[1] Taking their experience on large, mixed-use projects,[2] AS+GG focuses on the design of high-performance, energy-efficient, and sustainable architecture on an international scale.

[1][5][6] At the time of his departure, Smith had several projects still under construction that were designed while at SOM including: Burj Khalifa, Dubai, Broadgate Tower, London, England and Trump International Hotel and Tower, Chicago, and with Gordon Gill and Robert Forest: Nanjing Greenland Financial Center, Nanjing, China.

[15] When completed in 2017 Wuhan Greenland Center, will[needs update] likely be China's third-tallest building, and the fourth tallest in the world, at 1,988 feet (606 meters) tall.

Wuhan Greenland Center also features a streamlined form that combines three key shaping concepts—a tapered body, softly rounded corners and a domed top—to reduce wind resistance and vortex action that builds up around supertall towers.

[16] This award-winning plan seeks to not only to reduce the environmental impact and carbon emissions of downtown Chicago but to improve the overall quality of life of the city's urban environment.

[17] The plan is a beginning process for maintaining the economic and cultural vitality of the urban core, from an energy and carbon perspective.

The main theme of the EXPO was "Future Energy," which was reflected in the concept of AS+GG's futuristic design featuring a glass globe sat atop an undulating glazed podium.