SHoP Architects
| SHoP Architects | |
|---|---|
| Practice information | |
| Partners | Christopher Sharples, Coren Sharples, Gregg Pasquarelli, Kimberly Holden, William Sharples[1] |
| Location | Manhattan, New York City |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Work | |
| Buildings | Barclays Center, The Porter House, East River Esplanade |
| Awards | AIANY Honor Award, National Design Awards |
SHoP Architects is an architecture firm in Lower Manhattan, New York City, with projects located throughout the United States and several African countries.[2][3] Led by five principals,[1] the firm provides services to residences, commercial buildings, schools and cultural institutions, as well as large-scale master plans.
Founded in 1996, the firm's work has been exhibited internationally and included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.[4] Its first monograph, Out of Practice, was published in 2012 by the Monacelli Press.[5]
Work
The firm is known for its designs of the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn, New York[6][7] and its contract with the Howard Hughes Corporation to develop the South Street Seaport. It has also designed the Museum of Sex,[4] a renovation of Governors Island, and the new Essex Crossing – all in Manhattan, New York – as well as design the expansion of the Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, California.[citation needed]
Awards and honors
In 2014, SHoP was named Fast Company magazine's "Most Innovative Architecture Firm in the World",[8] and one of its "Most Innovative Companies in the World".[9][why?]
SHoP Architects' awards also include the 2009 National Design Award for Architecture Design from the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum,[10] the Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Awards, and awards from the American Institute of Architects' New York City and New York State chapters.
Criticism
Justin Davidson, the architecture critic for New York magazine, called the firm "ubiquitous" and criticized its plan with the Howard Hughes Corporation for the South Street Seaport, saying its single tower creates "a new barrier between the seaport and the world beyond." He writes that both the developer and the firm need to understand the area's "benign shabbiness" and not "set a new precedent [of] claiming the waterfront for residences."[11]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "About" SHoP Architects website. Accessed: October 14, 2015
- ↑ Bernstein, Fred A. "Success of Brooklyn's Barclays Center Will Be in the Eye of the Be-Hova", Architectural Record (September 18, 2012). Retrieved: October 18, 2012
- ↑ Cilento, Karen. Botswana Innovation Hub / "SHoP Architects", Architecture Daily (June 21, 2010). Retrieved October 11, 2012.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Museum of Sex, New York, New York, Scale model 1/8"=1'-0"" Museum of Modern Art "The Collection"
- ↑ Out of Practice on the Monacelli Press website
- ↑ Novel, Philip. "Barclays Center, by SHoP Architects" Architect (November 14, 2012)
- ↑ Rice, Andrew. "From Barclays Center To Modular High Rises, SHoP Architects Is Changing The Way We Build Buildings" Fast Company (March 2014)
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- ↑ "Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Announces Winners of the 10th Annual National Design Awards" (press release) Smithsonian Institution website (April 30, 2009)
- ↑ Davidson, Justin, "South Street Sell-off," New York magazine (December 29 2014), p.101
