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See also Mr. Flynn's Curriculum Vitae and Project List.
Michael D. Flynn, a partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners since 1989, joined the firm in 1962. His principal activity is oversight of the building envelope and exposed structures. He also serves as management partner for certain projects.Mr. Flynn has been principally responsible for many, and after 1989, all of the firm's building enclosures, comprising nearly 100 executed projects around
the world. Institutional building projects for which Mr. Flynn has been responsible include Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Headquarters in Paris (2008); Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (2008); Musée d'Art Moderne in Luxembourg (2006); United States Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Virginia (2006); Edmund D. Bossone Research Enterprise Center at Drexel University in Philadelphia (2005); Ferguson Center for the Arts at Christopher Newport University
in Newport News, VA (2005); International Monetary Fund Headquarters 2 in Washington D.C. (2005); Bellevue Hospital Center Ambulatory Care Facility in New York (2005); Center for Government and International Studies at Harvard University (2005); Richard J. Daronco Westchester County Courthouse, White Plains, NY (2005); Illinois State Museum in Springfield, IL; Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri — St. Louis (2003); National Constitution Center on
Independence Mall in Philadelphia (2003); Queens Family Court and City Agency Facility in Jamaica, NY (2003); Broad Center for the Biological Sciences at the California Institute of Technology (2002); Friend Center for Engineering Education at Princeton University (2001); Roman L. Hruska United States Courthouse in Omaha, NE (2000); College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati (1999); China Europe International Business School in Shanghai (1999); Republic of Korea Permanent
Mission to the United Nations in New York (1999); Buck Institute for Age Research in Marin County, CA (1999); Science and Engineering Quad at Stanford University (1999); John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse and Harborpark in Boston, MA (1998); the Alumni Center at Ball State University in Muncie, IN (1997); San Francisco Main Public Library (1996); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, OH (1995); John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA
(1995); The Kirklin Clinic at the University of Alabama Health Services Center, Birmingham, AL (1993); Los Angeles Convention Center Expansion (1993); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. (1993); FAA Air Traffic Control Tower at JFK International Airport in New York (1992); the Pyramid at the Grand Louvre, Paris (1989); Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York (1986); Wiesner Building at MIT in Cambridge, MA (1984); East Building of the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C. (1978); Air Traffic Control Tower at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport (1968); and the air traffic control cabs for a series of prototypical FAA towers executed around the United States and abroad (1965). Corporate building projects include Hyatt Center office building in Chicago (2005); the Head Office of ABN AMRO Bank in Amsterdam (1999); a new office campus for The Capital Group in San Antonio, TX (1998); Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade
Center (1998) and the headquarters of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1996), both in Washington, D.C.; Anggana Danamon in Jakarta, Indonesia (1997); First Bank Place, Minneapolis, MN (1992); Credit Suisse First Boston at Canary Wharf, London (1991); Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong (1989); Creative Artists Agency in Beverly Hills, CA (1989); IBM Corporate Office Complex at Somers, NY (1989); Entrance Pavilion at the headquarters of IBM in Armonk, NY (1985); IBM
Corporate Office Building [now MasterCard International Global Headquarters] in Purchase, NY (1984); ARCO Tower, Dallas, TX (1984); Texas Commerce Tower in Houston (1982); Akzona Headquarters Building, Asheville, NC (1981); Johnson & Johnson Baby Products Headquarters Complex, Montgomery Township, NJ (1981); ANZ Bank Tower at Collins Place in Melbourne, Australia (1978); and John Hancock Tower in Boston, MA (1976). Investment building projects include Waterview hotel and office
building in Rosslyn, VA (2008); Meudon Campus office complex in Meudon, France (2007); 1700 K Street, an office building in Washington, D.C. (2005); Tour EDF at la Défense in Paris (2001); 2099 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. (2001); World Trade Center in Barcelona (1999); POS Plaza in Shanghai (1999); Friedrichstadt Passagen in Berlin (1996); 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue / Warner Building in Washington, D.C. (1993); Commerce Square, Philadelphia, PA (1993); 2600 Grand at Crown Center in
Kansas City, MO (1991); U.S. Bank Tower (formerly Library Tower), Los Angeles, CA (1989); Potomac Tower, Rosslyn, VA (1989); Columbia Square in Washington, D.C. (1987); Fountain Place in Dallas, TX (1986); Miami World Trade Center, Miami, FL (1986); Sunning Plaza, Hong Kong (1982); Texas Commerce Center, Houston (1982); One Galleria Tower, Oklahoma City, OK (1981); 499 Park Avenue, New York, NY (1981); One West Loop Plaza, Houston, TX (1980); and Dallas Centre in Dallas, TX (1979).
Residential and hotel projects include the Grand Marina Hotel in Barcelona (2002); The Tomlinson condominium in Singapore (2002); Essensa Residential Towers in Manila (2001); the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City (1993); Hilton Houston Post Oak (formerly Warwick Post Oak) Hotel in Houston, TX (1982); and the Regent Hotel at Collins Place in Melbourne, Australia (1981).
Mr. Flynn's current institutional projects include SkySong: Scottsdale Center for New Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University; Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Building at the University of Michigan; Fiterman Hall at Borough of Manhattan Community College; Butler College Residence Halls,
and School of Engineering and Applied Science Master Plan and Renovation Program at Princeton University; CHASS Instruction and Research Facility at the University of California at Riverside; Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; China Europe International Business School, Phase II, in Shanghai; NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina; Queens Gateway to the Health Sciences Secondary School, Vivian and
Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and Jacobi Medical Center Phase II Modernizations, all in New York City.Other current projects include the New Seat of the Lombardy Regional Government in Milan; Torre Espacio office building in Madrid; First International Bank of Israel in Tel Aviv; Taishin International Bank in Taipei; Tivoli Edge, a mixed-use project in Copenhagen; The Capital Group Companies in Irvine, California; and Square 320
and 1000 Connecticut Avenue, two office buildings in Washington, D.C.
Over the years Mr. Flynn has coupled his activity in the firm with teaching, lecturing, and other activities related to the profession. He served as a design instructor in
the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois (1962), and as a lecturer in technology at Cornell University School of Architecture, Art and Planning (1968–1969) and Harvard University Graduate School of Design (1981–1990). He has lectured widely on matters related to the building envelope in universities and professional seminars in the United States, Canada, Chile, England, Italy, Switzerland and Singapore.In addition to teaching and lecturing, Mr. Flynn
contributes to the development of codes and standards related to the design of the building envelope. He has served on the Advisory Board, Glass Research and Testing Laboratory, Texas Tech University (1978–1990); Canadian General Standards Board, Glass Design Standards Committee (1982–1990); Board of Governors, Insulating Glass Certification Council (1983–1986); and New York City Building Code Seismic Design Overview Sub-Committee (since 1995).
Mr. Flynn is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He was born in 1934 in Staten Island, New York. He was educated at Augustinian Academy (Diploma, 1952), the Catholic University of America (B. Arch., 1957), and the University of Illinois (M. Arch., 1962). |
