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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is one of the leading architecture, interior design, engineering, and urban-planning firms in the world, with a 75-year reputation for design excellence and a portfolio that includes some of the most important architectural accomplishments of the 20th and 21st centuries. Since its inception, SOM has been a leader in the research and development of specialized technologies, new processes and innovative ideas, many of which have had a palpable and lasting impact on the design profession and the physical environment. The firm’s longstanding leadership in design and building technology has been honored with more than 1,600 awards for quality, innovation, and management. The American Institute of Architects has recognized SOM twice with its highest honor, the Architecture Firm Award—in 1962 and again in 1996. The firm maintains offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, WashingtonDC., London, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Abu Dhabi.

Juli Capella Samper Born in Barcelona on 24 September 1960, he commenced a course in industrial design at the Massana School in Barcelona, which he gave up to study architecture. He graduated as an architect from the ETSAB (Barcelona Higher School of Architecture) in 1991. He has worked continuously in design and architecture in the fields of creative graphic design, industrial design, interior design, architecture and town planning, as well as on theoretical aspects of all these disciplines. He has been the president of the FAD (Promotion of the Decoratives Arts) since June 2001 from April 2005 and promoter of the Year of Design 2003. He has been member of the Consell Nacional de la Cultura i les Arts of the Catalonia Government (2009 - 2011).

Bennetts Associates Architects Founded in 1987, Bennetts Associates is one of the UK’s leading architectural practices, with more than 100 awards for a wide variety of projects. The firm is currently around 65 strong in total including 6 directors plus architectural and support staff. In addition to a main office in London, the firm has a small office in Edinburgh. A strong team ethic, methodical approach to design and sense of enjoyment are central to an exceptional track record of consistent delivery on time and to budget. The Practice’s portfolio represents a consistent body of work that is functional, well built, and architecturally striking. Bennetts Associates is especially well regarded for its pioneering work on sustainability, which is embedded in the firm’s own activities as well as its projects. The projects undertaken by the Practice cover many sectors and have ranged from around £1m to £200m, including new-build, refurbishment and restoration of listed buildings. This diversity is an important stimulus for best practice and innovation in all aspects of the practice’s workload.

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Zechner & Zechner ZTGmbH

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Martin Zechner (1962) and Christoph Zechner (1961) were born in Graz / Austria and studied Architecture at the Technical University of Graz. After working with several architects in Austria (Arch. Plottegg, Arch. Kada, Arch. Domenig), Germany and Switzerland, they set up their own office “Zechner & Zechner” in Vienna in 1988. Right now 30 architects and technicians are engaged in the Z&Z main office in Vienna. After winning the Corporate Design Competition for architecture of the "Austrian Railways" in 1990, an intense activity concerning traffic architecture started. Especially architecture for railway-stations was the main engagement of Zechner & Zechner. Zechner & Zechner´s buildings were awarded many times. Among others with the European Steel Design Award, Brunel Award for outstanding design in railway transport or the AR-Award for emerging architecture.

Just / Burgeff Architects (JBA) aim to find answers to the architectural needs of today. In the same way that society is undergoing continuous changes, the demands on our built environment are constantly in flux as well. JBA explore this dynamic process and implement it within their architectural work. Research is seen by Just / Burgeff Architects as the foundation for all forms of architectural creation. Just / Burgeff Architects’ vision is to unfold architectural and urban development potentials. It is about a bespoke and sustainable type of architecture that - whilst rooted in a given situational context - is developed into something new. The work of Just / Burgeff Architects is characterised by an ongoing discussion and advancement of their projects in collaboration with independent project partners from the world of architecture and other related disciplines such as art, design, graphic design or construction.

Heller Manus Architects is an internationally recognized, San Francisco-based architecture and urban design firm, with offices in San Francisco and Shanghai. Since founding the firm in 1984, Jeffrey Heller, FAIA, the firm’s president and councilor of the Copenhagen-based, international Green Growth Leaders, and Clark Manus, FAIA, the firm’s CEO and 87th President of the American Institute of Architects, have dedicated more than 25 years to developing a diversified, client-oriented firm that is a design and sustainability leader in the profession. Heller Manus Architects’ depth of experience encompasses a wide range of new construction and historical renovation projects including residential, mixed-use, commercial, master plans and urban design, hotel, retail, academic, civic, rehabilitation and adaptive re-use, entertainment, and transportation. The firm’s practice area has grown to include several major projects throughout China including Shanghai, Guangzhou, Inner Mongolia, and the greater Beijing area. The firm is a leader in the profession and green movement with some of the first sustainable architecture and large scale urban planning projects in the US and China.

Sergei Tchoban Architekt BDA nps tchoban voss GmbH & Co. KG

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The architectural studio nps tchoban voss has been in business for over 40 years running branches in Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden, planning and conducting projects throughout Germany, Russia and other European countries. Sergei Tchoban, Architekt BDA, is one of the studio’s three managing directors. Sergei was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1962 and graduated from the School of Architecture at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art in 1986. In 2004 and 2006 he founded architectural workshops in Moscow and St. Petersburg focusing on expansive activities in Eastern Europe. With well-trained teams of architects, engineers and various international partners he creates and develops a wide range of office and commercial buildings, hotels, condominium blocks, retail and administration centers. Alongside such important project in Berlin as DomAquarée, Music and Lifestyle Hotel Nhow, Leipziger Platz and many others, Sergei Tchoban’s current projects include the new administration center of the financial group "Bank Saint Petersburg", the new Nevsky City Hall complex and the master planning for the new city district "Europe Embankment" all located in St. Petersburg.

Arquitectonica is a design architecture, master planning, interior design and landscape firm founded 1977 in Miami as an experimental studio. Led by Bernardo Fort-Brescia (FAIA) and Laurinda Spear (FAIA, ASLA) the practice has evolved into an international studio of design professionals located across several continents and eleven offices. Arquitectonica combines the creative spirit of the founding Principals with the efficient delivery and reliability of larger corporate architectural firms. Arquitectonica’s creative notoriety is widely recognized through its large and growing portfolio of built-projects and multiple-design awards; with more than eighty built projects across thirty international cities and over one-hundred twenty awards for building design through American Institute of Architects (AIA), Progressive Architecture and other high-profile award sponsors, Arquitectonica proves a track record of service delivery, and designing commercially successful buildings recognized through the value of award winning design.

Rafael Viñoly Architects Rafael Viñoly Architects is a critically acclaimed international practice headquartered in New York, with offices in London, Los Angeles, and Abu Dhabi. Their design philosophy is rooted in the development of architectural ideas that are powerful, distinctive, and relevant to the specifics of both program and context.

VHM-Gestão e Coordenação de Projectos, S.A VHM is an engineering and architecture firm, founded in 1993. Its 170 people workforce is dedicated to engineering and architecture solutions, in all construction management and project areas. Based in Oporto, VHM has 3 delegations in mainland Portugal, as well as offices or business representatives in Dominican Republic, Panama, Angola and Morocco. VHM architecture department is a small but acclaimed office, covering all ranges of architectural projects, ranging from schools, hotels to private housing, working simultaneously in 3 continents. This department is also deeply embedded in the firm’s construction management activities, as a source for construction optimization solutions, budget control and bridging between VHM's construction management engineers and design teams on construction sites.

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