Swanke Hayden Connell Architects was an international architecture, interiors and historic preservation firm with U.S. headquarters in

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History

The firm was founded in New York in 1906 by Alexander Stewart Walker (1876–1952) and Leon N. Gillette (1878–1945). Originally known as Walker & Gillette, the firm designed country estates and urban townhouses for some of New York's more affluent families. Through the years, the practice expanded to include corporate interiors for prominent banking and brokerage concerns as well as major architectural commissions such as the Fuller Building at 57th Street and Madison Avenue and the First National Bank Building at 57th Street. Following Gillette's death in 1945, A. Stewart Walker merged his practice with the Office of

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. The firm practiced under the name of Walker & Poor from 1946 to 1952 with commissions that included Sotheby Parke Bernet Galleries,

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& Co. Inc., Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation and

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air bases in France. After Walker's death in 1952, the firm continued the practice as the Office of Alfred Easton Poor until 1971. In 1958, the firm opened a second office in Washington, D.C. During this period, the firm expanded and diversified further into governmental facilities, office buildings, communications centers, and industrial structures throughout the United States, Europe, and South America. In 1972, the firm became known as Poor and Swanke & Partners, in 1975, Poor, Swanke, Hayden & Connell, in 1979, Swanke Hayden Connell & Partners, and in 1981, Swanke Hayden Connell Architects. During this time, the firm expanded its disciplines and became a global practice, opening offices in Miami and London in 1987, Istanbul in 1997, Sheffield 2002, Moscow in 2006, and Shanghai in 2010. In 2000, the firm acquired Taylor Clark Architects, a firm specializing in the healthcare field. In 2002, the Firm acquired George Trew Dunn Architects, another healthcare architecture firm with offices in London and Sheffield, England. Swanke Hayden Connell Europe was acquired by Aukett Associates in 2013. On January 6, 2015 the firm filed for

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bankruptcy, after failing to receive over US $2 million in fees from a client.

Notable buildings

* 1983,

Trump Tower Trump Tower is a 58-story, mixed-use condominium skyscraper at 721–725 Fifth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, between East 56th and 57th Streets. The building contains the headquarters for the Trump Organiza ...

, New York, New York, U.S. * 1983, Continental Center, New York, New York, U.S. * 1986,

Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty (''Liberty Enlightening the World''; ) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. The copper-clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of French Thir ...

Restoration,

Liberty Island Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the northeastern United States. Its most notable feature is the Statue of Liberty (''Liberty Enlightening the World''), a large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi that was ...

, New York, New York, U.S. * 1989, 4 Columbus Circle, New York, New York, U.S. * 1989, Tower 45, New York City, New York, U.S. * 1991, Americas Tower (1177 Avenue of the Americas), New York, New York, U.S. * 2000, Isbank Towers, Istanbul, Turkey * 2002, Tekfen Tower, Istanbul, Turkey * 2003, FDNY Training Center,

Randall's Island Randalls Island (sometimes called Randall's Island) and Wards Island are conjoined islands, collectively called Randalls and Wards Island, in New York City.

, New York, U.S. * 2005,

West Virginia State Capitol The West Virginia State Capitol is the seat of government for the U.S. state of West Virginia, and houses the West Virginia Legislature and the office of the Governor of West Virginia. Located in Charleston, West Virginia, the building was dedi ...

Dome Restoration, Charleston, West Virginia, U.S. * 2006, New York City Office of Emergency Management, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. * 2011, Nassau County Public Safety Center, Westbury, New York, U.S. * 2014, Eurasia Tower, Moscow, Russia

References

External links

* Official website: {{cite web , url=http://www.shca.com/ , website=Swanke Hayden Connell Architects , title=Homepage , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150326015331/http://www.shca.com/ , archive-date=March 26, 2015 , access-date=December 10, 2019 1906 establishments in New York (state) Defunct architecture firms based in New York City Design companies established in 1906 Design companies disestablished in 2015 Preservationist architects