SHoP Architects is an architecture firm in

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, with projects located on five continents. Led by four principals, the firm provides services to residences, commercial buildings, schools and cultural institutions, as well as large-scale master plans. SHoP stands for Sharples Holden and Pasquarelli. Founded in 1996 by Gregg Pasquarelli, Christopher Sharples, Coren Sharples, Kimberly Holden, and William Sharples, the firm has approximately 180 employees. Its work has been exhibited internationally and included in the permanent collection of the

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."Museum of Sex, New York, New York, Scale model 1/8"=1'-0""

"The Collection" Its first

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, ''Out of Practice'', was published in 2012 by the Monacelli Press.

Work

The firm is known for its designs of the

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arena in

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, its contract with the

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to develop the South Street Seaport, and the design of

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. The Steinway is one of several projects SHoP has designed in collaboration with

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. Other buildings include

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and

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. It has also designed the Museum of Sex, a renovation of Governors Island, and the expansion of the

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headquarters in Silicon Valley, California. SHoP is also known for its work on large-scale development projects. These include the Domino Sugar Factory redevelopment, Essex Crossing, and

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Awards and honors

In 2014, SHoP was named '' Fast Company'' magazine's "Most Innovative Architecture Firm in the World", and one of its "Most Innovative Companies in the World" for its policy of accepting equity in projects, rather than traditional payment, in exchange for services, as well as for its use of modular construction methods. SHoP Architects' awards also include the 2009 National Design Award for Architecture Design from the

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, the Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Awards, and awards from the

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' New York City and New York State chapters.

Criticism

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, the architecture critic for ''

'' magazine, called the firm "ubiquitous" and criticized its plan with the Howard Hughes Corporation for the South Street Seaport, saying its single tower creates "a new barrier between the seaport and the world beyond." He writes that both the developer and the firm need to understand the area's "benign shabbiness" and not "set a new precedent fclaiming the waterfront for residences."

References

External links

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"Less Really Is More: SHoP Architects, Masters of Post-Boom Buildability", New York Magazine, November 2011

"Reshaping of Barclays Center Made Possible by Digital Tools, Collaboration", Engineering News Record, July 2012

"Model SHoP", Metropolis Magazine, September 2007
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