Obituary: Henry N. Cobb, 1926-2020

Henry Cobb with a model of the John Hancock Tower (left) and pictured in 2018 (right).

Photo Left Courtesy Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. Photo Right © John Werner

Modernist architect Henry N. Cobb, a founding partner of Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners, known to friends as Harry, died March 2, 2020, one month before he would have turned 94.

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