Schmidt Hammer Lassen

Founded in 1986, Schmidt Hammer Lassen is known around the world for its iconic, highly sustainable cultural and civic architecture, including The Black Diamond, the extension to the Royal Library in Copenhagen; ARoS Museum of Art in Aarhus, Denmark's second-largest city; theKatuaq Cultural Centre in Nuuk, Greenland; and the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The firm recently won a global competition to design the world's largest library - the 1.2 million-square-foot Shanghai East Library - and was recently selected to design the University of Bristol Library. Built projects in the U.K. include the University of Aberdeen Library and the City of Westminster College, London.