NBBJ

NBBJ
Practice information
Founders	Floyd Naramore William J. Bain Clifton Brady Perry Johanson
Founded	1943
Location	Seattle, Washington, United States
Coordinates	47°37′12″N 122°19′51″W / 47.620089°N 122.330758°WCoordinates: 47°37′12″N 122°19′51″W / 47.620089°N 122.330758°W
Website
nbbj.com

The Sail @ Marina Bay, 2009

NBBJ is an American global architecture, planning and design firm with offices in Beijing, Boston, Columbus, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Pune, San Francisco, Seattle, and Shanghai.

NBBJ provides services in architecture, interiors, planning and urban design, branding, consulting, landscape design, and lighting. The firm is involved in multiple markets and building types including: civic, corporate, commercial, healthcare, higher education, science, sports, and transportation. It is the only architecture firm to be named a Global Growth Company by the World Economic Forum and a member of the New Cities Foundation.^[1][2]

The firm accepted the Architecture 2030 Challenge, a global initiative stating that all new buildings and major renovations reduce their fossil-fuel GHG-emitting consumption by 50% by 2010, incrementally increasing the reduction for new buildings to carbon neutral by 2030.^[3] In addition, the firm has been recognized by Engineering News-Record magazine as one of the most green architecture firms in the United States.^[4]

History

The firm was founded in 1943 by Seattle architects Floyd Naramore, William J. Bain, Clifton Brady, and Perry Johanson, and was initially called Naramore, Bain, Brady & Johanson. The architects formed the partnership during World War II to accept large-scale federal commissions in the area, including expansion of the Bremerton Naval Shipyard, but remained together after the war.^[5] The firm remained focused on projects in the Pacific Northwest region, growing into its largest architectural firm, before accepting projects in other areas of the United States. In 1976, the firm merged with Columbus, Ohio-based Godwin, Nitschke, Bohm to form the modern "NBBJ".^[6][7]

Selected completed projects

Corporate/Commercial

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Headquarters, Seattle, WA, 2011^[8]
• Russell Investments Headquarters, Seattle, WA, 2011^[8]
• City of Capitals, Moscow, Russia
• The Sail @ Marina Bay, Singapore, Republic of Singapore, 2008^[9]
• Boeing Commercial Airplane Headquarters, Renton, WA, 2004^[10]
• Reebok World Headquarters, Canton, MA, 2002^[11]
• The Longaberger Company Headquarters, Newark, Ohio 1997
• Telenor World Headquarters, Fornebo, Oslo, Norway, 2002^[12]

Healthcare

• Massachusetts General Hospital Lunder Building, Boston, MA, 2011^[13]
• Seattle Children's Hospital Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center, Bellevue, WA, 2011^[14]
• Dubai Mall Medical Centre, Dubai, UAE, 2011^[15]
• Southcentral Foundation Primary Care Clinic, Anchorage, AK, 2010^[16]
• Miami Valley Hospital Heart and Orthopedic Center, Dayton, OH, 2010^[17]
• Cleveland Clinic Heart Center Miller Pavilion, Cleveland OH, 2008^[18]
• Banner Health Banner Estrella Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, 2004^[19]

Higher Education

• University of Southampton Life Sciences Building, Southampton, UK, 2012^[20]
• University of Cambridge Material Sciences and Metallurgy Building, Cambridge, UK, 2012^[21]
• Stanford University Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, Palo Alto, CA, 2011^[22]
• Cleveland State University College of Education and Human Services, Cleveland, OH, 2010^[23]

Science

• Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute, Columbus, OH, 2012^[24]
• Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, 2009^[25]
• European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2007^[26]
• California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology UCSD Atkinson Hall building, San Diego, CA, 2005
• Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2005

Civic

• United States Courthouse, Bakersfield, CA, 2012^[27]
• United States Courthouse, Billings, MT, 2012^[28]
• United States Courthouse, Seattle, WA, 2003
• Seattle Justice Center, Seattle, WA, 2002 545
• Federal Reserve Bank Building (Seattle), Seattle, WA, 1951

Sports/Expo

• UCLA Pauley Pavilion Renovation, Los Angeles, CA, 2012^[29]
• AsiaWorld-Expo, Lantau, Hong Kong, 2005
• Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, PA, 2003
• Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, OH, 2002^[30]
• Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1999
• KeyArena, Seattle, WA 1995
• Safeco Field, Seattle, WA, 1999^[31]

Urban Design

• Shanghai Bund Renovation, Shanghai, China, 2011^[32]

Selected current/future projects

• University of Cambridge Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge, UK, 2013^[33]
• University of Utah L.S. Skaggs Pharmacy Research Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, 2013^[34]
• Samsung North American Headquarters, San Jose, CA, 2015 (under construction)^[35]
• Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium, Hangzhou, China, 2014 (under construction)^[36]
• Tencent Headquarters, Shenzhen, China, 2014^[37]
• Google Bay View Campus, 2015^[38]
• Amazon.com Denny Triangle Project, Seattle, WA, 2016^[39]
• Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System Replacement Medical Center and Research Lab, New Orleans, LA, 2016^[40]
• Brigham and Women's Hospital Building for the Future (research lab and medical center), Boston, MA, 2016^[41]
• New York University Langone Medical Center, New Kimmel Pavilion, New York, NY, 2016^[42]
• Rupp Arena, Lexington, KY, 2017^[43]
• Spring District, Bellevue, Washington, c. 2020

Recent awards

• Healthcare Design Magazine, Firm of the Year Award, 2013^[44]
• Interior Design Magazine, Best of Year Award, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Campus, 2013^[45]
• IIDA, Healthcare Interiors Award, Bayt Abdullah Children's Hospice, 2012^[46]
• American Institute of Architects Academy of Architecture for Health, Healthcare Award, Massachusetts General Hospital Lunder Building, 2012
• American Institute of Architects Academy of Architecture for Health, Healthcare Award, Seattle Children’s Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center, 2011^[47]
• Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA Award Winner, Life Sciences Building at the University of Southampton, 2011^[48]
• Puget Sound Business Journal, Corporate Champion for the Environment, 2011^[49]
• Interior Design Magazine, Best of Year Award, Dubai Mall Medical Centre, 2010^[50]
• American Institute of Architects (AIA) Institute Honor Awards, Interiors, R.C. Hedreen Company, 2009^[51]
• BusinessWeek/Architectural Record Good Design is Good Business Awards, Alley24/223 Yale, 2008^[52]

References

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4. "The Top 100 Green Design Firms| ENR: Engineering News Record | McGraw-Hill Construction". Enr.construction.com. January 14, 2013. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
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34. Davidson, Kelly (December 19, 2011). "New Pharmacy Building at University of Utah Goes for LEED Gold | ENR: Engineering News Record | McGraw-Hill Construction". Mountainstates.construction.com. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
35. Chris O'Brien (January 28, 2013). "Samsung campus latest sign of life in Silicon Valley's architectural wasteland - Los Angeles Times". Latimes.com. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
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37. Walter, Amanda. "The Synergy Tower: Merging Advanced: Workplace Strategy with High Rise Design - DesignIntelligence". Di.net. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
38. Goldberger, Paul. "Exclusive Preview: Google's New Built-from-Scratch Googleplex". Vanity Fair. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
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40. The Times-Picayune. "New VA Medical Center is 'going to be a dandy,' federal official promises". NOLA.com. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
41. "Brigham Building for the Future". Brighamandwomens.org. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
42. "Campus Transformation Project | Real Estate Development and Facilities". Redaf.med.nyu.edu. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
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External links

• Official website
• NBBJ Twitter
• NBBJ Vimeo