In anticipation of scaling up its recent slate of work within the country, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners is said to be opening an office in New York this fall –representing the firm’s first expansion into an American market in its illustrious 42-year history.

Associate partner Georgina Robleddo, who has been with Rogers Stirk Harbour since 2003, will head the new office. The firm, which has initiated projects in Philadelphia and Manhattan in the past few years, says it has thus far remained “cautious of overtrading in unfamiliar markets” but “expect that the percentage of turnover coming from outside of the UK will continue to grow.”

Since 2020, the firm says it has received some 73% of its contracts from overseas. Only 12% of that total currently comes from the Americas. The firm also recently opened an office in Shenzhen for similar reasons. Robleddo says she hopes to be in the office beginning in the fall.

In addition to its London base, RSHP currently operates out of offices in Shanghai, Melbourne, and Paris, where it began operations last year as a “direct result of Brexit.” The firm has lost some business from its books in the last 12 months owing to the pandemic-led downturn, with revenues down 15% year-over-year when compared to the year before.

Since losing its founder in December, the firm says its business has rebounded somewhat, adding that it’s been able to reimburse salary reductions made last year in response to the lost business, according to the Architect’s Journal.