Hugh Hardy is the founder of H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, known for design of distinctive new buildings, restoration of historic structures, and planning projects for the public realm. Among his most celebrated projects are: the new New York Botanical Garden Leon Levy Visitor Center (Bronx, NY); reconstruction and addition of the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (Cooperstown, NY); restoration of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s façade (Brooklyn, NY); the new office of the New York Academy of Sciences at 7 World Trade Center (New York, NY); the new 12 courtroom United States Courthouse (Jackson, MS); reconstruction of Packer Collegiate Institute’s new school in a nineteenth-century James Renwick church (Brooklyn, NY); restoration of Radio City Music Hall (New York, NY); the new U.S. Customs and Immigration Center at Rainbow Bridge (Niagara Falls, NY); and the redesign of Bryant Park (New York, NY).
           Hardy’s latest national awards include the 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award in Theatre Design from the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology, the 2001 Placemark Award from the Design History Foundation and the 2000 Commissioner’s Award for Excellence in Public Architecture from the U.S. General Services Administration.
           In 2004, Hardy created H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, an outgrowth of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, which he co-founded in 1967. HHPA was preceded by Hugh Hardy & Associates, established in 1962.