David Childs

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David M. Childs (born 1941 Princeton, New Jersey) is the Consulting Design Partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill who has projects all over the world and now is designing the Freedom Tower in New York.

Contents 1 Background 2 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Projects 2.1 Washington, DC (1971-1984) 2.2 New York Projects (1984-Present) 2.2.1 Completed 2.2.2 Planned 2.3 Other locations 3 External link

[edit] Background

Deerfield Academy

• Yale College (1963)
• Yale School of Architecture (1967)
• New York Institute of Technology (Honorary degree) (2006)

[edit] Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Projects

[edit] Washington, DC (1971-1984)

• National Geographic headquarters building
• 1300 New York Avenue
• Metro Center
• U.S. News and World Report headquarters
• Four Seasons, Regent and Park Hyatt hotels
• Expansion of the Dulles Airport main terminal.

[edit] New York Projects (1984-Present)

[edit] Completed

• Worldwide Plaza
• 450 Lexington Avenue (over the Main Post Office at Grand Central Station)
• Bertelsmann Tower at Times Square
• New York Mercantile Exchange
• JFK International Airport Arrivals Building
• Bear Stearns Headquarters (383 Madison Avenue)
• 7 World Trade Center
• Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle

[edit] Planned

• Freedom Tower
• New New York Stock Exchange
• New Pennsylvania Station at James Farley Post Office Building (Moynihan Station)
• Renovation of Lever House
• Boston Properties Times Square Tower

[edit] Other locations

• Embassy of the United States in Ottawa

[edit] External link

• Official SOM Biography