Since 1935, we’ve believed that design has the power to make the world a better, more beautiful place. That’s why clients and community members on nearly every continent partner with us to design healthy, happy places in which to live, learn, work, play, and heal. We’re passionate about Living Design, a philosophy that guides our work and emphasizes poetics and beauty; conceptual clarity; research and innovation; technology and tectonics; community and inclusion; resilience and regeneration; and health and well-being. Our team of over 2,500 professionals in 30 studios worldwide provides interdisciplinary services in architecture, interior design, branded environments, urban design, landscape architecture, and more. Our partners include Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects; Portland; Nelson\Nygaard; and Pierre-Yves Rochon (PYR). We’re also part of the Sidara Collaborative, a global network of leading designers, engineers, planners, and consultants.
Founded over 70 years ago by Eugène Freyssinet, the inventor of prestressing, Freyssinet brings together an unrivalled range of skills in the specialist civil engineering sector, offering integrated technical solutions in the fields of construction and structural repair.
Freyssinet is involved in numerous projects across five continents, making it the world leader in its specialist areas of:
· prestressing,
· cable-stayed structures,
· construction methods,
· structural accessories,
· structural repair and reinforcement,
· structural maintenance.
These activities are performed on a wide range of structures, including civil engineering structures, buildings, skyscrapers, industrial installations, power production plants, offshore platforms, transport and sporting infrastructure, and more.
Freyssinet is a subsidiary of the Soletanche Freyssinet Group, a world leader in the soils, structures and nuclear sectors.
Kengo Kuma was born in 1954. He established Kengo Kuma & Associates in Tokyo in 1990 and in Paris in 2008 and became Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Tokyo in 2009.