Fentress Architects

Fentress Architects
The Denver, Colorado office.
Practice information
Key architectsCurtis Fentress, FAIA, RIBA
Founded1980
LocationDenver, Colorado, United States of America
Significant works and honors
BuildingsDenver International Airport, Incheon International Airport, Colorado Convention Center, the Broncos Stadium, National Museum of the Marine Corps, Arraya Tower, National Museum of Wildlife Art, the modernized Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX (2013), and the Green Square Complex in Raleigh, North Carolina (2012
AwardsOver 425 for innovation and design excellence[1]

Fentress Architects is an international design firm known for large-scale public architecture such as airports, museums, university buildings, convention centers, laboratories, and high-rise office towers. Some of the buildings for which the firm is best known include Denver International Airport (1995), the modernized Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX (2013), the National Museum of the Marine Corps near Quantico, Virginia (2005), and the Green Square Complex in Raleigh, North Carolina (2012).

Founded in 1980 by Curtis W. Fentress, FAIA, RIBA, the firm's designs, especially its airports, are often compared to the expressionist architecture of Eero Saarinen.[2] However, architectural curator Donald Albrecht has noted that within Fentress' designs is a "stiff dose of regionalism.[3] " Fentress Architects has studios in Denver, Colorado; Los Angeles; San Jose, California; Washington, D.C.; London; and Shanghai.

In 2010, Curtis Fentress was awarded the highest award for public architecture, the Thomas Jefferson Award, by the American Institute of Architects AIA Awards website.[4][5] Fentress was also given the Silver Medal in 2010, which is the highest award given to an architect from the AIA Western Mountain Region for the contributions made to the region.[6] In 2012, Fentress was awarded AIA Colorado's Architect of the Year.[7]

Fentress Architects is the designer of the Arraya Tower in Kuwait City.[8] The tower is the tallest in Kuwait and the 53rd tallest in the world [9]

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  2. ^ "Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + the Architecture of Flight, Denver Art Museum | California Literary Review". Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2013-01-19.
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  4. ^ "AIA Jefferson Award recipients". Aia.org. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  5. ^ "AIArchitect website". Archived from the original on February 19, 2012. Retrieved Jul 29, 2019.
  6. ^ "Silver Medal". Design Team Information. Archived from the original on 2011-10-02.
  7. ^ Colorado, A. I. A. "Architectural Jobs, Resources, & Education". AIA Colorado. Retrieved Jul 29, 2019.
  8. ^ "Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat: Tallest Buildings Completed in 2009". Ctbuh.org. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  9. ^ "The Skyscraper Center". www.skyscrapercenter.com. Retrieved Jul 29, 2019.