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North Bund (Lot 91)—an all-electric, 480-meter-tall tower in Shanghai—will house the world’s first urban Ritz-Carlton Re...
09/02/2026

North Bund (Lot 91)—an all-electric, 480-meter-tall tower in Shanghai—will house the world’s first urban Ritz-Carlton Reserve.

The luxury hotel will contain 110 rooms and suites, many of which will overlook the Bund and Huangpu River. The hotel includes several restaurants, a lobby lounge, bar, fitness center, indoor swimming pool, and spa. North Bund (Lot 91) will also contain offices, retail space, residences, and an observation deck.

The plan of the tower begins as a circle at ground level and transforms into a triangle as the floor plates rise, optimizing sweeping views from the office floors and thoughtfully directing views from hotel rooms. The tower culminates in three dramatic, stepped elements that frame the building’s publicly accessible crown.

The supertall joins a long list of KPF projects that house some of the world's best hotels, including similar mixed-use towers across Asia: Shanghai World Financial Center (Park Hyatt Shanghai), Victoria Dockside (Rosewood Hong Kong), CTF Finance Centre (Rosewood Guangzhou), and International Commerce Centre (Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong).

As Shanghai’s first all-electric supertall, North Bund (Lot 91) sets a new benchmark for sustainable towers by prioritizing carbon footprint reduction and serving as a model for the city’s responsible growth. To support China’s vision of becoming fully carbon neutral by 2060, the tower is fully electrified, burning no fossil fuels on site.in three dramatic, stepped elements that frame the building’s publicly accessible crown.

🔗Learn more about the Ritz-Carlton Reserve Shanghai: https://bit.ly/4wYOTdj
🔗Learn more about world-leading hotels designed by KPF: https://bit.ly/4gwKwRM
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✈️ How can airports shape the cities that grow around them?At PTE Asia, KPF Director Shiju Balakrishnan will draw on the...
09/02/2026

✈️ How can airports shape the cities that grow around them?

At PTE Asia, KPF Director Shiju Balakrishnan will draw on the firm’s global aviation experience to explore the evolving relationship between airport infrastructure and urban development.

Referencing KPF projects such as New Songdo City, Zayed International Airport, Changi Airport Terminal 5, and Bangalore Airport City, his talk will examine approaches to integrating major aviation hubs with the cities and communities they serve.

Emerging airport cities around the world are extending traditional neighborhood activation hours, providing financial support for broader aviation projects, and driving regional economic growth. Airport cities in the design stage now will become the world’s first truly 24/7 urban creations: experience engines and laboratories for future ideas on mobility, technology, and economic experiments. The leading edge of hospitality-focused design will create places which entice people to spend their most valuable commodity: time.

Shiju has been instrumental in KPF’s aviation practice, working on the design and delivery of two of the world’s largest and most technically demanding airport terminals. He was a key member of the site team overseeing the construction of Zayed International Airport, Terminal A, in Abu Dhabi and is currently Facility Lead for Changi Airport Terminal 5 in Singapore.

PTE Asia is focused on the rapidly expanding aviation sector across Asia. The conference will bring together airport operators, developers, investors, designers, and other industry leaders to discuss airport development, technology, operations, and passenger experience.

📅 September 23, 2:20-2:40pm
📍 Theatre 3, Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore
🔗 Find more information and register to attend: https://bit.ly/46kv6d9

“Every material decision is an opportunity to move our sustainability goals forward,” says Erin Heidelberger, KPF Senior...
08/21/2026

“Every material decision is an opportunity to move our sustainability goals forward,” says Erin Heidelberger, KPF Senior Environmental Performance Specialist.

GRoW (Green Design Resilience, and Wellness), KPF’s sustainability community group, recently organized a tour of the Pozzotive facility where waste glass is recycled into a cement replacement material that can substantially reduce the carbon footprint of concrete.

“Concrete is one of the largest contributors to a building’s embodied carbon,” Erin adds. “Changes in how we specify it, such as by incorporating ground glass pozzolan, directly support the reductions we’ve committed to through the AIA Materials Pledge.”

🔗Read more here: https://bit.ly/4wD2V3R

What does it mean to elevate the public realm 1,000+ feet into the air? From New York to Shanghai and Tokyo, KPF has rei...
08/06/2026

What does it mean to elevate the public realm 1,000+ feet into the air? From New York to Shanghai and Tokyo, KPF has reimagined the top of the tower not as a private amenity but as a public space.

For most of the history of tall buildings, height meant privacy—the highest floors a reward for those who have already arrived in the form of executive suites, penthouses, and private clubs. These four KPF towers, spanning three continents, challenge that notion by using the highest floors as an extension of the public realm, a place where people can experience the city in a completely new way.

🏙️Cantilevered off of 30 Hudson Yards, Edge is 1,100 feet above street level—the highest outdoor observation deck in the Western Hemisphere—open to anyone willing to lean into its mullion-free glass and 360-degree views.

🏙️At One Vanderbilt, the incorporation of SUMMIT—a significant new visitor attraction with a restaurant and terrace—breaks with a previous generation of closed commercial fortresses, bringing city life all the way to the top of the building.

🏙️In Shanghai, the Sky Arena occupies the Shanghai World Financial Center’s uppermost floors, offering visitors aerial views of the historic Lujiazui district and the chance to walk almost 500 meters above the city via the 100th-floor Sky Walk.

🏙️At Roppongi Hills, Tokyo City View sits on the top of the Mori Tower, framing sweeping views over Tokyo at 250 meters above sea level, extending the cultural experience of the complex to the scale of the city.

By identifying their great height as a public as well as a private asset, these towers transform the observation deck from a simple view into a comprehensive experience.

📸Courtesy of Related-Oxford, Kim Smith Photo, Katsumi Oyama

KPF’s design for the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC, completed in 1996, was the winning entry in an internati...
08/06/2026

KPF’s design for the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC, completed in 1996, was the winning entry in an international competition. The headquarters, which occupies a site on Pennsylvania Avenue, creates a unified entity by incorporating existing buildings by Skidmore Owings & Merrill and Vincent Kling. A 13-story block surrounds a large, covered courtyard bathed in natural light, representing the bank as a cohesive community while connecting and integrating the separate buildings and their diverse functions.

Within the central court, linear watercourses, monumental staircases, and pyramidal glazed pieces create dynamic spaces. Inspired by its context, the design enhances the scale of Vincent Kling’s modern building while breaking from Washington’s classical vernacular. The horizontally striated glass façade counters the vertical gestures of the existing structures, while a material palette of glass, pre-cast concrete, and white-painted aluminum establishes a dialogue between weight and lightness.

📸: Michael Dersin Photography, Tim Hursley

Within the dense grain of the Jing An District, the Jing An Kerry Centre fuses the neighborhood’s historic character wit...
08/05/2026

Within the dense grain of the Jing An District, the Jing An Kerry Centre fuses the neighborhood’s historic character with the creativity of modern Shanghai and serves as a signature landmark for the city.

The multi-use complex features two towers, podium retail, a 508-key hotel, an event center, and offices with amenities. Establishing its presence on the Nanjing Xi Lu, the development integrates itself within the rich urban context of the city and forms a “missing link” between two major office clusters. The site plan employs an architectural language embodying the qualities of the city street experience. Open-air walkways lined with shops evoke a sense of continuity with the surrounding pedestrian scale. A range of gardens echoes the signature character of the complex. An additional level of character is created through a medley of glass, metal, and stone cladding finishes.

The building’s LEED Gold certification was achieved through a holistic approach to sustainable design that takes advantage of public transportation linkages, local building materials, and high-efficiency mechanical systems.

📸Shen Zhonghai, SHUHEPHOTO, Tim Franco, H.G. Esch

KPF wins nine Council on Vertical Urbanism (CVU) Awards of Excellence across six projects, recognizing built work and fu...
08/04/2026

KPF wins nine Council on Vertical Urbanism (CVU) Awards of Excellence across six projects, recognizing built work and future proposals across Asia, the Americas, and Europe.

🌇 CPIC Xintiandi Commercial Center, Shanghai: Façade Award, Best Tall Building 200–299m, and Best Tall Building Asia.

🌇 Guangzhou One Pengrui: Best Tall Building 100–199m and Best Tall Building Asia.

🌇 One Bangkok Tower 4: Best Tall Building 200–299m.

🌇 1020 Spring Street, Atlanta: Best Tall Building Americas.

🌇 70 Gracechurch Street, London: Future Project Award.

📸M Studio Courtesy of Shui on Land, Rex Zou, Owen Raggett, Gregory Campbell, Kiasm

🔗See the full list of winners: https://bit.ly/3Q6VYca

08/04/2026

Across scales, project types, and continents, KPF’s unique technological capabilities enable us to create great places, architectural icons, and innovative design solutions that unlock value for our clients. Learn how our multi-disciplinary Design Technology team works to invent and improve technological solutions to the world's architecture, engineering, and design questions, an ever-evolving project with implications for the future of human society.

Completed in 1997 on Hong Kong’s most storied block in Central, Landmark is a world-class mixed-use destination that has...
08/04/2026

Completed in 1997 on Hong Kong’s most storied block in Central, Landmark is a world-class mixed-use destination that has defined luxury urban living in the city for nearly three decades, weaving retail, dining, office, and a boutique Mandarin Oriental hotel across a richly connected podium, its double-height flagship storefronts for Harvey Nichols and Louis Vuitton, new atria, and multi-level circulation networks threading seamlessly underground, at grade, and in the sky. A high-profile destination with direct connections to Hong Kong’s mass transit system and airport line, Landmark offers a best-in-class, integrated, 24-hour lifestyle, work, and leisure environment that engages and enhances its Central locale across multiple levels and through both indoor and outdoor spaces. For KPF, it remains one of the most instructive projects in the firm’s history, a living proof that great adaptive reuse is not about erasure, but about dialogue.

“Landmark was formative for KPF—and for me as an architect,” reflects KPF Principal Forth Bagley. “This important part of Hong Kong taught us that we can make architecture from infrastructure. At Landmark, the city’s three-dimensional circulation networks—underground, at grade, and in the sky—are almost entirely the product of individual buildings in dialogue with one another through circulation and program. It instilled a lesson that has shaped how we approach every project since. And as one of our earliest adaptive reuse projects in China, Landmark set a kind of mantra that we still hold on to: preserve what’s exceptional, then make it unmistakably better. That’s how a building earns its place in a city.”

For this work, KPF served as Concept and Detail Design Architect for the podium elevations (Queen's Road Central and York House) and mall interiors with Aedas as Master Planner, Retail Design Architect and Authorized Person (AP).

📸CreatAR Images, H.G. Esch, Aedas

08/03/2026

How can planning, design, and technology transform our cities for the future?

Watch as Bruce Fisher (Planning and Design Principal), Carlos Cerezo Davila (Global Director of Sustainability), and Luc Wilson (Global Director of Design Technology) share KPF’s perspective on elevating urban environments—reimagining downtowns as dynamic Central Social Districts that foster shared prosperity, cultural innovation, and social progress. Discover how technology, data, and sustainability drive our approach to refreshing existing spaces, reviving older buildings, and shaping new paradigms for city living worldwide.

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