Design Firm Populous Acquires Fentress Architects

Sports activities and leisure design agency Populous introduced on June 6 that it has acquired Denver-based Fentress Architects. Phrases and value weren’t disclosed for the acquisition that can add to the Kansas Metropolis-based mum or dad a specialist in engineering of aviation, civil and cultural tasks.

Present Populous tasks embrace a new stadium for the Nationwide Soccer League’s Buffalo Payments in Buffalo, N.Y. and redesign of Belmont Park equestrian racetrack on Lengthy Island, N.Y., residence of the Belmont Stakes, with the Sphere in Las Vegas and Yankee Stadium in New York Metropolis amongst its high-profile previous tasks.

Fentress was lead design agency for the visitor’s center on the U.S. Air Pressure Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Different key tasks embrace Denver Worldwide Airport,
South Korea’s Incheon Worldwide Airport and Tom Bradley Worldwide Terminal at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport.

Bruce Miller, Populous international chair and CEO, mentioned in an announcement that the acquisition will allow the agency to develop its international aviation portfolio. In an announcement, Fentress founding principal Curt Fentress famous that “Populous shares our values of design excellence and people-centric considering. Collectively, we’ll proceed to redefine nice structure and its capability to ignite social and financial change by way of impressed design for individuals.”

Populous has greater than 1,500 staff in 32 international workplaces on 4 continents with regional facilities in Kansas Metropolis, London and Brisbane. Fentress Architects will rebrand as Fentress Studios, a Populous firm and can proceed working from workplaces in Denver and Washington, D.C.