SmithGroup

SmithGroup ranks as the United States' 7th largest architecture and engineering firm (Building Design & Construction, July 2009) and employs 800. The firm is composed of client industry-focused practices serving Health, Learning, Science & Technology, and Workplace markets. The firm has 11 nationwide offices in the following cities: Ann Arbor, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Madison, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Raleigh-Durham, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Established in Detroit in 1853 by architect Sheldon Smith, SmithGroup is the longest continually operating architecture and engineering firm in the United States. In 2000, the firm changed its name from Smith, Hinchman & Grylls to its current name.

Works

Edward H. McNamara Terminal Detroit Metropolitan Airport

• Central United Methodist Church (1866)
• Detroit Opera House (1868)
• Henry Ford Piquette Avenue Plant (1904)
• Fyfe Building (1916 - 1919)
• Hillberry Theatre (1917), originally the First Church of Christ Scientist - Field, Hinchman and Smith
• J. L. Hudson Department Store and Addition (1923 - 1946)
• Bankers Trust Building (1925) - Wirt Rowland
• The Players Clubhouse (1925) - William E. Kapp
• Buhl Building (1925) - Wirt Rowland
• Meadow Brook Hall (1926) - William E. Kapp, Rochester, Michigan
• Detroit-Columbia Central Office Building (1927)
• League of Catholic Women Building (1927)
• Country Club of Detroit (1927), Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
• School and convent buildings at Saint Paul Catholic Church (1927), Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
• Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts (1928) - William E. Kapp
• Penobscot Building (1928) - Wirt Rowland
• Guardian Building (1930) - Wirt Rowland
• Denby High School (1930)
• Detroit Public Library (1932)
• Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan (1938), Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Pease Auditorium, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan (1941)
• GM Tech Center [Architect of Record] (1955), Warren, Michigan
• National Institutes of Health Research Laboratories (1968), Bethesda, Maryland
• Harper Hospital in the Detroit Medical Center (1970)
• Hart Plaza, including the Dodge Fountain designed by Isamu Noguchi (1978)
• Joe Louis Arena, home of the NHL Detroit Red Wings (1979)
• IBM Corporation Manufacturing and Engineering Complex (1979), Tucson, Arizona
• Kmart Corporation International Headquarters (1979), Troy, Michigan
• Defense Intelligence Analysis Center (1984), Washington, DC
• Eli Lilly and Company Biomedical Research Center (1984), Indianapolis, Indiana
• Chrysler World Headquarters (1996), Auburn Hills, Michigan
• Comerica Park, home of the MLB Detroit Tigers(2000)
• Phelps Dodge Corporate Headquarters (2001), Phoenix, Arizona
• Chesapeake Bay Foundation Headquarters, the first building in the United States to earn a LEED Platinum certification (2001), Annapolis, Maryland
• Edward H. McNamara Terminal Detroit Metropolitan Airport (2002), Romulus, Michigan
• University of California, San Francisco Mission Bay Genentech Hall (2002), San Francisco, California
• Ford Field (2002), home of the NFL Detroit Lions
• Consumers Energy, Corporate Headquarters(2003), Jackson, Michigan
• Discovery Communications World Headquarters(2003), Silver Spring, Maryland
• Visteon Village, Corporate Headquarters (2005), Van Buren Township, Michigan
• Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory Molecular Foundry (2006), Berkley, California
• National Academies Building, Washington DC

References and further reading

• Hill, Eric J. and John Gallagher (2002). AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3120-3. 
• Meyer, Katherine Mattingly and Martin C.P. McElroy with Introduction by W. Hawkins Ferry, Hon A.I.A. (1980). Detroit Architecture A.I.A. Guide Revised Edition. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1651-4. 

External links

• Company website
• Article about the company on its 150th anniversary in Architecture Week