William E. Pedersen (born 1938)
William Pedersen, born 1938, is an American architect, who got known with his partners A. Eugene Kohn and Sheldon Fox as founding partners of the American architectural office Kohn Pedersen Fox.
William Pedersen studied at the universities of Minnesota and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before founding KPF in 1976, he worked o for architect’s offices like Pietro Belluschi. Eduardo Catalino. I.M. Pei and Associates. John Carl Warnecke.
In the shared management structure of KPF, Pedersen is the firm's principle designer while Fox acted as the firm's project manager and Kohn, the firm's chief marketer.
Important works
- Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
- US Courthouse Minneapolis
- Museum of China
- Rodin Museum
- The Wharton School
- The Ross School of Business at University of Michigan
- London School of Economics
- St. Anne's Oxford
- Merrill Lynch Japan
- The World Bank
- Samsung Korea
- Four Seasons Philadelphia
- Grand Hyatt Tokyo
- One Central Macau
- Glasgow harbour
- Milan Fiera
- 333 Wacker Drive, Chicago
- ABC Washington
- Guangzhou TV Tower
- ICC Hong Kong
- Roppongi Hills
- Espirito Santo Plaza
- Japan Railways
- Shanghai WFC
- Thames Court
- World Trade Center Tower 5
- Chater House
- Alexandra House Renovation
- University of Maryland
- University of Wisconsin
- Songdo Convention Center
- 8-9 Long Acre
- 27 Old Bond St
- Newark Arena
- The Landmark, Hong Kong
- Hong Kong
- Shanghai Financial Center
- Dulles Airport
- Abu Dhabi International Airport
- Tianjin Airport
- Philadelphia Airport
- Buffalo Airport
- Nanjing South Station