KPF

Pro bono: Business overseas has buoyed many bigger firms, such as KPF and Murphy/Jahn of Chicago, which has just completed the 70-story Messe Tower in Frankfurt.

Back To The Drawing Board 2008

The Mandarin oriental however was pretty much a "solo flight" as, together with KPF, Gensler and Aadamson, we had a very tight professional team taking direction from a single design source.

Jacob Slevin: Mandarin Oriental at City Center, Las Vegas: Interview with Renowned Hospitality Designer Adam D. Tihany Jacob Slevin 2011

It was disgusting, recalls Lloyd Sigal, a managing principal based in KPF's New York office.

Transforming an Ugly Duckling Laura Raskin 2011

The Mandarin oriental however was pretty much a "solo flight" as, together with KPF, Gensler and Aadamson, we had a very tight professional team taking direction from a single design source.

Jacob Slevin: Mandarin Oriental at City Center, Las Vegas: Interview with Renowned Hospitality Designer Adam D. Tihany Jacob Slevin 2011

The Mandarin oriental however was pretty much a "solo flight" as, together with KPF, Gensler and Aadamson, we had a very tight professional team taking direction from a single design source.

Jacob Slevin: Mandarin Oriental at City Center, Las Vegas: Interview with Renowned Hospitality Designer Adam D. Tihany Jacob Slevin 2011

KPF's early designs for the buildings were like Buckingham Palace bobbies: standing straight and erect, faces constant, but not saying much of anything at all.

Architect Returns to Drawing Board Robbie Whelan 2011

Paul Katz of the New York firm Kohn Pedersen Fox, or KPF, said, "When people in the U.S. were not building tall buildings, we were here building tall buildings."

Foreign architects put stamp on Chinese skyline Keith B. Richburg 2010

Many international architects including Foster, Libeskind, Vinoly, Calatrava, Pelli, KPF, and Diller, Scofidio and Renfro, among others, have been making their way south to find some smaller but equally interesting projects.

Patricia Brizzio: ARCHITECTURE: What's Coming, What To Expect In 2011 Patricia Brizzio 2010

Many international architects including Foster, Libeskind, Vinoly, Calatrava, Pelli, KPF, and Diller, Scofidio and Renfro, among others, have been making their way south to find some smaller but equally interesting projects.

Patricia Brizzio: ARCHITECTURE: What's Coming, What To Expect In 2011 Patricia Brizzio 2010

My take on this was a little different, basically self climbing machines with hanging scaffold would build these tube towers – this is exactly how the concrete core of the KPF project for the Shanghai Financial Tower was built, a self climbing core nothing new either.

New York City Rebuilt From Its Own Trash | Inhabitat 2010