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The occasion marked the 40th anniversary of the firm that Gene Kohn, Bill Pedersen, and Shelly Fox founded, auspiciously, on July 4, 1976.
The building for AT&T, fashioned in trendy postmodern style, was described as a spectacular structure in a 1982 Interior Design article.
Completed in 1983 on a triangular site at a bend in the Chicago River, this office building presented itself on the river side with a sweeping curved wall of green glass that evoked the river's own bend.
Established in 1984, the firm's interiors subsidiary, Kohn Pedersen Fox Conway Associates, led by Patricia Conway, who joined the firm almost from the outset, also received recognition for meticulous craftsmanship and imaginative detail.
Conway received the 1986 Designer of the Year award from Interiors; her firm had 80 employees and grossed $8.5 million the following year.
In a 1986 New York Times Magazine article, Goldberger credited Kohn Pedersen Fox's rise to prominence to Kohn's salesmanship as well as the firm's designers.
In 1986, KPF’s Procter & Gamble Headquarters in Cincinnati, which included an open plan interior design by Patricia Conway, was recognized for its innovative design with the AIA National Honor Award.
After designing the British headquarters of Goldman Sachs & Co. and the city's Canary Wharf Tower, Kohn Pedersen Fox opened a London office in 1988.
1989: KPF opens its first office abroad, in London.
Commissions followed in Glasgow and Hamburg, and in 1990 the firm won three Japanese commissions.
Designed by William Louie in 1991, Kohn Pedersen Fox's last postmodern building was the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse.
1993: Kohn Pedersen Fox is now active in 19 countries.
A Tokyo office was opened in 1995.
Ground was broken for this project, the Shanghai World Financial Center, in 1997.
Kohn Pedersen Fox provided the design for the 1997 high-rise federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, which at more than 340 feet high and 602,000 square feet in bulk dominated the city's government district.
2003: The firm wins its fifth AIA national honors award for Baruch College's Vertical Campus.
In October, 2012, Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) and Associates set out to discover whether virtualisation could be achieved with Autodesk Software, Adobe CS5 and Rhino.
Also in New York, KPF is leading the redevelopment of New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA) Red Hook Houses, which suffered severe flooding and wind damage during Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
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In November 2018, the firm announced the opening of new offices in San Francisco, Berlin, and Singapore to support current projects, new commissions, and imminent endeavors in those regions.
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| Company name | Founded date | Revenue | Employee size | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | 1936 | $347.0M | 724 | 80 |
| Robert A.M. Stern Architects | 1969 | $35.5M | 164 | - |
| NBBJ Design | 1943 | $190.0M | 700 | 62 |
| Diller Scofidio + Renfro | 1981 | $3.1M | 20 | - |
| Pei Cobb Freed & Partners | 1955 | $11.0M | 125 | - |
| Arquitectonica | 1977 | $33.0M | 540 | 4 |
| Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat | 1969 | $12.0M | 82 | - |
| Perkins&Will | 1935 | $670.0M | 2,600 | 224 |
| Aedas | 2002 | $59.7M | 3,000 | - |
| Morphosis | - | $620,000 | 3 | - |
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