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Interview with Gene Kohn

Deputy editor Suzanne Stephens chatted with the KPF founder about topics discussed in his new book.
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Suzanne Stephens
December 5, 2019
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RECORD speaks with the Kohn Pederson Fox founder about his conversational autobiogra­phy, 'The World by Design: The Story of a Global Architecture Firm.'


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CUNY Advanced Science Research Center and City College Center for Discovery and Innovation

Twin Set: Two buildings with a similar genetic makeup anchor a science precinct on a city campus.
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Joann Gonchar, FAIA
November 15, 2015
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The City College of New York (CCNY) is a bit like an academic Acropolis. Situated in Upper Manhattan on one of the island’s highest points, its collection of early 20th-century neo-Gothic buildings, by George B. Post—and more recent additions by architects that include Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Rafael Viñoly—sit high above the surrounding neighborhood of townhouses and low-scale apartment buildings.


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First Look: Realogy Headquarters

As it did with Centra in Iselin, N.J., Kohn Pedersen Fox turns another suburban eyesore into a gleaming office building.
Ronda Kaysen
July 16, 2013
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It's not easy being an ugly office building in New Jersey. Drive down any suburban stretch and these dinosaurs from the 1980s languish on the roadside, lonely reminders of a time when builders thought everyone would want to work in suburbia forever.


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International Commerce Centre

Enter the Dragon: In the Kowloon district of Hong Kong, across the harbor from the main part of the city, looms a trimly tapered mixed-use tower.
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Suzanne Stephens
May 16, 2012
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American architects are exporting a luxury product of a dimension and scale few clients in the United States can afford at home: the supertall skyscraper—that is, a skyscraper over 1,250 feet tall.


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The Methodist Hospital Research Institute

A new lab building is designed to attract top talent and reflect an institution's changing culture while facilitating the full spectrum of translational research.
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Beth Broome
August 16, 2011
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In the late 1960s, Dr. Michael DeBakey performed some of the country’s first heart transplants at the Methodist Hospital in Houston.


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