Sharif Aggour

Pelli Clarke & Partners

Founded in 1977, Pelli Clarke & Partners has designed some of the world's most recognizable buildings. Our award-winning portfolio includes the World Financial Center in New York, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the International Finance Centre in Hong Kong, and Salesforce Tower and Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco. Our work for public and private clients includes office buildings, hotels, residences, performing arts centers, museums, academic buildings, libraries, research centers, and master plans. Our firm's broad portfolio demonstrates our dedication to the responsiveness to site, local culture, building character, materials, and technology. As design architects, we play the central role in interpreting the varied requirements of clients and user groups, as well as assimilating and interpreting the expertise of large teams of specialized consultants. Each constituency contributes to the process as we understand constraints, recognize and encourage innovation, and interpret requirements to solve complex architectural challenges. But most importantly, we bring our creativity, commitment, excitement, and insight to generate vibrant new architecture and experiences. We have been a leader in environmentally sustainable design for over a decade. Our designs included sustainable strategies even before the U.S. Green Building Council established its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. Our vision of sustainability extends beyond the technical concerns of reducing a building's energy consumption. To be truly sustainable, a design must address the economic and cultural factors that make a project successful long into the future. Our firm has been honored with critical acclaim and hundreds of design awards, including the American Institute of Architects' most prestigious recognition for an architectural practice, the Firm Award. In 2004, the firm was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Petronas Towers.