American architecture firm
SmithGroup Industry Architecture Founded 1853; 171 years ago (1853 ) Founder Sheldon Smith Services Architecture, Building Enclosure Consulting, Campus Planning, Campus Strategy & Analytics, Civil Engineering, Coastal Engineering, Energy & Environmental Modeling, Fire Protection & Life Safety Engineering, Historic Preservation, Interiors, Lab Planning, Landscape Architecture, Lighting Design, Medical Planning, MEP Engineering, Programming, Strategy, Structural Engineering, Sustainable Design, Urban Design, Urban Planning Revenue 256,700,000 United States dollar (2017) Number of employees
1,400 (2023) Website www .smithgroup .com
SmithGroup is an international architectural , engineering and planning firm. Established in 1853 by architect Sheldon Smith, SmithGroup is the longest continually operating architecture and engineering firm in the United States that is not a wholly owned subsidiary.[ 1] The firm's name was changed to Field, Hinchman & Smith in 1903, and it was renamed Smith, Hinchman & Grylls in 1907.[ 2] In 2000, the firm changed its name to SmithGroup. In 2011, the firm incorporated its sister firm, JJR, into its name, becoming SmithGroupJJR . As of August 1, 2018, the firm changed its name back to SmithGroup .[ 3]
As of 2019, it ranks among the top 50 architecture firms according to Architect Magazine , the official magazine of AIA[ 4] and also ranked as the 5th largest architecture/engineering firm in the U.S.[ 5] The firm is composed of client industry-focused practices serving Cultural, Government, Healthcare, Higher Education, Mixed-Use, Parks & Open Spaces, Science & Technology, Senior Living, Urban Environments, Waterfront and Workplace markets. The firm has offices in 20 cities: Ann Arbor , Atlanta , Boston , Chicago , Cleveland , Dallas , Denver , Detroit , Houston , Los Angeles , Madison , Milwaukee , Phoenix , Pittsburgh , Portland , Sacramento , San Diego , San Francisco , Shanghai , and Washington, D.C.
The firm expanded outside North America by opening an office in Shanghai, China, in December 2013.[ 6]
Notable architects and engineers from the firm include Wilfred Armster , C. Howard Crane , David DiLaura , Rainy Hamilton Jr. , Robert F. Hastings , Julius Goldman , William Kapp , Wirt C. Rowland , Rosa T. Sheng and Minoru Yamasaki .
Edward H. McNamara Terminal Detroit Metropolitan Airport Guardian Building, Detroit, Michigan The Brock Environmental Center Project Location Completion Date
Architects Note Central United Methodist Church
Detroit, Michigan 1866 Detroit Opera House
Detroit, Michigan 1868 Ford Piquette Avenue Plant Detroit, Michigan 1904 Dodge Main Factory
Detroit, Michigan 1910 Central Power Plant,
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor , Michigan 1914 Fyfe Building
Detroit, Michigan 1919 Amedeo Leone Hilberry Theatre
Detroit, Michigan 1917 Field, Hinchman and Smith originally the First Church of Christ Scientist Yost Ice Arena ,
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor , Michigan 1923 T. J. Hinchman[ 7] formerly, Yost Field House J. L. Hudson Department Store and Addition Detroit, Michigan 1946 Demolished in 1998[ 8] Bankers Trust Building Detroit, Michigan 1925 Wirt C. Rowland The Players Clubhouse Detroit, Michigan 1925 William E. Kapp Buhl Building Detroit, Michigan 1925 Wirt C. Rowland Mistersky Power Plant Detroit, Michigan 1925 Amedeo Leone[ 9] Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church Indian Village, Detroit 1926 Wirt C. Rowland Meadow Brook Hall Rochester, Michigan 1926 William E. Kapp Parke-Davis Administration Building Detroit, Michigan 1926 Amedeo Leone[ 9] Michigan Bell (now AT&T) Detroit-Columbia Central Office Building
Detroit, Michigan 1927 Wirt C. Rowland Kelvinator Administration Building Detroit, Michigan 1927 Amedeo Leone[ 9] known as Plymouth Road Office Complex (PROC) League of Catholic Women Building Detroit, Michigan 1927 Country Club of Detroit Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan Amedeo Leone[ 9] School and convent buildings, Saint Paul Catholic Church
Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts Detroit, Michigan 1928 William E. Kapp Intramural Sports Building, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor , Michigan 1928 Theodore J. Hinchman[ 7] Penobscot Building Detroit, Michigan 1928 Wirt C. Rowland Guardian Building Detroit, Michigan 1929 Wirt C. Rowland Current home of SmithGroup's Detroit office Denby High School Detroit, Michigan 1930 Wirt C. Rowland Pershing High School Detroit, Michigan 1930 Wirt C. Rowland Detroit Public Library Detroit, Michigan 1932 Rackham School of Graduate Studies , University of Michigan
Ann Arbor , Michigan 1938 Pease Auditorium , Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan 1941 GM Tech Center Warren, Michigan 1955 [Architect of Record] 1001 Woodward Detroit, Michigan 1965 the former First Federal Building Whiting Auditorium Flint, Michigan[ 10] 1967 National Institutes of Health Research Laboratories Bethesda, Maryland 1968 Kmart Corporation International Headquarters Troy, Michigan 1969 Harper Hospital in the Detroit Medical Center Detroit, Michigan 1970 Hart Plaza Detroit, Michigan 1978 including the Dodge Fountain designed by Isamu Noguchi Joe Louis Arena Detroit, Michigan 1979 former home of the NHL Detroit Red Wings IBM Corporation Manufacturing and Engineering Complex Tucson, Arizona 1979 Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters Washington, DC 1984 Eli Lilly and Company Biomedical Research Center Indianapolis, Indiana 1984 Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois 1989 Chrysler World Headquarters Auburn Hills, Michigan 1996 Comerica Park Detroit, Michigan 2000 home of the MLB Detroit Tigers Phelps Dodge Corporate Headquarters Phoenix, Arizona 2001 Chesapeake Bay Foundation Headquarters Annapolis, Maryland 2001 the first building in the United States to earn a LEED Platinum certification Edward H. McNamara Terminal Detroit Metropolitan Airport Romulus, Michigan 2002 University of California, San Francisco Mission Bay Genentech Hall San Francisco, California 2002 Ford Field Detroit, Michigan 2002 home of the NFL Detroit Lions Consumers Energy , Corporate Headquarters Jackson, Michigan 2003 Discovery Communications World Headquarters Silver Spring, Maryland 2003 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch Detroit, Michigan 2004 Visteon Village, Corporate Headquarters Detroit, Michigan 2004 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Molecular Foundry Berkeley, California 2006 National Academies Building Washington, DC Chandler City Hall Chandler, Arizona 2010 GateWay Community College , Integrated Education Building Phoenix, Arizona 2012 Brock Environmental Center Virginia Beach, Virginia 2014 University of Illinois, Electrical and Computer Engineering Building Urbana, Illinois 2014 University of Pennsylvania , Stephen A. Levin Building Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2016 Museum of the Bible Washington, DC 2017 DC Water Headquarters Washington, DC 2018 the first building in the United States to use a wastewater heat recovery system for heating and cooling[ 11] University of Texas at Dallas Engineering Building Dallas, Texas 2018 California Pacific Medical Center - Van Ness Campus San Francisco, California 2019 University of Michigan Museum of Natural History Ann Arbor , Michigan 2019 California Institute of Technology - Chen Neuroscience Research Building Pasadena, California 2020
^ Cramer, James P. (2005). Almanac of Architecture and Design . Atlanta, GA: Greenway Communications. p. 348. ISBN 0-9675477-9-2 . ^ Lebovich, William (August 6, 2003). "150 Years of SmithGroup" . ArchitectureWeek . Archived from the original on December 22, 2016. Retrieved September 2, 2017 . ^ "Rebranded SmithGroup Debuts Mission to Design a Better Future" . SmithGroup . Retrieved 2018-08-05 . ^ "The 2019 Architect 50" . Architect . Retrieved 2017-06-24 . ^ "Building Design and Construction August 2022" . Retrieved 2013-04-18 . ^ Criswell, Jakita (9 December 2013). "Architectural Firm SmithGroupJJR Launches Office in Shanghai, China" . DBusiness Magazine . Retrieved 26 January 2014 . ^ a b Original Smith, Hinchman & Grylls building plan sheets ^ "Fourteen Years Ago Today, Detroit Imploded The Hudson's Department Store Building" . Curbed Detroit . Retrieved 2017-10-21 . ^ a b c d American Institute of Architects application ^ "Smith, Hinchman & Grylls" . Michigan Modern . Retrieved 11 March 2017 . ^ "DC Water installs thermal energy exchange system at new headquarters" . WaterWorld . Retrieved 28 October 2023 .
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