Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), Architects (Partnership)

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Robert Cioppa, Patricia Conway, Sheldon Fox, A. Eugene Kohn, William Pedersen

Active 1976-

Firm Notes

This New York, NY-based architectural firm also operated offices in London, UK, and Shanghai, China in 2006.

It was known as "Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC" in 2019. It had 9 offices worldwide including those in New York (11 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036), San Francisco (650 California Street San Francisco, CA 94108), Berlin (Potsdamer Platz 5 10785 Berlin, Germany), Singapore (39 Robinson Road, #13-03 Robinson Point, Singapore 068911), Abu Dhabi (PO Box 44183, Abu Dhabi, UAE), London ( 7a Langley Street London, WC2H 9JA, United Kingdom), Shanghai (119 Madang Lu, 6F, Xintiandi, 200021 Shanghai, China), Hong Kong (810-815 Jardine House, 1 Connaught Place, Central Hong Kong), Seoul (230 Teheran-ro, 10F Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06221, Republic of Korea).

PCAD id: 2361

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Buildings and other works

NameDateCityState
1000 Wilshire Boulevard Office Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1987Los AngelesCA
3 Bellevue Center Project, Bellevue, WA1988-1994BellevueWA
550 Hope Street Office Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1988-1992Los AngelesCA
555 Mission Street Office Building, San Francisco, CA2006-2008San FranciscoCA
Ambassador Hotel, Feasibility Study, Los Angeles, CA1990Los AngelesCA
Bank of America Corporation, Branch, Planning and Feasibility Study, Pasadena, CA1986PasadenaCA
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) System, Pleasant Hill, Planning and Feasibility Study, San Francisco, CA1986Pleasant HillCA
Bellevue Master Plan, Planning Study, Bellevue, WA1986BellevueWA
Century City Shopping Mall, Bloomingdale's Department Store, Century City, Los Angeles, CA1997
Corporate Center II Feasibility Study, San Diego, CA1989San DiegoCA
Federal Home Loan Bank, Headquarters, San Francisco, CA1986-1991San FranciscoCA
Hillman Planning Study, San Francisco, CA1986San FranciscoCA
Hyatt Regency Stanford, Project, Palo Alto, CA1986Palo AltoCA
Irvine Center, Phase II Parcel 9, Irvine, CA1989-1991IrvineCA
Linpro Planning Study, San Diego, CA1986San DiegoCA
Meydenbauer Convention Center, Bellevue, WA1989-1993BellevueWA
Morrison Tower Project, Portland, OR1989-1994PortlandOR
Newport Harbor Art Museum Project, Newport Beach, CANewport BeachCA
Pacific Rim Exposition and Urban Center Master Plan, Brisbane, CA1990BrisbaneCA
Pacific Telesis Group, Incorporated, Office Building Project, San Diego, CA1989San DiegoCA
Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation, Petersen Automitive Museum #2, Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles, CA2014-2015Los AngelesCA
Portland Federal Courthouse Competition Project, Portland, OR1992PortlandOR
Reliance Development Group, Tower, Los Angeles, CA1987Los AngelesCA
Sacramento Mixed-Use Development Project, Sacramento, CA1989SacramentoCA
Santa Monica Common, Project, Santa Monica, CA1986Santa MonicaCA
Santa Monica Common, Project, Scheme II, Santa Monica, CA1987Santa MonicaCA
University of Washington, Seattle (UW), Gates, William H., Sr., Hall, Seattle, WA2003SeattleWA
Washington Mutual Savings Bank, Tower #1, Downtown, Seattle, WA1985-1988SeattleWA
Western Digital Corporation, Headquarters, Irvine, CA1988-1991IrvineCA

Publications

"Titans Maintain Lead While Industry Suffers", Architectural Record, 199: 7, 24, 07/2011. Canty, Donald, "Core Concerns", Architectural Record, 58-65, 06/1990. Gantenbein, Douglas, "Bringing up Bellevue", Architectural Record, 108-111, 07/1988. Harriman, Marc S. , "High strength: high-strength concrete in high-rise construction", Architecture, 79: 10, 85-92, 10/1990. "Office Tower for Reliance Development Group", Architecture of Kohn Pederson Fox, 28-29, 1985. Architecture of Kohn Pederson Fox, 52, 1985. Architecture of Kohn Pederson Fox, 51, 1985. Architecture of Kohn Pederson Fox, 51, 1985. Adamson, Loch, "Art & Architecture", Bellevue Journal-American, B1, 02/13/1991. "Partners", Kohn Pederson Fox: Architecture and Urbanism 1986-1992, 384, 1993. Schumacher, Thomas L., "The Facades of KPF: Abstraction and the Limits of Figuration", Kohn Pederson Fox: Architecture and Urbanism 1986-1992, 26-30, 1993. James, Warren A., "The Circle and the Square Analytical Sequence: A Genetic Code", Kohn Pederson Fox: Architecture and Urbanism 1986-1992, 42-43, 1993. "Three Bellevue Center", Kohn Pederson Fox: Architecture and Urbanism 1986-1992, 192-195, 1993. "550 South Hope Street", Kohn Pederson Fox: Architecture and Urbanism 1986-1992, 208-215, 1993. "Morrison Tower", Kohn Pederson Fox: Architecture and Urbanism 1986-1992, 220-223, 1993. "Meydenbauer Convention Center", Kohn Pederson Fox: Architecture and Urbanism 1986-1992, 260-265, 1993. "Newport Harbor Art Museum", Kohn Pederson Fox: Architecture and Urbanism 1986-1992, 312-315, 1993. Curtis, Cathy, "Local Architects Honor School Designs, On-the-Boards Projects", Los Angeles Times, 07/24/1990. Curtis, Cathy, "A New Epoch for Art Museum", Los Angeles Times, F1, F19, 01/12/1991. VanderKnyff, Rick, "Plans for New Home Put on Hold", Los Angeles Times, F1, F18, 01/25/1992. Slesin, Suzanne, "Designer of the Year Points Her Firm toward Interiors", New York Times, 02/05/1987. Johnson, Angela P., "An Obstacle or an Oracle?", Oregon Business, 69, 07/1990. Brenneman, Kristina, "Office Tower Designer Wins Prestigious AIA Award", Portland Daily Journal of Commerce, 02/20/1990. "Washington Mutual Tower office buildings, Seattle, Washington, 1985-88", Process: Architecture, 86: 64-66, 11/1989. "First Interstate Plaza, Bellevue, Washington, 1991", Process: Architecture, 78-81, 11/1989. Newman, Morris, "L.A. Towers that Don't Forget Pedestrians", Progressive Architecture, 13-14, 12/1992. "A Tower of Crystal Majesty", Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, 1, 04/06/1989. Enlow, Clair, "Bellevue Center Proceeding", Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, A1, 06/20/1990. Dash, Eric, "Patience pays off for Dimon", Seattle Times, E1, E4, 09/30/2008. "Washington Mutual Tower, Seattle, Washington", Urban Land Institute Project Reference File, 25: 15, 1-4, 07-09/1995.

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