The news that HOK Sport Venue Event has—quite possibly—turned itself into Populous has opened the mental floodgates over here at HQ, turning off the faucet of reason and on the tap of insanity. And so, herewith, the Top Ten Ludicrous Names Given to an Architecture Firm.

1. Studio Gang

Because as much as we know it’s Jeanne’s last name, there’s just something about it that tickles our receptors, and we’re not talking in an architecture way. Because we’re talking, to be frank, in a Bunny Lebowski way.

2. Atelier Bow Wow

Because Ruff!

3. MTR, MTM, RCR, ON-A, XSPRL, EMBT, NO.MAD (tie)

Because it isn’t a Spanish architecture firm unless it’s an easily mix-up-able acronym, and because they take the cake for style over substance.

4. Coop Himmelb(l)au

Because firm names should be firm names, not titles to a junior-year intro to media theory term paper. (That means no parentheses.)

5. R&Sie(n)

Because not only does this name have a post-critical paranthetical, it sounds, when pronounced in French—AIR-ay-see-EH—like “heresy.”

6. Office for Metropolitan Architecture

Because it’s so boring it’s perfect, and allowed for AMO.

7. Foreign Office Architects

Because it makes no sense what they’re foreign to, nor where there office is.

8. BIG Architects

Because see above, re: Gang.

9. Asymptote

Because if tendency is infinity the limit is zero, and that just reminds us of Mean Girls.

10. Morphosis

Because we’ve been living in a dream world, Neo.

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