Daniel J. Kaplan

Architect Dan Kaplan joined FXFOWLE Architects in 1987, became a principal in 1996, and was elevated to senior partner in 2003. He has served in a design and leadership capacity for many of the firm’s largest projects, crafting modern award-winning buildings that are distinguished by imagination, responsibility, and sophistication. With over 25 years of experience, Dan excels in the design of complex urban buildings. He leads the firm’s work on commercial and residential projects and is adept at creating large-scale high performance buildings and urban designs.

Significant projects currently under Dan’s direction include Eleven Times Square, a new corporate office tower in midtown Manhattan; the Rudin-Saint Vincent’s development in the Greenwich Village historic district; the renovation and expansion of New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center (in association A. Epstein & Sons, International); the Landmark Tower in Arlington, VA; and the NorthSide Piers residential development on the Williamsburg waterfront.

Dan and his team recently completed the award-winningHelena Apartment Tower which earned a LEED Gold Rating by the USGBC; The New York Times Building, designed in collaboration with Renzo Piano Building Workshop and the recipient a the National AIA Honor Award; Archstone Clinton, a three building housing development in Manhattan; the development plan for both the Eastern and Western Rail Yards for Hudson Yards Development Corporation and subsequently the design for the Durst-Vornado proposal; and three distinguished midrise residential buildings in Manhattan’s Chelsea district.

Dan led the firm’s participation in the Max Protetch Gallery’s New World Trade Center exhibition in the months following the fall of the towers. A remarkably prophetic design resulted, reflecting the keen desire to build an exemplar of urban imagination. The solution celebrates connections and mediates the rationalist uptown and organic downtown planning grids. Dan’s team proposed that the tower footprints themselves be left as voids, as hallowed ground.

He is a graduate of Cornell University and is LEED accredited by the US Green Building Council.

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