The Sail @ Marina Bay, 2009
 

NBBJ is a global architecture, planning and design firm with offices in Beijing, Boston, Columbus, London, Los Angeles, New York, Pune, San Francisco, Seattle, and Shanghai.

NBBJ provides services in architecture, interiors, planning and urban design, branding, consulting, landscape design, and lighting. The firm is involved in multiple markets and building types including: civic, corporate, commercial, healthcare, higher education, science, sports, and transportation. It is the only architecture firm to be named a Global Growth Company by the World Economic Forum.

The firm accepted the Architecture 2030 Challenge, a global initiative stating that all new buildings and major renovations reduce their fossil-fuel GHG-emitting consumption by 50% by 2010, incrementally increasing the reduction for new buildings to carbon neutral by 2030. In addition, the firm has been recognized by Engineering News-Record magazine as one of the most green architecture firms in the United States.

History
The firm was founded in 1943 by Seattle architects Floyd Naramore, William J. Bain, Clifton Brady, and Perry Johanson, and was initially called Naramore, Bain, Brady &Johanson.

Selected Completed Projects
Corporate/Commercial
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Headquarters, Seattle, WA, 2011
• Russell Investments Headquarters, Seattle, WA, 2011
• City of Capitals, Moscow, Russia
• The Sail @ Marina Bay, Singapore, Republic of Singapore, 2008
• Boeing Commercial Airplane Headquarters, Renton, WA, 2004
• Reebok World Headquarters, Canton, MA, 2002
• Telenor World Headquarters, Fornebo, Oslo, Norway, 2002

Healthcare
• Massachusetts General Hospital Lunder Building, Boston, MA, 2011
• Seattle Children's Hospital Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center, Bellevue, WA, 2011
• Dubai Mall Medical Centre, Dubai, UAE, 2011
• Southcentral Foundation Primary Care Clinic, Anchorage, AK, 2010
• Miami Valley Hospital Heart and Orthopedic Center, Dayton, OH, 2010
• Cleveland Clinic Heart Center Miller Pavilion, Cleveland OH, 2008
• Banner Health Banner Estrella Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, 2004

Higher Education
• University of Southampton Life Sciences Building, Southampton, UK, 2012
• University of Cambridge Material Sciences and Metallurgy Building, Cambridge, UK, 2012
• Stanford University Li KaShing Center for Learning and Knowledge, Palo Alto, CA, 2011
• Cleveland State University College of Education and Human Services, Cleveland, OH, 2010

Science
• Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute, Columbus, OH, 2012
• Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, 2009
• European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2007
• Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2005

Civic
• United States Courthouse, Bakersfield, CA, 2012
• United States Courthouse, Billings, MT, 2012
• United States Courthouse, Seattle, WA, 2003
• Seattle Justice Center, Seattle, WA, 2002

Sports/Expo
• UCLA Pauley Pavilion Renovation, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
• AsiaWorld-Expo, Lantau, Hong Kong, 2005
• Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, PA, 2003
• Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, OH, 2002
• Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1999
• Safeco Field, Seattle, WA, 1999

Urban Design
• Shanghai Bund Renovation, Shanghai, China, 2011

Selected Current/Future Projects
• University of Cambridge Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge, UK, 2013
• University of Utah L.S. Skaggs Pharmacy Research Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, 2013
• Samsung North American Headquarters, San Jose, CA, 2015 (under construction)
• Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium, Hangzhou, China, 2014 (under construction)
• Tencent Headquarters, Shenzhen, China, 2014
• Google Bay View Campus, 2015
• Amazon.com Denny Triangle Project, Seattle, WA, 2016
• Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System Replacement Medical Center and Research Lab, New Orleans, LA, 2016
• Brigham and Women's Hospital Building for the Future (research lab and medical center), Boston, MA, 2016
• New York University Langone Medical Center, New Kimmel Pavilion, New York, NY, 2016
• Rupp Arena, Lexington, KY, 2016

Recent Awards
• Healthcare Design Magazine, Firm of the Year Award, 2013
• Interior Design Magazine, Best of Year Award, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Campus, 2013
• IIDA, Healthcare Interiors Award, Bayt Abdullah Children's Hospice, 2012
• American Institute of Architects Academy of Architecture for Health, Healthcare Award, Massachusetts General Hospital Lunder Building, 2012
• American Institute of Architects Academy of Architecture for Health, Healthcare Award, Seattle Children’s Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center, 2011
• Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA Award Winner, Life Sciences Building at the University of Southampton, 2011
• Puget Sound Business Journal, Corporate Champion for the Environment, 2011
• Interior Design Magazine, Best of Year Award, Dubai Mall Medical Centre, 2010
• American Institute of Architects (AIA) Institute Honor Awards, Interiors, R.C. Hedreen Company, 2009
• BusinessWeek/Architectural Record Good Design is Good Business Awards, Alley24/223 Yale, 2008