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2016年全世界建築事務所排行 Gensler繼續保持第一大建築事務所稱號

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2016年 Gensler繼續保持世界第一大建築事務所稱號

根據Building.co.uk 於2016年12月的報導,在最近的年度評選 WA100 2017: The big list中,美國Gensler 晉思建築師事務所 繼續保持世界第一大建築事務所的稱號。它的收入是第二名的兩倍以上。

Gensler 晉思建築師事務所2016年開設了在倫敦以外的第一個英國辦事處(在伯明翰)。它現在僱用了2,570名建築師,比上年增加了271個。

晉思建築事務所的收費收入為10億美元到15億美元以上,遠遠超出第2名日建設計公司(Nikken Sekkei)的5億美元到5.99億美元,日建設計公司僱用了1,796名建築師,在此次評選中排名上升,並且將前一年的亞軍艾奕康公司(Aecom)擠下至第3名。

整體而言,世界100強建築事務所中的最大10家公司僱用了12,136名建築師,比上年評選時的數量下降了2.7% 。

福斯特建築事務所(Foster & Partners)繼續是英國最大的建築事務所,僱用 671名建築師,在世界建築100強中排名第14位。上年也是同一個排名(僱用 666 名建築師)。

英國第二大建築公司是阿特金斯建築事務所(Atkins),僱用 369名建築師,在世界建築100強中排名第33位。

晉思建築事務所2016年秋天在英國上了頭條新聞,工黨領袖 Jeremy Corbyn 支持它的設計一個浮動的水上議會廳的方案。

這次評選的世界100大建築事務所北美佔有優勢:5個在美國,1個在加拿大,中國的 Aedas 凱達環球佔據了第7名的位置,新進入世界100大建築事務所的是巴黎的AREP建築事務所,它有8個海外辦事處。

新進入這次世界建築100強的是費爾登-克列格-布拉德利建築事務所(Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios)和TP Bennett建築事務所。
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US practice Gensler remains the biggest architect in the world with fees now more than double that of the next best rival, according to this year’s WA Top 100.

Gensler, which earlier this year opened its first UK office outside London with an office in Birmingham, now employs 2,570 architects, 271 more than it did last year.

The firm had a fees income of $1 billion to $1.5 billion – head and shoulders above second-placed Nikken Sekkei’s $500 million to $599 million.

But the Japanese practice, which employs 1,796 architects, has risen up the rankings for 2017, switching places with 2016’s runner-up, Aecom, which is now third.

The figures come as Building’s sister publication BD gets ready to publish its annual survey of the world’s largest practices ranked by the number of fee-earning architects they employ.

In total, the top 10 WA100 firms employed 12,136 architects although this was a 2.7% decline on 2016’s number.

Foster & Partners remains the biggest UK practice in 14th spot with 671 architects employed – the same position as last year when it employed 666 architects. The next best placed British firm is Atkins in 33rd spot with 369 architects employed.

Gensler, which hit the headlines this autumn when Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn backed its plans for a floating Parliament as an alternative to proposals to move MPs and Peers out of the Palace of Westminster during upcoming refurbishment work, said focussing on the resurgent North American market had paid dividends.

Its co-chief executive Diane Hoskins added: “Many firms who went global decreased their focus on the US.”

The practice has been swapping the top spot with Aecom in recent years but the number of architects employed by the US multi-disciplinary slipped to 1,491, down from 2,100 last year.

Aecom said the fall was a paper one, resulting from the creation of interdisciplinary teams whose architecturally-trained staff were not counted in the latest figures.

The firm’s EMIA architecture leader Jennifer Dixon added: “It means the only ones we can really count are the ones who are generating architectural fees for traditional architectural services. We’ve got quite a lot of architects in infrastructure, development-funding, operations, and cost management.”

Elsewhere, expectations for growth over the next 12 months fell with 60% of respondents reckoning business will improve during the next year, compared to 74% for the previous year. Hotspots for 2017 will continue to be North America and central Asia, which includes India.

But the outlook for Europe is less good with around 70% of respondents predicting no growth or a declining market in Western Europe.

And following the UK’s decision to leave the EU, optimism about growing workloads here has collapsed – with just 1% saying the UK was the country that offered the most growth potential compared to 14% last time.

The top 10 practices are dominated by North American firms with five US and one Canadian. The WA100’s highest-placed new entrant is Paris-based practice AREP which has eight overseas offices.

New entrants into this year’s Top 100 include Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and TP Bennett.

BD editor Thomas Lane said the big question centred on the impact of incoming US president Donald Trump. “If he sticks to his pledge to spend $1 trillion on rebuilding America’s crumbling infrastructure, then architects, particularly the 21% of firms making up the top 100 that are US-based, should do very well.”
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