The New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) has contracted with 20 firms to provide architectural design services for the city’s future public buildings projects under the latest round of DDC’s Project Excellence Program.
Ten of the firms are certified minority- and women-owned business enterprises (M/WBEs). This has allowed the agency to meet the city’s goals for contract awards to M/WBEs and increased the agency’s ability to create culturally competent designs, DDC says.
“The firms selected for Project Excellence went through a rigorous review process to ensure they can deliver inspirational and functional designs using sustainable and durable materials that can be built on time and on budget,” said DDC Commissioner Thomas Foley. “We are very pleased that half of the firms who will design the city’s public buildings are certified M/WBEs. DDC builds in every part of the city, and we have always sought firms that can create culturally sensitive projects that best serve the people who use them.”
Firms chosen include:
SMALL (5 – 20 professional staff)
• Verona Carpenter Architects (WBE)
• nARCHITECTS (M/WBE)
• Shakespeare Gordon Vlado Architects (WBE)
• Ricardo Zurita Architecture & Planning (MBE)
• Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Architects (WBE)
MEDIUM (21 – 50 professional staff)
• Selldorf Architects (WBE)
• R2Architects (Ronnette Riley Architect/Ross Barney Architects JV) (WBE)
• ikon.5 architects
• Leroy Street Studio
• BKSK Architects
• ROGERS PARTNERS Architects+Urban Designers
• Allied Works Architecture
• TOD WILLIAMS BILLIE TSIEN Architects + Partners (M/WBE)
• H3
• PBDW Architects
LARGE (More than 50 professional staff)
• Studio Gang (WBE)
• SHoP Architects
• Marvel (MBE)
• Snøhetta
• Grimshaw
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