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I.M. Pei is a Chinese-American architect known for his creative use of modernist architecture in combination with natural elements and open spaces. During his six decades of architectural work, he has designed some of the world's most recognizable buildings in countries around the world.
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City
Country
Designed
Completed
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131 Ponce de Leon Avenue
Atlanta, Georgia
USA
1949[ 1]
Under demolition/redevelopment as of February 2013 [ 2]
Roosevelt Field Mall
Garden City, New York
USA
1951
1956
Mile High Center and U.S. National Bank of Denver
Denver, Colorado
USA
1956
Erieview Plan
Cleveland , Ohio
USA
1960
Government Center Master Plan
Boston , Massachusetts
USA
1961
University Apartments
Chicago , Illinois
USA
1961
Kennedy Theatre , University of Hawaii [ 3]
Honolulu , Hawaii
USA
1962
Hale Manoa Dormitory , East West Center , University of Hawaii
Honolulu , Hawaii
USA
1962
Kips Bay Plaza
New York, New York
USA
1963
Luce Memorial Chapel , Tunghai University
Taichung
Taiwan
1963
Society Hill Towers
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [ 4]
USA
1964
Green Building , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
USA
1964
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications , Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York
USA
1964
Washington Plaza
Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
USA
1964
The Century Towers
Los Angeles, California
USA
1965
University Village , New York University
New York, NY
USA
1966
Pei Residence Halls and Student Union at New College of Florida
Sarasota, Florida
USA
1967
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado
USA
1967
Sculpture Wing of the Des Moines Art Center
Des Moines, Iowa [ 5]
USA
1968
Southwest Washington Redevelopment Plan
Washington, D.C.
USA
1968
Everson Museum of Art
Syracuse, New York [ 6]
USA
1968
Cleo Rogers Memorial Library
Columbus, Indiana
USA
1963
1969
Bedford-Stuyvesant Superblock Plan
Brooklyn, New York
USA
1969
Dreyfus Chemistry Building , MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts
USA
1970
Master Plan, Columbia University
New York, New York
USA
1970
Fifty FAA air traffic control towers
in various locations throughout the US, such as O'Hare International Airport , Tampa International Airport , Lambert-St. Louis International Airport , Columbia Metropolitan Airport (South Carolina), and Indianapolis International Airport (since demolished)
USA
1970
Sundrome (National Airlines Terminal) at JFK Airport
New York City
USA
1970
Demolished in 2011
The Wilmington Tower, now the I. M. Pei Building
Wilmington, Delaware [ 7]
USA
1971
Paul Mellon Arts Center at Choate Rosemary Hall
Wallingford, Connecticut
USA
1972
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Commerce Court West
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
1973
Spelman Halls at Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
USA
1973
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art , Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
USA
1973
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Centre
Downtown Core (Singapore)
Singapore
1976
Ralph Landau Chemical Engineering Building , MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts
USA
1976
Dallas City Hall
Dallas, Texas
USA
1977
East Building, National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C. [ 8]
USA
1978
project web page
John F. Kennedy Library
Boston, Massachusetts [ 9]
USA
1979
One Dallas Center
Dallas, Texas
USA
1979
West Wing, Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, Massachusetts
USA
1981
Indiana University Art Museum
Bloomington, Indiana
USA
1978
1982
Sunning Plaza
Causeway Bay , Hong Kong
China
1982
Under demolition/redevelopment [ 10]
Texas Commerce Tower
Houston, Texas
USA
1982
(currently the JPMorgan Chase Tower; (3D/International cooperated with Pei on the design of this building). The nearby drive-in bank was Pei's first drive in bank project)
Fragrant Hill Hotel
Beijing [ 11]
China
1982
Energy Plaza
Dallas, Texas
USA
1983
Wiesner Building - Center for the Arts and Media Technology , MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts
USA
1984
IBM Corporate Headquarters , now MasterCard International Global Headquarters
Purchase, New York
USA
1984
Fountain Place
Dallas, Texas
USA
1986
Raffles City
Civic District
Singapore
1986
Miami World Trade Center (now Bank of America Tower)
Miami, Florida
USA
1987
Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong
Admiralty, Hong Kong
China
1989
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center
Dallas, Texas
USA
1989
Carl C. Icahn Center for Science at Choate Rosemary Hall
Wallingford, Connecticut
USA
1989
Creative Artists Agency Headquarters
Beverly Hills, California
USA
1989
The_Gateway_(Singapore)
Downtown Core
Singapore
1990
Shinji Shumeikai Bell Tower
Shiga
Japan
1990
The Towers at Wildwood Plaza
Atlanta, Georgia
USA
1991
building homepage
The Kirklin Clinic of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System
Birmingham, Alabama
USA
1992
Four Seasons Hotel
New York, New York
USA
1993
Louvre Pyramid and La Pyramide Inversée , Louvre [ 12]
Paris
France
1993
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Cleveland, Ohio
USA
1995
Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Novato, California
USA
1996
The first stage of the Master Plan was completed in 1999
Miho Museum [ 13]
Shiga
Japan
1997
Republic of Korea Permanent Mission to the United Nations
New York, New York
USA
2000
Essensa Condominium (in association with Pei Partnership Architects and Matrix Design)
Taguig City
Philippines
2000
Bank of China Head Office Building (in association with Pei Partnership Architects)
Beijing
China
2001
Oare Pavilion
Wiltshire
England
2003
Zeughaus Wing at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German History Museum )
Berlin
Germany
2003
MUDAM-Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
Luxembourg City
Luxembourg [ 14]
2006
Suzhou Museum New Wings
Suzhou
China
2006
Embassy of the People's Republic of China to the United States of America
Washington, D.C.
USA
2006
(in association with Pei Partnership Architects)
Museum of Islamic Art
Doha
Qatar
2008
The Museum of Islamic Art is reminiscent of the design of the National Assembly Building of Dhaka , Bangladesh by Louis Kahn ; Pei has been known to admire this building's design. The Museum is connected to the mainland by three 215-foot-long bridges and the Chamesson limestone is lit from all perspectives.[ 15]
Macao Science Center (in association with Pei Partnership Architects)
Cathedral Parish, Macau
China
2009
The Pei Plan for Urban Renewal
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
USA
1964
Gallery
The Louvre Pyramid , Paris, designed by Pei.
The Fragrant Hill Hotel at Fragrant Hills , Beijing, designed by Pei.
1961—National Center for Atmospheric Research , Boulder , Colorado.
1964—Green Building , Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
1972—Paul Mellon Arts Center , Choate Rosemary Hall , Wallingford , Connecticut.
1978—Indiana University Art Museum at Indiana University in Bloomington , Indiana.
1979—A white triangular tower rises beside a black glass building, with circular structures on either side. Pei considers the John F. Kennedy Library "the most important commission" in his life.[ 16]
2009—The Macao Science Center in Macau , designed by Pei Partnership Architects in association with I. M. Pei.
Place Ville-Marie in 1967.
References
^ List of Pei projects on Pei firm website
^ Demolition Underway of Gulf Oil Refining Building
^ Kennedy Theatre , University of Hawaii , US. Archived 2008-10-28 at the Wayback Machine
^ Unofficial website .
^ Official page of Pei's Sculpture Wing , Des Moines Art Center , US.
^ Building website .
^ "The Buccini/Pollin Group, Inc. - I.M. Pei Building" . bpgroup.net . Retrieved January 16, 2011 .
^ Pei's audio tour of the East Building addition to the National Gallery of Art , National Gallery of Art , US.
^ Conversation with I.M. Pei about JFK Museum, Boston —with Robert Campbell, critic, Boston Globe (audio/video stream).
^ http://finance.thestandard.com.hk/en/business_news_view.asp?aid=131738
^ Fragrant Hill Hotel .
^ Pyramide du Louvre website .
^ Official information on the architecture , Miho Museum , Japan.
^ MUDAM , Luxembourg.
^ Byles, Jeff, Qatar's Crown Jewel . Art+Auction , November 2008.
^ von Boehm, p. 56.