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(Above: Barbara Pook on location at one of her firm’s construction projects)
Center, the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center, and NYC 42nd Street
Theatres.
Her company’s international reach includes buildings from Santiago, Chile to
Shanghai to Poland. Projects all seem to get completed in a systematic way
largely because of Barbara’s calm demeanor and professional focus that is
trusted and appreciated by her teams of engineers, her partners, and her staff.
Barbara Pook and her team of engineers work to execute each architect’s idea.
According to Pook, there is no aesthetic input. “It’s just how do we make it work
in the space,” she says. The real technical and creative challenge is making the
materials take the shape required and, at times, modifying the design to make
the materials work in the space. This is where Barbara steps in to work with the
architect and her firm.