Ellerbe Becket is internationally recognized as a leader in the architecture, engineering and interior design industries. The firm's sports practice specializes in the design of best in class facilities that are renowned for providing outstanding patron experience AND catalysts for urban redevelopment. Timetested examples span the country - from Verizon Center in Washington, DC to Qwest Field in Seattle. With offices worldwide, the firm has designed more arenas than nearly any other architectural firm, including 15 new arenas for the NBA and NHL in the past two decades. Ellerbe Becket brings together fans, athletes, sponsors, and communities through the design of iconic venues that are efficient to build, own and operate. The firm has collaborated with design Architects including Pei Cobb Freed, Wood and Zapata, KCF and Cesar Pelli and is honored to add SHoP to their list of strategic partners. Ellerbe Becket has designed New York icons including the NY State Psychiatric Research Institute and the SUNY Binghamton Academic Buildings & Research Greenhouse. 2009 marks Ellerbe Becket's 100th anniversary. For more information, visit www.ellerbebecket.com.

SHoP Architects, a 60 person practice located in downtown Manhattan, founded by its five principals in 1996, has been a leader in the transformation of intricate theoretical design into easily understood construction models by reconsidering architectural practice. This think tank has pushed the designer's realm past form making and into software design, branding, real estate development, construction, and the co-development of new sustainable technologies. As both practitioners and educators, their commitment to challenging the entire process of building has proven to a generation of architects that beauty and technological proficiency are not mutually exclusive. Their current work includes a two-mile waterfront park along New York's East River, and projects for the Fashion Institute of Technology and Goldman Sachs, both in Manhattan, and Google in Mountain View, CA. Recently completed projects include Garden Street Lofts in Hoboken, NJ, Hangil Book House in Seoul, South Korea, The Porter House in New York City, and SanLiTun in Beijing. SHoP's work has won numerous awards, including the 2009 National Design Award for Architecture Design, awarded by Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. SHoP's work has also been published and exhibited internationally, and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

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