ZGF Architects LLP
ZGF Architects LLP (ZGF), formerly Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, is an American architectural firm based in Portland, Oregon at twelve west. Founded in 1942, the firm was listed as one of the 10 largest architectural firms in the United States in 2002.[2] The company has five offices in the United States and more than 450 employees.
History
The company was founded in 1942 in Portland.[3] ZGF won the American Institute of Architects' Architecture Firm Award, bestowed "for consistently producing distinguished architecture," in 1991.[4] In July 2009, the company moved into a new headquarters on southwest 12th Avenue and Washington Street in downtown Portland from southwest Third and Oak.[5]
Operations
As of 2009[update], ZGF had offices in Seattle, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and New York in addition to the headquarters in Portland.[3] The Portland headquarters is the largest of the five offices, employing about 250 people.[5] Bob Packard serves as the firm's managing partner of ZGF, which is the largest architecture firm in Portland.[5]
Notable works
- Amazon.com building (aka Pacific Medical Center) renovation, Seattle
- Bren Hall, Santa Barbara, California
- Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora
- Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Portland, Oregon
- Duke University Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (CIEMAS), Durham, North Carolina
- Fifth and Columbia Tower, Seattle
- Fourth and Madison Building, Seattle
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's South Lake Union campus, Seattle
- KOIN Center, Portland, Oregon
- Lurie Biomedical Engineering Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- LDS Conference Center, Salt Lake City
- Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon
- SDSU Transit Center (MTS Transit Center), on the campus of San Diego State University, San Diego, California
- twelve west (building), Portland, Oregon
- Umpqua Bank Plaza, Portland
References
- ^ a b "Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP". Hoover's. http://www.hoovers.com/zimmer-gunsul-frasca/--ID__127291--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
- ^ A&E Surveys 2002 - Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, Seattle Daily Journal, http://www.djc.com/special/design2002/ZGF.html, retrieved 2009-02-23
- ^ a b ZGF overview, AIA Seattle, http://folio.aiaseattle.org/zimmer-gunsul-frasca-partnership, retrieved 2009-02-23
- ^ Architecture Firm Award, AIA, http://www.aia.org/practicing/awards/AIAS078987, retrieved 2009-02-23
- ^ a b c Oppenheimer, Laura (July 20, 2009). "Portland architecture firm pulls out all stops for new office". The Oregonian. http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/07/portland_architecture_firm_pul.html. Retrieved 2009-07-21.
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