2012 Top 100 Design Giants
Gensler for Nokia in Silicon Valley; photo by Nic Lehoux
This was the year the firms in Interior Design’s top 100 Giants list confounded the pundits, not to mention themselves. The first surprise: These Giants took in 14 percent more in design fees than predicted in the previous survey, grossing $2.4 billion. That’s the most earned since before 2008 and a 10 percent jump from the last reporting period.
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2012 Top 100 Giants: Who Ranks Highest in Each Market?
Rank 2012 |
Firm (Headquarters, Website) |
City |
State |
Design Fees |
$ Value Installed |
Sq. Ft. Installed |
Design staff |
Rank 2011 |
Photos |
| 1 | Gensler |
San Francisco | CA | $398.000 | NR | 59.00 | 1,435 | 1 | |
| 2 | HOK |
St. Louis | MO | $105.000 | $3,400.00 | 40.00 | 296 | 2 | |
| 3 | Perkins+Will |
Chicago | IL | $96.203 | $1,000.00 | 30.80 | 260 | 3 | |
| 4 | HBA/Hirsch Bedner Associates |
Santa Monica | CA | $80.478 | $4,748.20 | 28.35 | 705 | 6 | |
| 5 | Leo A Daly |
Omaha | NE | $79.400 | NR | NR | 199 | 4 | |
| 6 | Stantec Architecture | Edmonton | AB | $69.821 | $2,753.18 | 7.87 | 194 | 8 | |
| 7 | Jacobs |
Pasadena | CA | $69.507 | $1,242.00 | 13.80 | 300 | 5 | |
| 8 | Cannon Design |
Chicago | IL | $67.500 | NR | 14.50 | 212 | 7 | |
| 9 | Callison |
Seattle | WA | $56.250 | NR | NR | 107 | 14 | |
| 10 | IA Interior Architects |
San Francisco | CA | $53.191 | $912.00 | 22.40 | 267 | 10 | |
| 11 | NELSON |
Philadelphia | PA | $52.500 | NR | 27.20 | 184 | 9 | |
| 12 | AECOM |
Los Angeles | CA | $46.000 | $2,000.00 | 15.00 | 134 | 12 | |
| 13 | Wilson Associates |
Dallas | TX | $43.000 | $3,000.00 | NR | 287 | 11 | |
| 14 | NBBJ |
Seattle | WA | $42.399 | NR | NR | 196 | 13 | |
| 15 | KlingStubbins |
Philadelphia | PA | $41.800 | $1,500.00 | 15.00 | 135 | 15 | |
SmithGroupJJR |
Detroit | MI | $41.144 | NR | NR | 160 | 12 | ||
| 17 | Perkins Eastman |
New York | NY | $36.300 | $806.67 | 4.30 | 172 | 16 | |
| 18 | PageSoutherlandPage |
Houston | TX | $36.000 | NR | NR | 108 | 17 | |
| 19 | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | New York | NY | $35.106 | NR | NR | 125 | 19 | |
| 20 | HDR | Omaha | NE | $35.000 | $10,000.00 | 32.48 | 263 | 18 | |
| 21 | Space Matrix |
Singapore | $28.000 | $290.00 | 7.50 | 375 | 32 | ||
| 22 | EwingCole | Philadelphia | PA | $25.600 | $450.00 | 2.20 | 130 | 24 | |
| 23 | DLR Group | Omaha | NE | $25.300 | $444.67 | 7.70 | 34 | 23 | |
| 24 | M Moser Associates |
Quarry Bay | Hong Kong | $24.426 | $183.54 | 5.39 | 477 | 22 | |
| 25 | HLW International | New York | NY | $24.420 | $715.00 | NR | 74 | 29 | |
| 26 | Flad Architects | Madison | WI | $24.075 | $1,067.28 | 8.89 | 86 | 25 | |
| 27 | Bilkey Llinas Design Associates |
Palm Beach Gardens | FL | $23.580 | NR | NR | 122 | 27 | |
| 28 | Rockwell Group | New York | NY | $23.065 | NR | NR | 106 | 34 | |
| 29 | Ted Moudis Associates |
New York | NY | $22.500 | $450.00 | 8.70 | 75 | 31 | |
| 30 | Vocon | Cleveland | OH | $22.431 | $394.00 | 4.20 | 85 | 36 | |
| 31 | Fentress Architects | Denver | CO | $22.230 | NR | 8.30 | 14 | — | |
| 32 | Corgan Associates | Dallas | TX | $21.291 | $700.00 | 7.66 | 56 | 60 | |
| 33 | STUDIOS Architecture |
Washington | DC | $20.700 | $171.00 | 7.13 | 157 | 30 | |
| 34 | FRCH Design Worldwide |
Cincinnati | OH | $20.400 | NR | NR | 144 | 40 | |
| 35 | ZGF Architects | Portland | OR | $20.000 | $800.00 | 2.00 | 75 | 33 | |
| 36 | Peter Marino Architect |
New York | NY | $19.800 | $350.00 | 3.50 | 111 | 35 | |
| 37 | TPG Architecture | New York | NY | $19.694 | NR | NR | 122 | 28 | |
| 38 |
Ba
llinger |
Philadelphia | PA | $19.426 | $523.80 | 1.05 | 17 | — | |
| 39 | RTKL Associates | Baltimore | MD | $16.400 | $225.00 | 8.00 | 60 | 26 | |
| 40 | Little | Charlotte | NC | $15.524 | $258.00 | 6.23 | 111 | 38 | |
| 41 | VOA Associates | Chicago | IL | $15.500 | $220.00 | 2.50 | 96 | 41 | |
| 42 | Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott | Boston | MA | $14.627 | $177.30 | 0.87 | 10 | 37 | |
| 43 | Daroff Design + DDI Architects |
Philadelphia | PA | $14.170 | $190.00 | 4.80 | 47 | 39 | |
| 44 | Roger Ferris + Partners |
Westport | CT | $14.000 | $395.00 | 1.20 | 33 | 42 | |
| 45 | Marc-Michaels Interior Design |
Winter Park | FL | $13.500 | $16.50 | NR | 29 | 44 | |
| 46 | ASD |
Atlanta | GA | $12.259 | NR | NR | 72 | 46 | |
| 47 | HKS | Dallas | TX | $11.800 | NR | NR | 83 | 53 | |
| 48 | DBI Architects |
Washington | DC | $11.640 | $200.00 | 3.00 | 25 | 43 | |
| 49 | CBT Architects |
Boston | MA | $11.250 | $405.00 | 4.00 | 35 | 50 | |
| 50 | DiLeonardo International |
Warwick | RI | $10.900 | NR | NR | 80 | 49 | |
| 51 | Rapt Studio |
San Francisco | CA | $10.813 | NR | NR | 42 | 65 | |
| 52 | RMW architecture & interiors | San Francisco | CA | $10.698 | $320.93 | 2.38 | 50 | 47 | |
| 53 | Environetics | Los Angeles | CA | $10.500 | $180.00 | 2.00 | 63 | — | |
| 54 | Mancini-Duffy |
New York | NY | $9.900 | $300.00 | 2.50 | 75 | 51 | |
| 55 | Creative Design Consultants |
Costa Mesa | CA | $9.500 | NR | NR | 21 | — | |
| 56 | Francis Cauffman | New York | NY | $9.400 | $275.00 | 7.00 | 48 | 55 | |
| 57 | Design Duncan Miller Ullmann |
Dallas | TX | $9.207 | $310.00 | 2.65 | 59 | 89 | |
| 58 | Lawrence Group | St. Louis | MO | $9.189 | $230.00 | 2.75 | 43 | 58 | |
| 59 | BBG-BBGM |
New York | NY | $9.188 | NR | NR | 52 | 85 | |
| 60 | Huntsman Architectural Group | San Francisco | CA | $8.972 | $425.00 | 1.00 | 62 | 73 | |
| 61 | Ware Malcomb | Irvine | CA | $8.800 | $17.60 | 3.52 | 33 | 64 | |
| 62 | Robert A.M. Stern Architects |
New York | NY | $8.800 | $9.28 | 1.90 | 15 | 56 | |
| 63 | Steelman Partners |
Las Vegas | NV | $8.750 | $400.00 | 2.00 | 57 | 52 | |
| 64 | LS3P Associates | Charleston | SC | $8.700 | $420.00 | 9.10 | 36 | 74 | |
| 65 | VeenendaalCave | Atlanta | GA | $8.511 | $19.24 | 5.47 | 76 | 82 | |
| 66 | Staffelbach |
Dallas | TX | $8.415 | $190.00 | 1.02 | 53 | 62 | |
| 67 | KNA Design |
Los Angeles | CA | $8.300 | $465.00 | 2.50 | 28 | 84 | |
| 68 | Spector Group |
New York | NY | $8.200 | $405.00 | 3.50 | 37 | 72 | |
| 69 | SAA |
Culver City | CA | $8.190 | $365.00 | 2.00 | 70 | 54 | |
| 70 | OTJ Architects | Washington | DC | $8.179 | $185.00 | 8.18 | 45 | 61 | |
| 71 | Cooper Carry | Atlanta | GA | $8.000 | $95.00 | 1.50 | 17 | — | |
| 72 | Kasian | Vancouver | Canada | $8.000 | NR | 2.00 | 50 | 71 | |
| 73 | Planning Design Research |
Houston | TX | $7.910 | $46.20 | 3.90 | 24 | 68 | |
| 74 | The H. Chambers Company | Baltimore | MD | $7.800 | $72.00 | 0.60 | 14 | 59 | |
| 75 | Stonehill & Taylor Architects | New York | NY | $7.526 | $250.00 | 1.75 | 41 | — | |
| 76 | Baskervill | Richmond | VA | $7.487 | $625.00 | 6.00 | 19 | 79 | |
| 77 | Gettys |
Chicago | IL | $7.400 | $115.00 | NR | 71 | 76 | |
| 78 | tvsdesign |
Atlanta | GA | $7.290 | $86.50 | 2.87 | 43 | 63 | |
| 79 | Milo Kleinberg Design Associates |
New York | NY | $7.250 | $85.00 | 0.90 | 31 | 70 | |
| 80 | Aedifica |
Montreal | Canada | $7.100 | NR | NR | 95 | 87 | |
| 81 | JPC Architects | Bellevue | WA | $7.000 | NR | NR | 38 | 75 | |
| 82 | KZF Design | Cincinnati | OH | $6.839 | $350.87 | 6.25 | 26 | 81 | |
| 83 | Tricarico Architecture and Design |
Wayne | NJ | $6.800 | $75.00 | 1.30 | 46 | — | |
JGA |
Southfield | MI | $6.700 | $60.00 | 0.50 | 30 | 80 | ||
| 85 | ForrestPerkins |
Washington | DC | $6.627 | NR | NR | 46 | — | |
| 86 | Array Healthcare Facilities Solutions | King of Prussia | PA | $6.600 | $165.00 | 2.05 | 13 | — | |
| 87 | OPX |
Washington | DC | $6.500 | NR | NR | 40 | 91 | |
| 88 | Gary Lee Partners |
Chicago | IL | $6.478 | $323.90 | 1.60 | 28 | 97 | |
| 89 | Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates |
Atlanta | GA | $6.396 | NR | NR | 28 | 92 | |
| 90 | BraytonHughes Design Studios | San Francisco | CA | $6.350 | NR | NR | 38 | 69 | |
| 91 | Ronald Schmidt & Associates | Englewood | NJ | $6.300 | $20.00 | 3.15 | 32 | 88 | |
| 92 | Gresham, Smith and Partners | Nashville | TN | $6.210 | $1,100.00 | 6.19 | 36 | 78 | |
| 93 | Ziegler Cooper Architects |
Houston | TX | $6.171 | NR | 3.50 | 36 | 100 | |
| 94 | Rottet Studio |
Houston | TX | $6.120 | $175.00 | NR | 23 | — | |
| 95 | The Switzer Group | New York | NY | $6.028 | $168.00 | 1.65 | 26 | 83 | |
| 96 | Partners by DESIGN | Chicago | IL | $5.921 | $70.41 | 3.50 | 29 | 99 | |
| 97 | Swanke Hayden Connell Architects | New York | NY | $5.800 | NR | 2.00 | 61 | 66 | |
| 98 | SKB Architecture and Design |
Washington | DC | $5.763 | $73.00 | 0.81 | 23 | — | |
| 99 | DES Architects + Engineers | Redwood City | CA | $5.735 | NR | 2.08 | 11 | — | |
| 100 | RNL |
Denver | CO | $5.600 | $173.00 | 2.90 | 23 | 95 | |
| *ID Fee, Dollar Value and Square Footage numbers are in millions.
NR – not reported |
Firms New to 2012 Top 100 Giants |
|
Firm |
Rank |
| Fentress Architects | 31 |
|
Ba
llinger |
38 |
| Environetics | 53 |
| Creative Design | 55 |
| Cooper Carry | 71 |
| Stonehill & Taylor Architects | 75 |
| Tricarico Architecture and Design | 83 |
| ForrestPerkins | 85 |
| Array Healthcare Facilities Solutions | 86 |
| Rottet Studio | 94 |
| SKB Architecture and Design | 98 |
| DES Architects + Engineers | 99 |
Firms with the Most Foreign Projects |
|
% of Overseas Projects |
|
| Space Matrix | 100% |
| Bilkey Llinas Design Associates | 100% |
DiLeonardo International |
99% |
| M Moser Associates | 96% |
| HBA/Hirsch Bedner Associates | 95% |
| Wilson Associates | 90% |
| KNA Design | 85% |
| Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates | 76% |
| Steelman Partners | 75% |
| Peter Marino Architect | 73% |
| Design Duncan Miller Ullmann | 70% |
| Aedifica | 70% |
| Marc-Michaels Interior Design | 60% |
| Gettys | 60% |
| BraytonHughes Design Studios | 50% |
Most admired firms voted by 2012 Top 100 Giants: |
|
| 1 | Gensler |
| 2 | HOK |
| 3 | Yabu Pushelberg |
Median Annual Salary |
|
| Principals/Partners | $145,000 |
| Project Managers | $91,000 |
| Designers | $65,000 |
| Other Design Staff | $47,875 |
| Principals/Partners | $220 |
| Project Managers | $159 |
| Designers | $120 |
| Other Design Staff | $90 |
Fee by Project Type |
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Forecast Fees |
% |
|
| Office | $859,572,924 | 35.3% |
| Hospitality | $461,316,248 | 18.9% |
| Healthcare/Assisted Living | $381,072,989 | 15.6% |
| Government | $197,696,389 | 8.1% |
| Educational | $186,471,449 | 7.7% |
| Retail | $145,143,813 | 6.0% |
| Residential | $83,071,376 | 3.4% |
| Transportation | $29,621,153 | 1.2% |
| Cultural | $22,461,531 | 0.9% |
| Other | $69,372,557 | 2.8% |
| Total: | $2,435,800,430 | 100.0% |
