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KPF is dedicated to transforming cities through impactful design, collaborating with the most forward-thinking clients to create high performing, carefully crafted buildings that are unique to their physical, social, and environmental contexts.

"Oriente Green Campus demonstrates that responsible carbon guardianship and vigorous economic growth can be compatible,"...
10/22/2026

"Oriente Green Campus demonstrates that responsible carbon guardianship and vigorous economic growth can be compatible," says KPF Principal John Bushell. "Through imagination and purpose, the building has been transformed from an abandoned shopping mall into an ideal environment to work, study, and gather. We remodelled the large floorplates from a vast mall with a hollow center into a generous network of connected spaces and courtyards ideal for large or small tenant mixes, opening up floor plates to allow natural ventilation, and giving access everywhere to landscaped outdoor spaces to encourage social interaction and tenant wellness. The design team worked hard to reduce the whole life carbon, while rejuvenating a blighted site and contributing to Lisbon's innovation ecosystem. In any adaptive reuse project, the key is to understand a building's greatest potential and create a robust and flexible long-term proposition."

Following Lisbon’s growing prominence as a new Silicon Valley hub in Europe, Oriente Green Campus is a tech oasis born from an existing, unfinished retail mall. The design retains 91% of the original three-story structure and reduces upfront embodied carbon by 58%. Offering expansive views over the River Tagus, the transformation is mindful of its surroundings and takes inspiration from the pedestrian-scale, intimate-grain design of the neighboring streets.

📸 Fernando Guerra

KPF has signed the new AIA Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Resilience Pledge.Extreme weather events are increasingly d...
10/22/2026

KPF has signed the new AIA Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Resilience Pledge.

Extreme weather events are increasingly disrupting the places and systems our clients and communities depend on. As a firm, we recognize that we have a responsibility—and an opportunity—to reduce these impacts by anticipating risk, preparing for changing conditions, and helping our clients and communities become more resilient.

Resilience is already central to numerous KPF projects, including the NYCHA Red Hook Houses in New York, Channelside in Boston, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Guangzhou, and Tower Urban Oasis in Taipei.

đź”— Learn more: https://bit.ly/4BewKLK
📸 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Credit: TAL

🏙️ Meet KPF at the VU Summit 2026 in London.From October 26–29, KPF will contribute to the Summit, organized by the Coun...
10/22/2026

🏙️ Meet KPF at the VU Summit 2026 in London.

From October 26–29, KPF will contribute to the Summit, organized by the Council on Vertical Urbanism (CVU), through a series of discussions, presentations, and tours, sharing perspectives from the firm’s work in cities around the world.

Monday October 26
→ Workshop: “The Planner’s Dilemma: Intensification, Identity, and the Public Interest,” introduced by Principal John Bushell.

Tuesday October 27
→ Session: “Urban Habitat, Density, and Resilience,” with a presentation from Principal Jeffrey Kenoff.
→ Session: “Best Tall Building – Under 100m; 100–199m; Asia,” with Principal Marianne Kwok presenting Guangzhou One Pengrui.

Wednesday October 28
→ Session: “Infrastructure, Microclimate, and the Public Realm,” with a presentation by President & Principal James von Klemperer.
→ Panel: “Density and Identity Through Waterfront Regeneration in China,” with James von Klemperer joining the discussion.
→ Session: “Best Tall Building – 200–299m; 300m+; Americas; Asia; Middle East & Africa,” with Marianne Kwok presenting One Bangkok Tower 4 and Principal Robert Whitlock presenting CPIC Xintiandi Commercial Center.
→ Session: “Inclusive Districts and the Public Realm – Future Project and EDI Award,” with Robert Whitlock presenting Shenton House and Principal John Bushell presenting Seventy Gracechurch Street.

Thursday October 29
→ Tour: 52 Lime Street, led by Principal Paul Simovic.

Nine KPF projects have received CVU Awards of Excellence and will advance to the next stage of judging at the Summit, with final “Best in Category” distinctions announced on October 28.

KPF’s "A Fix for 42nd Street" has been named Editor’s Choice in the “Vision for Public Space” category of the 2026 Archi...
10/21/2026

KPF’s "A Fix for 42nd Street" has been named Editor’s Choice in the “Vision for Public Space” category of the 2026 Architizer Vision Awards.

The proposal looks at 42nd Street from river to river, asking how a series of strategic design interventions could create a more connected, accessible, and people-focused experience. A new streetcar and ferry connections work alongside expanded pedestrian areas, protected cycling infrastructure, greenery, and public space to rethink how people move through, and experience, the street.

Building on what already exists, KPF’s proposal demonstrates how one of New York’s most important pieces of urban infrastructure could reach its full potential.

The award joins KPF’s recognition for “Urban Speculations,” named Jury Winner in the “Vision for Cities” category. Together, the projects consider New York at two very different scales: one reimagining a single street, and the looking at city-wide systems.

The wins also see KPF included in Architizer’s Visionary 100, recognizing creators pushing the boundaries of architectural communication.

đź”— Discover "A Fix for 42nd Street": https://bit.ly/4sm5N4L

KPF’s “Urban Speculations” is the Jury Winner in the “Vision for Cities” category of the 2026 Architizer Vision Awards, ...
10/21/2026

KPF’s “Urban Speculations” is the Jury Winner in the “Vision for Cities” category of the 2026 Architizer Vision Awards, recognizing the role of research and speculative thinking in shaping the future of cities.

Developed by KPF Urban as part of “Connective Urbanism—New York,” the research imagines four possible futures for New York—Social City, Intense City, Logistics City, and Decarbonized City. Grounded in reality, “Urban Speculations” proposes interconnected scenarios that provide the starting point for ambitious dialogues. Together, they ask “What if?” using data, design, and visualization to test new possibilities for how cities could evolve. The scenarios explore how the city could respond to challenges spanning housing, density, mobility, logistics, and decarbonization.

The recognition is one of two Architizer Vision Awards received by KPF this year, alongside “A Fix for 42nd Street,” a proposal to transform one of New York’s most important urban corridors.

Announced at RELEASE [AEC] in Paris, the wins also see KPF included in Architizer’s Visionary 100, a global index of creators pushing the boundaries of architectural communication.

🔗 Explore KPF’s Urban Speculations: https://bit.ly/4eDykNq
đź“– Get your copy of Connective Urbanism: https://bit.ly/4yWAFeB

📹 Watch the newest "Roundtable" episode—now out on YouTube—in which KPF Principals Elie Gamburg, Hana Kassem, and Jill L...
10/20/2026

📹 Watch the newest "Roundtable" episode—now out on YouTube—in which KPF Principals Elie Gamburg, Hana Kassem, and Jill Lerner, and Director Marissa Sweig-Trigger sit down to talk about designing for universities and academic medical campuses, from the spaces that were never in the program to new ways of combining faculties to spark innovation.

Together, they dig into how early feasibility studies can let universities decide what's worth keeping before they decide what's worth building, and why some of a campus's most memorable spaces—a winter garden, a stepped atrium, an elevator lobby—often arise from project constraints. From a science facility catalyzing the entire Detroit Innovation District to a "living lab" campus in Guangzhou where the mechanical plant itself is on the tour route, the conversation covers five decades of designing for institutions that generate, interrogate, and fuel intellectual and economic growth.

Launched as part of , the firm's year-long celebration of five decades of design excellence, the Roundtable series brings together firm leaders for conversations about how KPF works across regions and building types.

▶️ Watch the full video here: https://bit.ly/4ehmBUI

"AI is an accelerator and a multiplier, but only of what you bring to it," says KPF Associate Principal Anna Mytcul. "Br...
10/19/2026

"AI is an accelerator and a multiplier, but only of what you bring to it," says KPF Associate Principal Anna Mytcul. "Bring rigor, and it amplifies rigor."

At RELEASE [AEC] in Paris, Anna builds on this idea in her talk, “Intent Over Output: AI in Practice at KPF,” exploring the role of the architect within a rapidly evolving profession shaped by technological innovation.

Drawing on how AI is already being applied at KPF— from testing design options in real time to enabling designers to develop custom tools—Anna will consider how emerging technologies can amplify architectural expertise rather than replace it.

The annual conference brings together architecture, engineering, and construction professionals to explore emerging technologies and their impact on the built environment, alongside the presentation of the 2026 Architecture Vision Awards.

📆 October 20, 12:45 PM-1:15PM CEST
📍Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris, France
đź”— Register to attend: https://bit.ly/4ymkndO

How does design evolve when we think of a tower not as a solitary sculpture, but a living precinct?At the Urban Planning...
10/16/2026

How does design evolve when we think of a tower not as a solitary sculpture, but a living precinct?

At the Urban Planning & Tall Buildings Summit 2026 in Tel Aviv, KPF President & Principal James von Klemperer explored the evolution in tower design in his opening plenary keynote “How Tall Buildings Connect to and Improve Their Urban Surroundings.” Drawing on the firm’s global portfolio—including Lotte World Tower and Mall, Hudson Yards, One Vanderbilt, and the Azrieli Spiral Tower—he discussed how incorporating thoughtfully designed public realm into tall buildings can transform a tower into a neighborhood.

Approximately 800 people attended the keynote, including industry leaders, developers, architects, and city officials. Jamie’s talk was followed by a panel discussion between the heads of urban planning from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

📸 Neo Media

A city’s architecture creates its identity. Nowhere is this more visible than in Seoul, one of the largest and fastest-g...
10/15/2026

A city’s architecture creates its identity. Nowhere is this more visible than in Seoul, one of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the world.

On October 17, KPF Director Richard Kim will join the 2026 Korean Architecture Symposium, “+82+82: From Independence to Acceleration,” to discuss how scale, public space, landscape, and urban connections shape enduring places and experiences in Seoul.

In his presentation “Seoul: Three Moments, One City,” Richard will trace an evolving relationship between architecture and the city through three KPF projects: Lotte World Tower and Mall, completed a decade ago, Parkside Seoul, a new district underway today, and an ambitious future vision for the city that KPF is currently developing.

Organized by Korea GSD, a student organization at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the event on October 17, will bring together architects, theorists, and researchers to examine contemporary architecture and urbanism in South Korea.

đź“… October 17, 3:30 PM EST
đź“Ť Piper Auditorium Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
đź”— Register: https://bit.ly/4yPDgqI

“18 Robinson demonstrates that an increase in quality of life in a dense city can come from the integration of building ...
10/15/2026

“18 Robinson demonstrates that an increase in quality of life in a dense city can come from the integration of building and landscape,” explains KPF Principal Robert Whitlock. “In keeping with Singapore's Landscape Replacement Area policy, the tower returns publicly accessible green space equal to the site itself, through a landscaped podium and a rooftop Sky Garden. The tower’s gardens form the heart of the building, organizing office lobby, retail, and public space around a shared green network rather than around circulation alone. The angled composition of the tower does the same work at a larger scale: increasing access to natural light, limiting direct views into neighboring towers, and creating a break in the wall of simply extruded tower facades that surround the site. Landscape is structural to the design, rather than an amenity added at the end.”

The design of 18 Robinson synthesizes the unique conditions that define the urban, environmental and cultural context of contemporary Singapore, resulting in a signature, boutique, and sustainable retail and office tower. Located at the terminus of the V-shaped intersection of Market Street and Robinson Road, 18 Robinson avails the odd site shape through the balanced elements of the faceted tower. Two primary volumes, a hovering crystalline office tower and a retail podium, make up the principal building elements. The podium’s materiality and faceted design form a contextual relationship with the angular roof form and terra cotta of Lau Pa Sat.

📸 Tim Griffith

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