Housing is where the city begins. From the Bronx to Brooklyn, WXY is reimagining how housing can strengthen communities. Projects like Stevenson Square, The Peninsula, the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Vision Plan, and NYC's ADU for You Program connect design, policy, and public space to expand access and opportunity. Explore more about how we’re helping shape the next chapter in housing in our article below.
WXY
Architecture and Planning
New York, NY 10,383 followers
Focused on innovative approaches to public space, structures and urban issues at multiple scales.
About us
WXY is an award-winning multi-disciplinary practice specializing in the realization of urban design, planning and architectural solutions in challenging contexts. Focused on innovative approaches to public space, structures and urban issues, the firm’s work engages both site-specific design and planning at multiple scales. The firm’s commissions are in collaboration with community-based, public authority, and private clients. The firm’s architectural design embraces place-specific concepts and resilient design to create new and repurposed buildings, piers and bridges,and urban furnishings for the public realm. WXY’s integrated design process involves clients and stakeholders, to coordinate and solve complex design problems, yielding solutions as noteworthy for their intimacy and detail as for their civic dignity and amenity. WXY's planning work engages local communities and constituencies in unique ways, utilizes analytical GIS and zoning expertise, and integrates an understanding of infrastructure and economic development concerns. The results have included the creative visioning of public spaces, new urban clusters and broad urban revitalization and infrastructure planning efforts. WXY Architecture + Urban Design is certified as a Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) by New York City, New York State, and the Port Authority of NY and NJ.
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http://wxystudio.com
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- Industry
- Architecture and Planning
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 1992
- Specialties
- architecture, planning, urban design, environmental graphics, urban planning, innovation districts, electric vehicles, open space, urban furniture, school planning, public infrastructure, and resiliency planning
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25 Park Place
5th Floor
New York, NY 10007, US
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We’re thrilled to share that WXY Associate Principal Farida Abu-Bakare has been named one of the World Architecture Festival’s 40 Under 40 North America honorees, recognizing outstanding emerging architects across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Farida’s leadership at WXY reflects the spirit of this recognition. She brings vision, collaboration, and care to every project she touches. Her work exemplifies how design can drive inclusion and impact across scales and communities. Congratulations, Farida! Read more at https://lnkd.in/eVctZtaH #WAF2025 #40Under40 #Architecture
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Kick off this week and great to be working with the City of Columbus!
“The power of a linear park lies in its reach. It provides community and environmental infrastructure that connects rather than divides, carrying opportunity along its length and creating a new geography of equitable access.” — Claire Weisz, Founding Principal Columbus Recreation and Parks Department has taken a major step towards expanding its greenway network and reconnecting historically underserved neighborhoods. This month, the City Council approved a process to kick-off the design of a seven-mile linear park that will convert an abandoned rail corridor into 58 acres of public space. WXY will lead the design of the Linden Green Line, working with local collaborators EDGE, EP Ferris, Arcadis, MurphyEpson, RAMA, Lawhon & Associates, Inc., Mad Scientist, and James Lima Planning + Development. The project will link 13 neighborhoods and more than 130,000 people across Linden and Northland, creating 40 new access points, connecting to transit routes, and tying together schools, community centers, and small businesses along the way. The Linden Green Line will turn a section of that city that once cut off neighborhoods into a source of connection for Ohio’s capital through a design that champions equity and mobility as much as recreation. The WXY team, led by Claire Weisz, David Vega-Barachowitz, and Chris Rice, AICP, are excited to take on this project and deliver a fantastic design for the people of Columbus. Explore more about the project at https://lnkd.in/e7gBrxDG
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“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett High above the streets of Tribeca there is a secret garden on the roof of the WXY office. Custom planters designed and organized by Jordan Greenblatt, brim with tomatoes, hot peppers, mint, chives, basil, shiso, and lemon verbana. Virginia creeper, clematis, and Boston ivy climb the skylights to help shade the office below. And we can't forget about the bees! They were busy over the summer helping pollinate the various plants and apparently very happy with their home, according to our beekeeper, Dorothy Braun. Many people took part in taking care of the garden, including Aakanksha Jain, Alexis Luna, Alice Song, Amanda Ugorji, Angel Castillo, Bahij Chancey, Chai Eun Hwang, Chris Rice, AICP, Clinton Van Arnam, Dare Brawley, Ella Kay Erwin, Ella Sprick, Fernando Garrido Carreras, Hana Cohn, James Kwon, Jessica Wong, Jocelyn B., Jordan Greenblatt, Nani K., Olivia Jia, Pierre de Brun, Radhika Singh, Sarah L., Sarah Yoes, Vishakha Ruhela, Xueyuan Wang, and Zoe (Tzu-Jo) Lin. As fall turns to winter, we'll shut the garden down and anxiously await the return of spring!
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At this year’s American Planning Association NY Metro Chapter Metro Conference, WXY’s Rob Daurio joins Dawn Siff, Salmaan Khan, AICP, and John Surico to share how Paseo Park reimagines 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights as a 1.3-mile linear park. Paseo Park transforms one of NYC’s busiest Open Streets into a permanent public space for recreation, connection, and everyday life. Once completed it will serve 7,000 schoolchildren and thousands more residents in one of the city’s most park-starved neighborhoods. Learn more about the session and register for the APA NYM Conference below. And for a deeper dive into the project, read the Fast Company feature on Paseo Park at https://lnkd.in/eGZ_PBKD
APANYM is excited to welcome: Dawn Siff, Rob Daurio, Salmaan Khan, AICP and John Surico to the 2025 Annual Conference. What does the future of open space look like for NYC? The Alliance for Paseo Park collaborated with WXY to develop an ambitious vision for Paseo Park along 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights, one of New York City’s most park-starved communities, transforming it from an Open Street into a permanent 1.3-mile linear park. Building on the success of the Open Streets program, the project would provide space for safe recreation, daily commutes, and act as a front yard for more than 7,000 schoolchildren. With streets comprising 25% of NYC’s surface area, Paseo Park demonstrates how rethinking the city’s streets can deliver open space, climate resilience, and community infrastructure in dense neighborhoods where the possibility of adding more conventional open space is limited. This session will present Paseo Park as a case study in creating community-driven public space. The group will discuss how advocacy and coalition-building with local groups and constituents shaped the project, as well as how its design is connected to the larger transportation network. The session will highlight strategies for long-term stewardship, approaches to reframing infrastructure as a platform for inclusive placemaking and contextualizing this project within broader city initiatives. More information on this and other sessions as well as tickets are available here: https://lnkd.in/e5h3q-3b Use code: LINKEDIN and save 10%
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WXY loved partnering with the Park Slope Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District on this visioning plan! Working closely with local businesses, residents, and community groups helped us create a roadmap for safer streets, stronger small businesses, and a more welcoming public realm. We’re excited to keep the momentum going as the project moves into next steps!
Executive Director at the Park Slope Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District, 2019 graduate from Coro NY Neighborhood Leadership Program
It’s been an intense 6 months and a steep learning curve for me in producing this community focused visioning plan, but wow look what we produced. I hope we’ve shown what a small BID can achieve with the support of the community. The hard work really begins now to turn it into reality and that process is underway. The vision recommendations are to improve the pedestrian experience (including safety), strengthen small businesses and keep 5th Avenue 5th Avenue. Reducing congestion to allow the bus to move through the corridor smoothly is also important to the community, public space, increase the foot traffic and loading zones! The next steps are the DoT advancing their Street Improvement Plan outreach and design for 5th ave, we hope our report will inform the near term plans. The BID will be looking for partners and funding to pilot some public elements like seating and art. So many community groups, small business owners and residents were involved in the shaping of the future of our much loved corridor. We thank you. But of course our consultants David Vega-Barachowitz Rob Daurio Xueyuan Wang Govardan Umashankar at WXY Melisa Coburn my colleague Vivian Ibeas, Erika Clark and Blair G. Board members Loren Avellino at NYP for the community grant (couldn’t of done this without your support) Evan Sweet for helping us getting started Caty Bartholomew Chris Maslin and Denis de Verteuil, AICP, LEED-AP and all the 25 community groups and elected officials for being involved! And of course Carol Klenfner our incredible PR consultant. We hope others can use this framework to advance street improvements in their corridors. https://lnkd.in/erKy6ttk
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Planning for schools means planning for communities. On November 7, join WXY and national leaders for the first-ever American Planning Association School Planning Summit. This one-day online conference will feature sessions tackling some of the biggest issues in education and school planning today. As a proud sponsor, WXY is excited to explore topics like climate resilience, housing for educators, and community-aligned planning. The entire day is filled with sessions you won't want to miss. Principal Adam Lubinsky is co-organizing the event and delivering introductory remarks with WXY’s Dare Brawley and Mario Giampieri taking part in a discussion as well. Attending the online conference also gives you the chance to earn 13 AICP CM credits. Get the details and sign up at https://lnkd.in/d6-AGSbt #schools #schoolplanning #education
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“The power of a linear park lies in its reach. It provides community and environmental infrastructure that connects rather than divides, carrying opportunity along its length and creating a new geography of equitable access.” — Claire Weisz, Founding Principal Columbus Recreation and Parks Department has taken a major step towards expanding its greenway network and reconnecting historically underserved neighborhoods. This month, the City Council approved a process to kick-off the design of a seven-mile linear park that will convert an abandoned rail corridor into 58 acres of public space. WXY will lead the design of the Linden Green Line, working with local collaborators EDGE, EP Ferris, Arcadis, MurphyEpson, RAMA, Lawhon & Associates, Inc., Mad Scientist, and James Lima Planning + Development. The project will link 13 neighborhoods and more than 130,000 people across Linden and Northland, creating 40 new access points, connecting to transit routes, and tying together schools, community centers, and small businesses along the way. The Linden Green Line will turn a section of that city that once cut off neighborhoods into a source of connection for Ohio’s capital through a design that champions equity and mobility as much as recreation. The WXY team, led by Claire Weisz, David Vega-Barachowitz, and Chris Rice, AICP, are excited to take on this project and deliver a fantastic design for the people of Columbus. Explore more about the project at https://lnkd.in/e7gBrxDG
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“At WXY, we see neighborhood commercial corridors as untapped opportunities to become true public spaces. This plan reimagines a street long defined by traffic as a place where people can gather, eat, shop, and feel safe.” — David Vega-Barachowitz, Associate Principal and Director of Urban Design The recently published Putting People First on Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue plan is a fantastic example of how community engagement and open conversation can lead to ideas that reflect the needs and wants of a neighborhood. Congrats to the WXY team, including David Vega-Barachowitz, Rob Daurio, Xueyuan Wang, and Govardan Umashankar, for the thoughtful work and to our amazing partners at the Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID!
Associate Principal & Director of Urban Design at WXY architecture + urban design
How do you transform a congested neighborhood commercial corridor into a civic commons? That was the core question in WXY's latest public realm plan: Putting People First on Park Slope's Fifth Avenue. Emerging from a community-driven process and an amazing partnership with the Park Slope Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District (the heroic Joanna Tallantire and Melisa Coburn), the plan explores both near-term and long-term strategies for activating the streetscape to support businesses and enhance the pedestrian experience. The plan's toolkit and recommendations emerged from lively charrettes and conversations with committed and creative community advocates and sets an innovative model for how to make the next generation of neighborhood commercial corridors safer, greener, and more active across New York City. Congrats to the amazing team that worked on this at WXY Rob Daurio Xueyuan Wang Govardan Umashankar Check out the report here! https://lnkd.in/gntJNsCd Thank you for your sponsorship of the plan NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital! #parkslope #fifthavenue #theother5th #streetdesign #publicrealm #urbandesign
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From where families move to how neighborhoods grow, schools set the rhythm for their communities. Sign up for the upcoming School Planning Summit, organized by WXY Principal Adam Lubinsky and taking place on November 7, for insights across planning, education, and policy. Beyond Adam, WXY will be represented at the summit by Dare Brawley and Mario Giampieri. Details below!
Principal/Partner at WXY | Interim Director, Columbia University GSAPP Real Estate Development Program | AICP, PhD
If someone asks what single building or institution shapes a neighborhood, would you say it's your local school? Schools have enormous impact on cities in countless ways - community cohesion, family decisions, home values, traffic patterns, land use decisions and, fundamentally, children's lives. But very few urban planning classes, architecture studios or real estate development programs consider these effects. Over the last several months, I've been organizing an online conference focused on the nexus of schools and cities. It is coming soon! Through the American Planning Association Public Schools + Communities Division, we will be hosting an online School Planning Summit on November 7th. For more details and registration information, please visit our website: schoolplanningsummit.com Speakers from around the country will present and discuss a huge array of issues, such as: ➤How have schools become hubs for community services? ➤What happens to a neighborhood when a school gets closed? ➤With policies like school vouchers, how are enrollments affected? ➤What can districts do to make schools ready for climate change? ➤How are school districts creating housing for teachers so they can attract and retain an educational workforce? The speaker list is amazing, and to name just a few: Halley Potter, Mathew Palmer, Jeff Vincent, Adriana Chavarín-López, Ed.L.D., Michael Vea, Ariel H. Bierbaum, MCP, PhD, Effie McMillian, Ed.D., Danielle Denk, Adelyn Stroup, Sarah Brashear, Mario Giampieri, Stephanie Seidmon, Pranita Ranbhise, Kelly Murphy, AICP, Shannon Jaax, Ally Talcott, Karen Summerville. I hope to see you online on November 7th!