October 29, 2016

Hospitality Giants 2016 Research

Good hospitality never goes out of style. Which isn’t to say that time doesn’t march on. According to our survey, the big change, going forward, comes down to one word. Technology. It may have been easy to guess that computers would play an increasingly large role in design, but could anyone in the profession have foreseen how important things such as 3-D modeling, mobile apps, and even Wi-Fi would become?

“Depending on the project, we either embrace technology or ‘disguise’ it from the guest experience,” a CRA rep says. “In all cases, technology plays a primary part in our decision- making process.”

When we asked the hospitality Giants what challenges their businesses face in the near future, the answers included the usual bugbears: the outcome of the U.S. elections, the economy, global security, business consolidation, maintaining fee growth. Nevertheless, our Hospitality Giants remain optimistic about that last item: 68 of the 75 expect fees to grow. That’s one outcome that’s always welcome.

 

 

2016 Ranking Firm Headquarters Hospitality Fees (millions) Value (millions) Sq. Ft. (in millions) Design Staff 2015 Ranking
1 HBA Los Angeles $124.029 $7,441.00 70.90 1,468 1
2 Gensler San Francisco $62.198 NR NR 2,200 2
3 Wilson Associates Dallas $34.222 NR NR 284 3
4 HOK St. Louis $25500 $850.00 9.30 330 6
5 Rockwell Group New York $24.700 NR NR 202 4
6 Bilkey Llinas Design Palm Beach Gardens, FL $23.898 NR NR 92 5
7 Leo A Daly Omaha $21.557 Nr NR 134 7
8 Dalton Steelman Arias & Anderson Las Vegas $19.950 $280.00 0.90 34 8
9 HKS Dallas $16.726 NR NR 226 14
10 Wimberly Interiors New York $14.612 NR NR 90 11
11 Pierre-Yves Rochon Chicago $14.590 $275.00 NR 59 10
12 Rebel Design+Group Marina Del Rey, CA $13.243 $512.38 1.99 74 19
13 Stonehill & Taylor Architects New York $13.071 $300.00 3.00 94 17
14 ForrestPerkins | Perkins Eastman New York $12.285 NR NR 283 31
15 FRCH Design Worldwide Cincinnati $11.978 $3.00 2.00 47 29
16 Daroff Design Philadelphia $11.900 $400.00 3.00 45 15
17 Yabu Pushelberg Toronto $11.454 NR NR 119 13
18 Baskervill Richmond, VA $10.614 $349.43 8.57 29 20
19 EDG Interior Architecture + Design Novato, CA $10.260 $216.00 0.70 63 33
20 DiLeonardo Warwick, RI $9.810 NR NR 71 18
21 AvroKO New York $8.978 NR 0.27 100 16
22 HFS Concepts 4 Long Beach, CA $8.300 $120.00 NR 50 22
23 Chambers Baltimore $7.485 $84.75 NR 34 28
24 Aria Group Architects Oak Park, IL $7.209 $110.00 1.20 94 27
25 CallisonRTKL Baltimore $7.030 NR 1.75 202 37
26 Design Duncan Miller Ullmann Dallas $6.787 $68.00 6.50 63 26
27 Looney & Associates Dallas $6.336 $750.00 2.10 44 30
28 Simeone Deary Design Group Chicago $6.204 NR NR 45 23
29 Jeffrey Beers International New York $5.880 NR NR 36 21
30 CBT Architects Boston $5.612 NR NR 60 34
31 KNA Design Los Angeles $5.200 NR NR 27 24
32 Rottet Studio Houston $5.123 NR NR 40 32
33 ICRAVE New York $4.970 NR 0.68 37 35
34 Dawson Design Associates Seattle $4.200 $225.00 NR 24 39
35 TAL Studio Las Vegas $4.100 $65.00 0.45 22 38
36 JOI-Design Hamburg, Germany $4.100 $50.00 NR 35 41
37 CRA Woodland Hills, CA $3.825 NR NR 18
38 Resort Interiors Myrtle Beach, SC $3.825 NR NR 7
39 GreyMatters Singapore $3.761 $200.00 1.50 32 68
40 Design Directions International Marietta, GA $3.610 $105.00 4.31 10 53
41 Elkus Manfredi Architects Boston $3.458 NR NR 61 60
42 Parker-Torres Design Sudbury, MA $3.350 NR NR 26 43
43 STUDIOS Architecture Washington $3.140 $80.00 0.15 275
44 J/Brice Design International Boston $3.024 $475.00 1.10 15
45 BAMO San Francisco $3.000 NR NR 41
46 C2 Limited Design Associates Fairfield, CT $2.996 $5.90 NR 14 46
47 BraytonHughes Design Studios San Francisco $2.924 NR NR 27 49
48 Puccini Group San Francisco $2.900 $4.50 0.21 25 47
49 Hatch Design Group Costa Mesa, CA $2.895 $105.40 0.30 22 48
50 CLEO Design Las Vegas $2.813 NR NR 14 69
51 DLR Group Overland Park, KS $2.811 $120.00 NR 60 59
52 Areen London $2.799 $22.00 0.90 15 45
53 Kay Lang + Associates Los Angeles $2.720 NR NR 19 50
54 Bar Napkin Productions Phoenix $2.700 $90.00 0.90 21 51
55 Indidesign Los Angeles $2.500 $500.00 NR 16 54
56 J Banks Design Group Hilton Head Island, SC $2.483 $5.10 NR 23 75
57 Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates Atlanta $2.387 NR NR 39 67
58 Rule Joy Trammell + Rubio Atlanta $2.382 $2.63 1.48 20
59 K2M Design Cleveland $2.200 $50.00 5.00 12 72
60 SOSH Architects Atlantic City $2.160 $45.50 0.48 16 57
61 RDH Interests Frisco, TX $2.083 NR NR 8
62 RD Jones & Associates Baltimore $1.990 NR NR 35 58
63 C+TC Design Studio Atlanta $1.892 NR NR 15
64 Clear on Black El Segundo, CA $1.881 NR NR 12
65 Lawrence Group St. Louis $1.877 $56.00 0.38 59 73
66 DAS Architects Philadelphia $1.837 $61.00 0.50 18 55
67 Judd Brown Design Pawtucket, RI $1.814 $19.50 0.17 23
68 Thomas Hamilton & Associates Richmond, VA $1.736 $42.61 NR 11 66
69 Group One Partners Boston $1.733 $34.00 NR 12
70 DesignOne Studio Marietta, GA $1.721 $409.88 3.05 16 74
71 HapstakDemetriou+ Washington $1.547 $12.00 0.23 28 70
72 Rowland+Broughton Aspen, CO $1.493 $185.62 0.83 33 71
73 HVS Design Rockville, MD $1.428 $34.00 2.70 18
74 Rodrigo Vargas Design Los Angeles $1.400 $80.00 NR 9
75 Seifert Murphy Dallas $1.350 NR NR 9

Methodology
The annual business survey of Interior Design hospitality Giants ranks the largest design firms by hospitality design fees for the 12-month period from July 2015 through June 2016. Hospitality design fees include those attributed to:
1. All hospitality interiors work.
2. All aspects of a firm’s hospitality design practice, from strategic planning and programming to design and project management.
3. Fees paid to a firm for work performed by employees and independent contractors who are full-time staff equivalent. Hospitality design fees do not include revenues paid to a firm and remitted to subcontractors that are not considered full-time staff equivalent. For example, certain firms attract work that is subcontracted to a local firm. The originating firm may collect all the fees and retain a management or generation fee, paying the remainder to the performing firm. The amounts paid to the latter are not included in fees of the collecting firm when determining its ranking. Additionally, where applicable, all percentages are based on responding hospitality Giants, not their total number. The data was compiled and analyzed by the Interior Design market research staff, led by Wing Leung, research director.

Related Links:

Hospitality Giants 2016 Research: Fees

Hospitality Giants 2016 Research: Market Sector Breakdown

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