Ellerbe Becket is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based firm that is one of the world's largest architectural firms. Other offices are located in Dallas, TX, Kansas City, MO, San Francisco, CA, Washington, DC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Doha, Qatar.

In addition to architectural design areas of expertise include engineering, interior design and construction services.

The firm currently employs 475 employees based in 7 different locations and three different countries. The firm has designed buildings in all 50 states and in 20 different countries. In the 2007 fiscal year the firm had an annual revenue of $70 million.

History

The company originally called Ellerbe & Co. was founded by Franklin Ellerbe in 1909 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Its first clients included the Mayo Clinic and 3M. Thomas Ellerbe took over the company in 1921 upon his father's death. When he retired in 1966 it became an employee-owned company. In 1987 it merged with Welton Becket and Associates of Los Angeles and became Ellerbe Becket. In 1988 it opened a sports design division in Kansas City. On October 26, 2009 Ellerbe Becket joined the architecture, planning, and engineering firm AECOM. Ellerbe Becket’s professional expertise and practice strengths in the design of healthcare, sports, government, corporate and higher education facilities complement the global AECOM platform.

Projects

General buildings

• Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, DC

• Carlson School of Management - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

• Kingdom Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Target Plaza, Minneapolis, MN

• Brasil Telecom Data Center, Brasilia, Brazil

• Charles Evans Whittaker Federal Courthouse, Kansas City, MO

Health care

• Yonsei University Medical Center - Severance Hospital, Seoul, Korea

• Khalifa Sport City - Orthopedic Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar

• Walt Disney Memorial Cancer Institute, Orlando, FL

• Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, MD

• Mayo Clinic, Leslie & Susan Gonda Building, Rochester, MN

• St. Luke's Hospital Nassif Heart Center, Cedar Rapids, IA

• St. Rita's Medical Center, Lima, OH

• Stonewall Jackson Hospital, Lexington, VA

• Gonda Building, Rochester, MN

Forest City Ratner Companies announced that it has retained the award-winning architectural firm Ellerbe Becket to design the controversial Barclays Center, which will be the home of the Nets basketball team and host over 200 concerts and family shows annually. The new arena design will incorporate all of the approved design standards.

Sports facilities

The following were designed by the Kansas City Sports Venue branch

Stadiums

• Centennial Olympic Stadium, Atlanta, GA

• Faurot Field (renovation), Columbia, Missouri

• Guangdong Olympic Stadium, Guangzhou, China

• Lambeau Field Renovation, Green Bay, WI

• Qwest Field, Seattle, WA

• Rentschler Field, East Hartford, CT

• Rhodes Stadium, Elon, NC

• Turner Field, Atlanta, GA

• Chase Field, Phoenix, AZ

• Autzen Stadium Renovation, Eugene, OR

Arenas

• AT&T Center (formerly SBC Center), San Antonio, TX

• BankAtlantic Center (formerly Office Depot Center), Sunrise, FL

• Barclays Center Brooklyn, NY (Constriction/Design in Progress)

• Comcast Center, College Park, MD

• Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN

• FedExForum, Memphis, TN

• HSBC Arena, Buffalo, NY

• JQH Arena, Springfield, MO

• John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, VA

• Joyce Center, Notre Dame, IN

• Madison Square Garden, New York, NY (1990s renovation)

• Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH

• Rose Garden, Portland, OR

• Saitama Super Arena, Tokyo, Japan

• Scottrade Center, St. Louis, MO

• Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, WA

• St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, FL

• TD Garden (formerly FleetCenter), Boston, MA

• Thomas & Mack Center, Paradise, NV

• US Airways Center (formerly America West Arena), Phoenix, AZ

• Verizon Center (formerly MCI Center), Washington, DC

• Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA

• Matthew Knight Arena (Planned), Eugene, OR