Imagine a
City
PERKINS EASTMAN
A Perkins Eastman City, more than a collection of buildings and spaces, fosters connections. These interactions happen exponentially across the city and throughout the day, minute by minute, hour by hour. One intentional meeting leads to one serendipitous exchange— or two or three or four. Fun, intense, transactional, frivolous, contentious, loving, kind, or felicitous, these connections energize the city, and the city is energized by them. At the heart of these connections are people—parents, children, teachers, first responders, caregivers, executives, electricians, artists, retirees, paralegals, athletes, students, musicians, tourists, maintenance workers, curators, carpenters, housekeepers, doctors. Their ambitions, their memories, and their actions galvanize, sustain, and shepherd the creation and continuous reinvention of . . .
For more than 40 years . . . Perkins Eastman has designed buildings, places, and spaces in cities from Manhattan to Mumbai, Dallas to Dubai, and Chicago to Shanghai. Enough, in fact, to create an entire metropolis with a little help from the firm’s specialty studios along the way. This revelation raises intriguing questions. What does such a place look like? What makes it vital? What is its sustaining ethos? The imaginary city unfolds like this: On their original sites, each design harmonizes climate, context, form, interior, and purpose. Some buildings shape the skyline. Others serve as background players— understated, yet essential. Some public places are big and bustling. Others are intimately scaled and tucked away from the action. Woven together as one, the skyscrapers, schools, healthcare facilities, office buildings, public markets, libraries, senior living communities, transit stations, stadiums, residential buildings, performing arts venues, museums, research laboratories, plazas, waterfront esplanades, and green spaces become a dynamic metropolis.
. . . a Perkins Eastman City.
Text by Jennica Deely Drawing by Ling Zhong Cover photo: The Wharf, Copyright Joseph Romeo/Courtesy Perkins Eastman Interior photo: Buffalo Canalside, Copyright Joe Cascio/Canalside/Courtesy Perkins Eastman
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