Henry Cobb, noted architect who ‘designed modern Boston,’ dies at 93
"You can’t miss Cobb’s vision — from his 1963 master plan for Government Center; the Harbor Towers; John Hancock tower; Moakley Courthouse; and One Dalton."
Henry N. Cobb, a renown architect who designed several landmark buildings in Boston and was a founding partner of the Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, died in his Manhattan home March 2 at the age of 93, according to a spokesman at the New York City based architectural firm.
After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cobb went on to design several well-known buildings, ranging from the John Hancock tower in Boston to the Portland Museum of Art in Maine to the Palazzo Lombardia in Milan, the Globe’s Emily Sweeney reports.
In September 2018 Cobb was featured in a Globe story under the headline “The man who designed modern Boston.”
“Henry Cobb may be the most accomplished Boston-born modern architect,” journalist Rachel Slade wrote. “Approach the city from the north, south, west, or the harbor, and you can’t miss Cobb’s vision — from his 1963 master plan for Government Center; the Harbor Towers; the John Hancock tower; the Moakley Courthouse; and One Dalton, now under construction in the Back Bay. He’s the rare figure who knew what it was like to build a skyscraper in Boston half a century ago, during the city’s first skyward reach — and what it’s like today.”
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