| Project | City | Country | Designed | Completed | Notes | Image |
| 131 Ponce de Leon Avenue | Atlanta, Georgia | USA | | 1949 | Under demolition/redevelopment as of February 2013 | |
| Roosevelt Field Mall | Garden City, New York | USA | 1951 | 1956 | | |
| Mile High Center and redesigning of Denver's Courthouse Square | Denver, Colorado | USA | 1956 | | | |
| William L. Slayton House | Washington, DC | USA | | 1960 | | |
| Erieview Plan | Cleveland, Ohio | USA | 1960 | | | |
| Government Center Master Plan | Boston, Massachusetts | USA | 1961 | | | |
| University Apartments | Chicago, Illinois | USA | 1961 | | | |
| Cathedral Square of Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul | Providence, Rhode Island | USA | 1962 | 1972 | | |
| Kennedy Theatre, University of Hawaii | Honolulu, Hawaii | USA | 1962 | | | |
| Hale Manoa Dormitory, East West Center, University of Hawaii | Honolulu, Hawaii | USA | 1962 | | | |
| Kips Bay Plaza | New York, New York | USA | 1963 | | | |
| Luce Memorial Chapel, Tunghai University | Taichung | Taiwan | 1963 | | | |
| Society Hill Towers | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | USA | 1964 | | | |
| Green Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts | USA | 1964 | | | |
| S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University | Syracuse, New York | USA | 1964 | | | |
| Washington Plaza | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | USA | 1964 | | | |
| The Century Towers | Los Angeles, California | USA | 1965 | | | |
| University Village, New York University | New York, NY | USA | 1966 | | | |
| Pei Residence Halls and Student Union at New College of Florida | Sarasota, Florida | USA | 1967 | | | |
| Mesa Laboratory | Boulder, Colorado | USA | 1967 | | National Center for Atmospheric Research | |
| Sculpture Wing of the Des Moines Art Center | Des Moines, Iowa | USA | 1968 | | | |
| Southwest Washington Redevelopment Plan | Washington, D.C. | USA | 1968 | | | |
| State University of New York Campus Master Plan | Fredonia, New York | USA | 1968 | | | |
| Everson Museum of Art | Syracuse, New York | USA | 1968 | | | |
| Cleo Rogers Memorial Library | Columbus, Indiana | USA | 1963 | 1969 | | |
| Bedford-Stuyvesant Superblock Plan | Brooklyn, New York | USA | 1969 | | | |
| Dreyfus Chemistry Building, MIT | Cambridge, Massachusetts | USA | 1970 | | | |
| Master Plan, Columbia University | New York, New York | USA | 1970 | | | |
| 16 FAA air traffic control towers | in various locations throughout the US, such as O'Hare International Airport, Tampa International Airport, Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, Columbia Metropolitan Airport, and Indianapolis International Airport | USA | 1970 | | Some 50-70 were originally planned for the contract, though only 16 were ultimately built. | |
| Sundrome at JFK Airport | New York City | USA | 1970 | | Demolished in 2011 | |
| Wilmington Tower, now the I. M. Pei Building | Wilmington, Delaware | USA | 1971 | | | |
| Paul Mellon Arts Center at Choate Rosemary Hall | Wallingford, Connecticut. | USA | 1972 | | | |
| Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Commerce Court West | Toronto, Ontario | Canada | 1973 | | | |
| Spelman Halls at Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey | USA | 1973 | | | |
| Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York | USA | 1973 | | | |
| Augusta Commerce Building, Lamar Building Penthouse, The Ramada, the James Brown Arena, Bicentennial Park, The Revitalization plan of Augusta | Augusta, GA | USA | 1974 | | | |
| Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Centre (OCBC) | Downtown Core (Singapore) | Singapore | 1976 | | | |
| Ralph Landau Chemical Engineering Building, MIT | Cambridge, Massachusetts | USA | 1976 | | | |
| Wilson Commons, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York | USA | | 1976 | | |
| National Bank of Commerce Building | Lincoln, Nebraska | USA | | 1976 | | |
| Dallas City Hall | Dallas, Texas | USA | 1977 | | | |
| East Building, National Gallery of Art | Washington, D.C. | USA | 1978 | | | |
| John F. Kennedy Library | Boston, Massachusetts | USA | 1979 | | A white triangular tower rises beside a black glass building, with circular structures on either side. Pei considers the John F. Kennedy Library "the most important commission" in his life. | |
| One Dallas Center | Dallas, Texas | USA | 1979 | | | 210px |
| Biltmore Building | Asheville, North Carolina | USA | 1978 | 1980 | | |
| West Wing, Museum of Fine Arts | Boston, Massachusetts | USA | 1981 | | | |
| Gem City Building | Dayton, Ohio | USA | 1978 | 1981 | Became National City Center, then PNC Bank Building | |
| Indiana University Art Museum at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. | Bloomington, Indiana | USA | 1978 | 1982 | | |
| Sunning Plaza | Hong Kong | China | 1982 | | Under demolition/redevelopment, demolished in 2013. | |
| Texas Commerce Tower | Houston, Texas | USA | 1982 | | | |
| Fragrant Hill Hotel | Beijing | China | 1982 | | | |
| 16th Street Mall | Denver, Colorado | USA | | 1982 | | |
| Energy Plaza | Dallas, Texas | USA | 1983 | | | |
| Wiesner Building - Center for the Arts and Media Technology, MIT | Cambridge, Massachusetts | USA | 1984 | | | |
| IBM Corporate Headquarters, now MasterCard International Global Headquarters | Purchase, New York | USA | 1984 | | | |
| Fountain Place | Dallas, Texas | USA | 1986 | | | |
| Raffles City | Civic District | Singapore | 1986 | | | |
| Miami Tower | Miami, Florida | USA | 1987 | | | |
| Bank of China Tower | Hong Kong | China | 1989 | | | |
| Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center | Dallas, Texas | USA | 1989 | | | |
| Carl C. Icahn Center for Science at Choate Rosemary Hall | Wallingford, Connecticut | USA | 1989 | | | |
| Creative Artists Agency Headquarters | Beverly Hills, California | USA | 1989 | | | |
| The Gateway (Singapore) | Downtown Core | Singapore | 1990 | | | |
| Shinji Shumeikai Bell Tower | Shiga | Japan | 1990 | | | |
| The Towers at Wildwood Plaza | Atlanta, Georgia | USA | 1991 | | | |
| The Kirklin Clinic of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System | Birmingham, Alabama | USA | 1992 | | | |
| Four Seasons Hotel New York | New York, New York | USA | 1993 | | | |
| Louvre Pyramid and La Pyramide Inversée, Louvre | Paris | France | 1988 | | | |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | Cleveland, Ohio | USA | 1995 | | | |
| Buck Institute for Research on Aging | Novato, California | USA | 1996 | | The first stage of the Master Plan was completed in 1999 | |
| Miho Museum | Shiga | Japan | 1997 | | | |
| Republic of Korea Permanent Mission to the United Nations | New York, New York | USA | 2000 | | | |
| Essensa Condominium | Taguig | Philippines | 2000 | | | |
| Bank of China Head Office Building | Beijing | China | 1996 | 1999 | | |
| Oare Pavilion | Wiltshire | England | 2003 | | | |
| Zeughaus Wing at Deutsches Historisches Museum | Berlin | Germany | 2003 | | | |
| MUDAM-Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean | Luxembourg City | Luxembourg | 2006 | | | |
| Suzhou Museum New Wings | Suzhou | China | 2006 | | | |
| Embassy of the People's Republic of China to the United States of America | Washington, D.C. | USA | 2006 | | | |
| Museum of Islamic Art | Doha | Qatar | 2008 | | The Museum of Islamic Art is reminiscent of the design of the National Assembly Building of Dhaka, Bangladesh by Louis Kahn; Pei has been known to admire this building's design. The Museum is connected to the mainland by three 215-foot-long bridges and the Chamesson limestone is lit from all perspectives. | |
| Macao Science Center | Macau | China | 2009 | | The Macao Science Center in Macau, designed by Pei Partnership Architects in association with I. M. Pei. | |
| The Pei Plan for Urban Renewal | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | USA | 1964 | | | |