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  • The redeveloped Lynden Pindling International airport at Nassau, the Bahamas, designed by Stantec
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    Stantec

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The redeveloped Lynden Pindling International airport at Nassau, the Bahamas, designed by Stantec 2014 rank: 24 Country: Canada Last ranking: 11 Architects employed: 426 With 34 offices across Canada and the USA, Stantec is a behemoth of the North American architecture industry. The practice is most active in the commercial ...

  • SSH's competition-winning scheme for a new GulfBank headquarters in Algiers
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    SSH

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    SSH’s competition-winning scheme for a new GulfBank headquarters in Algiers 2014 rank: 95 Country: Kuwait Last ranking: New Architects employed: 100 SSH may be one of Kuwait’s oldest design firms but it makes its debut into the top 100 this year after appointing a new management team and announcing plans ...

  • PRP's Laugharne Park Wales
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    PRP

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    PRP’s Laugharne Park Wales 2014 rank: 79 Country: UK Last ranking: 90 Architects employed: 131 Increased activity in the UK housing sector has meant a good year for PRP — the firm jumps 11 places in this year’s survey. Developing a specialism in homes for the elderly appears to be ...

  • Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Campus by Perkins + Will
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    Perkins & Will

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Source: Christopher Barnes Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Campus by Perkins + Will 2014 rank: 6 Country: USA Last ranking: 6 Architects employed: 888 It has been a solid year for Perkins Will, which maintains its position just outside the top five. The decision to merge ...

  • Mary Carroll High School in Corpus Christi, Texas by PBK
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    PBK

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Mary Carroll High School in Corpus Christi, Texas by PBK 2014 rank: 81 Country: USA Last ranking: 86= Architects employed: 121 Schools remain the bread and butter of PBK’s business. The practice completed a host of education facilities in 2013, mostly in Texas, and 2014 looks likely to be a ...

  • VA Outpatient Clinic in Austin, Texas by Page Southerland Page
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    Page Southerland Page

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Source: Casey Dunn VA Outpatient Clinic in Austin, Texas by Page Southerland Page 2014 rank: 80 Country: USA Last ranking: 83= Architects employed: 130 Texas-based Page Southerland Page maintains its reputation as the pre-eminent designer of US embassies. The practice recently completed the Dakar embassy in Senegal and is this ...

  • Nikken Sekkei's Yaesu development at Tokyo's main railway station
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    Nikken Sekkei

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Nikken Sekkei remains Japan’s largest architecture firm

  • Torana-mon HIlls project by Nihon Sekkei
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    Nihon Sekkei

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    2014 rank: 21= Country: Japan Last ranking: 25 Architects employed: 440 Japan’s second-largest practice is increasingly focusing on international growth. Nihon Sekkei last year opened the 40-storey, 170,000sq m Agribank headquarters in Hanoi, and completion of that sizeable project will no doubt provide a boost to the firm’s ongoing efforts ...

  • Amazon campus, Seattle, USA by NBBJ
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    NBBJ

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Amazon campus, Seattle, USA by NBBJ 2014 rank: 26 Country: USA Last ranking: 29= Architects employed: 414 Widely known as a healthcare specialist, NBBJ has been turning its attentions elsewhere in the last 12 months. Managing partner Scott Wyatt says corporate offices are playing an increasingly important role in providing ...

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    Jacobs

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    2014 rank: 17 Country: UK / USA Last ranking: 18 Architects employed: The architecture work conducted by Jacobs reflects the company’s status as a world engineering giant and tends to involve transport and infrastructure. 2013 saw the completion of the £2 billion Blackfriars Station project in London, for which Jacobs ...

  • HOK, New Songdo, South Korea
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    HOK

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    HOK designed a series of residential and mixed-use towers within New Songdo City, a new business district in Incheon, South Korea called “the world’s smartest city.” 2014 rank: 12 Country: USA Last ranking: 8 Architects employed: 669 Infrastructure projects remain the focus for HOK, which says it expects to ...

  • NBBJ and HKS' Royal Liverpool Hospital
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    HKS

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    NBBJ and HKS’ Royal Liverpool Hospital 2014 rank: 25 Country: USA Last ranking: 37= Architects employed: 423 HKS may work on a wide range of projects but healthcare continues to contribute a considerable proportion of the practice’s fee income on both sides of the Atlantic. Notable projects include the expansion ...

  • The new headquarters for Football NSW in Sydney, Australia, by HBO+EMTB
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    HBO+EMTB

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The new headquarters for Football NSW in Sydney, Australia, by HBO+EMTB 2014 rank: 43 Country: Australia Last ranking: 42 Architects employed: 279 “Our move into Asia has proven a fillip in maintaining our core team in Australia during the post-‘mineral boom’ period,” says HBO+EMTB managing director Kevin Fitzgerald. Projects for ...

  • IBI Group 88 Scott Street
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    IBI Group

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    IBI Group’s 88 Scott Street - a 53-storey residential tower in Toronto 2014 rank: 4 Country: Canada Last ranking: 3 Architects employed: 1,035 IBI Group may have dropped a place in the world rankings but it retains its position as Canada’s largest practice by far. Projects in North America ...

  • The Mary Idema Pew Library at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, by SHW Group
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    SHW Group

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Mary Idema Pew Library at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, by SHW Group 2014 rank: 85 Country: USA Last ranking: 86= (2012) Architects employed: 111 Public education projects in the USA provide the vast majority of SHW Group’s work — and have propelled the practice into this year’s top ...

  • The Shanghai skyline with its tallest tower by Gensler Architects
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    Gensler

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Shanghai skyline with its tallest tower 2014 rank: 1 Country: USA Last ranking: 2 Architects employed: 1,468 The world’s biggest architect. It’s a highly prized title, which is this year reclaimed by Gensler. Since losing the crown it previously held in 2009, the US giant has always been ...

  • 425 Park Avenue, New York, by Foster and Partners
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    Foster & Partners

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    425 Park Avenue, New York, by Foster Partners 2014 rank: 14 Country: UK Last ranking: 10 Architects employed: 630 Foster Partners retains its position as Britain’s largest practice — and despite slipping out of the top 10 in this year’s survey, it has not been a bad year ...

  • Target Field Station, Minneapolis, USA by Perkins Eastman
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    Perkins Eastman

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Target Field Station, Minneapolis, USA by Perkins Eastman 2014 rank: 20 Country: USA Last ranking: 22 Architects employed: 485 Perkins Eastman started work on two major projects in New York last year: the world’s largest ferris wheel on Staten Island and a 16-storey building for the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. ...

  • The Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska by DLR Group
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    DLR Group

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska by DLR Group 2014 rank: 39 Country: USA Last ranking: 37= Architects employed: 314 Education and criminal justice specialist DLR Group has maintained its dominance across the USA in these two markets. Managing principal Griff Davenport cites “sustained growth” in the firm’s key ...

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    Leo A Daly

    2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

    2014 rank: 31 Country: USA Last ranking: 24 Architects employed: 362 Diversity is the backbone of US practice Leo A Daly’s business. The firm works on a broad spectrum of projects in sectors ranging from aviation to libraries and religious buildings. In 2013 the practice started construction on its $100 ...