Fentress Architects

Fentress Architects is an international design firm known for iconic large-scale public architecture such as airports, museums, university buildings, convention centers, laboratories, and high-rise office towers. Some of the buildings for which the firm is best known include Denver International Airport (1995), the modernized Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX (2013), the National Museum of the Marine Corps near Quantico, VA (2005), and the Green Square Complex in Raleigh, NC (2012).

Founded in 1980 by Curtis W. Fentress, FAIA, RIBA, the firm's designs, especially its airports, are often compared to the expressionist architecture of Eero Saarinen. However, architectural curator Donald Albrecht has noted that within Fentress' designs is a "stiff dose of regionalism." Fentress Architects has studios in Denver, Colorado, Los Angeles, CA, San Jose, CA, Washington, DC, London, UK, and Shanghai, China.

Curtis Fentress was honored in 2010 by the American Institute of Architects AIA Awards website with the highest award for public architecture, the Thomas Jefferson Award. Fentress was also honored with the Silver Medal in 2010, which is the highest award given to an architect from the AIA Western Mountain Region for the contributions made to the region. In 2012, Fentress was awarded AIA Colorado's Architect of the Year.

Fentress Architects is the designer of the world’s 4th tallest building completed in 2009, the Arraya Tower in Kuwait City. The tower is also the tallest in Kuwait and the 53rd tallest in the world