SHoP Architects is an architecture firm in Lower Manhattan, New York City, with projects located on five continents.
[2][3] Led by four principals,[1] the firm provides services to residences, commercial buildings, schools and cultural institutions, as well as large-scale master plans.
[11][12] It has also designed the Museum of Sex,[5] a renovation of Governors Island, and the expansion of the Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, California.
[15] In 2014, SHoP was named Fast Company magazine's "Most Innovative Architecture Firm in the World",[16] 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.
He writes that both the developer and the firm need to understand the area's "benign shabbiness" and not "set a new precedent [of] claiming the waterfront for residences.