Yamasaki & Associates

Yamasaki Associates, Inc.
Former type	Private
Industry	Architecture
Fate	Dissolved
Predecessor	None
Successor	None
Founded	1955
Founder	Minoru Yamasaki
Defunct	2009
Headquarters	900 Tower Drive, Suite 190 Troy, Michigan, USA, Troy, Michigan, United States of America
Number of locations	Dubai - satellite office
Area served	United States, Europe, Middle East, Asia, South America
Key people	Minoru Yamasaki (Founder) Ted Ayoub (CEO) Lee Yesh (CFO)
Services	architecture, design, interior architecture, planning, programming, site analysis, space planning, master planning, project management, cost management
Revenue	$5-10 million
Number of employees	100 (2007) 20 (2009)
Website	YamasakiInc.com

Yamasaki Associates, Inc. (also as Minoru Yamasaki Associates, Inc. before 1986) was an architectural firm based in Troy, Michigan. Its founder, Minoru Yamasaki was well known for his design of the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

History

Founded in 1955, the firm designed mainly commercial and residential towers in the United States. After 1987, the firm worked overseas on projects in Azerbaijan, Brazil, China, India, South Korea, Spain and Turkey. Cevahir Istanbul, Harvard University and Carleton College are the only non-office tower project worked on. In total, the firm was involved in 43 projects during its existence.^[1]

Demise

The firm laid off the last of its employees on December 31, 2009 and ceased operations in January 2010. Following the collapse of the credit market in 2007 the firm faced serious shortfalls in revenue as various real estate projects were canceled.

References

↑ http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=company&id=100894

External links

YAMASAKI Architects - Planners - Engineers - Interior Designers

Architecture by Minoru Yamasaki

Skyscrapers	One Woodward Avenue (1963) IBM Building (1963) The Century Plaza Hotel (1966) M&T Bank Center, Buffalo (1967) World Trade Center Tower 1, Tower 2, Buildings 4, 5 and 6 (1970–1971) Montgomery Ward Corporate Headquarters Tower (1972) Century Plaza Towers (1975) Bank of Oklahoma (1977) Rainier Bank Tower (1977) Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (1978) 100 Washington Square (1981) Torre Picasso (1988) Columbia Center (1989–2000)

Airports	Lambert-St. Louis International Airport main terminal (1956) Dhahran International Airport terminal (1961) Eastern Airlines terminal at Logan Airport (1969) King Fahd International Airport master plan (1977)

Houses of worship	North Shore Congregation Israel (1964) Temple Beth El (1974) Shinji Shumeikai Founder's Hall (1982)

Other buildings	Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch Building annex (1951) Pruitt–Igoe housing project (1954) Grosse Pointe University School (1954) Military Personnel Records Center (1955) McGregor Memorial Conference Center (1957) Prentis Building and DeRoy Auditorium Complex (1959) Robertson Hall at Princeton University (1965) Pacific Science Center (1962) Irwin Library at Butler University (1963) Oberlin Conservatory of Music (1963) Quo Vadis Entertainment Center (1966) Dr. John Archer Library (1967) Japan Center (1968) Tulsa Performing Arts Center (1976) Istanbul Cevahir (1987)

Landscape architecture	Wascana Centre and University of Regina - Regina Campus (1961–1967)

List of works by Minoru Yamasaki

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