Dawood Rouben has international experience in a broad variety of high-end commercial real estate projects at various scales. Prior to DXR, Dawood was a Senior Architect at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates in New York City. His portfolio includes master-planning, commercial headquarters, speculative office, value-add repositioning, adaptive reuse, renovation, institutional, mixed-use, hospitality, residential and retail developments, for class-A tenants and Fortune 500 clients worldwide. At KPF, his award-winning projects garnered much local and international attention by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), MIPIM, Iconic Design Awards and at the World Architecture Festival (WAF) and were featured in publications by the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Crain’s, The Real Deal, Real Estate Weekly, Politico New York, The New York Times, New York Post and Oculus Magazine.

 

To date, Dawood has contributed to the development of approximately four million square feet of prime New York City real estate, including the award-winning transformation of 390 Madison Avenue, the repositioning of 75 Rockefeller Plaza and the ground up development of Two Waterline Square - as part of the largest private residential development in the history of New York City - with a record-breaking $2.3 Billion in construction financing and equity funding from sovereign wealth fund ADIA. Also under development are 343 Madison a new high-rise commercial project, as well as a super-tall tower for 80 South Street. The latter once completed will effectively be the tallest mixed-use (hotel-residential) tower in the world - recording the highest occupied floor in Manhattan - taller than One World Trade.

 

Internationally, Dawood has led the design and development of over 12.5 million square feet. In China alone, he has been involved in some of the largest high-rise master plan developments in several of China’s major cities - including Suzhou, Xuhui, Shenzhen and Futian for OCT, Vanke, Anbang and Ping An respectively.

 

Dawood received his Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his Master of Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture, where he was the recipient of the Chair Award and Takenaka Fellowship and his Master of Science in Real Estate Development from New York University.

390 MADISON AVENUE

New York, NY, USA

 

Project Details

 

Gross Floor Area

79,900 m2 / 859,100 ft2

 

Type

Office, Repositioning

 

Awards

Gold - Repositioning/Redevelopment

Commercial Property Executive

Distinguished Achievement Awards 2019

 

Innovative Architecture - Best of Best

ICONIC Award 2018

 

Best "Old and New Project"

Architectural Review /

MIPIM Future Projects Award 2018

 

Merit Award

AIA New York 2016

 

Office Future - Shortlisted

World Architecture Festival 2016