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Pei Cobb Freed & Partners is an architectural firm based in New York City, with major projects in more than a hundred cities around the world. Its work is noted for excellence in design.

The firm provides a full range of architectural services, as well as planning and urban design.

Projects designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners have received more than 200 awards for design excellence, including 24 AIA National Honor Awards. In addition, the firm has been recognized numerous times for design excellence in the totality of its practice.

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners has been recognized many times for the totality of its practice. The firm received the New York State AIA Firm Award in 2009 ; the Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Society of Architects in 1992; and the Chicago Architecture Award, in recognition of “significant contributions to architecture and to the design of urban environments,” in 1985. The Poses Creative Arts Award, which honors a distinguished body of work and leadership in the development of an art form, was bestowed upon the firm in 1981, in recognition of its “architectural innovation and excellence, having enriched the American landscape with some of its most graceful and aesthetically satisfying works of architectural art.” In 1968 the American Institute of Architects conferred on the practice its Architectural Firm Award, citing the “eminently successful collaboration among the partners, associates and staff. . . which has resulted in years of consistently distinguished design.”

Works Through 2005
Significant works of the firm through 2005 include John F. Kennedy Library, John Hancock Tower, and John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse and Harborpark in Boston; the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and Fountain Place in Dallas; Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong; U. S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles; First Bank Place in Minneapolis; Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York; National Constitution Center on Independence Mall in Philadelphia; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, the expansion and modernization of the Louvre museum in Paris; San Francisco Main Public Library; and the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.