Ennead Architects\u00a0joining\u00a0CannonDesign to deepen\u00a0design\u2019s\u00a0impact on society\u202f\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ennead Architects, recognized as one of the most influential and distinguished architectural firms practicing today, is joining CannonDesign.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The two firms are uniting to\u00a0advance\u00a0their\u00a0shared commitment to bold design vision and to expand the possibilities and impact of design.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Together, Ennead and CannonDesign are building a practice with the ambition to approach design solutions differently \u2014 shaping the full arc of how places are imagined, built,\u00a0activated\u00a0and experienced, and carrying design thinking into contexts far beyond buildings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Some of my most vivid memories with my family are weekends at the American Museum of Natural History’s Rose Center for Earth and Space, an Ennead project that captures exactly what purposeful design can do. It connects people and creates space where everyone belongs,\u201d said CannonDesign CEO, Brad\u00a0Lukanic, AIA. “Our firms share a deep commitment to enriching the public realm, and that common ground is what brought us together. Now we have a profound opportunity to improve civic life at a much greater scale, shaping not just buildings, but the way people experience the world.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
This move brings together two firms that each, in their own way, refuse to accept design as\u00a0a reactive\u00a0discipline. CannonDesign, with its global network of nearly 1,600 designers, consultants, experience strategists and technology leaders, has long been recognized for expanding design\u2019s impact on the world \u2014 it\u00a0has\u00a0been named to Fortune\u2019s Change the World list and repeatedly recognized by Fast Company as one of the most innovative architecture firms. Ennead is a\u00a0160-person practice renowned throughout the profession for its uncompromising creative vision, technical\u00a0sophistication\u00a0and commitment to realizing a more robust and vital public realm.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Going forward, Ennead will be a distinct studio within CannonDesign, practicing as Ennead, a CannonDesign company. It will continue its work as an integrated design collective with teams in New York, Los\u00a0Angeles\u00a0and Shanghai. Its unique identity, design\u00a0culture\u00a0and leadership will be strengthened by CannonDesign\u2019s broad capabilities and complementary portfolio.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEnnead has been continuously evolving as a practice and reinventing itself over the past seven decades, and we recognized the potential for even more ambitious thinking and action,\u201d said Richard Olcott, FAIA, Design Partner at Ennead Architects.\u00a0\u201cJoining CannonDesign allows us to radically grow our impact on the built environment and invest boldly alongside a firm that has long been leading the transformation of the industry.\u00a0We\u00a0are going to build the best design firm in the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
A new chapter for both firms, and the design industry\u202f\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
Driven by a shared belief that architecture, at its highest expression, is a civic act that creates connections between people, institutions and communities,\u00a0Ennead and CannonDesign\u00a0have delivered boundary-pushing projects across every scale and sector of our now shared portfolio:\u00a0<\/p>\n
In healthcare, reimagining patient\u00a0experiences:\u00a0seen in the Kenneth C. Griffin Pavilion and David H.\u00a0Koch Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering, Mayo Clinic\u2019s transformation of its Rochester campus and the Alice L. Walton Foundation\u2019s Bentonville Healthcare Campus.<\/p>\n
In education, reinventing how learning happens: like California Institute of Technology\u2019s Resnick Sustainability Center, Princeton University\u2019s Environmental Studies and School of Engineering and Applied Science\u00a0Complex, Stanford University\u2019s Denning House for the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program and multiple projects for New York University (NYU) spanning decades.<\/p>\n
In the places where living,\u00a0working\u00a0and gathering intersect,\u00a0reflected in\u00a0The Standard on the High Line and LinkedIn\u2019s Toronto HQ to workplaces for Square, CBOE and Showtime, and commercial projects across mixed-use, entertainment and sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In culture, creating places that carry identity and\u202fmeaning:\u202fsuch as\u202fthe Delacorte Theater in Central Park,\u00a0Richmond Olympic Oval, Edelman Fossil Park and Museum of Rowan University\u00a0and multiple projects for the New York Public Libraries.\u202f\u202f\u00a0
\n In science, pushing the boundaries of discovery and\u202funderstanding:\u202fevident\u202fin CHOP\u2019s Morgan Center for Research and Innovation, the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact at the University of Oregon and Building 201 at Johns Hopkins\u202fUniversity\u202fApplied Physics Laboratory.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
The firms’ combined influence extends across the global commercial and institutional landscape, encompassing a defining body of work throughout Asia where they have shaped a new generation of internationally oriented, civic-minded development. Projects range from the Shanghai Astronomy Museum and Blue Sail HQ Campus in Shanghai to the\u00a0ByteDance\u00a0Houhai\u00a0Center in Shenzhen and CJ Blossom Park in Suwon, South Korea.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe work across our portfolios speaks to shared goals for design excellence, but what really drew our firms together is how we think and create,\u201d said David Polzin,\u00a0AIA,\u00a0CannonDesign\u2019s Executive Director of Design. \u201cWe\u00a0believe the design process is a means to positive change for people, and that the greatest value we can offer a client is not only the rigor of our capabilities, but our critical judgment,\u00a0intelligence\u00a0and intuition. Our mutual respect and shared sense of destiny\u00a0have\u00a0made this feel less like a business decision and more like a natural coming together.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both firms have spent the last decade pushing beyond traditional definitions of design and what it can do. CannonDesign has expanded into consulting, software, experience\u00a0design\u00a0and branding, bringing a design lens to challenges that\u00a0weren\u2019t\u00a0previously considered design problems. Ennead is equally powerful in its focus on transforming institutions and shaping dynamic urban growth in rapidly expanding cities around the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This partnership also reflects an unrelenting commitment to shaping what comes next technologically. Each firm is already advancing the boundaries of computational and parametric design, exploring the implications of quantum computing for the built\u00a0environment\u00a0and shaping how AI is transforming architecture and client industries alike. Now with shared focus, the goal is not just to improve technologies entering the design marketplace, but to also invent them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the things that struck us about CannonDesign, even before we began talking seriously, was their culture of innovation,\u201d said Molly McGowan, AIA, Managing Partner at Ennead Architects. \u201cThey move fast, think creatively, make smart\u00a0investments\u00a0and get things done. For a firm of their size,\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0rare.\u00a0What\u2019s\u00a0really exciting\u00a0to us is what happens when you layer that with our own deep investments in\u00a0new design\u00a0technologies and building systems. The combination unlocks something neither of us could have reached alone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Together, Ennead and CannonDesign reflect what a design practice looks like when it\u00a0never stands still.\u00a0The\u00a0united team is positioned to partner with the most ambitious clients to take on high-stakes challenges of all types, using the full force of design to positively improve communities, the\u00a0planet\u00a0and our shared future.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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CannonDesign is a global, employee-owned design firm with 20 offices and an integrated community of practices united by a shared commitment to Living-Centered Design.\u202fIn the last 15 years, the firm has been awarded more than 600 awards for design excellence.\u202fAlongside its leadership in architecture, engineering and interior design, the firm\u2019s community includes smart building consultancy\u202fThe Clarient Group<\/a>, architectural experimentation laboratory\u202fYazdani Studio<\/a>, building transition and activation firm\u202fYellow Brick<\/a>, facility optimization firm\u202fFOS<\/a>\u00a0and experience,\u202foperations\u202fand strategy consulting firm\u202fBlue Cottage<\/a>.\u202fThis breadth of\u202fexpertise\u202ffuels a more dynamic and expansive way of practicing design and is one of the reasons\u202fit\u2019s\u202fbeen recognized\u00a0by\u202fFast\u00a0Company,\u202fFortune,\u202fTIME\u202fand others as one of the most innovative and influential companies of our time.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ennead Architects is an\u202finternationally acclaimed\u202f160+ person practice based in New York City with offices in Los Angeles and Shanghai, China.\u202fIt is renowned for\u202fcreating powerful and dynamic\u202fenvironments\u202fthat advance new paradigms,\u202ftransform\u202finstitutions\u00a0and\u202fcontribute to\u202fvibrant and connected\u202fcommunities.\u202fThe firm\u2019s collaborative process is\u202fbuilt on\u202fa deep\u202finvestigation\u202fof\u202fits\u202fclients\u2019 mission\u202fand context\u202fand a commitment to\u202fexploring emerging\u202ftechnologies\u202fand\u202fsustainable solutions.\u202fEnnead is the recipient of the\u202fNational Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), as well as 14 National AIA Honor Awards, the AIANY Medal of Honor\u202fand the\u202fSmithsonian Institution-Cooper Hewitt National Design Award.\u00a0<\/p>\n