Tag Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

19-05-2022

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners – repositioning of the 1271 Avenue of the Americas tower

The new high-performance curtain wall of the 1271 Avenue of the Americas tower in New York has made it possible to preserve the image of the original building, built in the 1960s, but with significant energy savings. The repositioning project, created by the Pei Cobb Freed & Partners studio, received the Best Tall Building 2022 Award of Excellence in the Renovation category, awarded by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

20-01-2021

Winners of the 2021 AIANY Design Awards

AIA New York’s annual Design Awards program recognises outstanding architectural design by AIA New York members. This year’s jury met online to select the winners in four of the five categories: Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design. No awards were given this year in the Sustainability category.

23-04-2020

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners a new building for Copenhagen’s Tivoli Hjørnet gardens

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners’s new building for Tivoli, the amusement park and gardens in Copenhagen first opened to the public in 1843, has won the American Institute of Architects’s 2020 Architecture Award. Hufton+Crow’s images clearly reveal the unusual light effects on the building’s undulated glass walls, making the Tivoli Hjørnet into a sumptuous curtain ready to rise and reveal the fantastic world of Copenhagen’s Tivoli gardens.

18-03-2020

Farewell to Henry Cobb, architect who designed the John Hancock Tower in Boston

American architect Henry Cobb died on March 2 at the age of 93, just under one year after the death of his longtime partner, I.M. Pei. Cobb was considered as one of the great architects of our time, with the John Hancock Tower in Boston being one of the most famous works he designed in his long career. In Italy, with his firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, he designed Palazzo Lombardia, seat of Lombardy’s regional government.

11-02-2020

8 projects receive the AIA’s 2020 Architecture Awards

The American Institute of Architects has announced the eight projects that have won the 2020 Architecture Awards. Eight contemporary architecture projects, chosen independently of the size, style and type of building to represent the best architects can create for improving life for everyone.

05-11-2019

LMCC Arts Center by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners opens in New York

The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) opened its new Arts Center at Governors Island in New York Harbor. The pro bono project by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners is the latest piece in the ongoing transformation of the island, a former military base, into a vibrant cultural destination.