After a lively year of project milestones, award wins, office events, and sustainability benchmarks, KPF reflects on the highlights, achievements, and new ideas that have defined the firm’s work over the last 12 months.
In 2024, KPF doubled down on its mission to elevate cities through impactful design, creating high performing, carefully crafted buildings that are unique to their physical, social, and environmental contexts.
KPF projects around the world reached exciting milestones this year. In New York City, 520 Fifth Avenue topped out amid coverage from The New York Times, and One Madison Avenue welcomed the IBM flagship office. The T. Rowe Price Headquarters (Baltimore), 64 University Place (New York City), and One Bangkok (Thailand) all reached substantial completion. Waterline, the first supertall in Texas, achieved its full height in Austin while Chapter London Bridge rose in the United Kingdom, bringing dynamic student housing closer to realization.
The firm’s work was recognized with a 2024 AIA National Architecture Award, a 2024 Singapore Good Design Award, two Architizer A+ Awards, and many other accolades. Presentations by KPF President James von Klemperer and Principals Forth Bagley and Elie Gamburg highlighted how KPF designs projects that amplify the qualities that make cities great, whether by studying and cultivating density or creating urban innovation districts. KPF’s contributions to events such as the CTBUH Americas Conference, the ULI Spring Meeting, and the Urban Renewal Forum affirmed our position as a global leader in the field.
2024 was also a year of technological innovation, much of which was catalogued in the summer issue of KPF Review, which focused on Design Technology. KPF’s technology specialists attended the AEC Tech Conference, the NVIDIA GTC AI Conference, and the CDFAM Computational Design Symposium where they led seminars and showcased several groundbreaking design tools.
It was also a year in which KPF made strides toward our sustainability commitments, reporting project data to the AIA 2030 Commitment for the fifth year in a row and joining the AIA Materials Pledge with the aim of specifying healthy and sustainable building materials for our projects. The firm’s Environmental Performance team shared research and experience working on industry-leading projects with fellow practitioners at conferences and symposia including Greenbuild, while firm-wide greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets were validated by the Science Based Targets initiative and KPF released its first-ever Sustainability and Climate Action Report.
Looking ahead to 2025, KPF anticipates more exciting milestones, ideas, and urban innovations from the firm around the world.