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Architectural firm

In the United States, Charles Bulfinch is the first person believed to have worked as a full-time professional architect.

In the United Kingdom, Brierley Groom is the oldest continuing practice being founded in 1750 at York, England.


Carew Tower

Carew Tower was designed by the architectural firm W.W. Ahlschlager & Associates with Delano & Aldrich and developed by John J. Emery.

Herbert C. Hoover Building

Soon afterward Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon and the Board of Architectural Consultants, composed of leading architects and headed by Edward H. Bennett of the Chicago architectural firm of Bennett, Parsons, and Frost, developed design guidelines for the site.

Tracy and Swartwout

Tracy and Swartwout was a prominent New York architectural firm headed by Evarts Tracy and Egerton Swartwout.

William M. Whidden

William Marcy Whidden (February 10, 1857 – July 27, 1929) was a founding member of Whidden & Lewis, a prominent architectural firm in Portland, Oregon, United States.


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110 Livingston Street

The building was designed by the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, and was built in 1926 to serve as the headquarters for the Elks organization, including amenities such as a pool, banquet hall, and bowling alleys.

1931–32 Toronto Maple Leafs season

The building was designed by the architectural firm of Ross and Macdonald.

A. Page Brown

After attending local schools, he studied for a year at Cornell University School of Architecture but left in 1879 to join the architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White.

Anson Mills Building

Anson Mills hired Henry C. Trost of the Trost & Trost architectural firm to design and construct the building.

Bal Harbour Shops

He abandoned the conventional enclosed air-conditioned mall concept, firing architect Victor Gruen, and hiring the South Florida architectural firm Herbert H. Johnson & Associates.

Bankers Hall

Bankers Hall is a building complex located in downtown Calgary, Alberta, which includes twin 52-storey office towers (197 metres high), designed by the architectural firm Cohos Evamy in postmodern architectural style.

Bryn Athyn College

Cairnwood was designed by the renowned architectural firm Carrère and Hastings and was completed in 1895.

Château Beauregard

In 1932 the architectural firm of Henry M. Polhemus and Lewis Augustus Coffin designed and built a replica of the château on the expansive Gould-Guggenheim estate in Port Washington, Long Island, NY, for Mrs Daniel Guggenheim named "Mille-Fleurs"; it still stands in a Nassau County park.

City of Toronto Archives

It was designed by the architectural firm of Zeidler Roberts, who also designed the Toronto Eaton Centre, as a state-of-the-art purpose-built archives building incorporating a climate controlled records, a central atrium and exhibition area; a 60-seat theatre and a Research Hall.

Cleveland Metroparks

Stinchcomb accepted and, at the urging of city council, immediately hired the renowned landscape architectural firm, the Olmsted Brothers.

Coia

Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, Scottish architectural firm famous for their application of modernism in churches and universities

Colorado Court Housing

Colorado Court Housing is a 44-unit housing project designed by American architect Lawrence Scarpa of the architectural firm Brooks + Scarpa.

Elsinore Arch

He was so impressed with the painting of Elsinore Castle that that next Monday morning he appeared at the offices of Samuel Hannaford and Sons (famous local architectural firm that designed, among other structures, Music Hall and the City Building) with a newspaper illustration of the Elsinore stage set.

EYE Film Institute Netherlands

The EYE building was designed by architectural firm Delugan Meissl (see article in German Wikipedia), which specializes in buildings that appear to be in motion, and which is most renowned for designing the Porsche Museum, Stuttgart.

Geiger Engineers

In 1968 while an adjunct professor at Columbia University David Geiger was contacted by Davis-Brody, a New York architectural firm.

George Bowman Ferry

George Bowman Ferry (1851–1918) was an architect who was a partner in the architectural firm Ferry & Clas.

Glenview Public School District 34

Westbrook School was built in 1950-1951 and designed by the Perkins and Will architectural firm.

Golden State Theatre

Designed by the noted San Francisco architectural firm of Reid & Reid, the Golden State Theatre is a "budget" atmospheric movie palace.

Harkness Memorial State Park

The park comprises a 42-room mansion, designed by the New York architectural firm of Lord & Hewlett, with a surrounding area containing Italian, Oriental, and Cutting gardens and greenhouses.

Holland Performing Arts Center

Designed by Omaha architectural firm HDR, Inc. in collaboration with Polshek Partnership Architects, the structure specializes in events requiring an environment with good acoustics, including performances by the Omaha Symphony Orchestra and Omaha Area Youth Orchestra, as well as various events within the series, Omaha Performing Arts Presents season.

Hook and Ladder House No. 5-Detroit Fire Department Repair Shop

The Detroit Hook and Ladder House no. 5 was built in 1888; it was designed by the architectural firm of Malcomson and Higginbotham.

Ibru Organization

Felix Ibru studied architecture in Israel, and after teaching at Yaba College of Technology established an architectural firm, Entering politics, in 1992 Felix became governor of Delta State.

Ingalls Building

The 15-story building was designed by the Cincinnati architectural firm Elzner & Anderson and was named for its primary financial investor, Melville E. Ingalls.

Instituto Técnico Militar

The Instituto Técnico Militar (lit. Technical Military Institute) formerly the home of the Colegio de Belén was designed by the Cuban architectural firm of Morales & Cia (Leonardo Morales y Pedroso) in 1925.

John H. Kunsky

The 4050-seat Michigan Theater was built by the architectural firm of Rapp & Rapp and opened in August 1926

Klieves, Kraft and Company

was a building contractor and architectural firm in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center

Between 2008 and 2009, the hotel was renovated by Eastern General Contractors of Springfield, MA under the direction of Architectural firm Gensler.

Newton Country Day School

In December 1925 it moved to the Loren Towle Estate in Newton, where the architectural firm of Maginnis and Walsh added a chapel and a four-story school wing completed in 1928.

Olson Kundig Architects

Olson Kundig Architects, a Seattle-based architectural firm, was founded by architect Jim Olson in 1967.

Pan-Pacific Auditorium

Designed by the Los Angeles architectural firm Wurdeman and Becket, which later designed the Music Center and the space-age "Theme Building" at Los Angeles International Airport, the Pan-Pacific Auditorium opened to a fanfare of Boy Scout bugles on May 18, 1935 for a 16-day model home exhibition.

Paul Stallan

He worked on the design of the Falkirk Wheel with architectural firm RMJM prior to leaving this practice to establish his own studio.

Plashbourne Estate

It was designed in 1911 by the noted architectural firm of Carrère and Hastings and built for artist Violet Oakley (1874–1961) in the Tudor Revival style.

Prairie School

An example of Prairie School architecture is the aptly named "The Prairie School," a private day school in Racine, Wisconsin, designed by Taliesin Associates (an architectural firm originated by Wright), and located almost adjacent to Wright's Wingspread Conference Center.

Proviso Township High Schools District 209

The school was designed by the noted Chicago architectural firm of Perkins and Will.

Raigmore Hospital

The building, which won the RIAS Andrew Doolan Award for Architecture in 2006, was designed by Scottish architectural firm Page\Park Architects and its gardens were designed by landscape architect and designer Charles Jencks.

Regions-Harbert Plaza

The building was designed by the architectural firm Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum and constructed by general contractor Brasfield & Gorrie.

Rhodes Tower

The Brutalist structure was designed by the Cleveland architectural firm of Rode, Guenther, and Bonebrake.

Robert Livingston Gerry, Sr.

The Aknusti manor house was designed by architectural firm of Walker & Gillette with landscaping by the fame Olmsted Brothers firm.

Rockwell Center

The architectural firm Skidmore, Owings, Merril carried out the design under the direction of former Design Partner Larry Oltmanns.

St. Joseph's House for Homeless Industrious Boys

It was designed by the Philadelphia architectural firm of Hoffman-Henon and built in 1929.

St. Lawrence Market North

Richard Rogers of the Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners architectural firm is also responsible for Paris' Centre Georges Pompidou (also known as the Pompidou Centre).

Stony Brook Sports Complex

The design stage was completed by the architectural firm Populous (formerly HOK Sport), later on it was announced that the project was to be placed on hold until financing can be gathered in the present economic conditions.

The Gardens at Temple Square

The Olin Partnership landscape architectural firm from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania designed the LDS Conference Center landscape.

Torre Bouchard

The building was designed in 1991 by SEPRA Arquitectos, a leading local architectural firm whose stamp is on numerous other high-rises in the Catalinas Norte office park.

Tradeston Bridge

The design was prepared by Dissing+Weitling, a Danish architectural firm, with the UK engineers Halcrow Group.

Visionary architecture

Sheila Sri Prakash is the first woman to have started and operated her own architectural firm in India.

Watson-Curtze Mansion

It was designed by the Buffalo architectural firm of Green & Wicks and built in 1891–1892.

William Merritt Chase Homestead

It was built as a residence and studio for artist William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) in 1892 by the prominent architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White.

Zaltman metaphor elicitation technique

The architectural firm Astorino translated this into a "Transformation Corridor" that connects the main parking garage to the central lobby.

ZFX Inc.

Starting with the Uniqlo flagship store in Shanghai they worked with the architectural firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in making multiple mannequins flying in a 20 meter atrium and an overhead carousel of rotating mannequins in acrylic pods.