steady course through choppy economic waters. It has done this largely by pursuing ...
-
Information - BD
IBI GROUP
Duck Island IBI Group 2012 rank: 3 Country: Canada Last ranking: 4 Architects employed: 1,129 Once again IBI Group is Canada’s biggest architect — and one of the world’s. Last year saw the addition of new offices at Manchester in the UK and at Fort McMurray, Alberta. The former was ...
-
Information - BD
GMP
Indian Institute of technology, Hyderabad GMP 2013 rank: 23 Country: Germany Last ranking: 20 Architects employed: 445 German giant GMP has a mighty reputation in the Far East that makes British firms quake. Once again it reports its two biggest markets as China and western Europe, and sure enough all ...