CTBUH Gold Member

FXCollaborative Architects

About

Member Since: 2000

Member Offices: New York City

Website: http://www.fxcollaborative.com/

FXCollaborative is a New York City-based architecture, interiors, and planning design firm. Founded in 1978, the firm leverages broad experience to enrich our world with responsible, intelligent, and beautiful design. The firm’s holistic approach integrates client aspirations, an urban sensibility, and a celebration of the craft of building. FXCollaborative’s work ranges from the scale of individual buildings and interiors—office towers, multi-family residences, cultural facilities, workplace, K-12 and higher-education institutions—to the city as a whole, addressing infrastructure and transportation.

Fields of Expertise

Architecture

Buildings

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

Rank
Name
Status

Completed

Architecturally Topped Out

Structurally Topped Out

Under Construction

On Hold

Proposed

Vision

Never Completed

Demolished

Competition Entry

Canceled

Proposed Renovation

Under Renovation

Renovated

Under Demolition

Height

1

NEVA TOWERS 2

345 m / 1,132 ft

2

New York Times Tower

318.8 m / 1,046 ft

3

NEVA TOWERS 1

297 m / 974 ft

4

4 Times Square

246.5 m / 809 ft

5

3Eleven

194.2 m / 637 ft

6

The Epic

187.4 m / 615 ft

7

Allianz Tower

185.5 m / 609 ft

8

Eleven Times Square

183.1 m / 601 ft

9

Sky House

179.3 m / 588 ft

10

The Ruby

173.6 m / 569 ft

Awards

Ministry of Taxes

Award of Excellence: Ministry of Taxes

Best Tall Building 100-199 meters 2022

Ctbuh Leaders

Jim Bushong

Jim Bushong

CTBUH Future Leaders Committee, New York City, 2014 – Present

New York City

Sara Davis

Sara Davis

CTBUH Diversity & Inclusion Committee, 2020 – Present

New York City

Daniel Kaplan

Daniel Kaplan

CTBUH Diversity & Inclusion Committee, 2020 – Present

New York City

Building Completions Timeline

Videos

30 May 2018

Interview: Joel Breitkopf & Daniel Kaplan | 35xv

Joel Breitkopf, Principal of Alchemy Properties, and Daniel Kaplan, Senior Partner of FXCollaborative, are interviewed by Chris Bentley regarding the Best Tall Building Americas –...

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Research

31 January 2018

Debating Tall: Tall Buildings as Severe-Weather Shelters?

Recent strong weather events and heavy flooding in major coastal cities have prompted debate about where to shelter and what’s appropriate to build along coastlines....

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Global News

01 December 2022

Commercial Skyscraper Completes Construction In Downtown Brooklyn

Construction is complete on One Willoughby Square, a 35-story commercial skyscraper in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by FXCollaborative and developed by JEMB Realty, the 552-foot-tall (168.3-meter-tall)...

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Associated companies

FXFOWLE (2018)

Fox & Fowle (2000)

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

Rank
Name
City
Height

1

South Central First City

Wuhan

375 m

1,230 ft

2

NEVA TOWERS 2

Moscow

345 m

1,132 ft

3

New York Times Tower

New York City

319 m

1,046 ft

4

3 Hudson Boulevard

New York City

315 m

1,034 ft

5

3 Hudson Boulevard

New York City

301 m

987 ft

6

NEVA TOWERS 1

Moscow

297 m

974 ft

7

1 Bryant Park

New York City

256 m

840 ft

8

4 Times Square

New York City

247 m

809 ft

9

3Eleven

New York City

194 m

637 ft

10

The Epic

New York City

187 m

615 ft

11

Allianz Tower

Istanbul

186 m

609 ft

12

Eleven Times Square

New York City

183 m

601 ft

13

Sky House

New York City

179 m

588 ft

14

235 West 51st Street

New York City

178 m

584 ft

15

The Ruby

Mumbai

174 m

569 ft

16

The Ashland

New York City

173 m

568 ft

17

136 Greene Street

Jersey City

170 m

557 ft

18

3 Times Square

New York City

169 m

555 ft

19

Ministry of Taxes

Baku

168 m

552 ft

20

One Willoughby Square

New York City

168 m

552 ft

21

United Nations Consolidation Building

New York City

166 m

546 ft

22

767 3rd Avenue

New York City

160 m

525 ft

23

77 Greenwich

New York City

159 m

523 ft

24

1675 Broadway

New York City

151 m

495 ft

25

PPA 30 Parcel 5.05 Residential Tower

Riyadh

149 m

489 ft

26

Times Square Doubletree Hotel

New York City

143 m

470 ft

27

The Mondrian

New York City

134 m

439 ft

28

Tower 52

New York City

134 m

439 ft

29

Broad Financial Center

New York City

130 m

427 ft

30

123 West 57th Street

New York City

128 m

420 ft

31

PP 10 Parcel 4.08

Riyadh

126 m

413 ft

32

PPA 30 Parcel 5.05 Office Tower

Riyadh

125 m

410 ft

33

National Westminster Bank

New York City

123 m

403 ft

34

Bausch & Lomb Place

Rochester

122 m

401 ft

35

Helena

New York City

122 m

401 ft

36

1N4th

New York City

121 m

398 ft

37

45 Broadway Atrium

New York City

121 m

396 ft

37

One Exchange Plaza

New York City

121 m

396 ft

39

Fubon Fuzhou Financial Center

Fuzhou

118 m

387 ft

40

Tower 56

New York City

118 m

386 ft

41

U.S. Trust Building

New York City

118 m

386 ft

42

The Forge

New York City

117 m

384 ft

43

40 Fulton Street

New York City

116 m

380 ft

44

650 Madison Avenue

New York City

110 m

360 ft

45

215 East 68th Street

New York City

109 m

357 ft

46

527 Madison Avenue

New York City

107 m

351 ft

47

PP 10 Parcel 2.14

Riyadh

105 m

344 ft

48

35xv

New York City

102 m

334 ft

49

Two Northside Piers

New York City

100 m

329 ft

50

Forte Condominiums

New York City

100 m

328 ft

51

The Crossing at Jamaica Station Tower 1

New York City

99 m

325 ft

52

888 Boylston Street

Boston

99 m

325 ft

53

101 Avenue of the Americas

New York City

97 m

319 ft

54

The NOMA

New York City

96 m

315 ft

55

5th On The Park

New York City

95 m

310 ft

56

One Northside Piers

New York City

91 m

297 ft

57

Proto Kendall Square

Cambridge

87 m

284 ft

58

Archstone Clinton North

New York City

84 m

275 ft

58

Archstone Clinton South

New York City

84 m

275 ft

60

PP 10 Parcel 4.07

Riyadh

81 m

266 ft

61

7770 Norfolk Avenue

Montgomery County, MD (Unincorporated)

58 m

190 ft

62

The Crossing at Jamaica Station Tower 2

New York City

53 m

175 ft

63

PP 10 Parcel 2.09

Riyadh

35 m

113 ft

Statistics

Average Building Age*

19 Years

Most Common Function*

Office (47%)

Most Common Material*

Concrete (69%)

* Based on 150 m+ buildings currently in the database

Based on 17 buildings over 150 m height with a function
 
Based on 16 buildings over 150 m height with a material
 

Building Completions Timeline

Building Map

Construction Time Chart

NOTE: Construction start time is not available for all buildings. The average construction time is only displayed if there is three or more buildings with construction start and complete data in that year.

Ctbuh Leaders At FXCollaborative Architects

CTBUH Future Leaders Committee, New York City, 2014 – Present

Jim Bushong

CTBUH Diversity & Inclusion Committee, 2020 – Present

Sara Davis

CTBUH Diversity & Inclusion Committee, 2020 – Present

Daniel Kaplan

Senior Partner, FXCollaborative Architects

30 May 2018 | Chicago

Interview: Joel Breitkopf & Daniel Kaplan | 35xv

Joel Breitkopf, Principal of Alchemy Properties, and Daniel Kaplan, Senior Partner of FXCollaborative, are interviewed by Chris Bentley regarding the Best Tall Building Americas –...

30 May 2018 | Chicago

Vertical Integration: An Educational/Residential Community Rises

Rising 102 meters above a mid-block site, 35XV is a unique, hybrid residential-academic building located in Manhattan’s vibrant Chelsea neighborhood. Utilizing excess development rights from...

18 October 2016 | Shenzhen

CTBUH 2016 China Conference - Session 7a: Urban Environmental Issues Q&A

Tuesday October 18, 2016. Shenzhen, China. Christine Bruckner of M Moser Associates; Dan Kaplan of FXFowle; Jay L. Berman of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners...

18 October 2016 | Shenzhen

Feasibility Study to Implement the Passive House Standard on Tall Residential Buildings

Tuesday October 18, 2016. Shenzhen, China. Dan Kaplan, FXFOWLE, presents at the 2016 China Conference Session 7a: Urban Environmental Issues. A FXFOWLE lead team is...

26 October 2015 | New York City

Moving Parts: Modular Architecture in a Flat World

There is an urgent need for a transformation in the way we design and build our cities that will bring down costs, and that will...

26 October 2015 | New York City

Interview: David Wallance

David Wallance of FXFOWLE is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2015 CTBUH New York Conference at the Grand Hyatt New York. David discusses modular...

26 October 2015 | New York City

2015 New York Conference - Session 2d - Q&A

Kanokpat Chanvaivit, Bouygues Thai; David Wallance, FXFOWLE; and Phillip Gardiner, Irwinconsult, answer questions at the end of 2015 New York Conference Session 2d: Construction Advances.

18 September 2014 | Shanghai

2014 Shanghai International Conference - Session 10 - Q & A

2014 Shanghai International Conference Session 10 Questions & Answers session with speakers Richard Witt, Quadrangle Architects; Sudhir Jambhekar, FXFOWLE Architects; and Vinda Dravid, Sterling Engineering.

18 September 2014 | Shanghai

Human Scale in Vertical Urbanism

As global cities continue their horizontal sprawl, climate change bears down on our finite natural resources, and energy costs and population growth soar, it is...

17 September 2014 | Shanghai

Interview: Sudhir Jambhekar

Wednesday 17th September 2014. Shanghai, China. Sudhir Jambhekar of FX Fowle Architects is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2014 CTBUH Shanghai Conference at the...

31 January 2018

Debating Tall: Tall Buildings as Severe-Weather Shelters?

Ilana Judah, FXCollaborative; Luke Leung, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Recent strong weather events and heavy flooding in major coastal cities have prompted debate about where to shelter and what’s appropriate to build along coastlines....

08 August 2017

ASPECT: RATIOS – Voices of Women In the Tall Building World

Ilkay Can-Standard, GenX Design & Technology; Martina Dolejsova, Studio Libeskind

ASPECT: RATIOS is the outgrowth of a program developed by the CTBUH Young Professionals Committee in New York, beginning in 2016. The purpose of the...

17 October 2016

Feasibility Study to Implement the Passive House Standard on Tall Residential Buildings

Dan Kaplan, Ilana Judah & Daniel Piselli, FXFOWLE; Josephine Zurica, Dagher Engineering, PLLC

A FXFOWLE lead team is near completion on a research grant funded by The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to determine if...

26 October 2015

Moving Parts: Modular Architecture in a Flat World

David Wallance, FXFOWLE; Jeffrey Raven, New York Institute of Technology; Jamy Bacchus, Iconergy

There is an urgent need for a transformation in the way we design and build our cities that will bring down costs, and that will...

26 October 2015

Modern Tower, Ancient City: Ronesans Tower

Dan Kaplan & Fatin Anlar, FXFOWLE; Stephen DeSimone, DeSimone Consulting Engineers

In this era of globalization, societies and cities struggle with the need to modernize and remain competitive against the desire to show deference to historical...

26 October 2015

The Resilient Urban Skyscraper as Refuge

Ilana Judah, FXFOWLE; Fiona Cousins, Arup

This paper investigates the role of the Urban Skyscraper with respect to climate change resilience. Large urban centers are now experiencing the consequences of climate...

16 September 2014

Human Scale in Vertical Urbanism

Sudhir Jambhekar & Edward Mayer, FXFOWLE Architects

As global cities continue their horizontal sprawl, climate change bears down on our finite natural resources, and energy costs and population growth soar, it is...

03 March 2008

Addressing India’s Local Concerns With A Sustainable Approach To Building Tall

Sudhir Jambhekar & Pete Weingarten, Fox & Fowle Architects

In developing countries, places where builders are routinely confronted with challenges inherent to poor infrastructure, obstacles effecting constructability, and a lack of political will and...

01 August 2007

Sustainable Design in High-Rise Residential

Dan Kaplan, FX Fowle Architects, PC

Major cities and metropolitan areas across the United States have been witnessing a renaissance in urban development. According to the report, Emerging Trends in Real...

10 October 2004

Times Square Skyscrapers: Sustainability Reaching New Heights

Sudhir Jambhekar, Fox & Fowle Architects

Times Square has seen the development of more than 15 new high-rises in the past two decades. The firm that has designed the most of...

01 December 2022

Commercial Skyscraper Completes Construction In Downtown Brooklyn

Construction is complete on One Willoughby Square, a 35-story commercial skyscraper in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by FXCollaborative and developed by JEMB Realty, the 552-foot-tall (168.3-meter-tall)...

12 July 2021

Church in New York City to Become Office Tower

After a year-long delay due to a construction lender pulling out of the project in March 2020, the redevelopment project at 125 West 57th Street...

28 June 2021

Mixed-Use Building in Brooklyn Opens

One Willoughby Square, a 34-story, 46,451-square-meter (500,000-square-foot) tower in Brooklyn has opened. The building includes office space, retail, and a public school for 300 students....

22 April 2020

Investment Firm Acquires Stake in Moscow Skyscraper Project

Russian investment firm Metrika Investments has purchased the office part of Renaissance Development's flagship IFC NEVA TOWERS scheme, in what is considered the largest Russian...

22 April 2020

Investment Firm Acquires Stake in Moscow Skyscraper Project

Russian investment firm Metrika Investments has purchased the office part of Renaissance Development's flagship IFC NEVA TOWERS scheme, in what is considered the largest Russian...

02 January 2018

Architecture Firm Signs Lease in Upcoming Downtown Brooklyn Tower

JEMB Realty Corporation (JEMB), a real estate development, investment, and management organization headquartered in New York City, has announced that world renowned architecture firm, FXFOWLE,...

CTBUH Initiatives Involving FXCollaborative

CTBUH New York Debates: Has New York Built Too Tall?

01 March 2018

The New York "Future Leaders" Committee recently debated whether NYC has built too tall. The two sides discussed current challenges to development as well as future considerations.

CTBUH New York Chapter Plans for 2018

08 February 2018

The New York Chapter steering committee met to get acquainted with new members, reflect on 2017 initiatives, and plan for 2018.

Debating Tall: Tall Buildings as Severe-Weather Shelters?

01 February 2018

In the CTBUH 2018 Journal Issue I, two experts debate on whether tall buildings would provide safe shelter during severe-weather.

CTBUH New York Holds Annual Holiday Party

14 December 2017

The New York Chapter held their 2017 Holiday Party, hosted by Woods Bagot. Attendees mingled, enjoyed refreshments, and celebrated a successful year.

Passivhaus for High-Rise Workshop Meets at 2017 CTBUH Conference

29 October 2017

The CTBUH Passivhaus for High-Rise Workshop, supported by the Australian Passive House Association, convened at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

NYC YPC Continues Future of Construction Series

19 January 2017

CTBUH New York Chapter, with the YPC and Akdo, hosted the second part in the Future of Construction lecture series, titled “Moving Parts: Modular Architecture in a Flat World.”