Perkins+Will is an American architecture and design firm established in 1935.
The firm was established by Lawrence Perkins (1907-1998) and Philip Will (1906-1985).
Perkins and Will met while studying architecture at Cornell University. The company was founded in Chicago.
The company attracted national attention in 1940 with the Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois, designed in association with Eliel Saarinen and Eero Saarinen. In 1986, Perkins+Will was bought by Dar Al-Handasah, a Lebanese consulting firm.
In March 2014, Perkins + Will announced its planned acquisition of The Freelon Group, led by Philip Freelon. After the close of the transaction, Freelon is expected to join Perkins + Will’s board of directors and become managing and design director of the firm’s North Carolina practice.
The firm's website claims to have more Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) accredited professionals than any other design firm in North America. In 2011, Perkins+Will announced the LEED-ND (Neighborhood Development) platinum level certification for its 100th sustainable building, the Dockside Green Phase Two Balance project, located in Victoria, British Columbia.
Notable LEED projects:
University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre, Vancouver BC - LEED Canada Platinum certified, designed to meet the Living Building Challenge
Dockside Green in Victoria, BC.
Great River Energy Corporate Headquarters in Maple Grove, MN - a LEED Platinum Building that is the first to combine Lake Source Geo-Exchange with displacement ventilation. The building has an urban wind turbine.
Discovery Health Center – 1st LEED NC Certified ambulatory care facility in the country.
Arlington Free Clinic – 1st LEED CI Gold free health clinic in the USA.
Rush University Medical Center, Orthopedic Ambulatory Building – Largest LEED CS Gold healthcare building in the country.
Target Retail Store - the first LEED Certified store for this company.
The Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA achieved LEED Gold certification
Boeing International Headquarters, Chicago, Illinois
Chase Tower (Chicago), Chicago, Illinois
The Clare at Water Tower, Chicago, Illinois
Concordia International School Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Crow Island School, Winnetka, Illinois
Lake Forest College, buildings in Middle and South Campus, Lake Forest, Illinois
Duke University Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina
Florida Atlantic University, Schmidt Biomedical Science Center
Fort Collins High School, Fort Collins, Colorado
GlenOak High School, Plain Township, Ohio
International School of Beijing, Beijing, China
Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Proviso West High School, Hillside, Illinois
Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center, Chicago, Illinois
Signature Place, St. Petersburg, Florida
Tulane University, Mayer Residences, New Orleans, Louisiana
Tufts University, Granoff Music Center, Boston
University of Agostinho Neto, New Campus Master Plan, Luanda, Angola
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, Champaign, Illinois
University of Miami, School of Communication, Miami, Florida
University of Pennsylvania, Biomedical Research Building II, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
University of Southern California, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Los Angeles, California
Antilia, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
235 Van Buren, Chicago, Illinois
University Health System 2012 expansion project, San Antonio, Texas.
Los Angeles United States Court House, Los Angeles, California, new facility
Texas A&M University, Memorial Student Center 2012 Renovation, College Station, Texas.
University at Buffalo, Davis Hall Building, UB's North Campus, Amherst, NY
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, North Campus, Suzhou, China
2015 American Planning Association's National Planning Excellence Award for a Planning Firm
2010 National Building Museum's Honor Award for Civic Innovation, the first architectural firm to be a recipient.
2010 Honor Award for Civic Innovation from the National Building Museum
2009 and 2008 Practice Greenhealth Champion for Change Award
2009 COTE Top 10 Green Projects, Dockside Green and Great River Energy
2008 BusinessWeek and Architectural Record "Good Design is Good Business" Award for Haworth Headquarters
2008 CoreNet Sustainability Leadership Award for Sustainable Development
2003 National Honor Award from the AIA for Skybridge at One North Halsted, Chicago, Illinois
