FXCollaborative Architects
We believe in the power of intelligence, intuition, and interconnection to design a better world.
We design places that resonate. We create authentic and enduring character rooted in the richness of context: the natural, the urban, and the social.
We build with deep respect for our planet. Humanity is at a decisive point in its relationship with the natural world. We must build and dwell in ways that repair the planet’s health and our own.
We celebrate our clients’ unique cultures. We believe in the creative power of collaboration. We orchestrate deep partnerships with clients, stakeholders, and consultants.
We embrace diversity and promote social responsibility. The firm’s ethos springs from the brilliant diversity of our beliefs, values, and backgrounds. It is at the very core of our ability to serve clients, the profession, and the larger community.
On Complexity
We deliver clarity for a complex world. We work at the intersection of deep expertise, robust imagination, and energetic collaboration.
On the City
We are passionately engaged in the revitalization and reinvention of cities. We approach each project with an urban ethos of contributing to the larger context to affect positive change. We are architects who are urbanists.
Our Culture + Studio FXCollaborative is a great place to work because it is a great place to grow. We are a “teaching studio” where continual investment in our team and in our process results in better outcomes for our clients, their projects, the profession, and the public. For projects, we seek opportunities for authenticity, sustainability, and social justice.
We are organized as a flexible network of typologyfocused design studios which promotes both specialized and cross-disciplinary collaboration. We avoid siloed departments. The same architects guide a project from inception to occupancy.
Our internal community, centered around mentorship and resource groups, is thriving and constantly evolving. We are dedicated to serving the profession and the larger public through advocacy, leadership, and teaching.
Environmental Responsibility & Social Justice
We believe that the environment and social justice are intrinsically interconnected, and that everyone deserves to inhabit healthy spaces.
Social justice, equity, and sustainability are the fabric of FXCollaborative. Begun from a shared ethos of doing good by design, we care deeply about the impact of our work on our planet, and the behavior of our people on society—this has made up the “why” of what we do for over 40 years. Our project teams are currently working towards achieving goals of Net Zero Energy, pandemicsafe interiors, and the highest level of comprehensive frameworks such as LEED, ENERGY STAR, Passive House, WELL and the Living Building Challenge.
In 1999, our firm first set a new benchmark in sustainable design with 4 Times Square in New York City, the first green skyscraper in the United States. 4 Times Square’s unprecedented integration of sustainable design principles and technologies—all implemented for the first time at this scale—galvanized the green building movement and became the catalyst for the development of the USGBC’s LEED rating
system. Since then, FXCollaborative has designed over 21 million square feet of LEED projects ranging in scale from interior renovations to urban skyscrapers.
Our dedication to sustainability is visible throughout the firm culture. All staff are required to earn LEED accreditation from the US Green Building Council, eight of our architects are Certified Passive House Professionals, and many of our colleagues are WELL or Fitwel credentialed. We are a winner of the EPA’s ENERGY STAR Small Business Award, the first awarded to an architecture firm. Since 2008, we have maintained carbon neutral operations through renewable energy offsets. We were early signatories of the AIA 2030 Commitment and the Architecture & Design Materials Pledge. Our own office, completed in 2022, achieved LEED Platinum with the highest score of any LEED v4 ID+C project in the country.
Integrated Project Approach
Our holistic design approach relies on professionals with both broad and specialized expertise, working in an open and inclusive process.
At the onset of each project, we facilitate a series of sustainability workshops with the owner, engineers, interior designer, landscape architect, construction manager, and other key team members. The workshops enable this diverse group to work collaboratively in establishing sustainable project goals, and to develop a framework and roadmap for realizing them. Because of this collaborative approach, our teams are founded on relationships of experience, creativity, cooperation, and communication. Our role is to guide and orchestrate the realization of these environmental objectives within the greater context of aesthetic, programmatic, economic, and technical requirements.
We begin each design process with a comprehensive environmental analysis. Using building performance modeling software, we develop an early understanding of the environmental conditions of a project site, including temperature, humidity, daylight hours, insulation, precipitation, cloud cover, wind, and other seasonal variations.
This preliminary analysis informs our concept development, enabling us to integrate environmentallyresponsive passive strategies from a project’s inception. As the project evolves, we continue to use these tools to evaluate thermal performance of building envelope details and to understand the impact of specifying selected products. Building Information Modeling (BIM) assists the team in evaluating how design decisions relate to environmental conditions, and enables us to optimize building performance. The results of these analyses help us achieve more ambitious sustainability goals. BIM is a natural fit for our integrated approach, providing a powerful tool to interweave sustainable and tectonic design strategies.
For us, a sustainable building does not end at project completion. Following construction, we have developed in-house post-occupancy analysis surveys and reports, evaluating building performance and occupant comfort. We frequently develop sustainable guidelines, manuals, and educational programs for occupants and facility managers to ensure that a project remains as environmentally-responsible as possible throughout its lifetime.
“Our design process is exploratory, comparative, and highly iterative, a journey we share with the client and stakeholders.” —Mark Strauss
planning & urban design
FXCollaborative believes in cities; that strong, vibrant urban places are the key to our future. Our Urban Design and Planning projects shape cites through the creative design of multi-building developments, streets and public spaces, infrastructure and transportation systems, neighborhoods, campuses, and districts. From inspiring vision plans, to comprehensive master plans, to detailed design guidelines, we craft beautiful, efficient, and sustainable places that can stir the soul, provide a simple moment of delight, or invisibly enhance our everyday routines.
We enjoy the challenges that come with solving complex problems, harmonizing competing forces, and building consensus among stakeholders. Our approach is interdisciplinary and iterative, using design not just as an end product, but as a tool to rapidly explore and understand the opportunities inherent in every project. We embrace the role of economics, politics, and culture in achieving the best solutions.
We partner with our clients and the communities they build in, to create designs that don’t just sit on a shelf, but win the support they need to be realized. We pride ourselves on clear and consistent communication, whether to project teams or public forums. We work with private companies and developers, public agencies, non-profit organizations, and mission-driven institutions, bringing to them our deep knowledge and love of the urban and our understanding of all the steps required to create change and realize projects. We know urban transformation is often incremental, and sudden changes can take years of patient work. Our design solutions are elegant, layered, and integrated, creating rich and diverse places of vibrancy and vitality.
MidCity Master Plan
Nashville, TN
GBT Realty, Monarch Alternative Capital,
Tourmaline Capital Partners
Completion 2025
LEED ND
Adjacent to Nashville’s Music Row, this mixed-use development will create an authentic sense of place and a compelling public realm.
The master plan for MidCity re-imagines a prominent , though underutilized, 8-acre site in Nashville. The plan envisions 2.5 million SF of mixed-use development, including retail, hotel, multi-family residential, and office uses spread over seven high-rise buildings. Adjacent to the famed Music Row, the plan extends the music-oriented placemaking and prioritizes the pedestrian experience
with a diverse range of retail, activating the streetscape.
The site plan integrates the buildings into a carefully crafted landscape plan, balancing generous open spaces and pedestrian network with a sense of discovery and placemaking. The network of pathways and streets across the site integrate with the existing city fabric
and anticipate future development on adjacent sites while mitigating a steep grade change of 60 feet across the length of the site. The building forms and open spaces create a compelling skyline that maximizes daylight penetration into the site and optimizes views to and from the buildings. LEED ND certification is anticipated.
Penn Station District Plan
New York, NY
Empire State Development
Completion 2022
The Penn Station District plan is a vision to promote community and connectivity at multiple scales.
FXCollaborative is leading the design and planning effort to transform the district around Penn Station. At the heart of the busiest transportation hub in the western Hemisphere, Penn Station and its neighborhood are stressed. FXCollaborative, as lead architect and planner of NY State’s General Project Plan, has crafted a master plan framework for a long-term buildout focused on connectivity within the station, the neighborhood, the city,
and the region, and creating a sense of place. The proposed project is critical to achieving a seamlessly integrated intercity rail hub comprising existing Penn Station, Moynihan Train Hall, and the Penn Station expansion. It aims to catalyze transit-oriented development to fund the major renovation and expansion of the station, implement other public transportation and public realm improvements within and around it, and revitalize its surrounding district.
The plan focuses on creating a transitrich mobility district that will serve both the community and the City by improving access and accessibility, significantly expanding and improving the quality of the public realm; and creating a sustainable, world class, high density, transit-integrated development.
The team sought to elevate the pedestrian experience to that of the world-class retail and cultural experiences along the Avenue.
We were engaged by the Fifth Avenue Association, in collaboration with Sam Schwartz, to revision the storied stretch of the Avenue from 42nd to 59th streets, which has an enviable collection of world class architecture, shopping experiences, and cultural institutions. Along with being an iconic destination, Fifth Avenue has also played a role as a vital transportation corridor since its inception – a primary route for five subway lines and 34
express bus routes serving thousands of riders daily. However, this section of the Avenue was in dire need of a transit revitalization to better accommodate an increasing dependence on micro-mobility options including bicycles, scooters, and ride share.
After analyzing multiple options, bike lanes were elevated to the sidewalk level and integrated with the lush greenery, tree canopies, and an enhanced
pedestrian walkway. We studied the bus routes and found efficiencies to better serve the Avenue and more effectively link Upper and Lower Manhattan. We also implemented widened sideways, upgraded transit stops, and integrated bike lanes, landscape, and lighting. The overall result is a more pedestrianoriented, multi-modal corridor and elevated user experience.
Zones for Repose & Sitting
446,000 GSF / 41,000 GSM
Our concept plan reorganizes pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular circulation into rational and efficient routes that minimize conflicts and create enhanced public space.
Philadelphia’s main train station, 30th Street Station, is poised to become a nexus of future growth and development, spurred by increasing ridership and the 2016 Station District Plan, which calls for 18 million square feet of development over and around the adjacent rail yards. Today, the unwelcoming tangle of roadways that surrounds the historic station hinders pedestrian access and fails to provide
the gracious public space appropriate as the setting for this architectural masterpiece.
Building on the success of the temporary installation along one side of the station, “The Porch,” our concept design for the plaza offers a dramatic increase in pedestrian space, with a range of experiences and activities including lively retail, shaded seating, an amphitheater,
and a welcoming lawn. Raised planting areas, trees, fountains, public art, new lighting, and a unified paving pattern help create a space that is varied, welcoming to all, and befits the central role and grandeur of the station. With a new unified plaza, 30th Street Station can take its place among Philadelphia’s great public spaces and bring both beauty and functional efficiency to this increasingly important hub.
“Our architecture creates iconic experiences; that address the street, promote activity, and create excitement.” —Daniel Kaplan
offices & headquarters
Senior Partner Daniel Kaplan directs the firm’s Commercial/Residential practice and views high-rise buildings as an expression of the energy which comes from a city’s vibrant mix of people, activities, and structures.
As one of the leading design firms in New York City, we have an impressive track record working with developers to maximize real estate and create marketable solutions in challenging urban spaces. Innovation, efficiency, occupant well-being, comfort, and convenience remain the priorities. Our commissions include high-performance commercial buildings around the world.
1 Willoughby Square
Brooklyn, NY
JEMB Realty
Completion 2021
457,000 GSF / 42,503 GSM
LEED Silver
A contemporary take on the Brooklyn industrial loft, the office development meets the ethos of today’s creative enterprises.
As the first ground-up office to be constructed in Downtown Brooklyn in decades, it was important that 1 Willoughby Square be anchored to its local heritage while forward-looking in its functionality. The iconic 34-story mixed-use tower is crafted to reflect its context while offering healthy and dynamic work environments for clients in the high-tech and creative industries.
With commanding views to Manhattan and the surrounding region, the building is organized to promote social and natural connectivity; a strategically located side core and column-free, exposed structure allows for wideopen work environments without obstruction and surrounded by daylight. Connectedness is further enhanced by interior atria, exterior terraces, and three “superfloors” incorporating
higher ceiling heights, amenity spaces, and exterior loggias. Rejecting the conventional all-glass formulation, the design is a contemporary take on the famed New York industrial loft with gridded, oversized windows, distinctive blue glazed brick spandrels, and exposed concrete structure. The base of the building houses a new 320-seat public school with its own entrance.
Allianz Tower
Istanbul, Turkey
Renaissance Construction
Completion 2014
930,000 GSF / 86,400 GSM
LEED Platinum
Awards
2016 American Architecture Prize, Commercial—Silver Award; Tall Buildings—Gold Award; Green Architecture—Gold Award
2016 International Property Awards— Europe, Architecture—Commercial High Rise
2016 The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), Best Tall Building—Europe, Finalist
2015 Society of American Registered Architects, National Design Award
2014 Cityscape Global, Commercial Project Award (Future), Finalist
2012 International Design Awards, Silver Award—Conceptual
Ranking among the tallest buildings on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, the 40-story Allianz Tower serves as the headquarters for a multinational financial services company. The tower design draws its inspiration from Istanbul’s unique blend of ancient and modern elements and its position at the junction of Europe and Asia, of East and West. The result is a modern skyscraper imbued with textural richness and ornamentation.
Sited at the intersection of two major highways, the freestanding tower functions as an obelisk, announcing
entrance to the city from the east. Its crystalline, chiseled massing, which takes cues from Ottoman geometric motifs and draws inspiration from surrounding local landforms, rotates approximately 33 degrees for optimum solar control. Sustainability goals also provided a key set of design parameters, leading to Turkey’s first LEED Platinum high rise. The double-skin curtain wall includes stippled golden scrims to further reduce heat loads. Three groupings of double-height sky gardens provide a thermal buffer between the exterior and interior, access to fresh air and a respite for office workers.
Turkey’s first LEED Platinum high rise brings together sculptural massing, a textural solar-responsive skin, and numerous green spaces.
Eleven Times Square
New York, NY
SJP Properties
Completion 2010
1,100,000 GSF / 102,000 GSM
LEED Gold
This 600-foot-tall, 40-story commercial office tower at Eleven Times Square defines the western gateway to New York City’s most famous intersection.
The tower occupies a full block along Eighth Avenue between West 41st and West 42nd Streets, and its massing and articulation reflects the vibrancy of the neighborhood while offering Class-A office space for high-end tenants. Its six-story ribboned base contains several floors of retail space and is capped by three-dimensional LED displays and an
iconic globe. Above, the tower’s main volume slopes outward, culminating in a crystalline cornice—an inversion of Manhattan’s zoning paradigm that enables the client to gain additional leasable space at desirable heights. The tower’s 40-story concrete core allows for column-free corners in office floors, which command panoramic city views
through the tower’s glazed facades, comprised of sheer glass curtainwall and unique silk-screened spandrel panels. The southern and western facades, which receive the most sunlight, feature reflective glass and exterior perforated aluminum sunshades that control daylight penetration and reduce glare while animating the tower’s surface.
Awards
2014 CODAawards, Collaboration of Design + Art, Finalist
2012 BOMA/NY Pinnacle Award for New Construction
2011 Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), Best Tall Building (Americas), Finalist
2011 Environmental Design+Construction, Excellence in Design
2010 New York Construction Best of 2010 Project of the Year Award, Office Building
2010 Society of American Registered Architects Professional Design Award
2010 The Greater New York Construction User Council, Outstanding Project Award
2008 Perspective New York Magazine, Best Mixed-Use Development
SAP Americas Headquarters
Newtown Square, PA
SAP America, Inc.
Completion 2009
425,000 GSF / 40,000 GSM
Phase I: 210,000 GSF
LEED Platinum
Designed to Earn the Energy Star
A leading developer of business software, SAP Americas aspired to create a high-performance campus for its headquarters in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, that would reflect its standing and values for innovation and technology. A previous master plan for the project’s site—a former arboretum replete with a diversity of specimen trees—ignored its most valuable natural assets and called for a new approach.
Starting with a program exercise, our team generated an idea of slipping the building into the site in order to allow it to integrate into the sloped site, creating a surrounding landscape of indigenous plants. Constructed in two phases, the multi-part complex curves organically along the grade of the land, minimizing impact on the landscape as well as preserving an existing grove of chestnut trees. The structure’s two wings are connected by an atrium, enclosed by a triple-glazed curtain wall system, which serves as the circulation spine and a venue for social and corporate gatherings.
Built with utmost attention to its natural site and powered by pioneering renewable systems, the new SAP Americas Headquarters was the first building in the mid-Atlantic region to earn LEED Platinum certification— making it a visible model for bestpractice sustainable design at a large scale.
Awards
2011 Boston Society of Architects, Sustainable Design Awards
2010 International Commercial Property Award (Americas)
2010 AIA New York State Award of Merit, Large Commercial
2010 The Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award
2010 Society of American Registered Architects Professional Design Award
2010 Environmental Design+Construction, Best Commercial Building (Finalist)
2010 MIPIM Award, Business Center (Finalist)
2010 Society of Environmental Graphic Design, Merit Award
2009 The Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award
FXCollaborative sees every element is part of a larger whole, and believe that each has a responsibility to relate to that which is beyond itself. For us, this is what context is really about, not simply building red brick buildings in red brick neighborhoods.
mixed-use
Across the USA, the UAE, India, and Asia, we design environmentally-responsible mixed-use buildings tailored to the local climatic conditions, site parameters, and program elements. Our experience designing
best-in-class office buildings, institutional facilities, and residential projects has allowed us to elevate the standards for mixed-use centers. Each of our projects is high performance, market-responsive, and visionary.
New York, NY
Boston Properties + The Moinian Group
Completion 2025
1,800,000 GSF / 167,000 GSM
LEED Gold Anticipated
Sited along the new Hudson Boulevard Park, 3 Hudson Boulevard is uniquely positioned as an anchor to the emerging Hudson Yards District.
Setting new standards for urban, commercial developments, 3 Hudson Boulevard is uniquely positioned as an anchor to the emerging Hudson Yards District and the revitalization of Manhattan’s West Side. The tower’s lithe form brings a timeless presence to Manhattan’s skyline, along with extraordinary and unobstructed 360-degree views. State-of the-art office planning coupled with sustainable design practices creates the ideal workplace environment. Crowned atop the tower are a duplex rooftop entertainment space, outdoor terrace and sky garden.
2014 World Architecture News, Commercial Award—Future Project Finalist
35XV
New York, NY
Alchemy Properties / Angelo Gordon
Completion 2015
170,000 GSF / 15,800 GSM
LEED Silver
Rising 347 feet above its mid-block site, 35XV is a dynamic addition to Manhattan’s vibrant Chelsea neighborhood. Utilizing excess development rights from the historic Xavier High School, the unique, residential-academic hybrid design artfully resolves the project’s principal requirements: providing needed expansion space for Xavier; creating highly crafted residential units that take advantage of their elevated location; conforming to highly restrictive municipal bulk controls, including sloped sky exposure planes; and being a “good neighbor,” relating to the both the Xavier campus and to the neighboring streetscape, despite the project’s overall size. 35XV sets new standards in the growing trend of air rights development, meeting housing demands in a dense Manhattan neighborhood while providing needed support for a local non-profit institution, all within a contextually specific, sculptural design.
Setting new standards in the growing trend of air rights development, 35XV is an artful composition of program and form.
Awards
2019 American Institute of Architects—New York Chapter Design Awards, Merit Award for Architecture
2018 The Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award, Residential Architecture
2018 The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), Best Tall Building Americas–Award of Excellence
2017 Society of American Registered Architects, National Design Award
2017 NYCxDESIGN Award, Multi-Unit Residential Building
2016 American Council of Engineering Companies—New York, Platinum Award, Optimized Design for Mixed-Use
888 Boylston Street
Boston, MA
Boston Properties
Completion 2016
425,000 GSF / 39,500 GSM
LEED Platinum
The mixed-use building is a captivating symbol of sustainability on the skyline and a welcome conclusion to an important urban ensemble.
As the last development site within the Prudential Center complex, the mixeduse building creates a new front door to one of the world’s most successful urban, commercial environments. 888 Boylston Street was designed to be one of the most sustainable speculative office buildings in New England. The building is 17 floors and LEED Platinum
certified, and maintains a light touch on the environment, enriches its Back Bay context, and enhances the experience of its occupants.
The building is crafted to optimize the indoor environment, office planning flexibility, and building performance. 888 Boylston Street rises to the promise
of its pivotal site as a reinvention of the “commercial palazzo,” referring to the general shape and classical proportions, light-filled workspaces, and clustering of civic and commercial identities. In addition to panoramic views of the Charles River, the building features a revitalized plaza and three floors of retail to activate the street level.
Awards
2018 The Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award, Commercial Architecture
2018 The Chicago Athenaeum GREEN GOOD DESIGN Award
2017 QUAD (AIA NYS / AIA CT / AIA PA / AIA NJ) Design Award, with Distinction
2017 CODAawards, Collaboration of Design + Art Merit Award, Commercial
2017 IALD International Lighting Design Award of Merit and Sustainability
Taking advantage of its views and location, the mixed-use building activates street life and adds program diversity to the neighborhood.
555 E Street SW is a transformative project in Washington DC’s predominantly commercial Southwest area. The 12-story, mixed-use building extends a full block and is designed to take advantage of the site’s proximity to the National Mall, views of national monuments and the DC waterfront, and easy access to the 395 corridor. Retail and lobby spaces on the ground floor activate the site, while above, a U-shaped floorplate contains a combination of market-rate residential units, affordable senior units, and a stylish citizenM hotel. The building includes below-grade parking and amenities that are shared by residents and hotel guests, as well as a central courtyard on the second floor and an active rooftop.
“Each residential project is a unique essay on how a building contributes to the larger context while maintaining a compelling individual presence.” —Daniel Kaplan
We have a strong track record of designing multi-family residential projects in urban areas. Under the direction of Senior Partner Daniel Kaplan, FAIA, LEED AP, in the last fifteen years alone FXCollaborative has completed or is currently working on over 40 residential projects. In that same time, we have designed 9,655 residential units, and we currently have nearly
1,000,000 square feet of condominium and rental projects under construction. Our design approach is based on our commitment to creating healthy, energyefficient, creative, urban developments. The firm is recognized for both its design and technical rigor and, with each project we undertake, we advance the dialogue about what it means to be green and urban.
La Central
Bronx, NY
New York City Department of Housing
Preservation and Development
BRP Development Corporation / The Hudson Companies, Inc. / ELH-TKC, LLC / Breaking Ground / Comunilife, Inc. / YMCA
Completion 2019 (Phase I) / 2021 (Phase 2) / 2025 (Phase 3)
1,100,000 GSF / 102,000 GSM
LEED Gold Anticipated / Passive House Plus Anticipated (Building C)
The design vision marries sustainable housing, vibrant community spaces, and an active urban grid.
Encompassing over one million square feet of development, La Central occupies the last large assemblage of City-owned vacant land in the South Bronx. When complete, it will be a thriving mixed-income, mixeduse development, with a total of 992 units of affordable housing, including 160 units of supportive housing for formerly homeless veterans and New Yorkers living with special needs, a new YMCA, Bronxnet television studios, and a host of new retail, community, and recreation spaces.
The project’s five buildings are organized around a major open space that provides vibrant outdoor
environments for residents and visitors, arranged to reinforce the neighborhood’s existing grid pattern. Sustainability, resiliency, and active design principles are fully integrated into the development with a combination of on-site cogeneration, extensive use of photovoltaic panels, and a super-tight building envelope. Green roofs will cover 50% of the roof areas, including an urban farm training garden operated by GrowNYC.
This deeply sustainable, multi-income complex will provide quality affordable housing and vibrant community spaces for a redeveloping neighborhood.
The Forge
Long Island City, NY
Bruase Realty / Gotham Organization
Completion 2017
265,700 GSF / 25,000 GSM
LEED Silver
Some New Yorkers prefer to look upon Manhattan rather than live within it, but they don’t want to sacrifice the conveniences of urban living. The Forge, a 38-story residential tower located on a quiet, tree-lined cul-de-sac in Long Island City, Queens, presents an appealing alternative: high-end units enhanced by a range of amenities and convenient access to public transportation.
A wedge-shaped site and stringent zoning requirements presented many challenges, but we viewed these constraints as opportunities for creativity. We conceived a slender tower
with stepped massing—a “julienne” scheme comprising four bars of varying heights that maximize daylight and views toward the East River and Manhattan, all while preserving outdoor zones that have been transformed into amenities including a landscaped courtyard, sculpture garden, lap pool, and movie screening area, as well as an al fresco dining space.
Public amenities also abound on the interior. Residents mingle within the double-height lobby and a communal living room, and there is a plethora of spaces tailored to more specific needs: a fitness center, a business bar, and a
A residential development celebrates its industrial context while offering high-end, urbane amenities.
playroom for children. Units range from studios to one and two bedrooms, all of which feature Feng shui–certified layouts with oak flooring, quartz countertops, and high-end appliances.
Drawing from the industrial heritage and artistic spirit of Long Island City, the Forge is clad with a warm, vibrant mix of materials including anodized aluminum, which lends texture and dimension alongside glazed expanses. The building culminates with a rooftop deck that begs the question: What’s better than being in Manhattan? Enjoying views of its skyline silhouetted against a sunset.
2018 AIA Brooklyn–Queens Design Award, Award of Excellence, Multi-Family Residential
The Greenwich Lane
New York, NY
Rudin Management / Global Holdings
Completion 2016
728,000 GSF / 68,000 GSM
LEED Gold, LEED-ND Gold
Located in the heart of the Greenwich Village Historic District, The Greenwich Lane is a unique collection of residences arranged around an expansive central garden.
FXCollaborative is the architect for the redevelopment of the historic St. Vincent’s Hospital Campus. The site is located within the Greenwich Village Historic District and the design for the site received approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The negotiated process identified key buildings for preservation and adaptive reuse based on historical and
architectural merit. The multi-building plan combines new structures with existing buildings, honoring the scale and heritage of Greenwich Village and the historic legacy of the hospital. The redevelopment plan comprises a variety of building types, including a highrise tower to anchor Seventh Avenue, several mid-rise buildings on 11th and 12th Street, and five new townhouses.
Finely crafted apartment layouts take full advantage of the many unique conditions generated by the multibuilding plan. The design weaves new and old together using an architectural vocabulary inspired by the Village including brick, stone, metal trim and vertically proportioned windows.
New York, NY
Douglaston Development
Completion 2023
950,000 GSF / 87,250 GSM
This 58-story, 930-unit mixed-use residential building is located adjacent to the Hudson Yards development and the High Line on Manhattan’s West Side. The building provides a transition from the towering scale of Hudson Yards to the lower scale of West Chelsea, acting as “foothills” to Hudson
Yards. FXCollaborative has helped take the project through a complex ULURP rezoning process, which will make it one of the first projects to gain additional air rights by contributing to the development and maintenance of Hudson River Park. The ground floor includes an 8,500-square-foot retail
space, a 900-square-foot café and retail space, a double-height lobby, and a 200car parking garage. The building will have 25,000 square-feet of residential interior amenity space, and over 18,000 square-feet of outdoor terraces on three levels.
A complex rezoning process has resulted in a residential building with a robust amenity program that is scaled to provide a transition between neighborhoods.
We view infrastructure as a critical component of the built environment; one that benefits from good design and suffers without it.
transportation
The Infrastructure/Transportation practice comprises over a dozen highly experienced transportation designers, architects, and urban designers who have completed a wide variety of project types and scales. The studio’s portfolio includes the following project typologies: transportation planning, light rail station design, subway station design, ferry terminal design, pedestrian and vehicular bridge design, and master planning. Recent public clients include New Jersey Transit, New York City Transit Authority, and the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation. Completed projects span several of New York City’s boroughs in addition to many city and county entities.
We designed the Bergenline Tunnel Station in Union City, NJ, which is a 75,000-square-foot intermodal node in the Hudson Bergen Light Rail System. In addition, the firm was instrumental in the initial design phases of the Second Avenue Subway in Manhattan. Working in conjunction with the DMJM-Harris/Arup joint venture, FXCollaborative’s input assisted in the realization of NYCT’s goals of environmental responsibility and high-performance design for the future subway line. This project was awarded the Green Building Design Award by the City of New York.
FXCollaborative is leading the design effort to transform Penn Station from a cramped, crowded, and unwelcoming space, into a civic beacon of travel and transportation, befitting its role as North America’s busiest passenger rail station. The station currently struggles with three times the passenger volume it served in the 1960s when the grand neo-classical Penn Station building widely regarded as a civic treasure
was demolished and replaced by two unimaginative basement levels beneath Madison Square Garden and an office building. Despite piecemeal improvements over the years, the station today is outdated, poorly configured, highly congested, its finishes worn, its space constrained by a forest of legacy structural elements, and its building systems nearing the end of their useful life.
The Reconstruction Master Plan laid the foundation for major investment in the station, allowing it to maintain and expand operations, renew its infrastructure, improve its revenue stream, and re-establish it as the premier transportation center in the region. The plan evaluated both single-level and two-level alternatives that relieve overcrowding; improve passenger flow, safety, and security;
rationalize station configuration and operations; increase revenue generation; improve passenger experience; unify the existing station with Moynihan Train Hall and a future expansion of the station; and address the existing deficiencies of building systems, platform and building egress, vertical circulation, lighting, finishes, and amenities.
In June 2023, FXCollaborative was
thrilled to receive the support of Governor Kathy Hochul, MTA, Amtrak, and NJ Transit for our design and our continued leadership of the architectural team for a new Penn Station. We will direct the architectural vision and design for Penn Station and are excited to welcome collaborating architects John McAslan + Partners and Studio 397 to the team. Building on the Master Plan, and with the addition of both
internationally renowned and local design talent, our team will deliver the world class Penn Station that New Yorkers, and all 600,000 daily passengers, deserve.
The Reconstruction Project will create a world-class, 21st-century transportation hub.
Georgia Multi-Modal Passenger Terminal
Atlanta, GA
Georgia Department of Transportation
Design Completion 2013
119 Acres / 51 Hectares
LEED-ND Gold Anticipated
LEED Silver Anticipated
The Terminal weaves together transportation, the public realm, and private development, creating an integrated nexus of connections and a catalyst for growth.
The city of Atlanta boasts nearly every form of transit, yet has long lacked a downtown hub to centralize and streamline these fragmented entities. Our design concept for the Georgia Multi-Modal Passenger Terminal (MMPT), developed in association with Cooper Carry Associates, proposes a new regional and metropolitan transportation center and a master plan for 119 acres of downtown Atlanta.
This critical piece of infrastructure integrates service for 10 passenger train platforms, including commuter rail and high-speed rail, and 80 bus bays for local, regional, and inter-city buses in a single station. By decking over existing rail yards (known as “the Gulch”) which currently isolate downtown from the city’s sports and convention center complex, the MMPT acts as a hub, knitting together major activity centers of the city. Developed through a public-private partnership, the MMPT creates a new civic presence and acts as a catalyst for private development and urban revitalization.
Awards
2016 Boston Society of Architects Design Award, Unbuilt Architecture and Design
2014 American Institute of Architects— Washington, DC, Honorable Mention, Urban Design and Planning
2014 Society of American Registered Architects Design Award
2014 International Design Awards— Gold Award, Urban Design
2014 American Institute of Architects— New York State, Award of Merit, Urban Design
2014 Chicago Athenaeum International Design Award
2013 World Architecture News, Transport Award
Second Avenue Subway
New York, NY
New York City Transit Authority
Design Completion 2006
Construction Completion 2017
As the architects on a diverse multidisciplinary team led by a DMJM-Harris/ Arup joint venture, FXCollaborative designed Manhattan’s first new subway line in 50 years—the Second Avenue Subway line. The project eased congestion on the nearby Lexington Avenue line and provides a much-needed connection to mass transportation for the East Side. The new line spans 8.5 miles and includes 16 new stations with
identities unique to their neighborhoods. Consistent throughout the line is the attention to environmental responsibility and maintainability. For example, heat removal is optimized through the use of under-platform and over-track exhaust systems, which will greatly reduce the burden on the ventilation and chiller systems and improve the comfort level and safety of passengers.
Awards
2004 City of New York/US EPA Green Building Design Award
Brick, stone, glass, and metal form the palette of the station, which relates to the adjacent community’s existing buildings and creates a strong civic presence along Bergenline Avenue.
Sited atop the Palisades, the Bergenline Avenue Tunnel Station is one of 12 nodes along the Hudson Bergen Light Rail Transit System. FXCollaborative followed design guidelines intended to maintain consistency among stations
while also responding to contextual cues such as scale and material use, defining a palette of brick, stone, glass, and metal. An expansive plaza at street level provides a public face for the station, and access to the platform, located
160 feet below grade, is gained through elevators enclosed within a brick and glass headhouse structure. It is flanked by a sleek glass canopy and vent stacks, which are subtly lit during evening hours.
“Finding the story of a project in its program can be a powerful and poetic way of letting the project goals drive the form.” —Sylvia Smith
Work for cultural institutions continues to be a significant part of our practice. We especially enjoy working with these clients because it allows us to collaborate with institutions and organizations with a singular dedication to their missions. Led by Senior Partner Sylvia Smith and Partner Heidi Blau, the Cultural practice has conducted feasibility studies, formed master plans, developed comprehensive programs, designed phased renovations, and created new facilities for clients ranging from museums and foundations to non-profit organizations.
When designing significant new constructions, complex additions, and extensive renovations for our cultural clients, we understand their particular need for appropriate design solutions concurrent with an agreed-upon schedule and budget. Programs for these clients have varied from libraries to chapels and from zoos to performance halls.
Our commissions include projects for prestigious organizations and institutions such as the Wadsworth Atheneum, American Bible Society, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Lincoln Center.
The Statue of Liberty Museum
Liberty Island, New York Harbor
Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation
Completion 2019
26,000 GSF / 2,415 GSM
LEED Gold
Awards
2021 The Chicago Athenaeum Green, GOOD DESIGN Awards
2020 NYCxDESIGN Award, NYC’s Shining Moment
2020 The Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Awards, Museums and Cultural Buildings
2019 American Institute of Architects—New York State, Honor Award (Institutional) & Best of the Best
2019 TIME magazine, World’s Coolest Places 2019
2019 Curbed New York, NYC’s Best Building of 2019
While the Statue of Liberty remains New York’s most iconic monument, the museum housed in its base had long proved inadequate for the thousands who visit each day. The new Statue of Liberty Museum, envisioned as an extension of the island’s landscape in Liberty Park, is accessible to millions of new visitors without restrictive security clearances.
The museum’s angular forms and spaces are shaped by expansive views and the irregularity of the water’s edge. The highly sustainable building is designed for long-term resiliency against future
sea level rise, extreme storm surges, and high winds. Our design enhances the site with multiple planted areas, an extensive green roof, and bird-friendly glass. Materials native to the Island and used in the original construction of the Statue of Liberty and Fort Wood, including granite, bronze, and a variety of native vegetation, enrich the interior and exterior spaces.
The biggest addition to Liberty Island since the Statue itself, the museum conveys the history and inspiring message of Lady Liberty to a new generation of visitors.
The museum’s defining gesture is the lifting of the park itself, which creates a new, naturalized habitat in place of a traditional building.
The building embodies the organization’s goal of providing a welcoming, safe, and respectful environment for homeless youth, offering a healing oasis and respite from its dense urban context.
Our design of Covenant House New York’s new purpose-built facility supports the not-for-profit’s mission of providing homeless youth with shelter and opportunities to work toward stable and successful lives. In 2013, we reviewed a series of development scenarios for the organization, ultimately recommending that they remain on their underbuilt site, but in a new, consolidated facility that
would meet their current and future needs. The remainder of the site will be sold for market-rate residential development.
The new building balances the dualities at the core of Covenant House’s mission: to be open and welcoming yet safe and secure; to celebrate community and never forget the individual; to stand out yet blend in; and to serve a specific
purpose yet be flexible enough to allow for change. The building shell is expressed with strong materials of brick, metal, and glass, while inside, elements of wood and fabric create warmth and comfort. The design creates a place where youth feel at ease, and the building is at home in its rapidly changing West Side context.
Awards
2023 The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Award of Excellence, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Award
2022 AIA New York State Design Awards, Best of the Best
2022 AIA New York State Design Awards, Honor Award
2022 Residential Architect Design Awards, Honor Award
2022 NYCxDesign Awards, Finalist
2022 Architizer A+ Awards, Special Mention
2022 The PLAN Award, Finalist
2022 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award, Honorable Mention
The David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center
Tarrytown, NY
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Completion 2022
15,000 GSF / 1,400 GSM
LEED Platinum
Net Zero Energy Anticipated
Our design recasts a historic structure as a high-performing retrofit that supports organizational goals and invites the public to see diverse creative arts.
The David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center is a flexible facility for performance events, rehearsal, exhibitions, and education in the historic Orangerie at the Pocantico Center. An ambitious adaptive reuse, the project reimagines the century-old Orangerie as a studio space for artists-in-residence that enhances the Center’s public programs, advances the vision of a vibrant, multi-disciplinary campus, and
encourages collaboration among artists, art presenters, and art patrons.
Aligned with the mission of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Center is a demonstration project for sustainable design, accessibility, and inclusion. An extensive PV array and other features enable the building to achieve Net Zero annual energy consumption. Careful integration of interior and exterior
spaces enables full access for artists and visitors of all abilities, and the multiuser all-gender restroom is the first of its kind in Westchester County, paving the way for more inclusive environments elsewhere. Working within the guidelines of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the historic structure has been restored, revitalized, and recrafted into a dynamic new environment.
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun
New York, NY
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun
Completion 2015
8,000 GSF / 740 GSM
Following a fire that left the 110-yearold Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun (KJ) Synagogue severely destroyed and structurally compromised, we worked with the congregation and its leadership to re-envision and revitalize the synagogue. In addition to completely restoring the interior of the main sanctuary space, we erected a complicated structural system to
support a two-story addition of the Ramaz Lower School. The reconstructed KJ Synagogue features recreated neo-classical design elements including column capitals, egg-and-dart moldings, and massive column arches, and new scagliola finishes on the main ark and new column enclosures. Damaged and destroyed stained glass windows were extensively repaired or meticulously
recreated using historic and forensic analysis. These elements, along with new life safety and mechanical components including new HVAC, emergency lighting, and fire-protection and suppression systems, fit seamlessly with the reconstructed historic finishes, integrating the old with the new all while focused on the future.
“We seek a cohesive architectural concept that expresses the character and quality of the organization. We do not embellish the design with decorative elements but find an essential expression, using proportion, light, and materials.” —Sylvia Smith
educational
We excel at interpreting each educational client’s mission and creating facilities that reflect the value the institution provides for its community. We are skilled at creating program specific spaces instilled with flexibility, which is key to a building’s ability to serve the mission of an institution over time.
Our professionals work with a variety of educational clients, designing spaces for toddlers, elementary, secondary, college students, and adults. Our experience working with these institutions has expanded our insight into the nature of effective spaces for learning, interaction, and socializing activities.
Our firm consistently meets the challenge of designing learning environments that have the capability to unite various groups and create places that encourage exploration and education. By creating facilities that are inspiring places to be, our projects appeal to students, faculty, and administration alike, while supporting the evolving changes in curriculum and promoting the interactions and exchanges necessary for advancement.
As a result, we have won numerous awards and accolades for designing outstanding facilities for leading clients such as Columbia University, The Spence School, The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, Lehman College, Calhoun School, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Pace University Student Landscape
New York, NY
Pace University
Completion 2018
55,000 GSF / 5,100 GSM
Weaving through two buildings in Lower Manhattan, a new student landscape provides open and flexible spaces for socializing, learning, and connection.
Awards
2021 AIA Education Facility Design Awards, Award of Merit
2020 AIA New York State Design Awards, Interiors, Award of Merit
2019 NYCxDESIGN Award, Higher Education, Finalist
As Pace University continues to evolve, the university’s main goals were to improve the student experience and create a campus environment where learning takes place everywhere. The Student Landscape transforms these goals into reality, providing students with the needed spaces on campus to learn, collaborate, and convene. Following our 2016 campus master plan for the university, we began renovations to transform the university’s two flagship buildings buildings—One Pace Plaza, the university’s signature mid-century building, and the nearby
41 Park Row, a New York City landmark and former home of The New York Times. Renovating, repositioning, and reactivating the two Pace buildings created connections that have improved the circulation, function, interaction, and identity for the university and university community.
Spanning across the two buildings, the new student landscape reinforces relationships within the university with a student “living room,” which encourages collaboration and spontaneous conversation, and learning spaces of
various scales and characters, which accommodate both collective and quiet learners. These spaces help create a cohesive, connected campus, and provide distinct identities for the Lubin School of Business and Dyson College of Arts & Sciences. They also transform the relationship between the university and surrounding community, with distinct new entrances and windows that provide dramatic vistas of the dynamic student life occurring inside, and the verdant bustle of the city outside.
Columbia University School of Nursing
New York, NY
Columbia University Medical Center
Completion 2017
68,000 GSF / 6,300 GSM
LEED Gold
FXCollaborative and CO designed a new seven-story School of Nursing for Columbia University Medical Center to carve out an architectural identity within the Medical Center campus, greatly expand curriculum and office space, and to create a state-of-the-art simulation and clinical skills training space. The design creates a bright, welcoming pavilion that anchors the surrounding campus and offers students meaningful social connections internally while opening outwards to the neighboring community. The LEED Gold building serves as a model of sustainable design for healthcare facilities.
The lobby features dynamic circulation—a “ribbon” of stairs visible from the street—that weaves through the building and creates a strong visual presence. The north and east façades of the building are dedicated to faculty offices, conference rooms, and break-out spaces, and are surrounded by a layer of etched glass that brings in diffuse light and creates a lantern effect for the building. The core houses clinical simulation labs, research centers, computer labs, and flexible office spaces for PhD candidates and visiting faculty. Readily connected to the main research floors, the penthouse includes a student lounge and event space with a large green roof terrace for informal gatherings of students and faculty.
The building establishes an architectural identity for the School of Nursing while allowing for programmatic expansion. Awards
2019 Graphis Design Annual 2020, Silver Award
The design capitalizes on light, air, and panoramic views to create fun and flexible learning environments.
Located on a previously undeveloped parcel of the Hunters Point South Development in Queens, which was master planned by FXCollaborative and reformed as part of the City’s zoning and redevelopment project, the Hunter’s Point Campus accommodates 1,071 students. The 145,000-square-foot school comprises three organizations, an intermediate school, a high school,
and District 75, also housing shared facilities and the Academy for Careers in Television and Film.
Our design creates distinct learning environments that allow each program to function independently, while sharing common resources. Major assembly spaces are clustered in the southwest wing of the building, while the auditorium
is located as an object in the center of the third and fourth floors, straddling the intermediate and high schools. The building’s top floor is its crowning feature, with dining spaces located adjacent to a large outdoor terrace, affording sweeping views of Manhattan and the East River. The school complies with the New York City Green Schools Guide.
Awards
2015 AIA New York State Excelsior Award for Public Architecture
2014 Learning by Design, Award of Excellence—Outstanding Project
The Calhoun School Commons & Learning Center
New York, NY
16,900 GSF / 1,600 GSM
The renovation reprioritizes interior spaces, while also maximizing and clarifying the school’s street-facing presence and intake of natural light.
A private pre-K–12 school for students on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the Calhoun School comprises an original five-story concrete and travertine base dating to 1973. Following a four-story expansion that we completed in 2005, the school required a second phase of expansion to address its added growth. Among its circulation and space shortages, the shared dining commons had become too small for the students,
requiring tiered lunch sessions that disrupted and hindered the curriculum.
Following a feasibility study, a review of the school’s long-term planning, and an exploration of various options for further expanding the facility, we designed a second phase of expansion to focus on relocating and reorganizing existing spaces for greater efficiency, while keeping the school open during construction. The library was relocated
from the ground level to a lower level with clerestory windows, opening up the main volume to allow for the cafeteria and a much-needed multipurpose area, activating highly engaged social spaces that serve as the school’s social core.
Celebrating the original building’s original midcentury modern aesthetic, the Calhoun School Commons and Learning Center is now retrofitted and updated for contemporary use.
“We approach interior architecture with the same concerns for site, program, and context that guide all of our work. These influences provide a framework that connects the design and the project back to the building, the city, and the environment.” —Guy Geier
interiors
Our commitment to interior architecture began with its inception and continues strongly today. The Interiors practice is led by Guy Geier, a recognized industry leader who oversees a studio of highly-skilled interior architects and designers.
Our interiors work covers a wide range of sizes and types of projects: from public spaces to boardrooms, from showrooms to educational facilities, and from
high-end residential to corporate offices. Thorough knowledge of complex programming, planning, design, and construction issues, intimate involvement of senior people on every project, a skilled and dedicated professional staff, and close contact with the client throughout the project make us a firm to which clients return again and again. We lead the industry with the integration of sustainable architectural principles into the workplace.
Technology & Accelerator Incubator
North Carolina
Confidential Technology Client
Completion 2019
125,000 GSF / 11,500 GSM
LEED Gold Anticipated
Interiors reflect the client’s values and culture, including a range of branded amenity spaces that combine healthy design with technology and sustainability.
Our interiors fit-out of a newly constructed seven-story building creates an innovative workplace that combines healthy design with technology and sustainability. Spaces are crafted to achieve a high level of sustainability, reflect the international firm’s values and culture, and provide a best-in-class environment for approximately 900 employees.
Interior layouts, furniture, and finishings align with the firm’s workplace strategies, with branded graphics and a variety of client-facing, meeting, focused, and amenity spaces. Distinct zones include public and client-facing areas; themed collaborative spaces; and productive work environments with open workstations and offices, phone rooms, focus rooms, mother’s rooms, and support spaces. In addition, to support a healthy culture, the interiors include a range of branded amenity spaces such as dining and pantry spaces, a game room, and wellness rooms.
An enhanced working environment is created for the new corporate headquarters of a public agency. The three-floor interiors fit-out reflects the quality and integrity of the agency’s work, culture, and mission, and implements a flexible framework that promotes transparency and engagement within the organization and with the communities it serves.
Workplace strategy, programming studies, and interviews with user groups led to the creation of a spatial and visual identity for the headquarters that optimizes program adjacencies and functionality while highlighting the agency’s brand identity. The use of color stories in walls and carpeting help users navigate across the three floors and large floorplates, while its variety of spaces support a diverse range of working styles. A high ratio
Bold color stories and an emphasis on collaboration create a workplace for future growth and development.
of shared to dedicated spaces emphasizes collaboration, finishes and furnishings account for acoustical concerns, and breakout areas located adjacent to open workstations offer transparency between programs and views of New York City. Scalable modules de-emphasize hierarchy to promote an inclusive environment, while systematic, modular planning allow for flexible growth and future space planning needs.
Amtrak Metropolitan Lounge & Offices at Moynihan Train Hall
Amtrak’s new Metropolitan Lounge in the Moynihan Train Hall aspires to recapture a nostalgic attitude towards train travel. The lounge rebuilds the sense of anticipation and adventure that train travel once elicited by offering a respite from the frenetic energy of Manhattan with luxurious, spatial amenities. Integrating historic, landmarked architecture and the future of
transportation, the Metropolitan Lounge amplifies the relationship between technology and modern hospitality.
The north and south edges of the space are activated by sightlines—to the street through historic windows, and to the theatrical ebb and flow of travelers in the train hall. Food and beverage at the east end of the space pulls visitors in from the west entrance, and plush
furnishings present opportunities to sit and linger or catch one’s breath. Ceiling coffers reinterpret intricate geometries from the historic post office. Electronic information boards displaying train departures are discretely deployed, accommodating every vantage point. The lounge blends fast pace and high value with a new class of luxury experience.
The new lounge captures a nostalgic attitude towards train travel to elevate the passenger experience.
FXCollaborative at 1 Willoughby Square
Brooklyn, NY
FXCollaborative
Completion 2021
40,000 GSF / 3,700 GSM
LEED Platinum
Combining sustainability and collaboration, our office elevates the standard of design and wellness in the workplace.
When FXCollaborative moved to Downtown Brooklyn, marking a new chapter for us, we designed the interior fit-out of our new three-floor office space as a forward-looking embodiment of our ethos. Located in 1 Willoughby Square, which we also designed, our new home celebrates our philosophy of high design, sustainability, and collaboration while offering a healthy, collaborative work environment for our employees with high ceilings, large
windows, and a connective threestory communicating stair. With ample daylight, the office goes beyond conventional workplace design to be an example of premier workspace environments for health and well-being.
The office includes one of the building’s four “superfloors,” which serves as our main reception floor and offers clientfacing conference spaces, open pantry, a signature art gallery, and 18-foot-
high exposed ceilings. It also offers staff and visitors access to a sprawling wraparound terrace to hold outdoor meetings and events, view finishes in natural light, or for social breaks and networking. The office layout makes use of the building’s strategically located side core and column-free exposed structure to create wide-open studio environments with ample daylighting and collaboration spaces.
Select Recent Awards
2024 World Prix Versailles Organization, Special Prize for Interior, Columbia Business School, New York, NY
2023 AIA New York State, Merit Award, David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center, Tarrytown, NY
2023 AIA Brooklyn, Merit Award, 1 Willoughby Square, New York, NY
2023 CoreNet Corporate Real Award for Excellence, Project of the Year in Office Category, FXCollaborative at 1 Willoughby Square, Brooklyn, NY
2023 ULI Award of Excellence in Institutional Development, Columbia Business School, New York, NY
2023 CTBUH Award of Excellence, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Award, Covenant House, New York, NY
2023 CTBUH Award of Excellence Best Tall Building Category, 1 Willoughby Square, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award, Acibadem Healthcare Group Headquarters, Istanbul, Turkey
2023 Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award, David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center, Tarrytown, NY
2023 Chicago Athenaeum Green GOOD DESIGN Award, David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center, Tarrytown, NY
2023 AIA Education Facility Design Awards, Award of Merit, Columbia Business School, New York, NY
2023 AIA New York Design Awards, Honor Award, Columbia Business School, New York, NY
2022 AIA New York State Design Awards, Best of the Best Award, Covenant House, New York, NY
2022 AIA New York State Design Awards, Honor Award, Covenant House, New York, NY
2022 Architecture Firm Honoree at Common Bond: The Center for Architecture Gala
2022 ARCHITECT, Residential Architect Design Awards, Honor Award, Covenant House, New York, NY
2022 Architizer A+ Awards, Jury Award, Ministry of Taxes, Baku Azerbaijan
2022 Architizer A+ Awards, Special Mention, Covenant House, New York, NY
2022 CTBUH Award of Excellence Best Tall Building Category, Ministry of Taxes, Baku, Azerbaijan
2022 ULI Award of Excellence in Affordable Housing Development, Finalist, The Crossings at Jamaica Station, Queens, NY
2022 NYC Brownfield Partnership’s Community Support Services Award, Awarded, Covenant House, New York, NY
2022 NYCxDesign Awards, Social Impact Greater Good Finalist, Covenant House, New York
2021 AIA Tri-State Design Award, Honor Award, SUNY Purchase Center for Media, Film, and Theatre, Purchase, NY
2021 The Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Awards, Commercial Architecture, Ministry of Taxes, Baku, Azerbaijan
2021 Crain’s New York Business, Largest Architecture Firms, #11 FXCollaborative
2021 AIA Education Facility Design Awards, Award of Merit, Pace University Student Landscape, New York, NY
2021 NYCxDESIGN Award, Club/Lounge, Honoree, Amtrak Metropolitan Lounge at Moynihan Train Hall, New York, NY
2021 NYCxDESIGN Award, Commercial Lobby/ Amenity Space, Honoree, 250 Park Avenue Lobby, New York, NY
2021 The Chicago Athenaeum Green GOOD DESIGN Awards, The Statue of Liberty Museum, Liberty Island, New York Harbor
2021 Interior Design Top 100 Giants, #96 FXCollaborative
2020 AIA New York State Design Awards, Interiors, Award of Merit, Pace University Student Landscape, New York, NY
2020 The Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Awards, Museums and Cultural Buildings, The Statue of Liberty Museum, Liberty Island, New York Harbor
FXCollaborative Architects
Gerard F.X. Geier II, FAIA, FIIDA, LEED AP Managing Partner
Daniel J. Kaplan, FAIA, LEED AP Senior Partner
Heidi L. Blau, FAIA, LEED AP Partner, Chief Operations Officer
Stephan Dallendorfer, AIA, RIBA, LEED AP Partner
Brian Fanning, AIA, LEED AP Partner
Jack Robbins, AIA, LEED AP Partner, Director of Urban Design
Gustavo Rodriguez, AIA, CODIA, LEED AP Partner
Ann M. Rolland, FAIA, LEED AP Partner
John Schuyler, AIA, LEED AP Partner
Michael Syracuse, AIA, LEED AP BD+C Partner
Sylvia Smith, FAIA, LEED AP Partner Emerita
Michael Buesing, AIA, LEED AP, CPHD Principal
Jim Bushong, AIA, LEEP AP Principal, Design Director
Sara Davis, AIA, LEED GA Principal
Alex Leung, AIA, LEED AP, CPHD Principal
Mark Nusbaum, AIA, LEED AP Principal
Amy Patel, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP Principal
Daniel Piselli, AIA, LEED AP, CPHD Principal, Director of Sustainability
Irina Rice, Esq., LEED AP General Counsel
Shannon Rodriguez, LEED GA Human Resources Director
Wendi Shafran, AIA, LEED AP BD+C Principal