All WA100 2013 articles – Page 2
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PERKINS + WILL
Principal Place Perkins + Will 2013 rank: 6 Country: USA Last rank: 7 (2011) Architects employed: 771 Perkins Will completed two significant mergers in 2012 that will strengthen its international focus. In June it merged with London-based Pringle Brandon to create new opportunities in Europe and the Middle ...
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China Taiwan Cross Strait Forum Exhibition Centre and Opera House 10 Design 2013 rank: =99 Country: UK / China (HONG KONG) Last rank: =97 Architects employed: 96 To celebrate its second birthday and two project wins, 10 Design opened an office in Istanbul. The practice, founded in Hong Kong, views ...
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Emirates Arena in Glasgow by 3D Reid. 3D Reid 2013 rank: =97 Country: UK Last ranking: 64 Architects employed: 100 3D Reid has traditionally been a very domestic practice, with 90% of its work in the UK. But over the course of the next two years the picture is set ...
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ACXT-IDOM
BBK Sarriko Center, Bilbao, Spain ACXT-IDOM 2013 rank: 50 Country: Spain Last rank: =48 Architects employed: 215 The only Spanish practice in the WA100, ACXT-IDOM has not let its home nation’s parlous financial state curb its ambition. While work in Spain dwindled, Latin America has been booming and ACXT was ...
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Thomson Adsett’s Coppin Centre Residential Aged Care - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Thomson Adsett Architects 2013 rank: 96 Country: Australia Last ranking: =89 Architects employed: 103 As the domestic market remains depressed, the Australian practice has looked for creative ways to expand. Last year it formed a partnership with Woods Bagot ...
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AECOM
Student break-out hammock forest, Skolkovo Innovation Centre, Russia Aecom 2013 rank: 1 Country: USA Last rank: 2 Architects employed: 1,370 Aecom has reclaimed the coveted number one spot in the 2013 WA100. The practice, which held the top position in 2011, was one of only two to break above $400 ...
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AEDAS
West Kowloon High Speed Rail Terminus, Hong Kong Aedas 2013 rank: 5 Country: UK/China/USA Last ranking: 1 Architects employed: 1,078 Ranked number one in WA100 2012, Aedas found its ambitions running up against the immovable object of the global recession and it has fallen to fifth place in 2013. Yet ...
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AIDEA
Globe Telecom Headquarters, Bonifacio Global City in Taguig Aidea 2013 rank: 80 Country: Philippines Last ranking: =86 Architects employed: 131 Aidea is confidently predicting it will increase its staff by a third this year, thanks to a strong regional economy and aggressive expansion plans. While 80% of its work is ...
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ALLIES & MORRISON
Olympic Bridges, London Allies Morrison 2013 rank: =65 Country: UK Last ranking: 53 Architects employed: 160 It was the year that almost a decade of work on the Olympic Park in London reached its climax. Allies Morrison was one ...
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ARCHETYPE GROUP
Everrich III, residential tower, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Archetype Group 2013 rank: =69 Country: Vietnam Last ranking: =55 Architects employed: 158 The French architects and engineers who founded Archetype in Ho Chi Minh City in 2002 are well placed to exploit opportunities in parts of south-east Asia that western ...
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ARCHIAL NORR
Zayed Bay Waterfront development, Abu Dhabi Archial Norr 2013 rank: 55 Country: UK Last ranking: =55 Architects employed: 198 A year ago things were looking bleak at Archial, but it was saved from the brink of administration by Canadian firm Ingenium. In the event, some of the threatened jobs were ...
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ARCHITECT HAFEEZ CONTRACTOR
Mumbai Domestic Airport Architect Hafeez Contractor 2013 rank: =52 Country: India Last ranking: 66 Architects employed: 200 This Mumbai practice might have 530 employees but it’s all about the founder, Hafeez Contractor himself. He is a self-made celebrity in India who got himself into hot water when he took out ...
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DEVEREUX ARCHITECTS
NETDA is a masterplan for Biospark, a 186 ha site for the new Lifescience hub in Nantong. Devereux Architects 2013 rank: =65 Country: UK Last ranking: =93 Architects employed: 160 The architectural arm of Ireland’s multi-disciplinary PM Group works mainly in Britain, central and eastern Europe and the Middle East ...
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PRP ARCHITECTS
Kai Jiang scheme or ‘Golden Box’, a mixed use retail and multiplex entertainments centre in Szechuan Province, China PRP Architects 2013 rank: 90 Country: UK Last ranking: =86 Architects employed: 119 PRP hasn’t looked back since it opened its first office in China three years ago in response to shrinking ...
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HENNING LARSEN ARCHITECTS
Batumi Aquarium, Georgia Henning Larsen Architects 2013 rank: 71 Country: Denmark Last ranking: 73 Architects employed: 155 The eponymous founder of this venerable Danish practice was awarded the Praemium Imperiale for architecture last year. The £115,000 prize is handed out annually by the Japan Art Association. Other headlines for 2012 ...
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JASPERS-EYRES ARCHITECTS
Entre Deux Portes, Shopping Centre, Brussels Jaspers-Eyers Architects 2013 rank: =73 Country: Belgium Last ranking: =71 Architects employed: 150 The only Belgian practice to make the Top 100, Jaspers-Eyers works as far afield as Japan, where it designed the Belgian embassy in Tokyo. Last year saw work get under way ...
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B+H ARCHITECTS
New Ordos Airport inner Mongolia B+H Architects 2013 rank: 58 Country: Canada Last ranking: =71 Architects employed: 190 Canada’s third-biggest architect managed to increase its fee income this year above the $50 million mark, with slightly more than half that coming from North America. Among the schemes that contributed to ...
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GANSAM ARCHITECTS
Korea Life Insurance, Dunsan Office, Korea Gansam Architects 2013 rank: 57 Country: South Korea Last rank: 39 Architects employed: 191 Virtually all its $50 million+ fee income derives from the Pacific Rim, where Gansam is working largely at home and in Vietnam.This year it will add a Qatari office to ...
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SAMOO ARCHITECTS
Drama Town Samoo Architects 2013 rank: 9 Country: South Korea Last ranking: 9 Architects employed: 712 The South Korean titan added a Doha office to its outposts in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Shanghai, Hanoi and New York last year. Many of its current projects are in South Korea — its most ...