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unusual facts about Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners


Earley

The building was partly taken over by the civil engineering consultancy Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners in June 1974, when it relocated from London.


Architecture of Denmark

In 2007, they won a competition for the design of a new headquarters for Deutsche Bahn in Berlin ahead of firms such as Foster + Partners of the UK and Dominique Perrault of France.

Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art

It was not until 1986 that the Barcelona City Council recommended the American architect Richard Meier & Partners (1987–1995) to design the museum.

Halcrow Group

Thames Hub (UK; concept 2011) - Halcrow is providing technical advice to architects Foster + Partners for its Thames Hub proposal for integrated infrastructure development in the Thames Estuary in the UK.

James Ingo Freed

In partnership with I.M. Pei, in their firm known as Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, he worked on major United States public buildings and museums.

Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

Jaquelin T. Robertson, a Richmond native, and partner in the New York City-based firm of Cooper, Robertson & Partners, was chosen to lead the design effort, in association with the Glave Firm of Richmond.

Lorcan O'Herlihy

O'Herlihy has worked on the east coast as a designer and associate at Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, at I.M. Pei and Partners where he worked on the Grand Louvre Museum in Paris, and at Steven Holl Architects where he was responsible for the AIA National Honor Award-winning Hybrid Building (Seaside, Florida).

Oleg Kerensky

As an associate, and then a partner, in the firm Freeman Fox & Partners, Kerensky designed many British road bridges and structures such as the 1951 temporary Dome of Discovery in London, the largest dome in the world.

Plumping

In March 2009, West Coast poultry producer Foster Farms and their advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners launched a campaign centered on "Say No To Plumping."

Queen Elizabeth II Metro Bridge

It was designed by W. A. Fairhurst & Partners, and constructed by Cementation Construction Ltd. and the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company at a cost of £4.9 million.

Ray Di Carlo

The studio's advertising agency clients including DDB Worldwide(Chicago, NY, LA, and Tribal British Columbia), FCB, Leo Burnett Worldwide, Santo (Bueno Aires/London), Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Sedgwick Rd., Campbell Ewald, Pedone, Euro RSCG, The Buntin Group, Borders Perrin and Norrander, and Ogilvy & Mather, as well as networks clients NBC, TBS, Cartoon Network, The Learning Channel, and PBS.

Shore Tilbe Irwin + Partners

Leonard Shore died in 1989, and as he had no immediate family, the Shore Foundation was created in his memory to assist the University of Toronto, and the L.E. Shore Memorial Library in Thornbury, Ontario.

Environmental sustainability has become more and more prevalent in STIP's designs, demonstrated in the greenhouse gas reduction technology used in the Fathom Five National Marine Park/Bruce Peninsula National Park visitors' centre, The Wellness Centre at the UofT Mississauga Campus (UTM) also incorporated green roofs, one of which was intended for use by the biology department.

Other buildings designed by the firm during this time were H.J.A. Brown Education Centre, Peel Regional Police Headquarters, and the post-modern Metropolitan Toronto Police Headquarters.

Shore Tilbe Irwin + Partners (STIP), now Shore Tilbe Perkins+Will, is an architecture firm based in Toronto, Ontario.

SmartGeometry Group

Participants come from some of the world's leading architectural and engineering practices (such as Arup, Buro Happold, Foster + Partners, Grimshaw Architects and KPF) and educational institutions (including MIT, Architectural Association, The Bartlett, University of Bath and Delft University of Technology).

St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood

The church was damaged by the bombing during the Second World War and restoration work was carried out by the conservation architects Caroe & Partners between 1946 and 1951.

William George Nicholson Geddes

He worked for the City Engineer in Edinburgh, then Sir William Arrol & Company, and F.A. Macdonald & Partners under William Fairhurst, before joining Babtie, Shaw and Morton in 1942.


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