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SHoP Architects is an architecture firm based in Lower Manhattan, New York City, with projects located on five continents.Admin at E-Architect. "SHoP Architects to Receive Distinguished Achievement Award", E-Architect (February 18, 2016). Retrieved: July 11, 2016 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 Museum of Modern Art. "Museum of Sex, New York, New York, Scale model 1/8"=1'-0"" Museum of Modern Art "The Collection" Its first monograph, Out of Practice, was published in 2012 by the Monacelli Press. Out of Practice on the Monacelli Press website
It has also designed the Museum of Sex, a renovation of Governors Island, and the expansion of the Google 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 Schuylkill Yards.
SHoP Architects' awards also include the 2009 National Design Award for Architecture Design from the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, "Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Announces Winners of the 10th Annual National Design Awards" (press release) Smithsonian Institution website (April 30, 2009) the Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Awards, and awards from the American Institute of Architects' New York City and New York State chapters.
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.
Criticism
Justin Davidson, the architecture critic for New York 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 of claiming the waterfront for residences."
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