Davis Brody Bond

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Davis Brody Bond Aedas is a US architectural firm.

On April 13, 2004 the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced that Davis Brody Bond Aedas would serve as the associate architects to assist Michael Arad and Peter Walker with their design for Reflecting Absence, a planned memorial to the September 11, 2001 attacks at the World Trade Center site.

Company Background

Headquartered in New York and with offices in Washington, DC and São Paulo, Brazil, Davis Brody Bond Aedas is led by six partners: J. Max Bond, Jr., Steven M. Davis, William H. Paxson, Christopher K. Grabé, Carl F. Krebs and David K. Williams.

Davis Brody Bond Aedas has been honored with more than 100 major design awards including the American Institute of Architects Firm Award, the highest honor given to an architectural practice as well as the 2000 Presidential Design Award for Excellence.

Among its current commissions are a new infill building and restoration of the historic New York Public Library; the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center at Northwestern University; research facilities for Harvard University; industrial facilities in Central and South America for Valeo; the Data Processing and Administrative Center for the U.S. Census Bureau, and the master planning and design of a new university in Zimbabwe. In addition, it is the Design Architect for the National September 11 Museum and, as Associate Architect, is executing the design of the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center.

Davis Brody Bond Aedas is a member of the Aedas group, a global architectural practice of 2,100 staff working in 32 offices across six regions on four continents. The Aedas Group has a major presence in the United Kingdom, Asia and the Middle East.