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NBBJ
223 Yale Ave., North
Seattle, WA 98109
WA Tel. 206-223-5555
Fax 206-621-2300

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.nbbj.com
Employees: 780

NBBJ spends a lot of time around hospitals, but don't worry -- there's nothing wrong. The architecture and design firm designs medical facilities as well as other structures including mixed-use commecial and office buildings, arenas, courthouses, colleges, and research facilities. In addition to architecture and design, the company provides consulting, branding, lighting, and landscaping services. NBBJ works on projects (clients have included Starbucks and Microsoft) around the world. It has offices in Washington, California, New York, and Ohio and international offices in China, the UK, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates. NBBJ was founded in 1943 by four Seattle-based architects (Naramore, Bain, Brady, and Johanson).

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $195.0M

Officers:
Managing Partner, Corporate and Commercial Market Sector: Scott W. Wyatt
CFO: Architectural & Engineering Services

Competitors:
Callison Architecture
HOK
Gensler

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NBBJ firm
Founded 1943
Industry Architecture
Website http://www.nbbj.com

NBBJ is a global architecture, planning and design firm with offices in Beijing, Columbus, Dubai, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Shanghai. 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.

Today, 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.

NBBJ 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.[1]


Contents

Notable Buildings

Sports Venues

Venue City Broke Ground Opened League(s) Sports Tenants
Paul Brown Stadium Cincinnati, Ohio 1998 2000 NFL American Football Cincinnati Bengals (NFL)
Safeco Field Seattle, Washington March 8, 1997 July 15, 1999 MLB Baseball Seattle Mariners (MLB)
Staples Center Los Angeles, California March 31, 1998 October 17, 1999 NBA
NHL
WNBA
AFL
D-League
Arena Football
Basketball
Ice hockey
Los Angeles Avengers (AFL)
Los Angeles D-Fenders {D-League)
Los Angeles Clippers (NBA)
Los Angeles Kings (NHL)
Los Angeles Lakers (NBA)
Los Angeles Sparks (WNBA)
Miller Park Milwaukee, Wisconsin November 9, 1996 April 6, 2001 MLB Baseball Milwaukee Brewers (MLB)
Lincoln Financial Field Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 7, 2001 August 3, 2003 NFL
NCAA
American Football Philadelphia Eagles (NFL)
Temple Owls (NCAA Football)
Nationwide Arena Columbus, Ohio Unknown 2000 NHL
AFL
USHL
*NLL
Arena Football
Ice hockey
*Lacrosse
Columbus Blue Jackets (NHL)
Columbus Destroyers (AFL)
Ohio Junior Blue Jackets {USHL)
*Columbus Landsharks (NLL)
Key Arena Seattle, Washington Unknown 1962 WNBA
*NBA
*WHL
*CISL
Basketball
*Ice hockey
*Soccer
Seattle Storm (WNBA)
*Seattle Supersonics (NBA)
*Seattle Thunderbirds (WHL)
*Seattle SeaDogs(CISL)

(*Denotes Former Tenant)

Recent Awards

References

  1. ^ Who's on Board?, Architecture 2030, 2008. Accessed online 23 January 2009.

 
 
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