成立于1963年
自1963年成立以来，ennead始终致力于创造极具公众影响力的建筑作品，重塑公共建筑与社会以及人的关系。ennead总部位于美国纽约市，并在上海设有办公室，纽约总部现有员工180余人，上海办公室现有员工20余人，经过半个多世纪的发展，ennead已经发展成为建筑设计领域公认的领先的国际化设计事务所。ennead的客户主要分布于教育、文化、科学研究和商业领域。从斯坦福大学到耶鲁大学，从美国自然历史博物馆到克林顿总统纪念图书馆，从卡内基音乐厅到纽约高线公园标准酒店，ennead与诸多国际知名学术文化机构均有长期稳定的合作伙伴关系。ennead为来自公共机构和商业领域的众多客户创造了多个令人瞩目、富有创新性并秉承可持续发展理念的地标建筑作品。这些作品完美展现了ennead优秀的设计理念，并为其所在城市和社区带来了积极影响。
ennead的设计服务内容包括新建建筑、扩建改建、历史保护、室内设计及总体规划，项目类型多元化，包括博物馆、表演艺术中心、高精尖实验室、高等教育研究设备、商业办公和大型基建项目等。从形态，到采光，再到材质，
ennead的建筑作品极具表现力和感染力，同时恰到好处地展现了客户的愿景，并且塑造了我们的空间和时代。
ennead的设计策略扎根于对建筑功能和周边环境的深刻理解，并由此拓展出强有力的建筑形式。独特的设计团队架构则为ennead提供了实现这一目标的坚实基础——各项目均由一位设计合伙人与一位管理合伙人联席牵头，为项目提供必要的技术和管理支持、强调以设计为本的工作重心。工作模式决定工作效率，这一架构确保我们能在最短时间内对各类项目设计问题提出切实可行的解决方案。与此同时，ennead项目团队亦通过与客户的紧密协作，于项目伊始便开展一系列有关历史文脉、周边环境与建筑功能的精密分析，反复斟酌项目的可行建筑细节及公共空间状态。这一设计策略在优化现有经验的基础上，不断探索出创新设计方案。我们秉承这一精益求精的工作方式，坚持挖掘建筑设计的创造性和艺术潜能，鼓励创新并不断致力于提升周边环境质量，丰富相关建筑经验。
ennead在中国的建筑实践将延续事务所五十余年的设计传统，以创新的、令人难忘的和可持续发展的设计传达客户的形象、回应当代文化并深化构筑环境。ennead将自身多元化的实践经验和领先的专业知识与中国的城市和人文发展目标结合，并将在公共领域的见解应用到各类型建筑设计中。自2014年设立上海办公室以来，ennead已在中国完成了诸多重大项目，其中包括上海天文馆、华为武汉研发园区等，总建筑面积超过100万平方米。
We create architecture that shapes the public realm; this has been central to our practice since 1963. Our 200-person firm, headquartered in New York City and branched in Shanghai, works primarily with educational, cultural and scientific clients, including some of the most venerable institutions in North America: from Stanford to Yale universities, from the American Museum of Natural History to the William J. Clinton Presidential Center, from Carnegie Hall to the Standard Hotel, High Line. After more than half a century of development, ennead is now recognized as one of the pioneering international architect firms. Our innovative, memorable and sustainable architectural identities for both public institutions and private clients are recognized for design excellence and for their important contributions to the life of their cities and campus precincts.
Our diverse portfolio – including new construction, renovation and expansion, historic preservation, interior design and master planning– ranges from museums and performing arts centers to complex laboratories, research and teaching facilities for higher education to large scale infrastructure projects. Ennead creates expressive architecture that embodies each client’s mission and engages the user while shaping our place and time.
Our approach to design is rooted in program and context, resulting in powerful form-making. This process is supported by our unique team structure: a design partner and a management partner collaborate on every project to ensure that our design-driven process is supported by advanced technical skills and superior project management. Our projects are therefore singular
solutions to specific design problems and are consistently delivered on time and on budget. In close collaboration with clients, our project teams undertake a rigorous analysis of the history, context and program of each project, which is executed with meticulous attention to the details of the building as well as the public spaces around them. This approach optimizes our broad-based experience while allowing new and elegant design solutions to emerge. We believe the power of this process unleashes the potential of architecture to advance the human condition, inspire innovation, catalyze neighborhoods and enrich our experiences.
In China, we continue our practice that has lasted over 50 years: designing creative, impressive and sustainable buildings to express the identities of clients, respond to culture and further shape the environment. We apply ennead’s diverse experience and expertise to promote urban and humanity development of China, and integrate our understanding of civic public space into the design of a variety of architectures. Since the establishment of Shanghai Office in 2014, ennead has completed multiple projects in China, including Shanghai Planetarium, Huawei Wuhan Research and Development Campus and etc., with a total of more than 1 million square meters building area.
