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.
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. In addition, the firm has been recognized by Engineering News-Record magazine as one of the most green architecture firms in the United States.
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. 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".
Corporate/Commercial
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Headquarters, Seattle, WA, 2011Russell Investments Headquarters, Seattle, WA, 2011City of Capitals, Moscow, RussiaThe Sail @ Marina Bay, Singapore, Republic of Singapore, 2008Boeing Commercial Airplane Headquarters, Renton, WA, 2004Reebok World Headquarters, Canton, MA, 2002The Longaberger Company Headquarters, Newark, Ohio 1997Telenor World Headquarters, Fornebo, Oslo, Norway, 2002Healthcare
Massachusetts General Hospital Lunder Building, Boston, MA, 2011Seattle Children's Hospital Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center, Bellevue, WA, 2011Dubai Mall Medical Centre, Dubai, UAE, 2011Southcentral Foundation Primary Care Clinic, Anchorage, AK, 2010Miami Valley Hospital Heart and Orthopedic Center, Dayton, OH, 2010Cleveland Clinic Heart Center Miller Pavilion, Cleveland OH, 2008Banner Health Banner Estrella Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, 2004Higher Education
University of Southampton Life Sciences Building, Southampton, UK, 2012University of Cambridge Material Sciences and Metallurgy Building, Cambridge, UK, 2012Stanford University Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, Palo Alto, CA, 2011Cleveland State University College of Education and Human Services, Cleveland, OH, 2010Science
Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute, Columbus, OH, 2012Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, 2009European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2007California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology UCSD Atkinson Hall building, San Diego, CA, 2005Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2005Civic
United States Courthouse, Bakersfield, CA, 2012United States Courthouse, Billings, MT, 2012United States Courthouse, Seattle, WA, 2003Seattle Justice Center, Seattle, WA, 2002 545Federal Reserve Bank Building (Seattle), Seattle, WA, 1951Sports/Expo
UCLA Pauley Pavilion Renovation, Los Angeles, CA, 2012AsiaWorld-Expo, Lantau, Hong Kong, 2005Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, PA, 2003Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, OH, 2002Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1999KeyArena, Seattle, WA 1995Safeco Field, Seattle, WA, 1999Urban Design
Shanghai Bund Renovation, Shanghai, China, 2011University of Cambridge Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge, UK, 2013University of Utah L.S. Skaggs Pharmacy Research Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, 2013Samsung North American Headquarters, San Jose, CA, 2015 (under construction)Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium, Hangzhou, China, 2014 (under construction)Tencent Headquarters, Shenzhen, China, 2014Google Bay View Campus, 2015Amazon.com Denny Triangle Project, Seattle, WA, 2016Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System Replacement Medical Center and Research Lab, New Orleans, LA, 2016Brigham and Women's Hospital Building for the Future (research lab and medical center), Boston, MA, 2016New York University Langone Medical Center, New Kimmel Pavilion, New York, NY, 2016Rupp Arena, Lexington, KY, 2017Denny Substation, Seattle, Washington, 2018Spring District, Bellevue, Washington, c. 2020Healthcare Design Magazine, Firm of the Year Award, 2013Interior Design Magazine, Best of Year Award, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Campus, 2013IIDA, Healthcare Interiors Award, Bayt Abdullah Children's Hospice, 2012American Institute of Architects Academy of Architecture for Health, Healthcare Award, Massachusetts General Hospital Lunder Building, 2012American Institute of Architects Academy of Architecture for Health, Healthcare Award, Seattle Children’s Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center, 2011Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA Award Winner, Life Sciences Building at the University of Southampton, 2011Puget Sound Business Journal, Corporate Champion for the Environment, 2011Interior Design Magazine, Best of Year Award, Dubai Mall Medical Centre, 2010American Institute of Architects (AIA) Institute Honor Awards, Interiors, R.C. Hedreen Company, 2009BusinessWeek/Architectural Record Good Design is Good Business Awards, Alley24/223 Yale, 2008
