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We hope you you care about and crave great design. We don't mean design that simply looks pretty, or design that has the top architectural photographers swooning.

Great design does that, but it does so much more, too. Great design is about cultivating client relationships where creativity can flourish. It's about listening to and collaborating with clients to understand their needs and their objectives -- and then coming up with design solutions that are unique and meaningful and hit the bulls-eye of their expectations every time. It's about striving and not settling. It's about upping the artistic ante and creating something that packs an emotional wallop -- but it's a wallop backed up with empirical knowledge, solid engineering and detailed execution. It's less about big talk and more about big ideas, ideas that resonate within the hearts and minds of our clients and their constituents.

Above all, great design is great fun -- it's fun to create, it's fun to experience, it's fun to see the reaction of our clients when their project succeeds beyond their wildest dreams.

Firm Description
SmithGroup is an 800-person, international architecture, engineering, interiors, planning and landscape architecture firm specializing in cultural facilities and other markets. In addition to its office in Washington, D.C. SmithGroup has offices in Ann Arbor, MI; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Detroit, MI; Los Angeles, CA; Madison, WI; Phoenix, AZ; Raleigh-Durham, NC; and San Francisco, CA.

Our Cultural Studio has become a major force in the design of cultural spaces for national projects and has a portfolio that is one of the best in the country. Our portfolio includes award-winning design that reflects our knowledge of the complex technical and operational issues that cultural institutions face in today’s competitive environment, and recognizes our ability to implement design intuitively creating built environments that inspire, educate and entertain. We have the proven ability to explore the bounds of 21st Century cultural education and the pioneering spirit that has helped launch a series of successful new institutions such as the International Spy Museum, Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center, National Museum of the American Indian, National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center.

Main Phone: 202-842-2100

Main Fax: 202-974-4500

Web Site: www.smithgroupjjr.com

Additional Offices In:

Ann Arbor / Chicago / Dallas / Detroit / Los Angeles / Madison / Phoenix / Raleigh-Durham / San Francisco / Washington, DC