Co-founder of the firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Cobb did have well-known buildings in other cities: Place Ville-Marie (Montreal), Fountain Place (Dallas), the U.S. Bank Tower (Los Angeles), Torre Espacio (Madrid), the International African American Museum (opening next year in Charleston). But he made his biggest mark in his hometown, with the Moakley Courthouse, Harbor Towers, One Dalton, and, most famously, the John Hancock Tower. – The Boston Globe