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 354,000,000 United States dollar (2023) Number of employees
1,500 (2024) 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 .
Notable projects 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
References
^ 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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