Ellerbe Becket

Ellerbe Becket
Founded 1909
Headquarters Minneapolis, Minnesota,
United States
Number of locations Dallas, Kansas City, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Dubai, Doha
Services Architecture, Interiors, Graphics, Planning
Website Ellerbe Becket

Ellerbe Becket, an AECOM Company, is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based architectural, engineering, interior design and construction firm – ranked as one of the world's largest architectural firms[1] – and with offices in Dallas, TX, Kansas City, MO, San Francisco, CA, Washington, DC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Doha, Qatar.

The firm currently employs 475 in 7 locations and three countries – and has designed buildings in all of the 50 states and in 20 countries. In the 2007 fiscal year the firm had an annual revenue of $70 million.

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History

The company originally called Ellerbe & Co. was founded by Franklin Ellerbe in 1909 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Its first clients included the Mayo Clinic and 3M. Thomas Ellerbe took over the company in 1921 upon his father's death. When he retired in 1966 it became an employee-owned company. In 1987 it merged with Welton Becket and Associates of Los Angeles and became Ellerbe Becket.[2] In 1988 it opened a sports design division in Kansas City. On October 26, 2009 Ellerbe Becket joined the architecture, planning, and engineering firm AECOM. Ellerbe Becket’s professional expertise and practice strengths in the design of healthcare, sports, government, corporate and higher education facilities complement the global AECOM platform.

Projects

General buildings

Health care

Forest City Ratner Companies announced that it has retained the award-winning architectural firm Ellerbe Becket to design the Barclays Center, which will be the home of the Nets basketball team and host over 200 concerts and family shows annually. The new arena design will incorporate all of the approved design standards.

Sports facilities

The following were designed by the Kansas City Sports Venue branch

Stadiums

Arenas

References

  1. ^ International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 41. St. James Press, 2001 (via fundinguniverse.com)
  2. ^ Ellerbe Becket: History: Founders
  3. ^ Faurot Field - ellerbebecket.com - Retrieved October 8, 2009

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