SmithGroup ranks as the United States' 7th largest architecture

Architecture

Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...

 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

• Central United Methodist Church
  Central United Methodist Church (Detroit, Michigan)
  The Central United Methodist Church is located at 23 E Adams in Detroit, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1977 listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982....
  
   (1866)
• Detroit Opera House (1868)
• Henry Ford Piquette Avenue Plant
  Piquette Plant
  The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is located at 411 Piquette Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, within the Piquette Avenue Industrial Historic District. It was the second home of Ford Motor Company automobile production...
  
   (1904)
• Fyfe Building
  Fyfe Building
  The Fyfe Building stands at 10 W. Adams Avenue, at the corner of Adams Ave. and Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It faces onto Central United Methodist Church, and Grand Circus Park....
  
   (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
  The Players (Detroit, Michigan)
  The Players is a clubhouse and theatre located at 3321 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1985 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.- History :...
  
   (1925) - William E. Kapp
• Buhl Building
  Buhl Building
  The Buhl Building is a skyscraper and class-A office center in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Architect Wirt C. Rowland designed the Buhl in a Neo-Gothic style with Romanesque accents...
  
   (1925) - Wirt Rowland
• Meadow Brook Hall
  Meadow Brook Hall
  Meadow Brook Hall is a Tudor revival style mansion located at 480 South Adams Rd. in Rochester Hills, Michigan. It was built between 1926 and 1929 by Matilda Dodge Wilson and her second husband, lumber broker Alfred G. Wilson...
  
   (1926) - William E. Kapp, Rochester, Michigan
• Detroit-Columbia Central Office Building
  Detroit-Columbia Central Office Building
  The Detroit-Columbia Central Office Building is a building located at 52 Selden in Detroit, Michigan. It is also known as the Michigan Bell Telephone Exchange...
  
   (1927)
• League of Catholic Women Building
  League of Catholic Women Building
  The League of Catholic Women Building is located at 100 Parsons Street in Detroit, Michigan. It is also known as Casgrain Hall or the Activities Building...
  
   (1927)
• Country Club of Detroit (1927), Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
• School and convent buildings at Saint Paul Catholic Church
  Saint Paul Catholic Church (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan)
  The Saint Paul Catholic Church Complex is located at 157 Lake Shore Rd. in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. The group includes a French Gothic style church, a Neo-Tudor rectory, a Colonial Revival parish hall, a Neo-Tudor school building, and an Elizabethan Revival convent...
  
   (1927), Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
• Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts
  Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts
  The Music Hall Center for Performing Arts is a 1,700-seat theatre located in the city's theatre district at 350 Madison Avenue in Detroit, Michigan...
  
   (1928) - William E. Kapp
• Penobscot Building
  Penobscot Building
  The Greater Penobscot Building, commonly known as the Penobscot Building, is a skyscraper and class-A office building in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Rising 566 feet , the 47-story Penobscot was the tallest building in Michigan from its completion in 1928 until the construction of the Renaissance...
  
   (1928) - Wirt Rowland
• Guardian Building
  Guardian Building
  The Guardian Building is a skyscraper at 500 Griswold Street in the downtown of the city of Detroit, in the state of Michigan, in the United States of America. The Guardian is a class-A office building owned by Wayne County, Michigan and serves as its headquarters...
  
   (1930) - Wirt Rowland
• Denby High School
  Denby High School
  Edwin C. Denby High School is a public secondary education facility in Detroit, Michigan.Denby opened in 1930 and the building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2005....
  
   (1930)
• Detroit Public Library
  Detroit Public Library
  The Detroit Public Library is the second largest library system in Michigan by volumes held , and is the 20th largest library system in the United States. It is composed of a Main Library on Woodward Avenue, which houses DPL administration offices, and twenty-three branch locations across the city...
  
   (1932)
• Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan
  University of Michigan
  The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
  
   (1938), Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Pease Auditorium
  Pease Auditorium
  Pease Auditorium is a music venue on the campus of Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Built in 1914, Pease auditorium is the 4th oldest standing building on Eastern Michigan University's campus. The auditorium was constructed in 1914 for $243,963. For the time, that was a...
  
  , Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan (1941)
• GM Tech Center
  General Motors Technical Center
  The GM Technical Center is a General Motors facility in Warren, Michigan. The campus is home to 16,000 GM engineers, designers, and technicians and has been the center of the company's engineering effort since its inauguration in 1956....
  
   [Architect of Record] (1955), Warren, Michigan
• National Institutes of Health
  National Institutes of Health
  The National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
  
   Research Laboratories (1968), Bethesda, Maryland
• Harper Hospital
  Harper University Hospital
  Harper University Hospital is one of eight hospitals and institutes that compose the Detroit Medical Center. Harper offers services in a broad range of clinical areas, including cardiology, neurology, neurosurgery, organ transplant, plastic surgery, general surgery, bariatric endocrinology and...
  
   in the Detroit Medical Center
  Detroit Medical Center
  The Detroit Medical Center, located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, has more than 2,000 licensed beds, 3,000 affiliated physicians and over 12,000 employees. The DMC is the affiliated clinical research site for medical program at Wayne State University...
  
   (1970)
• Hart Plaza, including the Dodge Fountain designed by Isamu Noguchi
  Isamu Noguchi
  was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces,...
  
   (1978)
• Joe Louis Arena
  Joe Louis Arena
  Joe Louis Arena, nicknamed The Joe and JLA is a hockey arena located at 600 Civic Center Drive in Detroit, Michigan. It is the home of the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League. Completed in 1979 at a cost of $57 million, Joe Louis Arena is named after boxer and former heavyweight...
  
  , home of the NHL Detroit Red Wings
  Detroit Red Wings
  The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League , and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York...
  
   (1979)
• IBM Corporation Manufacturing and Engineering Complex (1979), Tucson, Arizona
• Kmart Corporation International Headquarters (1979), Troy, Michigan
• Defense Intelligence Analysis Center
  Defense Intelligence Analysis Center
  The Defense Intelligence Analysis Center is the largest of the Defense Intelligence Agency's facilities. It is located on Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, DC. The DIAC was built in 1987 and designed by Smith, Hinchman and Grylls Associates to consolidate DIA activities in the Washington,...
  
   (1984), Washington, DC
• Eli Lilly and Company
  Eli Lilly and Company
  Eli Lilly and Company is a global pharmaceutical company. Eli Lilly's global headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States...
  
   Biomedical Research Center (1984), Indianapolis, Indiana
• Chrysler World Headquarters (1996), Auburn Hills, Michigan
• Comerica Park
  Comerica Park
  Comerica Park is an open-air ballpark located in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It serves as the home of the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball's American League, replacing historic Tiger Stadium in 2000....
  
  , home of the MLB Detroit Tigers
  Detroit Tigers
  The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...
  
  (2000)
• Phelps Dodge Corporate Headquarters (2001), Phoenix, Arizona
• Chesapeake Bay Foundation
  Chesapeake Bay Foundation
  The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is a non-profit organization devoted to the restoration and protection of the Chesapeake Bay in the United States. It was founded in 1967 and has headquarters offices in Annapolis, Maryland...
  
   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
  Ford Field
  Ford Field is an indoor American football stadium located in Detroit, Michigan, USA, that is the current home field of the NFL's Detroit Lions. It is owned by the Detroit/Wayne County Stadium Authority. It regularly seats 65,000, though it is expandable up to 70,000 for football and 80,000 for...
  
   (2002), home of the NFL Detroit Lions
  Detroit Lions
  The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...
  
  
• Consumers Energy
  Consumers Energy
  Consumers Energy is a public utility that provides natural gas and electricity to more than 6 million of Michigan's 10 million residents. It serves customers in all 68 of the state’s Lower Peninsula counties. It is a division of CMS Energy. Its headquarters is in Jackson.-History:The company was...
  
  , Corporate Headquarters(2003), Jackson, Michigan
• Discovery Communications
  Discovery Communications
  Discovery Communications, Inc. is an American global media and entertainment company. The company started as a single channel in 1985, The Discovery Channel. Today, DCI has global operations offering 28 network entertainment brands on more than 100 channels in more than 180 countries in 39...
  
   World Headquarters(2003), Silver Spring, Maryland
• Visteon Village, Corporate Headquarters (2005), Van Buren Township, Michigan
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory conducting unclassified scientific research. It is located on the grounds of the University of California, Berkeley, in the Berkeley Hills above the central campus...
  
   Molecular Foundry (2006), Berkley, California
• National Academies Building
  United States National Academy of Sciences
  The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and...
  
  , Washington DC

External links

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