How do you make the cut in the Architect 50? Here are the median answers that the Top 50 firms in this year’s ranking supplied to some of the key questions in the survey. All data is from calendar year 2016 unless otherwise indicated.
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2017 Architect 50: The Top Firm Overall
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is the first firm to be ranked Number One twice in our annual list.
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2017 Architect 50: Top 50 Firms in Business
FXFowle earns the Number One spot by owning the middle.
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2017 Architect 50: Top 50 Firms in Sustainability
ZGF Architects repeats as Number One with a portfolio that combines high performance with design excellence.
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2017 Architect 50: Top 50 Firms in Design
WORKac takes the Number One spot with a portfolio of projects that are "playful, colorful, and well detailed."
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2017 Architect 50: Methodology
How we computed the rankings.