Boston – CBT Architect named Kishore Varanasi as Director of Urban Design.
Kishore’s vision and leadership have been instrumental in shaping and expanding the firm’s award-
winning urban design practice both internationally and nationally over the last eight years.
Kishore was a key team member on the master plan for NorthPoint which received the highest national
recognition from the American Institute of Architects with the 2006 Honor Award for Regional and Urban
Design. At Boston University, his strategic plan involves the transformation of highway infrastructure into
the creation of a new intermodal transit facility and a major public space serving over 100,000 people in
the municipalities of Boston, Cambridge and Brookline. In addition, Kishore was appointed in 2010 by
Mayor Thomas M. Menino to Boston’s Complete Streets Advisory Committee, which will develop street
design guidelines to transform our public realm into areas that are safe, sustainable, technologically smart
and accessible to all users.
“Kishore’s work has advanced the firm’s urban design practice through engendering collaboration with
multiple constituents to realize big visions. His understanding of all aspects of cities—particularly the
physical, social and political realms—and the ability to synthesize them towards a common good has won
the admiration of his peers, clients, collaborators, community members and public officials,” said Charles
Tseckares, FAIA, founding principal of CBT Architects. “In his work, Kishore engages all stakeholders to
think collectively and focus on the generative issues that shape our cities such as quality of public space,
diversity of architecture, social equality and economic vitality. We look forward to Kishore’s continued
leadership within the urban design practice.”
Under Kishore’s leadership, CBT’s urban design practice will continue to work in North America and its
recent expansion to South America, the Middle-East and Asia. The practice will focus on both public and
private sector projects that sustain our cities and towns through Brownfield redevelopments, small town
visions, waterfront/port developments, creation of parks and public spaces, downtown revitalizations,
infrastructure transformations, campus planning and mixed-use developments.