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FXFOWLE announces new firm name FXCollaborative with logo by Pentagram

2018-01-19T17:48:00-05:00

The world-renowned architecture, interiors and planning firm FXFOWLE Architects will now go by the name FXCollaborative. Originally founded 40 years ago as Fox & Fowle, the firm is rebranding with a new logo and a new location. In less than four years the firm will move from their long standing Manhattan location into a Brooklyn building of their own design.

The firm's new logo was designed by Pentagram. Michael Bierut, partner at Pentagram said, “The new identity is not so much a logo but a statement of purpose and a commitment to a way of working.

FXCollaborative office team. Image: FXCollaborative.

Claiming the scarce middle ground between small boutiques and large global firms, FXCollaborative's new name reflects their core values of information and knowledge exchange expressed by few boundaries between disciplines and typologies.

Statue of Liberty Museum tops off construction ahead of 2019 opening

2017-12-05T11:27:00-05:00

Yesterday morning construction topped off at the Statue of Liberty Museum, a brand new $70 million building on Liberty Island designed by FXFOWLE and ESI Design, marking a milestone before the 2019 opening. Diane von Furstenberg, who is still working to raise money for the museum, and Stephen Briganti, president of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, signed their names on the beam symbolically hoisted to the top of the structure.

Rendering via FXFOWLE

Photo from topping off ceremony by Emily Nonko for 6sqft

3 Hudson Boulevard loses 100+ feet in new renderings

2017-11-01T11:57:00-04:00

A revised proposal for the Moinian Group’s supertall in Hudson Yards, 3 Hudson Boulevard, calls for a slightly less-tall tower. A redesign from FXFOWLE now brings the total square footage to 2 million square feet from a previous 1.8 million and lowers its height to 940 feet tall from 1,050 feet. Instead of 63 floors, the tower will rise 53 floors in this new design. To match standards for today’s modern office, the building will now feature larger floor plates, higher ceilings and a terrace on the eighth floor. As the New York Post reported, a groundbreaking ceremony will be held this Friday with elected officials, celebrating the reboot.

The Moinian Group hopes the new design helps attract tenants to its office tower, as it has yet to sign a deal with an anchor tenant. Sources told the Post that the group may be looking at tenants interested in buying its own floors or investors that want to become a minority stakeholder. Joseph Moinian first purchased the site, which sits on the c...

ARExA to renovate WeWork's first co-living project on Wall Street

2015-10-21T18:28:00-04:00

The tower, owned by Rudin Management, currently has 260,000 square feet of floorspace that counts towards zoning, and of that, 133,000 square feet will become residential, resulting in 205 new apartments. The remaining 127,000 square feet will stay commercial. [...] 110 Wall Street will be WeWork’s first foray into residential development [...] The inclusion of Class B dwelling units, which denote transient housing, likely signals living options will range from communal to private.

According to CurbedNY, ARExA will head design on the renovation of WeWork's first residential project under its co-living offshoot, WeLive. Completion date is currently slated for March 2017.

WeWork is also hiring multiple positions in New York at this very moment. Check out their listings here:

WeWork: openings for Interior Design Lead; Project Architect; Building Information Specialist

UPDATE: an earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to FXFOWLE as the designer for the renovation, referring to an earlier version of the same news posted to CurbedNY.

More on WeWork and its residential foray, WeLive:

More details emerge about WeWork's residential endeavor WeLive
WeWork moves into residential development with WeLive
Working out of the Box: Miguel McKelvey, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at WeWork

NYC Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge Entry by FXFOWLE

2013-03-11T19:00:00-04:00

In our last post, we published the six finalists and category winners of New York City's ambitious Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge. Here is now the award winner in the "Creativity" category, the concept "NYC Loop" by New York architects FXFOWLE, in more detail.

Previously: Six Finalists of NYC’s Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge

Let’s Raze Javits Center (but First Finish Renovations)

2012-01-24T13:56:00-05:00

“It’s just such an awful building that the only reason to keep it would be as a monument to stupidity,” said Mark Wigley, the dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

CO Architects Forms Joint Venture with FXFOWLE

2012-01-10T20:49:00-05:00

Los Angeles architectural firm CO Architects on Tuesday announced a joint venture with New York City’s FXFOWLE to extend the geographic reach and expertise of each company. The firms will maintain individual identities and operations while pursuing new projects together under the name CO/FXFOWLE, including participating in a new competition to design a building for a prestigious educational institution in New York City.

Maki and FXFowle Get to Work on U.N. Tower

2011-10-20T14:24:00-04:00

[FXFowle Principal Dan] Kaplan explained that much of the design work had been completed for a 35-story tower on the site, and while it will not change significantly, it does require some updating.

Following a land deal with New York City, the U.N. is back to work on building a new tower to house its operations across the street from the under-renovation U.N. Secretariat. Fumihiko Maki, who was selected in a Pritzker-only competition in 2004, is back to work on the project, along with local partner FXFowle.