Kohn Pedersen Fox, one of America's premier architectural firms, has distinguished itself through dedicated attention to the development of the most characteristic and significant American building type, the skyscraper. This monograph documents fifty of the firm's most important projects of the last six years. Following a portfolio of two seminal works, 333 Wacker Drive in Chicago and the Procter & Gamble General Office Complex in Cincinnati, are presentations of such elegant and critically acclaimed corporate buildings as the Capital Cities/ABC Headquarters, Rockefeller Plaza West, and 712 Fifth Avenue, all in New York; the Mellon Bank Center in Philadelphia; the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C.; 550 South Hope Street in Los Angeles; the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; the Newport Harbor Art Museum in Newport Beach, California; the Niagara Toll Station at Niagara Falls; the Disney Institute and Town Center in Osceola, Florida; and the Concert Tower and First Hawaiian Center, both in Honolulu. Also featured in this volume is a selection of Kohn Pedersen Fox's vast body of international work, including 1250 Boulevard Rene-Levesque Ouest in Montreal; the State House/58-71 High Holborn, Goldman Sachs European Headquarters, and several projects for Canary Wharf, all in London; Mainzer Landstrasse 58 in Frankfurt and the Hanseatic Trade Center in Hamburg; the Warsaw Bank Center in Poland; the Coraceros Complex in Chile; the Singapore Arts Center; and buildings in Sydney, Jakarta, and Tokyo. Institutional projects such as the United States Courthouse/Foley Square in New York and the University of Pennsylvania/Revlon Campus Center in Philadelphia and residential designs in NewYork and Vermont complete this thorough portrayal of the firm's recent work.
This book captures the work of this firm in what is my opinion their peak time. This book shows the firm most influential works. Not everybody will be fan of the corporate post-modern style but it can't be denied that KPF was responsible for some of the best and most iconic skyscrapers and skyscraper-solutions of the last 20 years. And although the title says it contains the work up to '92 you can also expect a lot of detailled drawings and pictures of recently finished works like Nagoya station too, which made this to me a better choice than the follow-up book. The content is a lot of pictures and drawings and a little text on a lot of buildings. More project description would have been nice, but with a lot of drawings there is a lot to find out. Anyway for the one who search for a complete as possible line-up of KPF's buildings, or at least the most important this is the book to pick, the other books in the series with the older and newer buildings could be added afterwards of course, but expect more than a little overlap. The book is well designed and made, as can be expected from Rizzoli.
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