Firm Profile

Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP, is a 300-person firm of architects, landscape architects, interior designers, and supporting staff. Over its thirty-eight-year history, the firm has established an international reputation as a leading design firm with wide experience in residential, commercial, and institutional work. As the firm's practice has diversified, its geographical scope has widened to include current projects in Europe, Asia, South America, and throughout the United States. The firm maintains an attention to detail and commitment to design quality which has earned international recognition, numerous awards and citations for design excellence, including National Honor Awards of the American Institute of Architects, and a lengthening list of repeat clients.

Completed projects include the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts; Ohrstrom Library, St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire; the Disney Feature Animation Building, Burbank, California; the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln; the Brooklyn Law School Tower, Brooklyn, New York; the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; the Spangler Campus Center and Baker Library | Bloomberg Center at the Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts; the Jones Graduate School of Business Management at Rice University, Houston, Texas; U.S. Courthouses in Beckley, West Virginia, and Youngstown, Ohio; the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Houston, Texas; the Museum Center at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut; hotels for The Walt Disney Company in Orlando, Florida; Paris; and Tokyo; main library buildings in Nashville, Tennessee; Columbus, Georgia; and Miami Beach, Jacksonville, and Clearwater, Florida; and office buildings and corporate headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts; Washington, DC; Greenwich, Connecticut; Atlanta, Georgia; Mexico City, Mexico; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Marne-la-Vallée, France. The firm served as co-master planner of the new town of Celebration, Florida, and continues to work with the City and State of New York on the implementation of the design guidelines it developed for the revitalization of the theater block of New York City's 42nd Street.

Currently, the firm has projects underway in twenty-six states as well as in Canada, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Germany, Brazil, France, Turkey, Kazakhstan, India, South Korea, and China. Among these are Comcast Center, a 57-story office building in Center City Philadelphia; Fifteen Central Park West, a luxury residential building on a full city block in New York City; the Museum for African Art on New York City's Museum Mile; the Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center / Orthopaedic Hospital Replacement Project; the Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary; the Northwest Corner Building at the Harvard Law School; and multifamily residential buildings in New York City; Vancouver and Toronto, Canada; Dallas, Texas; Baltimore, Maryland; Stamford, Connecticut; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; Atlanta, Georgia; and Los Angeles, California. Civic projects include a new U.S. Courthouse in Richmond, Virginia; the Calabasas Civic Center in Calabasas, California; and the American Revolution Center at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The firm has been selected to design the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum.