Thomas Curley

Biography: Thomas Curley AIA LEED AP New York, NY. Thomas Curley is a long-standing member of the Planning Board of the Town of New Castle, NY, located in the hamlet of Chappaqua. Mr. Curley has retired from private practice, but continues to serve his community as a volunteer on matters related to town planning and community development. Thomas Curley's projects from private practice with the firms of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and HOK can be found on six continents for clients as diverse as the Walt Disney Company, The Guggenheim Museum, The City of New York, The United States Air Force Academy, The National Capital Planning Commission, the City of Washington, D.C., the New Jersey Nets, and The Smithsonian Institution, among many others. Mr. Curley has designed new towns in the Philippines, China, Australia, Russia India and provided a submission for the 2008 Olympic Village in Beijing. He was the lead designer for EuroDisney in Marne la-Valle, and he provided strategic planning for 9,000 acres of Disney property south of the Disney World Resort in Florida. Mr. Curley provided the master plan for the reconstruction of downtown Beirut, for which he won an international design award for excellence from the Congress for New Urbanism. At the national level, he was one of the authors of the Washington Legacy Plan for the National Capital Planning Commission, and completed a 25-year master plan for Congress for Capitol Hill. In New York, he was the master planner for a new community of 1,400 units of affordable housing and half a million square feet of commercial development for the city of New York on one of the city's last large land holdings. Mr. Curley believes that to be called to service on public projects is the highest calling an architect can achieve. Mr. Curley has served on five advisory panels for the ULI, including those for Homestead AFB, Allentown PA, Downtown Denver, and Downtown Los Angeles.