TEN Arquitectos

What TEN Arquitectos does

TEN Arquitectos (Taller de Enrique Norten Arquitectos) is a privately held architecture and urban planning firm founded in 1986 in Mexico City by Enrique Norten. The firm operates three offices — Mexico City (headquarters), New York, and Miami — and works across Mexico, the United States, and the Caribbean, with past projects extending to Israel, Singapore, and Peru. It serves public and private sector clients including federal and state governments (NASA Glenn Research Center, Poder Judicial de la Federación, Estado de Guerrero), educational and cultural institutions (Rutgers University, LANGEBIO/CINVESTAV, Philadelphia-area cultural projects), corporate clients (TELEVISA, Bancomer, Santander, Jaguar), and developers across master planning, building, and exhibition scopes.

The firm delivers three service lines: Arquitectura (Architecture) covering cultural, educational, governmental, transportation, commercial, hospitality, and residential buildings; Urbanismo (Urbanism) covering city revitalization, waterfront development, campus master plans, and sustainable urban design (including modal transfer hubs and green-space-integrated urban parks such as SCOP and MUNET); and Exhibiciones y Diseño (Exhibition & Design) covering curatorial installations and design objects, anchored by the Ideas en Tránsito series of unbuilt projects. Underlying technical differentiators are design-methodology rather than software-stack: seminatural urban plazas within buildings, sustainable urban planning integrating ecosystem services, and complex intermodal transport hub design.

TEN Arquitectos earns revenue through project-based professional services fees on commissions and design competitions across six customer segments — cultural/educational, government, corporate/commercial, hospitality, residential, and urban planning. Pricing is negotiated project-by-project and is not publicly disclosed. The firm has no external investors, parent company, or funding rounds; it is founder-controlled, with Enrique Norten as the single named principal. Distribution is reputation-based: awards (Mies van der Rohe, Smithsonian, Leonardo da Vinci, AIA), academic visibility at Penn/Yale/Harvard/Michigan, biennial participation, and press coverage in Architectural Record, Architizer, and ArchDaily.

Name

TEN Arquitectos

Legal name

TEN Arquitectos

Website

https://ten-arquitectos.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

TEN Arquitectos is a privately held architecture and urban planning firm founded in 1986 by Enrique Norten in Mexico City, with offices in New York and Miami. It serves public and private clients across Mexico, the United States, and the Caribbean through project-based design commissions spanning buildings, master plans, and exhibitions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Design Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Architectural Services (541310), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413), Landscape Architectural Services (54132), Landscape Architectural Services (541320)

akta.pro primary industry

Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

ADU Design, Architecture & Engineering (HSAPAMAF), Residential Design-Build & Renovation-Integrated Builders (IMAFABAE)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Urban master planning
• Cultural building design
• Sustainable architecture
• Exhibition design

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Architectural Design Services: TEN Arquitectos generates revenue through commissions for architectural design services, master planning, and urban design projects. Revenue is earned through project-based fees for completed design and construction documentation services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

TEN Arquitectos is an architecture and urban planning firm providing full-service architectural design for cultural, educational, governmental, transportation, office, commercial, hospitality, and residential building projects. The firm also delivers urban planning, master planning, and exhibition design services from offices in Mexico City, New York, and Miami, with built work spanning Mexico, the United States, and the Caribbean.

Product overview

TEN Arquitectos (Taller de Enrique Norten) is an architecture and urban planning firm founded in 1986, offering three core service lines: Arquitectura (Architecture), Urbanismo (Urbanism), and Exhibiciones y Diseño (Exhibitions & Design). The firm operates offices in Mexico City, New York, and Miami, working across typologies including master plans, infrastructure, cultural, education, hospitality, and residential projects at scales from urban planning to architectural buildings to design objects. The portfolio encompasses built work across two continents and unbuilt projects documented through the Ideas en Tránsito exhibition series.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Arquitectura (Architecture) Full-service architecture practice covering cultural, educational, government, transportation infrastructure, office, commercial, hospitality, and residential building projects across Mexico, the United States, and the Caribbean for institutional and corporate clients.
• Urbanismo (Urbanism) Urban planning and master planning services including city revitalization projects, waterfront development, campus planning, modal transfer centers (CETRAM), and sustainable urban design for governmental and institutional clients.
• Exhibiciones y Diseño (Exhibitions & Design) Exhibition design and spatial design services for museums, galleries, and cultural institutions, including curatorial installations and design objects produced by the firm.
• Ideas en Tránsito An exhibition series showcasing unbuilt projects by Enrique Norten / TEN Arquitectos spanning 35 years, exploring architectural concepts and spatial narratives for cultural audiences.

Quantifiable outcome

• Projects designed with focus on urban densification to reduce urban sprawl and preserve natural landscapes
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered major.

• Andrea Steele ArchitecturemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Continued partnership with Andrea Steele Architecture for the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) Woodside facility project, applying lessons from the NASA project to another public-sector commission.
• SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014Collaboration with SOM on the Nuevo Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México (NAICM) project, where TEN Arquitectos worked alongside the renowned international architecture and planning firm on one of Mexico's most significant infrastructure projects.
• Andrea Steele ArchitecturemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014Joint venture with Andrea Steele Architecture for the NASA Glenn Research Center Research Support Building in Cleveland, Ohio. The partnership combined local expertise with TEN Arquitectos' design approach for this significant government research facility.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Frida Escobedo Studio: Mexico City-based architecture firm with international recognition (Met Wing redesign, Serpentine Pavilion) and a comparable practice profile in cultural and institutional commissions across Mexico and the US.
• Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: Mexico City-based architecture practice with comparable typology breadth (cultural, residential, master planning) and an analogous design philosophy that integrates social and environmental context — a closely matched peer in scale and geography.
• Diller Scofidio + Renfro: New York-based design studio with comparable focus on cultural institutions, adaptive reuse, and hybrid public-space typologies — a closely aligned peer in design philosophy and US-based institutional commissions.
• Machado and Silvetti Associates: Boston-based architecture firm with academic affiliations (Harvard GSD) and a practice comparable to TEN's blend of cultural institutions, campus master plans, and high-design commercial work.
• Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM): Global architecture, engineering, and urban planning firm with a comparable multi-typology practice spanning cultural, government, transportation, and commercial projects. SOM is a direct collaborator with TEN on the NAICM airport project and competes in the same large-scale commission space.

Broad incumbents

• Foster + Partners: Internationally recognized architecture and integrated design firm with a global cultural, civic, and infrastructure portfolio. Comparable to TEN in typology breadth and pursuit of design-led commissions for prestigious cultural and public-sector clients.
• Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Global architecture firm with a similar cultural-institution and civic-building portfolio, comparable attention to craftsmanship and sustainability, and shared pursuit of prestigious international commissions.
• Safdie Architects: International architecture firm with a strong cultural-institution and urban master-planning portfolio that parallels TEN's mix of museums, civic buildings, and large-scale mixed-use developments.
• OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture): Rem Koolhaas-led architecture and urbanism practice with strong academic roots and a portfolio that overlaps with TEN in master planning, cultural institutions, and urban densification projects.

Emerging players

• Taller de Arquitectura / Ricardo Bofill: International architecture practice with strong urban-planning, residential, and public-space orientation — overlapping with TEN's emphasis on urban densification and integrated public/private typologies.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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