EUGENE KOHN
Currently serves as the Chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. In 1976, along with William Pedersen and Sheldon Fox, he founded KPF based on a commitment to design excellence.
Gene has served as Partner-in-Charge of many of KPF’s major domestic and international projects and is responsible for many of the firm’s new commissions.
Gene is respected worldwide, not only for his forty-year career as an architect, but also for his inspirational leadership qualities. He is highly regarded as an engaging public speaker and is sought after around the globe as a moderator, juror and keynote speaker on contemporary architecture.  He has lectured at numerous universities, for professional organizations and institutions across the US and around the world.
As founder and principal of KPF, he has developed a global strategy and has shaped the firm into one of the world’s leaders in all aspects of architectural practice.
KPF today is an international practice with studios in New York, London and a growing presence in Shanghai. Led by eighteen principals and directors with 400 employees representing forty-three countries and speaks thirty languages, provides full architectural design integrated services.
KPF has earned recognition as one of the most respected architectural design practices in the world. And have earned over 300 awards throughout the firms thirty years practice.

BARUCH COLLEGE

NEW YORK, NY, USA
Conceived as a vertical campus, the new academic building occupies three quarters of a block. The complex provides 750,000 gsf in a mid-rise building, comprising forty per cent of Baruch’s total campus area. The new facility combines function and innovative design to create an elegant, environmentally responsible, multi-use structure that contributes not only to the academic community it houses but also to its New York City neighbors.

Website : www.kpf.com

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Schuler Shook-USA

A theatre consulting and architectural lighting design firm since 1986
Founded by Duane Schuler & Robert Shook.

Duane Schuler; Has achieved national and international acclaim as a theatrical lighting designer. His extensive and ongoing work as a theatrical lighting designer provides the entire theatre planning group with intimate knowledge of the current styles and requirements of the world’s leading designers and directors.

Robert Shook; Enthusiastically brings to every project a wealth of experience in professional theatre, both in front of the curtain and behind it. He has been involved in the planning of auditoria and audience areas for hundreds of theatres around the world, and his depth of experience as a professional theatrical designer provides him with a keen understanding of backstage operations and technical systems.

Schuler Shook is an internationally recognized theatre consulting firm with extensive experience in planning performance facilities. The firm has earned several prestigious national and international architectural lighting awards for their unique designs, craftsmanship, and commitment.

Crown Fountain

Chicago, IL

Spanish artist Jaume Plensa’s unique fountain is a multi-media sculpture that utilizes water, video, and color-changing lighting. Two glass towers, each 50 feet high, stand at either end of a shallow water pool, with water cascading down their sides. Their opposing faces contain large LED video screens, on which play a succession of images of Chicagoans’faces.
Awards:-

• IALD Award of Excellence 2005
• IES International Illumination Design Award of Merit 2005
• AIA National Honor Award 2006
• AIA Chicago Honor Award 2005

www.Schulershook.com

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Pascal Arquitectos

Founded in 1979 by Carlos Pascal Wolf, and Gerard Pascal Wolf.

The atelier’s production ranges from numerous luxurious private residential projects, residential complexes, institutional, religious buildings, restaurants, to corporate, office buildings and hotels.

With their focus for achieving ultimate and integral development in architecture,
most of Pascal Arquitectos projects has been published and recognized with national and international awards.

EL DIVINO, RESTAURANT 

The restoration of an turn of the century neo-gothic house that was declared an Artistic Monument by the Institute Nacional de Bellas Artes.

 The task to include a restaurant was a difficult one. The objective was to respect the original architecture if the house and to restore it to its original state. This was done in conjunction with the instituto Nacional de Bells Artes.

The interior design is inspired in Catalan architecture emphasizing the yellow and red in their flag, and the lighting played an important roll, making of this restaurant a visual experience.

Web site : www.pascalarquitectos.com

 

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