Cosentini Associates

Cosentini Associates provides consulting engineering services for the building industry.

Company history

William R. Cosentini, founder of Cosentini Associates

Cosentini Associates was founded in 1951 by William Randolph Cosentini as W.R. Cosentini and Associates. William Cosentini was the second born child of Italian immigrant parents Eugenio and Vincenza Cosentini. He earned his MA in mechanical engineering from New York University. Three years after founding the company, William Cosentini died in 1954 at 41 years of age. The company was established to provide consulting services in the mechanical and electrical engineering disciplines. What started out as a six-person firm has grown to employ more than 300 workers in offices in New York, NY; Cambridge, MA; Chicago, IL; Houston, TX; Los Angeles, CA; Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Paris, France; Shanghai, China; Seoul, Korea; and Moscow, Russia.

Project types include corporate headquarters, high-rise commercial office buildings, tenant interiors, libraries, academic facilities, museums and performing arts centers, government office buildings, command and control facilities, hotels, residential towers, large-scale mixed- use developments, healthcare and R&D facilities, courthouses, and mission-critical facilities.

In 1999, Cosentini greatly expanded its engineering and design resources by joining Tetra Tech, Inc., a nationwide alliance offering consulting, engineering, and technical services. With nearly 13,000 associates in 330 offices around the world, the company supports commercial and government clients in engineering design, resource management and infrastructure, telecommunications support services, applied science, management consulting, and construction management.

Notable projects

1950s

• SUNY Albany's Uptown Campus, Edward Durell Stone^[1]
• Time-Life Building (Chicago), Wallace Harrison of Harrison, Abramovitz, and Harris^[2]

1960s

• Huntington Hartford Museum, Edward Durell Stone
• Ford Foundation Building, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo of KRJDA^[3]
• Habitat 67, Moshe Safdie
• IBM Pavilion, 1964-1965 New York World's Fair, Eero Saarinen
• Israel Museum, Alfred Mansfeld, Armand Bartos, and Frederick Kiesler^[4]
• New England Aquarium, Peter Chermayeff of Cambridge Seven Associates

1970s

• Field Museum of Natural History restoration, Harry Weese
• Grand 1894 Opera House renovation, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer
• IDS Center, Philip Johnson^[5]
• John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, I. M. Pei
• John Hancock Tower, Henry N. Cobb of I. M. Pei & Partners^[6]
• Solar One, Mária Telkes
• Solow Building, Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
• Washington Metro, Harry Weese

1980s

• 499 Park Avenue, James Ingo Freed of I. M. Pei & Partners^[7]
• Carnegie Hall Tower, César Pelli^[8]
• Crystal Cathedral, Philip Johnson^[9]
• Lipstick Building, Philip Johnson
• AT&T Building, Philip Johnson
• United Airlines Terminal at O'Hare International Airport, Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn Architects^[10]

1990s

• 4 Times Square, Bruce Fowle of Fox & Fowle^{[11][12][13][14]}
• Capella Tower, James Ingo Freed of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners^[15]
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse, KPF^[16]
• Disney Animation Building, Robert A. M. Stern
• Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry^[17][18]
• Rodin Pavilion, KPF^[19][20]
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, James Ingo Freed of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, with Finegold Alexander + Associates Inc^[21][22]

2000s

• First World Towers, KPF^[23]
• IAC Building, Frank Gehry^[24][25]
• Linked Hybrid, Steven Holl^[26]
• National Museum of the American Indian, Douglas Cardinal, Johnpaul Jones, and GBQC Architects^[27][28]
• Newman Vertical Campus at Baruch College, KPF^[29]
• Lewis Science Library at Princeton University, Frank Gehry
• Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Frank Gehry^[30]
• Time Warner Center, David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill^[31][32]
• Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry

2010s

• 11 Times Square, Bruce Fowle of FXFOWLE^[33][34]
• Millennium Place, Handel Architects^[35]
• New World Center, Frank Gehry^[36]
• Shanghai Tower, Gensler^[37][38][39]

Un-built

• Atlanta Symphony Center, Santiago Calatrava
• Chicago Spire, Santiago Calatrava

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Further Information

List of projects at The Skyscraper Center, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat