FXCollaborative

FXCollaborative is a New York architecture, interiors and planning firm founded in 1978 and known for high-rise residential, cultural, civic and educational work. The practice designed the 55-story, 676-foot tower rising at 24-19 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, where the massing rotates roughly 45 degrees above a multistory podium to align with Jackson Avenue and is clad in a black-panel grid framing reflective glass curtain wall. That building will hold 600 apartments over 10,000 square feet of retail beside the Court Square subway complex. The firm works across the New York metropolitan area and nationally, with a portfolio that spans towers, transit architecture, schools and adaptive reuse.

FXCollaborative organizes its practice as a network of typology-focused design studios rather than conventional architecture, interiors and planning departments, with the same architects staying on a project from inception through occupancy. The firm describes itself internally as a teaching studio that invests continually in staff development as part of its design process.

Leadership includes senior partners Guy Geier and Dan Kaplan, along with partners Stephan Dallendorfer, who also directs the firm’s transportation work, Brian Fanning, John Schuyler and Michael Syracuse. Daniel Piselli serves as director of sustainability, a role the firm treats as formal leadership rather than a side specialty.

Beyond its Long Island City tower project, the firm’s portfolio spans large-scale planning and civic work, including the Hudson Yards Master Plan, the 77 Greenwich residential tower in Lower Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty Museum, and the Amtrak Metropolitan Lounge and offices at Moynihan Train Hall.

The firm frames its design philosophy around what it calls On Complexity and On the City, a commitment to work at the intersection of technical expertise and imagination while treating each project as part of a larger urban context. FXCollaborative also states a commitment to diversity and social responsibility, and organizes its website around dedicated Process, Sustainability and Diversity sections rather than folding those topics into a general about page.

FXCollaborative’s own headquarters, at 1 Willoughby Square in Brooklyn, drew coverage from Architectural Record for how the firm designed its own office to respond to changes in workplace practice. For new business, prospective clients are directed to partner Dan Kaplan, while press and student inquiries route through the firm’s communications team.