SHoP Architects

SHoP Architects
Partners	Christopher Sharples, Coren Sharples, Gregg Pasquarelli, Kimberly Holden, William Sharples
Founded	1996
Location	Manhattan, New York City
Buildings	Barclays Center, The Porter House, East River Esplanade
Awards	AIANY Honor Award, National Design Awards

SHoP Architects is an architecture firm in Lower Manhattan, New York City, with projects located on five continents. Led by five principals, the firm provides services to residences, commercial buildings, schools and cultural institutions, as well as large-scale master plans.

Founded in 1996, the firm's work has been exhibited internationally and included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Its first monograph, Out of Practice, was published in 2012 by the Monacelli Press.

The firm is known for its designs of the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn, New York, its contract with the Howard Hughes Corporation to develop the South Street Seaport, and the design of The Steinway Tower. The Steinway is one of several projects SHoP has designed in collaboration with JDS Development Group. Other buildings include American Copper Buildings and 9 DeKalb Avenue.

It has also designed the Museum of Sex, a renovation of Governors Island, and the expansion of the Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, California.

SHoP is also known for its work on large-scale development projects. These include the Domino Sugar Factory redevelopment,Essex Crossing, and Schuylkill Yards.

In 2014, SHoP was named Fast Company magazine's "Most Innovative Architecture Firm in the World", and one of its "Most Innovative Companies in the World" for its policy of accepting equity in projects, rather than traditional payment, in exchange for services, as well as for its use of modular construction methods.

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