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FLOURISHING FXFOWLE
August 5, 2009
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| FXFOWLE Architects has been on-the-go lately: growing its sustainability and city building-driven practice in DC, working on the world’s largest and tallest spanning arch bridge in Dubai, and designing a seven-building complex in Saudi Arabia, among others. We met with senior partner Dan Kaplan in the firm's W. 19th St. office, and he updated us on some of the firm’s more local projects. |
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| Perhaps its best-known project under development is the 1M-SF Eleven Times Square (above), which FXFOWLE designed LEED Gold with a distinctively different north side from the south side (a "salt and pepper shaker"). The design makes sure there are views of the neighboring McGraw-Hill and Candler buildings, he says. Head downtown to Greenwich Village, where it’s working on St. Vincent ’s, which just received landmark approval for the adaptive reuse of its legacy campus. The design will bring the hospital and additional residential (owned by Rudin Management) into the neighborhood’s historic look (below). |
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| Further south, FXFOWLE and Starr Whitehouse are crafting the re-imaging of Water Street for the Downtown Alliance. In Brooklyn, it’s designing Navy Green, a mix of transitive, affordable, and market-rate housing in the Wallabout community opposite the Navy Yard; as well as Williamsburg’s Northside Piers project with Toll Brothers City Living, RD Management, and L&M Equity Participants (phew!) Between all of habitual-Acela-commuter Dan’s work in NYC and the Mid-Atlantic, he still makes it home as often as he can to cook for his teenage daughters. The avid chef just finished The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which converted him to the local food movement. |
