Cosentini Associates is an engineering firm that provides consulting engineering services for the building industry.
Company history
Cosentini Associates was founded in 1952 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. Two 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. The company is headquartered at 498 Seventh Avenue in New York City. The firm also has offices in other US cities including Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Houston.
In 1999, Cosentini was acquired by Tetra Tech, Inc., a nationwide alliance offering consulting, engineering, and technical services.
Notable projects
1950s
SUNY Albany's Uptown Campus, Edward Durell Stone Time-Life Building (Chicago), Wallace Harrison of Harrison, Abramovitz, and Harris
1960s
Huntington Hartford Museum, Edward Durell Stone Ford Foundation Building, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo of KRJDA Habitat 67, Moshe Safdie IBM Pavilion, 1964-1965 New York World's Fair, Eero Saarinen Israel Museum, Alfred Mansfeld, Armand Bartos, and Frederick Kiesler 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 John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, I. M. Pei John Hancock Tower, Henry N. Cobb of I. M. Pei & Partners 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 Carnegie Hall Tower, César Pelli Crystal Cathedral, Philip Johnson Lipstick Building, Philip Johnson AT&T Building, Philip Johnson United Airlines Terminal at O'Hare International Airport, Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn Architects
1990s
4 Times Square, Bruce Fowle of Fox & Fowle Capella Tower, James Ingo Freed of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse, KPF Disney Animation Building, Robert A. M. Stern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry Rodin Pavilion, KPF United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, James Ingo Freed of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, with Finegold Alexander & Associates The Forum Shops at Caesars
2000s
First World Towers, KPF IAC Building, Frank Gehry Linked Hybrid, Steven Holl National Museum of the American Indian, Douglas Cardinal, Johnpaul Jones, and GBQC Architects Newman Vertical Campus at Baruch College, KPF Lewis Science Library at Princeton University, Frank Gehry Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Frank Gehry Time Warner Center, David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry Vdara
2010s
11 Times Square, Bruce Fowle of FXFOWLE Millennium Place, Handel Architects New World Center, Frank Gehry Shanghai Tower, Gensler
Unbuilt
Atlanta Symphony Center, Santiago Calatrava Chicago Spire, Santiago Calatrava
References
External links
List of projects at The Skyscraper Center , Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat