Gordon Gill

Gordon Gill has designed award-winning architecture across the globe. His work emphasizes a holistic approach to design that integrates all project disciplines. The results are performance based designs that work symbiotically with their natural surroundings- contributing to the sustainability of cities, augmenting the built landscape and creating an optimal user experience. Gordon’s work includes the design of civic facilities, large-scale mixed-use developments, city-wide master plans, the world’s first net zero-energy skyscraper and the world’s first large-scale positive energy building, the Masdar Headquarters. These landmark projects achieve energy independence through harnessing natural forces on site, exemplifying Gordon’s philosophy that architecture must strike a balance with its global environmental context. Gordon’s work has been recognized by the American Institute of Architects, Architectural Record and has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. He has lectured widely and authored several papers on urban densification and the benefits of dense, sustainable communities. Prior to founding Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP in 2006, Gordon was an Associate Partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP and a Director of Design for VOA Associates. Most recently, Gordon joined Adrian Smith, Robert Forest and Roger Frechette as founding principals of PositivEnergy Practice (www.pepractice.com), an energy, engineering and consulting firm that designs and implements energy, resource management and carbon reduction strategies for public and private clients around the world.