William Pedersen, founding partner of Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), has been chosen as the 2010 recipient of the Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). “The tall building has been the dominant component of the modern city for almost 100 years,” Pedersen says. “By its nature, it tends to be insular and autonomous. My efforts during the past 35 years have been focused upon making it a more social participant within the city.”
Pedersen’s work includes 333 Wacker Drive in Chicago, Illinois; DG Bank Headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany; 1250 Boulevard Rene-Levesque in Montreal, Canada; First Hawaiian Bank in Honolulu, Hawaii; Tour CBX in Paris, France; Samsung Seocho and Posteel Tower, both in Seoul, South Korea; the International Commerce Centre in Hong Kong; and the Shanghai World Financial Center.
