Awards

Firm Members

Services

Projects

Contacts

Contents

The Grand Louvre
Paris

Meyerson Symphony Center
Dallas

U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum, Washington, D.C.

Fountain Place
Dallas

John Hancock Tower
Boston

Bank of China Tower
Hong Kong

National Gallery of Art, East Building, Washington, D.C.

San Francisco
Main Public Library

Jacob K. Javits Convention
Center,  New York

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum, Cleveland

Four Seasons Hotel
New York

Los Angeles Convention Center

John F. Kennedy Library
Boston

United States Air Force
Memorial, Arlington, VA

United States Courthouse and Harborpark, Boston

Profile

Introduction to the Firm    
         
Since its formation in 1955, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners (formerly I. M. Pei & Partners) has completed more than two hundred projects in over a hundred cities across North America and around the world. The firm's clients have included major corporations, private developers and public authorities, as well as educational, cultural and religious institutions. Among its best known works are the John F. Kennedy Library, John Hancock Tower and John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse and Harborpark in Boston; the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and Fountain Place in Dallas; Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong; First Interstate Tower in Los Angeles; First Bank Place in Minneapolis; Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York; National Constitution Center on Independence Mall in Philadelphia; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, the expansion and modernization of the Louvre museum in Paris; San Francisco Main Public Library; and the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Included in the great diversity of building types that the firm has explored is an extensive collection of tall buildings.

Recently completed works include:

• 1700 K Street in Washington, D.C.
• Bellevue Hospital Center Ambulatory Care Facility in New York City
• Edmund D. Bossone Research Enterprise Center at Drexel University in Philadelphia
• Broad Center for the Biological Sciences at the California Institute of Technology
• Center for Government and International Studies at Harvard University
• Richard J. Daronco Westchester County Courthouse in White Plains, New York
• Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
• Ferguson Center for the Arts, Christopher Newport University
• Friend Center for Engineering Education at Princeton University
• Hyatt Center office tower in Chicago
• International Monetary Fund Headquarters 2 in Washington D.C.
• Jacobi Medical Center Phase II Modernizations in the Bronx, New York
• Meudon Campus office complex in Paris
• Musée d'Art Moderne in Luxembourg
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Headquarters in Paris
• Queens Family Court and City Agency Facility in New York
• Roman L. Hruska United States Courthouse in Omaha
• Taishin International Bank in Taipei, Taiwan       
• The Tomlinson, a residential tower in Singapore
• Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri - St. Louis
• 2099 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
• Tour EDF at La Défense, Paris
• United States Courthouse in Hammond, Indiana
• United States Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Virginia
• Waterview office tower and hotel in Rosslyn, Virginia
• World Trade Center and Grand Marina Hotel in Barcelona

Among the firm's many works in progress are:

• 880 West Broadway in San Diego, California
• 1000 Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D.C.
• Butler College Dormitories / Masters' Residences at Princeton University
• Campus de la Justicia, Madrid
• The Capital Group Companies in Irvine, California
• CHASS Instruction and Research Facility,
  University of California at Riverside
• China Europe International Business School, Phase II, in Shanghai
• Corporate Headquarters in Istanbul
• The Danton Renaissance Project in Paris
• First International Bank of Israel in Tel Aviv
• Fiterman Hall at Borough of Manhattan Community College
• Greenberg Heart Institute at New York Hospital
• Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Integrated Township at Tellapur, a master plan in Hyderabad, India
• Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center, at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City
• NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina
• New Seat of the Lombardy Regional Government in Milan
• Queens Gateway to the Health Sciences Secondary School in New York City
• School of Engineering and Applied Science Master Plan and Renovation Program at Princeton University
• Skysong: Scottsdale Center for New Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University
• Square 320 in Washington, D.C.
• Tivoli Edge, a mixed-use project in Copenhagen
• Torre Espacio in Madrid
• WaveRock, an office complex in Hyderabad, India

Honors and Awards

In 1968 the American Institute of Architects conferred on I. M. Pei & Partners (as the firm was then called) its Architectural Firm Award, in recognition of "the eminently successful collaboration among the partners, associates and staff of this firm which has resulted in years of consistently distinguished design." In 1985 the firm received the Chicago Architecture Award in recognition of "significant contributions to architecture and to the design of urban environments." More recently, in 1992 Pei Cobb Freed & Partners received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Society of Architects. In addition to these awards for the totality of its practice, individual projects designed by the firm have received over 175 major design awards, including 24 National Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects.

The Partnership

The firm's five partners are Henry N. Cobb, Michael D. Flynn, George H. Miller, Ian Bader and Yvonne Szeto. The partners are assisted by a staff of 100, more than a third of whom are registered architects. Two partners and a number of staff members are currently LEED-accredited.

The partners and their colleagues approach every building project on its own terms, drawing inspiration less from formal or theoretical preconceptions than from particularities of place and program. This approach stems from the conviction that successful environments of lasting value can be achieved only when individual building projects reflect a concern for the specific physical and cultural contexts in which they occur. Although the firm's practice over the past five decades has been exceptionally diverse in terms of building type and setting, a central theme consistently evident in its built works is the conception of architecture as an art of place making — an art embodying above all else a concern for the quality of public space and public life.   

 

Cobb

Flynn

Miller

Bader

Szeto

Photo credits