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Adrian Smith

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Adrian Devaun Smith (born August 19, 1944) is an American architect. He designed the world's tallest structure, Burj Khalifa, as well as the building projected to surpass it, the Jeddah Tower. A long-time principal of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he founded his own architectural partnership firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture in Chicago in 2006. Among his other projects, he was the senior architect for Central Park Tower in New York City, Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago, the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, and Zifeng Tower in Nanjing. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adrian Smith is the 228th most popular architect (down from 197th in 2019), the 3,382nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,614th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Adrian Smith ranks 228 out of 518. Before him are Jean Prouvé, Imre Steindl, Hermogenes of Priene, Nicholas Negroponte, Vittorio Gregotti, and Shigeru Ban. After him are Félix Candela, Adolf Meyer, Kevin Roche, Carl Ritter von Ghega, Callinicus of Heliopolis, and Hermann Tilke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Adrian Smith ranks 254. Before him are Peter Cetera, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Nelson Freire, Helena Rojo, Thongsing Thammavong, and John Glover. After him are Ulf Stark, Bernd Bransch, Christopher Browning, Billy Cobham, Frances de la Tour, and Abdulah Sidran.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Adrian Smith ranks 3,382 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Addams (1912), Bob Saget (1956), Patricia Krenwinkel (1947), Ed Gordon (1908), John Derek (1926), and Pat Riley (1945). After him are James Gibbons (1834), Bruce Rauner (1957), Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš (1964), Suzanne Pleshette (1937), Jamaal Wilkes (1953), and Stephen Foster (1826).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Adrian Smith ranks 12. Before him are Robert Venturi (1925), Minoru Yamasaki (1912), Peter Eisenman (1932), William Le Baron Jenney (1832), Charles Eames (1907), and Nicholas Negroponte (1943). After him are Sixto Durán Ballén (1921), Gordon Bunshaft (1909), Kevin A. Lynch (1918), Cedric Gibbons (1893), Steven Holl (1947), and Thom Mayne (1944).

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