The Experiential Design Index
Home > Firms > Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners

Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners

Also known as: BBB

Active

Executive architect for the Frick Collection renovation and enhancement, reopened April 2025; completed the South Street Seaport Museum masterplan (2025); named 2026 ENR MidAtlantic Design Firm of the Year; in-progress Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity (Orlando). (verified 2026-07-18)

Beyer Blinder Belle is a New York City architecture and planning firm founded in 1968 by John H. Beyer, Richard Blinder, and John Belle, with a specialty in historic preservation and civic/cultural work. Museum and cultural credits include the New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building visitor center and Polonsky Exhibition, Cooper Hewitt's reopening, the Frick Collection renovation, and Planet Word.

HeadquartersNew York, NY
Other officesWashington, DC; Boston, MA
Founded1968
RolesArchitecture, Environmental Graphics & Wayfinding
Websitehttps://www.beyerblinderbelle.com

Projects (16)

ProjectVenueRoleYear
Entry Lobby, Ruth's Bookstore & David Berg Rare Book Room Center for Jewish History Architecture, Environmental Graphics & Wayfinding 2025
Renovation and Enhancement Project The Frick Collection Architecture 2025
Michael C. Rockefeller Wing The Metropolitan Museum of Art Architecture 2025
Buttenwieser Hall 92NY, The Arnhold Center Architecture 2023
La MaMa First Floor Theatre Renovation La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club Architecture 2023
NYPL Visitor Center New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Architecture 2023
Rubell Museum DC Rubell Museum DC Architecture 2022
The Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library's Treasures New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Architecture 2021
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library New York Public Library, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library Architecture, Environmental Graphics & Wayfinding 2021
Planet Word Planet Word Architecture 2020
Longwood Gardens Fountain Show Control System Longwood Gardens Architecture 2017
The Met Breuer The Met Breuer Architecture 2016
Interactive Multitouch Tables — New Cooper Hewitt Experience Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Architecture 2014
Cooper Hewitt Reopening — Identity, Wayfinding, and Signage Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Architecture 2014
BLDG 92 Brooklyn Navy Yard, BLDG 92 Architecture 2011
Lincoln Center Public Spaces / Infoscape Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Architecture 2010

Sources