DAN L. JACOBY

Associate Principal

Dan Jacoby, Design Director of FXFOWLE’s Interiors Studio, contributes over 30 years of experience and expertise in workplace design. Dan’s career has been dedicated to creating bright, functional, and imaginative spaces that embody his client’s unique aspirations. His core passion includes transforming existing buildings for new uses and enhancing individual lives through design. This ethos proves itself in his numerous award-winning projects for a wide variety of clients.

Currently Dan is leading the design team for the Kings County Criminal Courthouse project in Brooklyn. This 200,000-square-foot project restores the public areas and courtrooms of this 1930s Neoclassical building to reflect their civic importance. The program also involves 11 floors of court office space, courtrooms, and New York Police Department booking and detention areas. Completion is expected in 2010. At the 66th Street Armory Building in Manhattan, a gut renovation will add 9,000 square feet to the existing building, resulting in a 53,000-square-foot office space for Disney. 

Dan is renovating Warren Hall, one of the original Agriculture Quad buildings, at Cornell University to bring the structure to the level of a 21st century educational institution. This includes restoring the exterior envelope and interior faculty spaces, while renovating teaching and office spaces throughout. All new systems will optimize building operations, reduce energy use, limit its waste stream, and improve the indoor air quality. The 128,000-square-foot project expects a LEED Gold Certification.

At SUNY Purchase College Dan is designing the Center for Integrated Design Technology Learning, a new 64,000-square-foot academic building. This facility, housing the Conservatory of Theater, Art, and Film, will include black box theatres, acting and production studios, classrooms, and faculty and administrative space. A majority of the facility, located in an existing space under the exterior plaza, will connect through the plaza to the campus, The project is being designed to LEED Silver.

Dan led the design team for the new Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which created a more cohesive and collaborative work environment to support the mission of the organization. The prominent charitable foundation  relocated uptown to Morningside Heights. To counteract low ceilings and small windows of the 1950’s building, Dan embraced sunlight by centrally locating glass-fronted offices, leaving the perimeter bright and open, and allowing sunlight to reach the entire office. The classic modern vocabulary is intended as a subtle homage to the Rockefeller family’s famous patronage of modernism. This LEED project anticipates a Gold Certification. In addition, Dan recently served as Lead Designer for a LEED Gold interior fit-out space at 500-512 Seventh Avenue for Flack + Kurtz, an international engineering firm.

Dan holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University.