Recent Work
Today, KPF’s projects include civic and cultural spaces, commercial office buildings, transportation facilities, residential and hospitality developments, educational and institutional facilities, and diverse mixed-use commercial developments. KPF’s projects over the last 10 years include Roppongi Hills in Tokyo (2003), Unilever House in London (2007), the Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas (2009), the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in Ann Arbor (2009), the RBC Centre in Toronto (2009), the University of Minnesota Science Teaching and Student Services Center (2010), Centra at Metropark in Iselin, New Jersey (2011), and the Buffalo United States Courthouse (2011). Over the past 5 years, KPF has completed the tallest towers in a number of countries: Shanghai World Financial Center (2008), the tallest in China, Northeast Asia Trade Tower, the tallest in Korea (2010), the International Commerce Centre, the tallest in Hong Kong (2011), Heron Tower, the tallest in the United Kingdom (2011), and Tour First, the tallest in France (2011).
In New York, KPF is presently designing the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project, a 26-acre site on Manhattan's West Side that is the largest undeveloped single piece of property on the island. Also in New York, KPF is designing NYU's new College of Nursing, Dentistry & Bio-Engineering Institute in collaboration with EYP Architects and the 390,000-square-foot CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, which is currently under construction. KPF recently completed One Jackson Square (2009) and served as Executive Architect for the 10-year phased expansion and renovation of New York's Museum of Modern Art (2005).
Current projects around the world include the Midfield Terminal Complex at the Abu Dhabi International Airport, Songdo International Business District in Incheon, Korea, NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) in Brooklyn, the 555-meter-tall Lotte World Tower in Seoul, and the 660-meter-tall Ping An Finance Centre in Shenzhen, China.
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