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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 more than 100 executed projects around the world. Institutional building projects for which Mr. Flynn has
been responsible include Palazzo Lombardia in Milan (2011); 200 West Street, the world headquarters of a financial institution in New York City (2010); NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, NC (2010); Vivian and Seymour Milstein
Family Heart Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (2010), Queens Gateway to the Health Sciences Secondary School in New York City (2010); Butler College Dormitories (2009), and School of Engineering and Applied Science Master Plan and Renovation Program at Princeton University (2005); 1155 F Street in Washington, D.C. (2009); NASCAR First International Bank of Israel in Tel Aviv; (2009); Skysong: Scottsdale Center for New Technology and Innovation, Arizona State University (2009); Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (2008); Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University (2008); Jacobi Medical Center Phase II Modernizations in New York City (2008); Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development Headquarters in Paris (2008); CHASS Instruction and Research Facility at the University of California at Riverside (2007); 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, 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 + Museum, Cleveland, OH (1995); UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles, CA (1995); The
Kirklin Clinic at the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, 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 / Center for Arts & Media Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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 NASCAR Tower in Charlotte, NC (2009); The Capital Group Companies in Irvine, California (2008); Torre Espacio office building in Madrid (2008); Hyatt Center office building in Chicago (2005); Taishin International Bank in Taipei (2004); the Head Office of ABN AMRO Bank in Amsterdam (1999, 2006); 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 Office Building 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 (now JPMorgan Chase 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 1155 F Street, an office building in Washington, D.C. (2009); WaveRock office complex in Hyderabad, India (2009); Waterview hotel and office building in Rosslyn, VA (2008); Meudon Campus and Zac Danton, office complexes in Paris (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 Avenue 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 (originally Allied Bank Tower) in Dallas, TX (1986); Bank of America Tower at International Place (formerly 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 / Park Tower, New York, NY (1981); One West Loop Plaza, Houston, TX (1980); and Dallas Centre in
Dallas, TX (1979).Residential and hotel projects include Tapestry in New York City (2010), 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 projects include 650 Newport Center Drive, an office tower in Newport Beach,
California; 880 West Broadway office tower, San Diego; 1000 Connecticut Avenue, an office building in Washington, D.C.; Fiterman Hall at Borough of Manhattan Community College, and 7 Bryant Park, an office tower, Fordham University Law School and Residence Hall, and Public School 298Q, all in New York City; Universidad Europea de Madrid and Campus de la Justicia, both in Madrid, Spain; Corporate Headquarters, Istanbul; Europe International Business School, Expansion Campus, in Shanghai; The Ellipse 360 Tower, a residential tower in Taipei; Tivoli Edge, a mixed-use project in Copenhagen; and World One and World Crest, luxury residential towers, and Supremus Office, a boutique office building, all in Central Mumbai.
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). See also Mr. Flynn's Curriculum Vitae and Project List
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