Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

ARTICLES

International African American Museum, Charleston

Decades in the Making, the International African American Museum Opens in Charleston

June 23, 2023

Designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners with Moody Nolan and Hood Design Studio, the much-anticipated project faced controversy and COVID-related setbacks on its road to completion.

Henry Cobb’s Last Tower Is Completed, in Boston

Eric Höweler, FAIA

July 15, 2021

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While One Dalton succeeds the Hancock Tower by 45 years, it shares many of the same ambitions as its older cousin in its restraint, sculptural clarity, and abstraction.

Obituary: Henry N. Cobb, 1926-2020

Miriam Sitz

March 4, 2020

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Modernist architect Henry N. Cobb, a founding partner of Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners, died March 2, 2020, one month before he would have turned 94.

I. M. Pei Dies at 102 in New York

Carter Wiseman

May 16, 2019

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One of the dominant American architects of major landmarks in this country and Europe—most notably the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris—has died at the age of 102.

Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center

A beautifully daylit infill addition between a hospital and an office building harvests precious space for diagnostics, treatment, and surgery.

Charles Linn, FAIA

October 16, 2010

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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s dense web of mostly older buildings at its 20-acre campus in Upper Manhattan is not unusual for medical complexes constructed over many decades.

Bellevue Hospital Ambulatory Care Building

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners add a gleaming, dramatic atrium entrance pavilion to one of New York’s busiest and most historic hospitals.

Russell Fortmeyer

October 1, 2006

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An estimated 10,000 people walk through the entrance to New York City’s Bellevue Hospital every day, many of them surely unaware as they traverse Pei Cobb Freed & Partners’ new glass atrium that the hospital is one of the oldest in the Western Hemisphere.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 0.1 IACET CEU

This course targets architects and engineers seeking advanced knowledge in the design and implementation of vertical extensions above existing buildings using innovative wood systems.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 0.1 IACET CEU

This course discusses structural stainless steel usage by providing a simplified “check list” and a high level summary of the key specification, fabrication, and erection differences.