Pei spent ten years working with New York real estate magnate William Zeckendorf before establishing his own independent design firm that eventually became Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.

In 1955 Pei's group took a step toward institutional independence from Webb and Knapp by establishing a new firm called I. M. Pei & Associates.

( The name changed later to I. M. Pei & Partners.

John Hancock Insurance chairman Robert Slater hired I. M. Pei & Partners to design a building that could overshadow the Prudential Tower, erected by their rival.

Hancock sued the glass manufacturers, Libbey-Owens-Ford, as well as I. M. Pei & Partners, for submitting plans that were " not good and workmanlike ".

LOF countersued Hancock for defamation, accusing Pei's firm of poor use of their materials ; I. M. Pei & Partners sued LOF in return.

It was also the year in which Pei's firm changed its name to Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, to reflect the increasing stature and prominence of his associates.

* Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

It was designed by noted architects I. M. Pei & Partners.

The building was designed by Henry N. Cobb of the architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and cost $ 350 million to build.

* Pei Cobb Freed & Partners website

The tower was designed by Henry N. Cobb of the firm I. M. Pei & Partners and was completed in 1976.

Fiterman Hall was to have been replaced by a new building designed by the architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.

Designed by Holocaust survivor and architect James Ingo Freed of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, in association with Finegold Alexander + Associates Inc, the USHMM is designed to be a " resonator of memory ".

* U. S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles, designed by architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, is completed.

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Pei & Partners.

Under the direction of the U. S. General Services Administration and the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners of New York, in association with D. C. architects Ellerbe Becket, were selected as the building architects in 1989.

* Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architect and Design firm's official website for the Meyerson Symphony Center

The design committee picked the $ 738. 3 million design submitted by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners in October 1989.

Pei, at the time a staff architect in his firm of Webb & Knapp, to provide the overall design of the plaza, promenade, and park ( including building siting ).

La Pyramide Inversée was designed by architects Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, and installed as part of the Phase II government renovation of the Louvre Museum.

Designed by world-renowned architects, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, the school's architectural beauty combines Western architecture with the subtlety of Chinese beauty and grace.

The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity is housed in an 11-story structure originally built for The Christian Science Publishing Society constructed between 1932 and 1934, and the present plaza was constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s to include a 28 story administration building, a colonnade, and a reflecting pool with fountain, designed by Araldo Cossutta of I. M. Pei and Partners ( now Pei Cobb Freed ).

Pei and Partners and dedicated in 1982.

Pei and Partners in 1974.

Pei and Partners, was completed in 1982.

Pei and Partners and was completed in 1986.

Pei and Partners, Rockefeller Arts Center includes King Concert Hall ( a 1, 200-seat concert hall ), Marvel Theatre ( a 400 seat proscenium theatre ), Alice E. Bartlett Theatre ( a 200-seat maximum black box theatre ), an art gallery, and 24 classrooms.

* College-Conservatory of Music, Pei Cobb Freed and Partners ( Henry Cobb ) ( 1999 )

While visiting New York City in the late ' 30s, Pei met a Wellesley College student named Eileen Loo.

In the spring of 1948 Pei was recruited by New York real estate magnate William Zeckendorf to join a staff of architects for his firm of Webb and Knapp to design buildings around the country.

Zeckendorf was well connected politically, and Pei enjoyed learning about the social world of New York's city planners.

As with NCAR, Pei combined elements of cubism and natural harmony when designing the dormitories at New College of Florida in the mid-1960s.

Pei hoped the lobby would be exciting to the public in the same way as the central room of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

As the Fragrant Hill project was nearing completion, Pei began working on the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, although his associate James Freed served as lead designer.

The opening of the Louvre Pyramid coincided with four other projects on which Pei had been working, prompting architecture critic Paul Goldberger to declare 1989 " the year of Pei " in The New York Times.

Lacking inspiration and unsure of how to approach the building, Pei took a weekend vacation to the family home in Katonah, New York.

The New York Times called it " a fine building ", but Pei was among those who felt disappointed with the results.

Pei of New York City

Barbara Goldsmith was a Founding Editor of New York magazine and the author of the widely-imitated series, “ The Creative Environment ,” in which she interviewed such subjects as Marcel Breuer, I. M. Pei, George Balanchine, and Pablo Picasso about their creative process.

Dr Pei Te Hurinui Jones, circa 1930Ngāti Maniapoto is an iwi ( tribe ) based in the Waikato-Waitomo region of New Zealand's North Island.

Fung Wah was founded in New York City in 1996, as Fung Wah Transport Vans, Inc., by Pei Lin Liang, who had immigrated from Zhuhai, China in 1988.

Pei & Assocs, Manhattan, New York from 1960 to 1964.

Frederick Pei Li was born in Canton, China ( Guangzhou ), and raised in New York City where his parents operated a Chinese restaurant.

She was working in the architectural practice of IM Pei when Prince Gu, fresh out of MIT with architecture degree, joined the New York firm.

Between 1979 and 1980, the School Board negotiated with the Ministry of Education until it was agreed and approved by all the sponsors that in order to improve the school, all properties of Pei Tong Public School would be handed over to the Ministry of Education as from 1981 ; the new government primary school to be built on Avenue 5 Clementi New Town be named Pei Tong Primary School ; all the teaching and non-teaching staff and pupils be transferred to the new school ; and members of the School Board join as members of the School Advisory Committee.

Pei of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, an international architectural firm based in New York City.