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    • 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. However, architectural curator Donald Albrecht has noted that within Fentress' designs is a "stiff dose of regionalism. " 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. 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. In 2012, Fentress was awarded AIA Colorado's Architect of the Year.
      Fentress Architects is the designer of the Arraya Tower in Kuwait City. The tower is the tallest in Kuwait and the 53rd tallest in the world


      History


      Curtis Fentress graduated with honors from North Carolina State University's College of Design, School of Architecture where he received a Bachelor of Architecture degree. Following graduation, he joined the firm of I.M. Pei and Partners in New York City. As a Senior Designer, he was responsible for the master planning of major site development plans. He became a project designer with the New York architectural firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox. During this time, he came to Denver as the Project Designer for the Rocky Mountain Headquarters of Amoco in downtown Denver.
      In January 1980, Fentress formed C.W. Fentress and Associates with James Henry Bradburn. After early success, the collapse of the oil and gas industries in Colorado in the early 1980s ushered in a period of difficulty for the firm. Fentress Architects' fortunes rebounded in 1987 when the firm won a design competition for the Colorado Convention Center. The competition pitted Fentress and his partners against several better-financed and more famous opponents, including Phil Anschutz, who had partnered with the firm belonging to Curtis Fentress' former mentor, I.M. Pei. It was only in the 1990s that Fentress Architects rose to international fame by designing the Denver International Airport. The peaked roof of the terminal has become well known to travelers worldwide and ushered in a revolution in more expressionistic airport design. Curator Donald Albrecht credits the design of Denver International Airport with bringing glamor back to the airport typology.
      The unveiling of DIA was marked by a dysfunctional "state-of-the-art" baggage delivery system (the vendor at fault has since replaced the system). Subsequently, DIA has been voted the "Best Airport in North America" and the fourth "Favorite American Architecture" completed in the last fifteen years.
      In 2001, Fentress designed the Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South Korea, voted "Best Airport Worldwide" four consecutive years by Airport Council International's Airport Quality Survey program. Airport Council "Best Airport in the World" in 2007 by passengers surveyed for the Official Airlines Guide. The firm designs a range of large scale projects (see listing below) from museums and convention centers, to stadiums and commercial office buildings.
      Bradburn retired, and in 2007, the firm's name was abbreviated from Fentress Bradburn Architects to Fentress Architects. To date, the firm has won 425 design and innovation awards and has a design portfolio of $27 billion. Each year, more than 330 million people worldwide visit a project designed by Fentress Architects.


      Now Boarding


      In 2012, a major museum exhibition of Fentress Architects' airport designs entitled Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + the Architecture of Flight was opened at the Denver Art Museum. Curated by Donald Albrecht, architectural curator for the Museum of the City of New York whose previous exhibitions include well-received retrospectives on the work of such architectural notables as Eero Saarinen and Charles and Ray Eames, Now Boarding ran for nearly three months.
      A travelling version of the exhibition appeared in Amsterdam in November 2012, and the exhibition's full version will open in at the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, CA beginning in March 2013.


      Awards and honors


      World's Best Airports: Fentress-designed Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South Korea was voted "World's Best Airport" by Skytrax's 2009 World Airport Awards, a survey of 8.6 million international travelers.
      World's Most Beautiful Airports:

      Incheon International Airport
      Denver International Airport
      Denver's airport features a Teflon-coated tensile fabric roof—the world's largest when the airport opened in 1995.
      World's 4th tallest building completed in 2009: Fentress is the designer of the world's 4th tallest building completed in 2009—Arraya Tower in Kuwait City, also the tallest in Kuwait. Arraya is one of 14 high rises in Fentress' design portfolio in the Persian Gulf.


      Architectural philosophy


      Fentress has developed a design process he calls the "Patient Search". He has said of the process; "I don't begin with a preconceived notion of what the building needs to be – it is not a sculpture. I patiently search, walk the site, study the culture, follow our process until I find a seam somewhere, crack it open and discover the art inside." Asked about his philosophical approach, Fentress once stated, "My philosophy is ultimately...pragmatism".


      Rankings


      Architectural Record's "Top 150 Architecture Firms" – Fentress Architects ranked #24 among architecture-only firms
      Building Design & Construction's "Giants 300," Top ArchitectsFentress Architects ranked #18 among architecture-only firms
      Engineering News Record's "Top 500 Design Firms" – Fentress Architects ranked #29 among architecture-only firms
      Engineering News Record's "Top Airport Design Firms" – Fentress Architects ranked in top 25 firms
      In 2003, Colorado Construction ranked Fentress Architects as the Top Architectural Firm in Colorado. Fentress ranked #14 in California Construction's "Top Design Firms" in 2005.


      Sustainable design


      1993 Architecture and Energy Award for the Natural Resources Building in Olympia, Washington.
      About half of the firm's design professionals are LEED accredited.
      More than 60% of Fentress' projects under construction or completed in 2009 were LEED certified or pending certification.
      2003 LEED Gold 2.0 award for California's Department of Education Headquarters Building, which received Platinum certification in 2006 by the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system. It was featured as a case study in the Fall 2009 issue of High Performing Buildings.
      LEED certified projects include, but are not limited to:

      Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine—LEED Gold
      Green Square Complex—LEED Platinum (expected)
      Palazzo Verdi—LEED Gold
      San Joaquin County Administration Building—LEED Gold
      Santa Fe Community Convention Center—LEED Gold
      David E. Skaggs Federal Building (NOAA)
      UCI Humanities Gateway — LEED Platinum
      California Department of Education Headquarters—LEED Platinum


      Projects


      Airports

      Denver International Airport Main Passenger Terminal, Denver, Colorado, USA
      Incheon International Airport Passenger Terminal, Seoul, South Korea
      Los Angeles International Airport Master Plan and International Terminal, Los Angeles, California, USA
      Raleigh-Durham International Airport Terminal 2 Redevelopment, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
      Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Central Terminal Expansion Seattle, Washington, USA
      Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport, Terminal B San Jose, California, USA
      Sacramento International Airport, Sacramento, California, USA
      Doha International Airport (Tower), Doha, Qatar
      Civic

      Ralph L. Carr Judicial Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
      California Department of Education Headquarters, Sacramento, California, USA
      City of Oakland Administration Buildings, Oakland, California, USA
      Clark County Government Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
      Colorado State Capitol Renovations, Denver, Colorado, USA
      Jefferson County Government Center, Golden, Colorado, USA
      Regional Transportation Center and Flood Control District Headquarters, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
      Sacramento City Hall, Sacramento, California, USA
      San Joaquin County Administration Building, Stockton, California, USA
      Commercial Office & Mixed-Use

      Arraya Class A Office Tower, Kuwait City, Kuwait -- World's 4th tallest building completed in 2009
      Baitek, Kuwait City, Kuwait
      Dubai Mixed-Use Towers, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
      Kuwait Business Town, Al Sharq, Kuwait
      1999 Broadway, Denver, Colorado, USA
      421 Broadway, Denver, Colorado, USA
      Gulf Canada Resources Limited, Denver, Colorado, USA
      JD Edwards & Co Corporate Campus, Denver, Colorado, USA
      UniSource Energy Tower, Tucson, Arizona, USA
      Palazzo Verdi Mixed-Use, Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA
      Cultural

      Green Square Complex, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
      Army Visitor & Education Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania USA
      Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming, USA
      Draper National History Museum and Whitney Gallery, Cody, Wyoming, USA
      Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
      Museum of Western Art, The Navarre, Denver, Colorado, USA
      National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Expansion and Renovation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
      National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, Virginia, USA
      National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming, USA
      Laboratory

      Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, La Jolla, California, USA
      David E. Skaggs Research Center, Boulder, Colorado, USA
      Natural Resources Building, Olympia, Washington, USA
      University of Colorado Denver (UCD), Anschutz Medical Campus, Research Complex I, Aurora, Colorado, USA
      UCDHSC, Anschutz Medical Campus, Research Complex II, Aurora, Colorado, USA
      Public Assembly

      Arvada Center Expansion, Arvada, Colorado, USA
      Colorado Convention Center and Phase II Expansion, Denver, Colorado, USA
      Eccles Conference Center and Peery's Egyptian Theatre, Ogden, Utah, USA
      Sports Authority Field at Mile High, Denver, Colorado, USA
      Palm Springs Convention Center Expansion, Palm Springs, California, USA
      Pasadena Conference Center Expansion, Pasadena, California USA
      Santa Fe Conference Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
      Education

      Tennyson Center for Children, Denver, Colorado, USA
      Denver Academy High School, Denver, Colorado, USA
      Mathematics Building & Gemmill Engineering Library, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, USA
      Humanities Gateway, University of California, Irvine; Irvine, California, USA
      Hotel & Residential

      One Polo Creek, Denver, Colorado, USA
      One Wynkoop Plaza, Denver, Colorado, USA
      Palmetto Bay Plantation, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras
      Tritch Building Renovation into Courtyard by Marriott, Denver, Colorado, USA
      Watermark Luxury Residences, Denver, Colorado, USA


      Further reading


      The Master Architect Series III, Fentress Bradburn Selected and Current Works (Australia, The Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd., 1998)
      Curtis Worth Fentress (Milano, Italy: L'Arca Edizioni spa, 1996)
      Fentress Bradburn Architects (Washington, D.C.: Studio Press, 1996)
      Gateway to the West (Australia, The Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd., 2000)
      Millennium, Fentress Bradburn Selected and Current Works, Images Publishing, 2001
      Architecture in the Public Interest, Edizioni, 2001
      Civic Builders, Wiley-Academy, Great Britain, 2002.
      National Museum of the Marine Corps, North Carolina State University College of Design Publication, 2006
      10 Airports — Fentress Bradburn Architects, Edizioni Press, 2006.
      Portal to the Corps, Images Publishing, 2008
      Touchstones of Design [re]defining Public Architecture, Images Publishing, 2010
      Public Architecture: The Art Inside, Oro Publishing, 2010
      Newspaper/Magazine articles

      "Fentress Architects' DIA work opened global doors," Denver Business Journal, December 2007
      "Fentress has designs on Denver," Denver Post, July 8, 2006
      "Civic Minded Centers," Facility Manager, August/September 2006
      "The Seoul Experience: Incheon International Airport," Airport World, summer 2006
      "Airport Architecture Taking Flight," International Airport Review, July 2001
      "Humanistic Architecture Yields Economic Benefits," Passenger Terminal World, June 2004
      "Airport Architecture: a blueprint for success," Passenger Terminal World, May 2004


      See also


      Curtis W. Fentress


      References

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