Adrian Devaun Smith (born 19 August 1944 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American architect known for designing some of the tallest buildings in the world. He spent much of his career at the firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in Chicago, beginning in 1967 and serving as a design partner from 1980 to 2003, where his completed work included the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai and the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago. While still at SOM he designed the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world's tallest building on its 2010 completion, and later the still unfinished Jeddah Tower, designed to surpass it. In 2006 he co-founded the firm Adrian Smith plus Gordon Gill Architecture, dedicated to high performance, energy efficient design, and later added Central Park Tower in New York to his completed projects; he received the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.
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Defining ContributionDesigned the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building on its 2010 completion, while a design partner at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. 1 Adrian Smith
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Adrian Smith served as chief architect of the Burj Khalifa at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.
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Designed by Adrian Smith as design partner at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), the architecture firm of record, before he left to found Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture in 2006.
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Adrian Devaun Smith (born August 19, 1944)
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Adrian Devaun Smith (born August 19, 1944) is an American architect.
Burj Khalifa credit
He designed the world's tallest structure, Burj Khalifa, as well as the building projected to surpass it, the Jeddah Tower.
AS+GG founding
In 2006, he founded Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG), which is dedicated to designing high-performance, energy-efficient, and sustainable architecture.
Works Designed: Burj Khalifa, Burj Khalifa design credit
He designed the world's tallest structure, Burj Khalifa, as well as the building projected to surpass it, the Jeddah Tower.
- Associated With: Completion of the Burj Khalifa, Career, Burj Khalifa
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Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill ArchitectureFirm contact page, general inquiriesQuote, Firm contact page, general inquiries
General Inquiries: info@smithgill.com
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