AJ100
The Architects' Journal's exclusive survey of Britain's 100 most successful architecture firms
Full AJ100 survey results - include practice size, clients, overseas work and company profile
AJ100 Awards
AJ100 2010 Building of the Year: Kroon Hall, Yale University, Connecticut, USA, by Hopkins Architects
Hopkins Architects’ elegant Kroon Hall houses Yale University’s brightest ecological thinkers in suitably green surroundings. Hattie Hartman assesses the AJ100 Building of the Year. Photography by Morley von Sternberg
AJ100: Top 10 practices
Watch the run down of last night’s top 10 practices from the AJ100 Awards Dinner
AJ100 2010 Highest first-time entrant: PLP Architecture
Of all the awards in this year’s AJ100 this one must be the least surprising
AJ100 2010 Contribution to Architecture: Laura Lee
Practices entering the AJ100 were asked to vote on the person who had made the greatest contribution to the profession. Given a choice of seven names, Laura Lee emerged a clear winner, with 408 votes.
AJ100 2010: Regional Award Winners
This award, based chiefly on staff reports about how happy they are in their place of work, recognises the efforts, achievements and ambience of individual offices
AJ100 2010 Sustainable Practice of the Year: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
The most important criterion for this category was the architectural quality of a sustainable project with pioneering environmental features
AJ100 2010 Fastest-growing Practice: Devereux Architects
How do you grow a practice in the worst recession in living memory?
AJ100 2010 Building of the Year: Kroon Hall by Hopkins Architects
Kroon Hall is the new building for the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies at Yale University by Hopkins Architects
AJ100 2010 International Practice of the Year: Aedas
Aedas, which employs 482 architects overseas, doubled its international fee income last year
AJ100 2010 Employer of the Year: Architecture plb
Architecture plb did not avoid redundancies in the recession, but it dealt with them in a way that has kept the confidence of the staff.
AJ100 Interviews
AJ100 2010 interview: David Selby, Hopkins Architects
‘We have also won some great projects, such as Brent Civic Centre, and have a number in the pipeline.’
AJ100 2010 interview: Richard Morton, Siddell GIbson Architects
‘We have slightly higher staff numbers and better prospects on the whole’
AJ100 2010 interview: Gavin Henderson, Stanton Williams
‘We won several major competitions and have projects abroad so we’ve managed to retain all our staff’
AJ100 2010 interview: Alan Robson, Feilden + Mawson
‘We have tried to keep ahead of the curve, especially with regards to expenditure, reducing it before the work declines’
AJ100 2010 interview: Ben Vickery, Populous
‘It’s a longer term strategy that’s help us get through the last year’
AJ100 2010 interview: Roger Fitzgerald, ADP
‘We have managed to increase our turnover, which is obviously very good.’
AJ100 Focus: Allies & Morrison
‘It’s what happens. It happened last year, and it will happen again.’ Graham Morrison, founding partner of Allies and Morrison is talking about - you guessed it - the economy going into recession
AJ100 Focus: RMJM
Will Alsop may not be alone for long as a star designer with RMJM. Peter Morrison, the CEO of the rapidly growing practice, would love to see more great talent joining the RMJM world
AJ100 Focus: Foster + Partners
If Spencer de Grey gets his way, one of the next projects to emerge from the Foster + Partners stable may be an NHS hospital
AJ100 Focus: BDP
When Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan bought Manchester City Football Club in 2008, the last thing on his mind would have been giving a boost to the Manchester office of BDP
