Based in Manhattan, New York City, SHoP Architects has projects located on five continents. The firm was founded in 1996 and provides services to residences, commercial buildings, schools and cultural institutions, as well as large-scale master plans. The firm is well known for its designs of the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn, New York, the Museum of Sex and the expansion of the Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, California. As already mentioned, SHoP is also known for its work on large-scale development projects, such as the Domino Sugar Factory redevelopment and Schuylkill Yards. In 2014, the practice was named Fast Company magazine's "Most Innovative Architecture Firm in the World" and one of its "Most Innovative Companies in the World" for its policy of accepting equity in projects, rather than traditional payment, in exchange for services, as well as for its use of modular construction methods.