Steven Holl

Steven Holl Architects is an internationally recognized, design-oriented firm with locations in New York and Beijing. Founded by Steven Holl in 1976, the firm has 48 staff and has been recognized with numerous awards, publications, and exhibitions for quality and excellence in design, including: ten AIA (American Institute of Architects) National Honor Awards, 27 AIA regional awards, the 1998 Alvar Aalto Award, the 2001 Grande Medailles D'Or from the French Academie D'Architecture, and the 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.

Named by Time Magazine as America's Best Architect, Steven Holl has a unique design sensibility for "buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye." SHA specializes in works for the arts and higher education such as the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki, Finland); the University of Iowa's School of Art & Art History; Seattle University's Chapel of St. Ignatius; and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO). Recent work includes the Linked Hybrid (Beijing, China); the Herning Center for the Arts (Herning, Denmark); and the Knut Hamsun Center (Hamarøy, Norway).

"Subtractive part - the foreground of the site restored harbour in stone. Additive part - very light The heavy and the light. Floating over its own reflection in the River Tay the new form levitates alive and is fused with the changes in the river water & weather changes. Inner spaces around a cascade of light are promising like a blank page about futures to be creatively fabricated... At night the building casts a white shadow on the Tay. A floating image, it measures time by how the building body shimmers with the passing river's rushing water. Transformed by the river, it is a gossamer architecture in rivery air... Suspended in ripples of sparkling light."

The design team led by Steven Holl includes jmarchitects (Scotland), Guy Nordenson & Associates (USA), ARUP (Scotland), Thomas & Adamson (Scotland), Michael van Valkenburgh Associates (USA) and Transsolar Energietechnik (Germany