inventing modern then
&now.

Born alongside the modern city, our work has continually spoken to the realities of its present moment without affectation. 

Holabird & Root has long practiced at points of inflection, when architecture is called to reinvent itself. From the early skyscraper era through modernism and into the present, our work has translated new ways of learning, living, working, and building into enduring form.

That legacy is not a style we repeat, but a discipline we apply. We design with the same clarity, restraint, and technical rigor that defined our earliest work, now expressed through contemporary materials and performance-driven systems. Embracing the expressive potential of today’s tools and technologies, our architecture is quietly confident, highly resolved, and unmistakably current.

Holabird & Root helped invent modern American architecture. Today, we refine it, approaching each project as a long-view endeavor, designed to belong to its time and remain relevant far beyond it.