Born in Philadelphia in 1930, in 1976 he founded the Kpf architectural firm with William Pedersen and Sheldon Fox. Among his projects: the World Bank in Washington, the Amazon headquarters in London, the International Commerce Center in Hong Kong
The American architect Eugene Kohn, co-founder of the Kohn Pedersen Fox firm that designed some of the world’s most famous skyscrapers, including four of the ten tallest buildings in the world, died Thursday, March 9, at his home in Montecito, California, at the age of 92. The cause of his death was pancreatic cancer.
Kohn (born Philadelphia December 12, 1930) with William Pedersen and Sheldon Fox had founded in 1976 the architectural firm Kpf (over 650 employees, based in New York and branches in Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, London, Seoul, Shanghai) who designed more than 250 skyscrapers worldwide, from the Shanghai World Financial Center (1997-2008) to the Lotte Super Seoul Tower (2011-2017), which with its 123 floors and 555 meters in height is one of the tallest buildings on the planet.
Among Kohn’s projects with the Kpf studio: the headquarters of Unilever and Amazon in London, the World Bank in Washington, IBM in Armonk, Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, the Abu Dhabi international airport, l’International Commerce Center di Hong Kongthe headquarters of Baruch College in Manhattan, the Infinity Tower in São Paulo, Brazil, the Rappongi Hills complex in Tokyo, the United Corthouse in Buffalo, the Tour First in the La Dfense district in Paris.
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