Henry N. Cobb
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Henry N. Cobb (born April 8, 1926 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American architect and founding partner with I.M. Pei of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, an international architectural firm based in New York City.
Cobb attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has received honorary degrees from Bowdoin College and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
He lives in New York City and North Haven, Maine.
Notable buildings
Notable buildings for which Cobb has been principally responsible include:- Place Ville Marie in Montreal (1962)
- John Hancock Tower, Boston (1976)
- Campus of the State University of New York Fredonia (1968)
- Wilson Commons at the University of Rochester (1976)
- World Trade Center, Baltimore (1977)
- Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters, New Brunswick, New Jersey (1983)
- Arco Tower, Dallas (1983)
- Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine (1983)
- Pitney Bowes World Headquarters, Stamford, Connecticut (1985)
- Library Tower, Los Angeles (1989)
- Credit Suisse First Boston headquarters at Canary Wharf, London (1992)
- Anderson School at UCLA at the University of California, Los Angeles (1995)
- John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse and Harborpark, Boston (1998)
- National Constitution Center, Philadelphia (2003)
- Hyatt Center, Chicago (2005)
- International Monetary Fund Headquarters 2, Washington, D.C. (2005)
References
- [Profile of Henry N. Cobb] provided by Pei Cob Freed & Partners
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