Director, KPF
Elie Gamburg is a Director at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates with over 15 years of experience and LEED AP certification. Since joining KPF in 2004, he has worked on designs for a wide range of projects in the United States, Asia, Europe, India, and the Middle East. He has experience with a variety of program types including academic, commercial, institutional, mixed-use, master planning, residential, and retail.
Presently, Mr. Gamburg is leading the design of a major residential project provisionally named Seaport Square Blocks M1 + M2, which will be the largest private residential development project in Boston since 1965 when completed in 2019. The project is centered on a new public piazza that promises to be one of the most exciting and actively programmed in Boston. Other residential work includes several luxury condominium projects currently underway at undisclosed sites throughout New York City.
Internationally, Mr. Gamburg is currently leading the design for “The Royal Atlantis” a new hotel and residential project in Dubai that is intended to be a centerpiece of hotel development for the coming 2020 expo. The project has an innovative design featuring a series of exterior “sky-courts”, based on the cultural traditional of mid-east courtyards, but now suspended up to forty stories in the sky. Beyond designing the main hotel, KPF’s involvement has expanded to include other important site buildings including a Mediterranean Restaurant inspired by the flow of water, a Japanese restaurant floating beneath a roof with a 16m cantilever, and a pair of private villas that will set a new standard for luxury in Dubai.
In the United States, Mr. Gamburg worked on the 9.5 million-square-foot Boston Seaport Square “Innovation District” Master Plan and on the concept design for NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress Building (CUSP) in New York City. Both projects create spaces for innovation and new types of work and research experiences. The Seaport Square Innovation District has evolved into a centerpiece of Boston’s plans to retain knowledge based companies and workers, while developing a new mixed-use neighborhood centered around a live-work lifestyle that embodies emerging employment culture and patterns. The CUSP project was a master plan for NYU’s new program that researches the way we live in and develop our cities.
