Pelli Clarke Pelli

World-Renowned Architects

The master design architect for the Club’s Redevelopment Project, Pelli Clarke Pelli, has designed buildings that adorn skylines of major cities in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Firm principals Cesar Pelli and Fred Clarke are closely overseeing the project, with Clarke traveling frequently from New Haven, Connecticut to Azabudai to meet with Club management and committees.

The firm has extensive experience in Asia and dramatically changed the skyline of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with its design of the Petronas Twin Towers just a few years ago. What were expected to become symbols of a city became symbols of a nation. For a time, the towers were the world’s tallest buildings.

Pelli Clarke Pelli has also designed buildings many Japanese would recognize. Its creations include Atago Green Hills and the US Embassy in Tokyo as well as Osaka’s National Museum of Art, known for its vaulting, stainless steel, bamboo-inspired entrance.

Pelli Clarke Pelli won the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Firm Award in 1989 for its standard-setting work. It has won international recognition with more than 100 design excellence awards. In 1991, the AIA selected Pelli as one of the 10 most influential living architects and in 1995 awarded him its gold medal for his lifetime of achievement.

Clarke, meanwhile, was elected to the AIA College of Fellows in 1992 and became a first class registered architect in Japan in 1997. He won a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony in 1998 to study the social responsibilities of architects working on large urban projects.