#27 MUSTAFA KEMAL ABADAN
The world-renowned Turkish architect Mustafa K. Abadan graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1982 and received a Master of Architecture in Urban Design in 1984 from the same university. He joined SOM New York in 1983 and became a design partner in 1996. Abadan was born in 1958 in Ankara to an academician couple, Yavuz & Nermin Abadan. Part of his education was in Germany but he received a high school diploma from Istanbul Robert College. Both of his undergraduate and graduate degrees were from Cornell University. Mr. Abadan is not just an architect with projects in the U.S.; he placed his signature on major designs in all the continents of the world with the exception of Antarctica. ABADAN’S SIGNATURE DESIGNS IN SIX CONTINENTS ASIA * Lotte World II (Seoul, South Korea) * Tzu Chi Cultural Campus (Hualien, Taiwan) * The Philippine American Life Insurance Building, the World Centre and Petron Mega Plaza (Manila, Philippines) * Tokyo Midtown (Tokyo, Japan) * AIG Tower (Hong Kong, China) EUROPE * Aztec West Business Park, Canary Wharf, Chase Manhattan Bank (London, England) * American Business Center (Berlin, Germany) AFRICA * New office buildings for USAID (Cairo, Egypt)
Mustafa K. Abadan, the partner of SOM.
He Buılds The World Mustafa K. Abadan joined SOM’s NY office in1983 and became a design partner in 1996. SOM is one of the largest and most influential architecture, interior design, engineering, and planning firms in the world. 56 • TurkofAmerica
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he most remarkable building projects in cities from Asia to North America, Europe to South America bear his signatures. Some examples are the Philippine American Life Building, the largest life insurance company in the Philippines, the AIG Tower, a 607 ft., 40 story skyscraper in Hong Kong, the Tokyo Midtown, the $3 billion project which includes office, residential, commercial, hotel, and leisure space, as well as the tallest building in Tokyo, and the UBS Warburg Center, the largest trading floor in the world in Stamford, Connecticut.
NORTH AMERICA * John Jay College of Criminal Justice Expansion Project (NY) * Memorial Sloan-Kettering Mortimer B. Zuckerman Research Center (NY) * UBS Warburg Center (Stamford, Connecticut) * Harlem USA Mall and Business Center (Harlem, NY) * The Milstein Hospital Building. (NY) * Kings County Hospital Center (Brooklyn, NY) * Various projects for St. Luke’s / Roosevelt Hospital. (NY) * Various projects for Lenox Hill Hospital (NY) * Mount Sinai Medical Center (NY) * Time Warner Center (NY) SOUTH AMERICA * JP Morgan’s Abrill Center and Birmann 29 (Sao Paulo, Brazil) * The Inpar Development (Sao Paulo, Brazil) * Rio Office Park (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) * Birmann 24 (Santiago, Chile)