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September 2013 www.architectmagazine.com THE ARCHITECT

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Most lists of top firms are nothing more than a straight- up ranking of top revenue-producers. Not the Architect 50. Now in its fifth year, the program aspires to much more: A qualitative look at how firms stack up across a broad range of categories, from business to sustainability to design. We consider net revenue per employee, profits invested in research, and energy-efficiency metrics (how well firms are meeting the AIA’s 2030 challenge, for instance). To measure design excellence, we asked firms for the first time to submit project portfolios, and had an esteemed panel of judges score them. The result? This year’s list features perennial heavyweights such as Skidmore, Owings & Merill, but also design darlings like John Ronan and Julie Snow. Paul Murdoch Architects showed that small firms can compete with big multinationals. Turn the page for our methodology and some surprising results. Don’t be afraid to tell us what you think.

Find more data, and the complete lists of the top 50 firms in each of the three categories, at architectmagazine.com center 85 • 01 WRNS Studio • 02 CO Architects • 03 Westlake Reed Leskosky ARCHITECT • 04 William Rawn Associates • 05 Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects • 06 Payette september 2013 • 07 Architectural Resources Cambridge • 08 THA Architecture • 09 NBBJ • 10 Lake|Flato Architects • 11 Clark Nexsen • 12 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill • 13 EYP Architecture & Engineering • 14 Miller Hull Partnership • 15 HOK • 16 Fentress Architects 01 • • • 17 SmithGroupJJR •

• • 18 Perkins+Will

• • 19 DLR Group • • 20 Eskew+Dumez+Ripple • • 21 Cambridge Seven Associates

• • 22 SRG Partnership •

BUSINESS • • 23 Richärd+Bauer

• 24 ZGF Architects 01 • • 25 KPF

• • 26 Studios Architecture

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• • 27 Ennead Architects

• • 28 Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects

SUSTAINABILITY • • 29 Mark Cavagnero Associates

• • 30 LMN Architects •

• 31 Sasaki Associates •

• • 32 LPA

• 33 Meyers + Associates Architecture

01 • • 34 John Ronan Architects • • 35 Hickok Cole Architects

DESIGN • • • 36 Cannon Design

• • 37 Ross Barney Architects

• • 38 Julie Snow Architects

• • 39 Ballinger

• • • 40 RNL Design

• • 41 H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture • 42 ELS Architecture and Urban Design • 43 Meyer Scherer & Rockcastle • 44 FXFowle • 45 NAC, Inc. • 46 Tate Snyder Kimsey • 47 BAR Architects • 48 Ann Beha Architects • 49 Goettsch Partners • 50 Paul Murdoch Architects ______WWW.A • 62 Centerbrook Architects & Planners r • 68 Ikon.5 Architects CHI te

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ARCHITECT Methodology Architect advertised the architect 50 program in the magazine and on the website, and sent invitations to firms that requested entries as well as to firms that had been invited in previous years. In all, 152 firms qualified to participate in the ranking. the Ai All data was from the 2012 fiscal year and was self-reported. Projects completed or in progress during the calendar year were included. Data was checked for consistency, and A

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A zine ScOring The architect 50 ranking is based on scores in three separate categories: september 2013 BuSineSS SuStainaBility DeSign excellence Overall •Net revenue per •The percentage of •For the first time this employee (counting only gross square footage year, the architect 50 architecture and design- of a firm’s projects that survey included the related revenue and were LEED certified submission of a design WRNS Studio staff), which counted for or designed to LEED portfolio. A panel of | ## | $$$ 65 percent of the total standards, which counted judges, chosen by Overall ScOre: 300.00 category score for 20 percent of the architect, graded each rank in each categOry •Profitability (positive total category score anonymous portfolio • BuSineSS: 11th change in net revenue •The percentage that individually to create an • SuStainaBility: 4th from 2011): 8 percent achieved certification overall portfolio score, • DeSign: 7th •The percentage of profits in other sustainability which counted for 60 1 invested in research (a programs, including percent of the design Last year was, without question, a good one for discretionary score was Energy Star and Living excellence score. WRNS Studio. The 60-person firm had one of also awarded based on a Building Challenge (a •The category also the highest net-revenue-per-employee numbers firm’s research work): discretionary score was measured design awards 12 percent awarded for the types won, including awards in this year’s survey, but it was the breadth and •A firm’s commitment and scope of net-zero granted by architect, execution of projects, combined with a strong to pro bono work, projects): 15 percent the AIA, and ASLA, as commitment to sustainability and design measured by •The percentage that well as other urban excellence, that earned WRNS the overall top participation in Public pursued a potable water design and historic Architecture’s 1% reduction beyond what preservation awards: ranking. Firm partner Bryan Shiles, AIA, credits program and the was mandated by code 15 percent the success, in part, to a diversity of typology. percentage of a firm’s or that incorporated •The percentage of total “We did well through the recession and last year billable hours that were energy modeling, with employees who were because our client base is so broad,” he says. dedicated to pro bono additional credit being licensed architects: “We have a robust education and institutional work: 15 percent given for the percentage 10 percent for which energy data • A discretionary score for portfolio on one hand, and on the other, we built was collected: the number and type of Adobe, which has been very good in terms of 40 percent teaching positions that a leveraging our cache in the high-tech world.” •Participation in the firm’s employees held at The project for Adobe Systems—a new AIA’s 2030 program architecture schools: and percentage of the 15 percent 280,000-square-foot office building that opened gross square footage last fall in Lehi, Utah—was the first time the of projects that were firm tackled a high-tech facility for a Fortune designed to 2030 500 company. standards: 15 percent For a transit center located near Lake •Percentage of a firm’s employees with LEED AP Tahoe, Calif., WRNS used the metaphor of a boat or GA credentials: hull to create a warm, wood interior evocative 10 percent of the area’s natural and recreational history. “The key to our firm is that we find ways to craft tOtal ScOre authentic conversations in a lot of contexts,” Each data point in the three categories was assigned a weight, formulated after consulting Shiles says. with architects and other industry experts. After the scores were tabulated in each of the three categories, they were rescaled so that the top ranking firm in each category was The design judges noted this careful assigned a score of 100, with the rest of the firms’ scores then recalculated as a percentage design approach: “The disposition of each of the top score. project, particularly through its materiality Finally, a firm’s scores in each of the three categories were added together to create the and form, captures and addresses the specific overall ranking. Those scores were also normalized, with the top firm given an overall total of environment and program, resulting in a 300, and all the other firms’ scores calculated as a percentage of the top score. delightfully variegated portfolio.”

WWW.A Each firm’s performance was calculated relative to the performance of other firms. A firm with an overall score of 300, for example, did not necessarily top out on every indicator and WRNS has signed on for both Public category; it accumulated the highest composite score. Architecture’s 1% program and the AIA’s r CHI 2030 challenge. “We almost don’t talk about te legenD emplOyeeS grOSS revenue sustainability anymore because it’s just what C tm # 1–10 $ Less than 999,999 we do,” Shiles says. “Research and hard data is AGAZIN ## 11–99 $$ 1–9.9 million just embedded in our design process.” ### 100–499 $$$ 10–99.9 million e .CO #### 500–999 $$$$ 100–999.9 million m ##### 1,000+ $$$$$ 1 billion+ 88 center

ARCHITECT 02 07 CO Architects Architectural Resources | ## | $$$ Cambridge the Ai Overall ScOre: 292.45 Cambridge, Mass. | ## | $$ rank in each categOry

A Overall ScOre: 258.76 m • BuSineSS: 4th rank in each categOry A • SuStainaBility: 8th g • BuSineSS: 69th A zine • DeSign: 11th • SuStainaBility: 3rD “It is not always easy to design innovative • DeSign: 31St september 2013 healthcare architecture,” said the design Architectural Resources Cambridge cracked BuSineSS judges, “and yet this firm appears to the top 10 thanks to a strong commitment reimagine how to approach the typology, to energy modeling and water reduction and usually on a modest budget.” with its portfolio of LEED Gold-certified higher education projects, including the Good Fulton 03 Phillips Exeter Academy’s Phillips Hall Westlake Reed Leskosky renovation and addition. , Ohio | ### | $$$ & Farrell Overall ScOre: 281.72 08 | ## | $$$ rank in each categOry THA Architecture Overall rank: 82nD • BuSineSS: 6th Portland, Ore. | ## | $$ 1 rank in each categOry • SuStainaBility: 5th Overall ScOre: 257.99 • SuStainaBility: 118th • DeSign: 43rD rank in each categOry • DeSign: 138th Westlake Reed Leskosky’s transformation • BuSineSS: 62nD of the Wayne Aspinall Federal Building and Duncan Fulton, FAIA, a founding principal and • SuStainaBility: 11th Courthouse in Grand Junction, Colo., may • DeSign: 14th president/CEO of Good Fulton & Farrell (GFF), make it the first net-zero energy building THA impressed the judges with its portfolio has a few theories on how his firm took the top on the National Register of Historic Places. of projects, including the University slot for business this year. First, he credits the of Oregon’s Lewis Integrative Science firm’s location in Dallas. 04 Building and University of Wyoming Visual “We’ve got the good luck of being in a William Rawn Associates Arts Facility, both certified LEED Platinum. part of the country where the recession was | ## | $$$ milder than other areas,” he says. “North , Overall ScOre: 276.94 09 rank in each categOry in particular, has benefited from some new NBBJ • BuSineSS: 9th | #### | $$$$ technologies for oil production, and while we • SuStainaBility: 12th Overall ScOre: 251.00 don’t serve that industry directly, all architects • DeSign: 21St rank in each categOry are, at the end of the day, influenced by the Strong financials and commitment to • BuSineSS: 7th larger regional economy around them.” sustainability—86 percent of employees • SuStainaBility: 33rD have LEED credentials—aided perennial This doesn’t mean that the firm came out • DeSign: 35th list-maker William Rawn. of the recession unscathed. GFF had to let good NBBJ’s strong financials were aided by its design of Google’s headquarters in people go and scale back, but another business 05 Mountain View, Calif., which is seeking choice that buoyed them during these slow Pei Cobb Freed & Living Building certification. billings periods was being debt-free, a strategy Partners Architects that the firm embraced when it was founded New York City | ## | $$$ 10 in 1982. Overall ScOre: 268.65 Lake|Flato Architects “We’ve been debt free for about 30 years rank in each categOry San Antonio, Texas | ## | $$$ and still are today,” Fulton says. “Our attitude • BuSineSS: 2nD Overall ScOre: 250.96 • SuStainaBility: 6th is to save nuts for the winter, so we benefitted rank in each categOry • DeSign: 96th • BuSineSS: 54th from that positioning. The recession hit us, and Eighty percent of the gross square footage • SuStainaBility: 2nD we were affected, but not as badly as others.” of Pei Cobb Freed’s projects in 2012 was • DeSign: 82nD Last year, Fulton says, marked the turning designed to meet the targets of the AIA’s Lake|Flato debuted on the list thanks to point where “it felt like we finally recovered 2030 challenge, contributing to the firm’s a strong sustainability ranking; the firm’s high sustainability ranking. from the recession.” He credits the increase in Josey Pavilion project, an education center for the Dixon Water Foundation, aims to billings, in part, to resurgence in multifamily 06 be the first Living Building project in Texas. projects and to the fact that GFF is in the process Payette of ownership transition, which means that 14 of WWW.A Boston | ### | $$$ the roughly 100 employees are now principals Overall ScOre: 262.09 who can bring in new work. r rank in each categOry CHI “As a result, we’ve got more channels for • BuSineSS: 41St te new projects to come into the firm,” Fulton says. • SuStainaBility: 19th C tm “Knowing the firm has enough work is a shared • DeSign: 5th AGAZIN responsibility and in order to be a principal, you Payette’s portfolio of healthcare and education projects, including the Penn have to keep yourself and other people busy.” e State Hershey Children’s Hospital and .CO Georgetown’s Regents Hall Science Center, m impressed the design judges. 90 center

ARCHITECT 11 16 Clark Nexsen Fentress Architects Norfolk, Va. | ### | $$$ | ### | $$$ the Ai Overall ScOre: 250.64 Overall ScOre: 243.42 rank in each categOry rank in each categOry A

m • BuSineSS: 28th • BuSineSS: 18th

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A • deSign: 25th • deSign: 56th zine AE firm Clark Nexsen, which merged this With such projects as the Tom Bradley

september 2013 year with the Raleigh, N.C.–based firm International Terminal at LAX and the SuStainaBility Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee, scored well LEED Gold Sanford Center for Regenerative with its portfolio of higher education Medicine in La Jolla, Calif., Fentress scored projects. high in sustainability and business. Leddy MaytuM 12 17 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill SmithGroupJJR New York City | ##### | $$$$ | #### | $$$$ Stacy architectS Overall ScOre: 249.53 Overall ScOre: 243.41 in San Francisco is proof that you don’t have to rank in each categOry rank in each categOry be a large firm to make a big impact through • BuSineSS: 8th • BuSineSS: 86th • SuStainaBility: 38th • SuStainaBility: 23rd 1 . With just 16 employees, LMS • deSign: 30th • deSign: 6th (ranked 28th overall; see the firm’s full listing SOM’s research credentials were bolstered “Artful compositions, with a wonderful on the next page) has embedded the ethos by its Center for Science and Ecology, sense of material and detail,” said the of energy efficiency into its entire practice. a research partnership with Rensselaer judges about SmithGroup’s portfolio, Fifty-six percent of the gross square footage Polytechnic Institute, as well as its AIA which included the LEED Gold Energy award-winning Great Lakes Vision Plan. Biosciences Building at UC Berkeley. of the firm’s projects met AIA 2030 challenge standards; 100 percent used energy modeling 13 18 and pursued a potable water reduction beyond EYP Architecture & Perkins+Will what was mandated by code. Fifty-six percent Engineering | ##### | $$$$ of staffers have LEED credentials. “In some Albany, N.Y. | ### | $$$ Overall ScOre 239.04 ways, staff are preselected because of our Overall ScOre: 247.10 rank in each categOry reputation and how much emphasis we put on rank in each categOry • BuSineSS: 30th sustainable design,” says Richard Stacy, FAIA, a • BuSineSS: 29th • SuStainaBility: 30th firm principal. “We don’t have to bug people to • SuStainaBility: 9th • deSign: 37th • deSign: 67th Perkins+Will invested 10 percent of its pursue accreditation; they are self-motivated.” EYP contributed 5 percent of its profits to profits in research, including microgrants LMS is also proof that you don’t have to research, exploring PV technology, net- for employees, a technology lab, and a break the budget to achieve energy efficiency. zero energy design for data centers and nonprofit public interest research arm. An affordable senior housing project that the labs, and other topics in partnership with firm designed in Oakland, Calif., was certified the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science & 19 Engineering. LEED Platinum. Last year, the firm completed DLR Group Sweetwater Spectrum in Sonoma, Calif., a net- Omaha, Neb. | #### | $$$$ 14 Overall ScOre: 236.64 zero residential community for autistic adults Miller Hull Partnership that was built to LEED Gold standards. “We don’t rank in each categOry Seattle | ## | $$$ • BuSineSS: 37th see budget as an excuse not to do sustainable Overall ScOre: 246.84 • SuStainaBility: 17th design,” Stacy says. “We get creative with taking rank in each categOry • deSign: 54th standard materials like fiber-cement siding • BuSineSS: 84th DLR formed Area 51, an internal and coming up with our own inventive ways to • SuStainaBility: 14th research unit dedicated to technological make that into a rainscreen.” • deSign: 12th innovation; the firm has also partnered Miller Hull’s Bullit Center in Seattle, pursuing with the U.S. Department of Energy on a Research is another key component of the Living Building certification, boasts energy building performance research program. LMS approach: Several projects, like Sweetwater, efficiency 83 percent greater than the are pilot programs that can hopefully be city’s typical office building. 20 replicated. “We develop our research and our Eskew+Dumez+Ripple knowledge base primarily by doing research on 15 New Orleans | ## | $$ WWW.A a case-by-case basis and then sharing that info,” HOK Overall ScOre: 236.37 says principal Marsha Maytum, FAIA. St. Louis, Mo. | ##### | $$$$ rank in each categOry

r Overall ScOre: 244.68 • BuSineSS: 20th

CHI Sustainability is such a core value that rank in each categOry • SuStainaBility: 42nd te principal William Leddy, FAIA, believes the • BuSineSS: 16th • deSign: 38th C tm descriptor to be superfluous: “We’re working • SuStainaBility: 34th Eskew+Dumez+Ripple balanced design AGAZIN hard to get rid of the word sustainability, • deSign: 34th excellence—the Reinventing the Crescent because we believe good design is good design. HOK contributed pro bono services to plan for New Orleans won an AIA Honor e the USGBC’s Project Haiti Orphanage Award—with a focus on sustainability: .CO You cannot think of it as a separate thing.” and Children’s Center in Port-au-Prince, The New Orleans Bioinnovation Center m designed to be net-zero energy. was certified LEED Gold. 92 center

ARCHITECT 21 26 Cambridge Seven Associates Studios Architecture Cambridge, Mass. | ## | $$$ San Francisco/New York City | the Ai Overall ScOre: 233.46 ### | $$$ rank in each categOry Overall ScOre: 230.59 A

m • BuSineSS: 3rd rank in each categOry

A • SuStainaBility: 67th g • BuSineSS: 25th A • deSign: 48th zine • SuStainaBility: 20th Cambridge Seven Associates’ commissions • deSign: 81St september 2013 from leading U.S. universities, and a series Studios’ strong financials and of museum projects in , commitment to sustainability—60 contributed to the firm’s strong financials. percent of the firm’s gross square footage of projects in 2012 met AIA 2030 22 standards—secured its spot on the list. SRG Partnership Portland, Ore. | ## | $$$ 27 deSign Overall ScOre: 231.65 Ennead Architects rank in each categOry New York City | ### | $$$ • BuSineSS: 78th Overall ScOre: 230.22 NADAAA • SuStainaBility: 10th rank in each categOry Boston | ## | $$ • deSign: 64th • BuSineSS: 21St Overall rank: 75th Ninety percent of SRG’s overall gross • SuStainaBility: 70th rank in each categOry square footage of projects in 2012 met • deSign: 23rd the AIA’s 2030 standards; its Museum of • BuSineSS: 148th Ennead Lab, the firm’s research initiative, Flight Space Gallery in Seattle earned LEED • SuStainaBility: 88th is exploring such topics as bird-safe Gold certification. glass and smart-grid lighting for city Flip through NADAAA’s 2012 portfolio and you 1 athletic fields. see a practice skilled in designing for all scales. 23 For instance, a 600-square-foot retail space Richärd+Bauer 28 in San Francisco for skin care brand Aesop, in Phoenix | ## | $$ Leddy Maytum Stacy which a seemingly simple wall of randomly Overall ScOre: 231.48 Architects stacked recycled boxes utterly transforms a rank in each categOry San Francisco | ## | $$ narrow, deep space into a dynamic interior. Or • BuSineSS: 127th • SuStainaBility: 31St Overall ScOre: 228.98 two new schools of architecture in and • deSign: 2nd rank in each categOry Australia (the University of Melbourne’s Faculty “Simply gorgeous architecture,” raved • BuSineSS: 143rd of Architecture, Building, and Planning building the judges about Richärd+Bauer’s design • SuStainaBility: 1St • deSign: 44th shown above), both of which challenge the portfolio, which included its College Leddy Maytum Stacy made the list traditional assumptions of academic buildings Center project at Central Arizona College. “Highly artful compositions of different thanks to its number one ranking in the with creative uses of material and assembly. contemporary materials.” sustainability category. “The work of this firm is fresh and innovative at all scales,” said the portfolio 24 29 judges. “Well detailed and beautifully drawn, ZGF Architects Mark Cavagnero Associates the projects are simultaneously adventuresome Portland, Ore. | ### | $$$$ San Francisco | ##| $$ and controlled within the project language.” Overall ScOre: 231.27 Overall ScOre: 227.70 This ability to balance adventure with rank in each categOry rank in each categOry control comes from NADAAA’s attention to • BuSineSS: 63rd • BuSineSS: 35th • SuStainaBility: 35th • SuStainaBility: 21St form and space-making. “Historically, we’ve • deSign: 24th • deSign: 80th been very material focused,” says Nader ZGF’s portfolio featured such net-zero Mark Cavagnero’s portfolio of public, Tehrani, the firm’s principal and founder. “We energy projects as the Conrad N. Hilton nonprofit, and institutional work was look at material behavior and study the means Foundation headquarters in Agoura Hills, notable for its focus on sustainability, with and methods of how buildings are put together. Calif., and the J. Craig Venter Institute its San Francisco Jazz Center expected to biology lab in La Jolla, Calif. earn LEED Gold certification. We are also looking at building typologies and radicalizing the formal, cultural, and 25 30 organizational possibilities.” Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) LMN Architects NADAAA, hailed for its innovative WWW.A New York City | ####| $$$$ Seattle | ## | $$$ technology use, tempers design exploration Overall ScOre: 230.88 Overall ScOre: 225.53 with critical pragmatism, Tehrani says. “In these r rank in each categOry rank in each categOry CHI times it seems you can draw almost anything • BuSineSS: 17th • BuSineSS: 51St te and you can build almost anything. But we’ve • SuStainaBility: 40th • SuStainaBility: 60th C tm also witnessed a precipitous fall in judgment,” • deSign: 60th • deSign: 15th AGAZIN KPF’s staff size grew larger in 2012 than Mid-sized, design-focused LMN shined he says. “It’s not about what’s technically it was pre-recession, reflecting the firm’s with its portfolio of institutional projects,

possible, and it’s not about the power to do AAA e healthy portfolio of skyscrapers and mixed- including its AIA Honor Award-winning d .CO whatever you can. [It’s] cultural relevance that use urban centers for an international Foster School of Business at the University A m

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ARCHITECT 31 36 DeSign Sasaki Associates Cannon Design Watertown, Mass. | ### | $$$ Grand Island, N.Y. | ##### | $$$$ the Ai Overall ScOre: 224.13 Overall ScOre: 221.03 rank in each categOry rank in each categOry A

m • BuSineSS: 48th • BuSineSS: 49th

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A • DeSign: 40th • DeSign: 28th zine Multidisciplinary firm Sasaki embraced Cannon’s restoration/renovation of the St.

september 2013 energy modeling and water reduction Louis Public Library’s Central Library, and with its portfolio of LEED-certified higher its Kaleida Health, Clinical, and Research education projects. Building in Buffalo, N.Y., impressed the Richärd+Bauer2 College Center, Central Arizona College design judges. 32 LPA 37 Irvine, Calif. | ### | $$$ Ross Barney Architects Overall ScOre: 223.73 Chicago | ## | $$ rank in each categOry Overall ScOre: 216.71 • BuSineSS: 31St rank in each categOry • SuStainaBility: 15th • BuSineSS: 77th • DeSign: 98th • SuStainaBility: 61St LPA’s commitment to sustainability is • DeSign: 18th reflected by its employees, 80 percent of Ross Barney’s emphasis on design whom have LEED credentials; the firm’s excellence shone through with its striking coLAB studio fosters an integrated and design for a chiller plant at Ohio State John 3Ronan Architects Poetry Foundation, Chicago University and the Chicago Transit multidisciplinary design process. Authority’s glass-and-steel Morgan 33 Street Station. Meyers + Associates 38 Architecture Julie Snow Architects Columbus, Ohio | ## | $$ Minneapolis, Minn. | ## | $$ Overall ScOre: 222.36 Overall ScOre: 213.30 rank in each categOry rank in each categOry • BuSineSS: 32nD • BuSineSS: 90th • SuStainaBility: 7th • SuStainaBility: 53rD • DeSign: 129th • DeSign: 20th Sixty percent of Meyers + Associates’ Julie Snow boasted one of the top-scoring Ikon.54 Architects E.J. Ourso College of Business, LSU employees have LEED credentials, and design portfolios, featuring the firm’s U.S. 85 percent of the gross square footage Land Port of Entry project in Van Buren, of the firm’s 2012 projects was designed Maine, and its Minneapolis Federal Office to AIA 2030 standards. Building Security Lobby Renovation. 34 39 John Ronan Architects Ballinger iam Frederick iam Chicago | ## | $ Philadelphia | ### | $$$ l Overall ScOre: 221.39 Overall ScOre: 213.13

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• SuStainaBility: 46th • SuStainaBility: 25th r ; 5 • DeSign: 3rD • DeSign: 88th F Payette Regents Hall, Georgetown University “An architect’s architect,” the judges said This leading healthcare designer about John Ronan’s design portfolio. collaborates with the Center for Health “In every case, the firm’s projects are Design on evidence-based research; 40 rad Feinknop rigorously considered in both concept percent of firm staff has LEED credentials. b and detail.” 40 35 RNL Design Hickok Cole Architects Denver | ### | $$$ WWW.A Washington, D.C. | ## | $$$ Overall ScOre: 212.36 Overall ScOre: 221.10 rank in each categOry

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te 6 SmithGroupJJR Integrated Education Building, GateWay C.C. • SuStainaBility: 76th • DeSign: 93rD C tm immerman; steve hall, hedrich blessing; steve immerman;

• DeSign: 65th Forty-one percent of the gross square t AGAZIN Hickok Cole’s portfolio of commercial footage of RNL’s projects in 2012 was ill b office buildings and multifamily housing designed to meet AIA 2030 standards; the

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ARCHITECT expertise in education design and its 41 commitment to sustainability. DeSign H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture 46 the Ai New York City | ## | $$ Tate Snyder Kimsey Overall ScOre: 211.95

A Henderson, Nev. | ## | $$ m rank in each categOry Overall ScOre: 207.88 A

g • BuSineSS: 26th rank in each categOry A zine • SuStainaBility: 114th • BuSineSS: 85th • DeSign: 9th • SuStainaBility: 27th september 2013 “Sophisticated interventions at both • DeSign: 71St the building and urban scale,” said the Tate Snyder Kimsey’s design of the U.S. judges about H3’s design portfolio, Bureau of Reclamation’s Date Street WRNS7 Studio Adobe Utah Campus Office Building which included its Lincoln Center Theater offices in Boulder City, Nev., an adaptive addition in New York City. reuse project on a former brownfield site, 42 is expected to achieve net-zero energy. ELS Architecture and 47 Urban Design BAR Architects Berkeley, Calif. | ## | $$ San Francisco | ## | $$$ Overall ScOre: 211.79 Overall ScOre: 207.04 rank in each categOry rank in each categOry • BuSineSS: 60th • BuSineSS: 14th • SuStainaBility: 39th • SuStainaBility: 43rD • DeSign: 68th • DeSign: 115th Studio8 Sumo Mizuta Museum of Art, Sakado, Japan ELS’s integrated design philosophy focuses BAR featured strong financials and on sustainability; the firm met the AIA a dedication to pro bono work: The 2030 standards for 50 percent of the gross firm collaborated with Architecture for square footage of its projects in 2012. Humanity and Haiti Partners on the design of the Children’s Academy in Haiti. 43 Meyer Scherer & Rockcastle 48 Minneapolis | ## | $$ Ann Beha Architects Overall ScOre: 211.11 Boston | ## | $$ rank in each categOry Overall ScOre: 206.65 • BuSineSS: 65th rank in each categOry • SuStainaBility: 68th • BuSineSS: 24th H3 Hardy Collaboration • DeSign: 26th • SuStainaBility: 93rD Architecture9 Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum, Biloxi, Miss. Meyer Scherer & Rockcastle’s commitment • DeSign: 27th to design excellence and creative adaptive Ann Beha invested 7 percent of its profits reuse strategies shone through with its AIA in project research for its adaptive reuse Honor Award-winning transformation of and restoration projects at MIT, the a Walmart store into the McAllen Public , and Cornell. Library Main Library in Texas. 49

44 Goettsch Partners sto e FXFowle Chicago | ## | $$$ New York City | ### | $$$ Overall ScOre: 204.94 Overall ScOre: 211.02 rank in each categOry nton Grassl/ nton Machado and Silvetti rank in each categOry • BuSineSS: 38th a 10 • BuSineSS: 27th • SuStainaBility: 29th Associates Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton Coll. • SuStainaBility: 71St • DeSign: 111th • DeSign: 52nD With clients in China and , rchitecture; rchitecture; FXFowle invested 5 percent of its profits Goettsch boasted strong financials and a a DeSign POrtFOliO JuDgeS into research that focused on parametric commitment to energy modeling with its modeling and fabrication for the portfolio of hotel and high-rise projects. Stephen Chung, AIA, is a Boston-based architect. In 2009, Casas Internacional published Pavilion and Art Bar at Art Basel, and ollaboration ollaboration a monograph dedicated to his residential projects. Chung has taught at such institutions green roof technology and performance c 50 y as Syracuse, Cornell, RISD, and Yale. He is the host for a public television series titled for the Jacob Javits Convention Center. D ar

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45 no; Merrill Elam, AIA, is a principal at -based Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects. Overall ScOre: 203.17 a NAC, Inc. r She has taught, lectured, and served as a design critic at countless institutions, including rank in each categOry CHI Yale, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and SCI-Arc. With Mack Scogin, Spokane, Wash. | ### | $$$ • BuSineSS: 58th te she received the 2012 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture. C Overall ScOre: 209.54 • SuStainaBility: 32nD tm rank in each categOry • DeSign: 99th AGAZIN im Griffith; Daici im Griffith; Daici John Peterson, AIA, is the founder and president of Public Architecture, which mobilizes • BuSineSS: 108th Paul Murdoch Architects snuck onto the t designers to drive social change. The nonprofit has built a network of over 16,000 design • SuStainaBility: 18th list with a portfolio that included the Flight

e professionals, providing $45 million of pro bono services annually across the country. • DeSign: 63rD 93 National Memorial in Stoystown, Pa., .CO The principal of Peterson Architects in San Francisco, he was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard NAC’s Carl Sandburg Elementary School and a Constitution Gardens plan for D.C.’s m

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