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Adrian Devaun Smith (born August 19, 1944) is an American architect. He designed the world's tallest structure, Burj Khalifa, as well as the building projected to surpass it, the Jeddah Tower.
AS+GG's Al Wasl Plaza in Expo City Dubai secures Guinness World Record for the largest interactive immersive dome.
Adrian Smith has been a registered architect in twelve states of the USA and his designs have won him more than 125 awards which include 5 international, 9 national and 3 Urban Land Institute Awards for excellence.
Jul 11, 2024 · Adrian Smith, the architect the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, talks about the history, design, and impact of the 2,722-foot-tall tower
Adrian Smith, FAIA, Founding Partner Emeritus, is an Architect of international renown, having designed many landmark buildings including the two world’s tallest structures: Burj Khalifa completed in 2010 in Dubai and Jeddah Tower, now under construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Jun 7, 2016 · The man leading the upward push is Adrian Smith, the legendary Chicago architect who designed the Burj Khalifa, completed in 2010. Now he has designed the next world’s tallest, the Jeddah Tower...
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG), an architecture firm and design firm based in Chicago, is engaged in the design and development of energy-efficient and sustainable architecture. AS+GG designs buildings, cities, masterplans and components of these, for an international clientele, with projects located throughout the world.
Adrian Smith, 66, is the senior design partner at Chicago-based Adrian Smith+Gordon Gill Architecture. While at his previous firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Mr. Smith designed the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which at 2,717-feet high is the world’s tallest, along with China’s Nanjing’s Zifeng Tower, Chicago’s Trump International Hotel ...
Mar 21, 2013 · Over a 39-year career that started at SOM in Chicago, Adrian Smith has been credited as the architect of many of the most famous super-tall (more than 300m) buildings in the world.
Adrian Smith, born in 1944, has a passion for tall structures and has studied architecture at Texas A&M and Chicago. He introduced the concept of contextualism, which considers a building’s relationship to its surrounding context and its culture.
