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Lee Harris Pomeroy (born 11/ /32) is an award-winning American architect and the founding principal of the firm, Lee Harris Pomeroy Architects. He is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Mr. Pomeroy’s work includes design and planning for corporate, transportation and institutional facilities in the United States and Asia. Working with New York City Transit over many years he has completed the restoration and modernization projects for a number of historic subway stations. He recently designed the fan-shaped one million SF Binhai International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Tianjin, China and six underground subway stations for the new Kolkata Metro Railway, East-West Corridor. In the 1980’s, Mr. Pomeroy played a key role in the establishment of the Broadway Theater District, protecting architecturally significant historic theaters from demolition while encouraging large scale commercial development through the transfer of air rights. As a consultant to Actors Equity and New York City preservation advocates, Lee Pomeroy had devised a plan to revise the design of the proposed Portman Hotel and save the historic Morosco and Helen Hayes Theaters. Those theaters were eventually demolished but Mr. Pomeroy then took a leading role in raising the consciousness of New Yorkers to the preservation of their theatrical heritage. His efforts were recognized with a Bard Award from the Municipal Arts Society