A confidant of I. M. Pei, Perry Chin was asked to consult on plans to give Pei’s East Building of the National Gallery in Washington new heating, cooling, security, and fire safety systems.
Rudy Ricciotti and Mario Bellini’s “flying carpet” is be the largest intervention to the Musée du Louvre since I. M. Pei plunged pyramids into its central courtyard in 1988.
The Four Seasons Hotel New York has unveiled its new 4,300-square-foot penthouse suite with nine rooms, ceiling heights up to 25 feet, and breathtaking city views.
Shortly after the 2004 AIA Accent on Architecture dinner in Washington, D.C., editor in chief Robert Ivy visited I. M. Pei at his office in Lower Manhattan, where they discussed the evolution of Pei’s design thinking, the importance of working abroad, and his current slate of projects.
