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Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
About
Member Since: 2007
Member Offices: Berlin, Hong Kong, London, New York City, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore
Website: http://www.kpf.com/
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) is one of the world’s preeminent architecture firms, providing architecture, interior, programming and master planning services for clients in both the public and private sectors.
KPF’s philosophy is firmly rooted in the belief that success is the result of collaboration and dialogue. The KPF creative process stresses an open exchange of ideas both within the firm and more importantly, between the client and the firm, throughout the development of a project.
Through this comparative process, they are able to ensure that the client’s needs and desires are addressed at each turning point in the life of a project. Ideas are not submitted solely for approval or rejection, but rather for discussion with the hopes of spurring additional questions and solutions that will each help craft a more complete structure.
Fields of Expertise
Architecture; Historical Preservation; Interior Design; Transportation / Urban Infrastructure; Urban Design
Buildings
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RANK
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Name
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Status
Completed Architecturally Topped Out Structurally Topped Out Under Construction On Hold Proposed Vision Never Completed Demolished Competition Entry Canceled Proposed Renovation Under Renovation Renovated Under Demolition |
Height
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| 1 | Ping An Finance Center | 599.1 m / 1,965 ft | |
| 2 | Lotte World Tower | 554.5 m / 1,819 ft | |
| 3 | Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre | 530 m / 1,739 ft | |
| 4 | CITIC Tower | 527.7 m / 1,731 ft | |
| 5 | Shanghai World Financial Center | 492 m / 1,614 ft | |
| 6 | International Commerce Centre | 484 m / 1,588 ft | |
| 7 | International Land-Sea Center | 458.2 m / 1,503 ft | |
| 8 | Suzhou IFS | 450 m / 1,476 ft | |
| 9 | China Resources Tower | 392.5 m / 1,288 ft | |
| 10 | 30 Hudson Yards | 387.1 m / 1,270 ft |
Awards
Ctbuh Leaders
CTBUH Urban Habitat / Urban Design Committee, 2014 – Present
CTBUH Height and Data Committee, 2018 – Present
CTBUH Regional Hub, Asia Steering Committee, 2023 – Present
Videos
10 April 2019
Ceremonial Influences Form a Modern Flagship Building for Beijing’s CBD
China Zun is the flagship building of Beijing’s comprehensively planned 30-hectare central business district core. Its gently rising and curving form embodies the historic capital’s...
Research
22 August 2022
The World’s Highest Pools: A Deep Dive
Tall building design has diversified and adapted to accommodate increased demand for distinctive amenities at a range of heights. Swimming pools are a classic feature...
Global News
20 June 2022
Chongqing Skyscraper Tops Out at 458.2 Meters
The International Land-Sea Center, a 458.2-meter-tall skyscraper had its roof sealed on Saturday, 18 June 2022. The total length of the building’s butt welds is over...
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Name
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Completion
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Height
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Floors
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Function
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| 1 | Ping An Finance Center | Shenzhen | 2017 |
599 m / 1,965 ft |
115 | Office |
| 2 | Lotte World Tower | Seoul | 2017 |
555 m / 1,819 ft |
123 | Hotel / Residential / Office / Retail |
| 3 | Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre | Guangzhou | 2016 |
530 m / 1,739 ft |
111 | Hotel / Residential / Office |
| 4 | CITIC Tower | Beijing | 2018 |
528 m / 1,731 ft |
109 | Office |
| 5 | Shanghai World Financial Center | Shanghai | 2008 |
492 m / 1,614 ft |
101 | Hotel / Office |
| 6 | International Commerce Centre | Hong Kong | 2010 |
484 m / 1,588 ft |
108 | Hotel / Office |
| 7 | International Land-Sea Center | Chongqing | 2024 |
458 m / 1,503 ft |
98 | Hotel / Office |
| 8 | Suzhou IFS | Suzhou | 2019 |
450 m / 1,476 ft |
95 | Hotel / Office / Serviced Apartments |
| 9 | China Resources Tower | Shenzhen | 2018 |
393 m / 1,288 ft |
68 | Office |
| 10 | 30 Hudson Yards | New York City | 2019 |
387 m / 1,270 ft |
73 | Office |
| 11 | Dabaihui Plaza | Shenzhen | 2021 |
376 m / 1,232 ft |
70 | Serviced Apartments / Office |
| 12 | Forum 66 Tower 1 | Shenyang | 2015 |
351 m / 1,150 ft |
68 | Hotel / Office |
| 13 | Spring City 66 | Kunming | 2019 |
349 m / 1,145 ft |
61 | Office |
| 14 | One Shenzhen Bay Tower 7 | Shenzhen | 2018 |
341 m / 1,120 ft |
71 | Residential / Hotel / Office |
| 15 | Thamrin Nine Tower 1 | Jakarta | - |
334 m / 1,094 ft |
70 | Hotel / Office |
| 16 | Three Sixty West Tower B | Mumbai | 2024 |
260 m / 853 ft |
66 | Residential |
Statistics
Average Building Age*
7 Years
Most Common Function*
Office (56%)
Most Common Material*
Composite (45%)
* Based on 150 m+ buildings currently in the database
Based on 173 buildings over 150 m height
with a function
Based on 139 buildings over 150 m height
with a material
Building Completions Timeline
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Construction Time Chart
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Designated Experts
Ctbuh Leaders At Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
CTBUH Urban Habitat / Urban Design Committee, 2014 – Present
Josh Chaiken
Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
CTBUH Regional Hub, Asia Steering Committee, 2023 – Present
Florence Chan
Director, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
CTBUH Awards Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Jury, 2024
Samantha Cooke
Director, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Videos
10 April 2019
Ceremonial Influences Form a Modern Flagship Building for Beijing’s CBD
China Zun is the flagship building of Beijing’s comprehensively planned 30-hectare central business district core. Its gently rising and curving form embodies the historic capital’s...
09 April 2019
Integrating Outdoor Living into a Tall Building Complex
One Shenzhen Bay comprises eight towers and three levels of retail. Rather than stacking the towers upon a podium, the design pushes all the retail...
21 October 2018
A Permeable and Polycentric Urbanism: The Atlantis and Other Projects
The tall building community is evolving past pure aesthetic impact and satisfying real-estate pro-formas, into an integrative practice that weaves skyscrapers into our increasingly diverse...
16 August 2018
Five Minutes With: William Pedersen
William Pedersen, Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, sat down with CTBUH to discuss his vision for the iconic Shanghai World Financial Center, which was recognized...
31 May 2018
A Milestone in Supertall Construction
Ping An Finance Center (PAFC) is an extraordinary project, which responds to the challenges of constructing in dense urban environments. PAFC advanced nearly every dimension...
31 May 2018
The Axis Mundi of the Pearl River Delta Megacity
The Shenzhen Ping An Finance Center (PAFC) is a transit-integrated, 600-meter-tall building that occupies a major node in the increasingly connected megacity of Hong Kong-Shenzhen-Guangzhou....
31 May 2018
Vertical Village as National Symbol
Joining the ranks of the world’s top ten tallest buildings, the 123-story Lotte World Tower rises to 555 meters and offers one of the world’s...
30 May 2018
A Bold Icon Communicates a Global City’s Identity to the World
The Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC) is a symbol of commerce and culture that speaks to the city’s emergence as a global capital. Located in...
31 October 2017
CTBUH 2017 Australia Conference - Session 7A: Tall Buildings and Contextual Issues Q&A
Hana Kassem, Director, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, chairs the question and answer session with Amin Hamzavian, Director, AvLaw Pty; Giorgio Marfella, Lecturer, University of Melbourne;...
20 October 2016
Skyscrapers in Hong Kong
Thursday October 20, 2016. Hong Kong, China. Eric Ma of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region presents at the 2016 China Conference Plenary 6: Hong Kong...
Research
22 August 2022
The World’s Highest Pools: A Deep Dive
S. Isaac Work & Shawn Ursini, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
Tall building design has diversified and adapted to accommodate increased demand for distinctive amenities at a range of heights. Swimming pools are a classic feature...
03 January 2022
Interactive Study on Tall Buildings in 2021: A State of Current Construction
CTBUH Research
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has released its annual report, CTBUH Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2021, part of the Tall...
20 March 2020
Tall + Urban Innovation 2020: Dominant Trends
CTBUH Research
Providing a global overview of tall building development, design and construction, the CTBUH Awards Program and related Tall + Urban Innovation Conference annually survey projects,...
20 March 2020
Interactive Study on The Tallest 20 in 2020: Then and Now
CTBUH Research
This research paper undertakes a review of the 2012 report by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, “Tallest 20 in 2020: Entering the...
30 January 2020
Tall Building Predictions for 2020
CTBUH Research
The combined brains of the CTBUH editorial and database staff boldly predict what might happen across the global skyscraper industry in 2020. Check out our...
28 December 2019
Tall Buildings of the Future as Seen From the Present
SawTeen See, Robert Bird Group Pty Ltd
Aerodynamic damping through the use of vertical long slots reduces the dynamic component of the wind loads on the building. Seminal examples include the three-legged...
12 December 2019
Interactive Study on Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2019
CTBUH Research
The year 2019 was remarkable for the tall building industry, with 26 supertall buildings (300 meters or taller) completed, the most in any year. This...
28 October 2019
The Future of Sustainable Cities and How Tall Building Urbanism has Evolved
James Parakh, City of Toronto Planning Division
In the past 50 years, tall buildings and their relationship to streets and open spaces has evolved through various scales and typologies. As place-makers, how...
29 July 2019
Highest Special-Purpose Spaces
Since humans first began constructing tall buildings, history has been cluttered with claims of all manner of “highest” records. In this study, we examine those...
25 April 2019
Best Tall Buildings 2019: Dominant Trends
CTBUH
This year, CTBUH has vastly expanded its Awards program to consider the Best Tall Building category through several classes of height, rather than geographic regions,...
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Global News
20 June 2022
Chongqing Skyscraper Tops Out at 458.2 Meters
The International Land-Sea Center, a 458.2-meter-tall skyscraper had its roof sealed on Saturday, 18 June 2022. The total length of the building’s butt welds is over...
02 September 2020
Skydeck Reopens in New York City With New Health Measures
Edge, among the highest outdoor sky decks in the Western Hemisphere, announced that it reopened to the public on 2 September 2020 at Noon. The...
09 March 2020
New York City’s Highest Outdoor Skydeck Set to Open
The opening of Edge, the highest outdoor sky deck in the Western Hemisphere, offering 360-degree views of New York City’s iconic skyline will be celebrated...
15 March 2019
New York City’s Hudson Yards’ Shops, Restaurants, Officially Open to The Public
At noon on March 15, 2019, New York’s newest neighborhood ceremonially opened for business. Hudson Yards‘ first public-facing attractions, the Shops & Restaurants and Thomas...
28 February 2019
Regulatory Hurdles Cleared for Seoul’s Next Tallest Building
The administrative procedures have been completed to erect what could be the new tallest building in Korea, after Hyundai Motor Group applied for the construction...
CTBUH Initiatives Involving Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
CTBUH President Returns to China, Speaking in Four Cities and Sitting on International Design Competition Jury
14 June 2023
In early June 2023, CTBUH President Dr. Antony Wood and CTBUH Asia Regional Director Dr. Peng Du traveled to China and spoke at events in four cities: Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Wuxi, and Shanghai. At each event, the CTBUH mission and upcoming CTBUH conferences in Asia were introduced, and Wood gave a presentation on "10 Principles for a New High Rise Architecture."
CTBUH Holds Half-Day Skybridges Symposium
18 July 2019
More than 100 attendees gathered at Linked Hybrid for a symposium held in conjunction with the forthcoming skybridge research project, “Bringing the Horizontal Into the Vertical Realm.”
CTBUH Serbia Conference: Going Tall in Southeast Europe
19 June 2019
Join CTBUH Serbia for a regional conference, which promises to assemble leading architects, designers, construction experts, and developers for an engaging series of presentations.
CTBUH Hong Kong Chapter Inauguration
11 April 2019
In celebration of the establishment of the CTBUH Hong Kong Chapter, the Council is excited to announce the Chapter's inaugural event.
Skybridges Research: CTBUH / IIT Studio Visit
11 April 2019
As part of the Skybridges research project, CTBUH and IIT College of Architecture traveled to NYC for presentations, workshops, and meetings regarding Skybridge designs.
One Shenzhen Bay Tower 7 Sky Concert Hall Signboard
29 January 2019
One Shenzhen Bay Tower 7 in Shenzhen, China installed a CTBUH Signboard recognizing its incorporation of the “World’s Highest Concert Hall.”
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