Cotton & Company Managing Partner Matthew Johnson stated, “Our partners and employees are excited about this news, which will allow Cotton & Company to celebrate our 40th and 50th anniversaries in the City of Alexandria, our home for the last 38 years.... continue reading »

FOX Architects is designing three spaces for New York coffee chain For Five Coffee Roasters. The cafes are located at: 1800 Diagonal Rd., Alexandria, VA; 2311 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA; 2000 L Street NW, Washington, DC. continue reading »

The Washington, DC chapter of American Institute of Architects hosted a facades-focused tour of buildings at the new District Wharf development in southwest DC. As architect of record for 1000 Maine, a waterfront, trophy-class building featured on the tour, FOX... continue reading »

At Bisnow’s The Future of Howard County event, FOX Architects Principal Derek Wood spoke about our project with The Howard Hughes Corporation in Columbia, MD: a 12-story office building with penthouse amenity and 9-story parking garage with quick response fire station... continue reading »

The Wharf, Phase I has been named a finalist for the 2019 ULI Global Awards for Excellence. FOX Architects is the architect of record for 1000 Maine Ave. SW, a trophy-class office building in the new development that has revitalized... continue reading »

Ranked by 2018 metro-area billings. continue reading »

Congratulations! you’ve just been offered a position at the design firm of your dreams … but now what? Julianne Kim, Director of Human Resources at FOX Architects, provides tips on what you should keep in mind as you start this... continue reading »

What was once two separate Class B buildings — 2001 K St. and 2000 L St. NW — came together in a new 1,046,041-square-foot trophy building in the heart of the D.C. business district last year. continue reading »

Built in 1978 when Brutalist architecture was popular in D.C., 1333 New Hampshire Ave. NW has historically been a building full of law firms. But all of that is about to change when its final tenant, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer... continue reading »

To help its clients assess hiring trends, a construction consulting firm created a crane index, which also provides a snapshot of the economy. continue reading »

The Delegation for the European Union to the U.S. is now the master of its own domain. continue reading »

FLIR Systems announced Thursday it plans to open a 30K SF headquarters facility in the Pentagon Row mixed-use complex at 1201 South Joyce St. continue reading »

It’s become dangerous and reckless to stick with the status quo. continue reading »

Convene, a meeting and event space provider moving into the coworking sector, has just made a big splash in the D.C. office market. continue reading »

Work Design Magazine’s Emerging Talent series aims to answer these questions with a panel discussion comprised of some of D.C.’s top emerging designers and architects. continue reading »

Interior Architect, Michelle Reyman, explains how to secure your space from an active shooter situation. continue reading »

From employee wellbeing to the debate on open offices, Work Design Magazine Publisher, Bob Fox, shares five workplace trend predictions he expects to see in 2019. continue reading »

Washington-area appointments and promotions for Dec. 17. continue reading »

CBRE’s D.C. office will soon shift from the East End to Dupont Circle, where it has just signed a major lease at a new development. continue reading »

Victoria Lanteigne will play an integral part in FOX Architects’ business strategy, leading all business development efforts and identifying opportunities to leverage the firm’s architecture and interiors disciplines through build-to-suit projects. continue reading »

Joint venture developments typically involve two companies fusing into one team, but for one of the largest D.C. projects to deliver this year, it involved two buildings combining into one. continue reading »

An analysis of Feng Shui techniques that are compatible with today’s emphasis on providing spaces that promote health and well being in the workplace. continue reading »

After 25 years in Baltimore County’s Windsor Mill, MOI is moving back to the city where it was founded. continue reading »

The Meridian Group has secured a major leasing win at a Downtown D.C. redevelopment it launched last year. continue reading »

The National Building Museum hosted 26 teams participating in the 2018 “Canstruction” competition, a contest in which teams build sculptures out of canned goods and collect food donations for local pantries. Representing local architecture and design firms in the District,... continue reading »

When you’ve been working for years in the Washington region, you’ve found yourself in some quirky places. A place with that odd feature, that one touch that is either riddled with history or for which there is no explanation. Local... continue reading »

The fabric of D.C.’s built environment is going through monumental changes, from the push toward mixed-use development to embracing the city’s rivers. No project is more representative of those shifts than The Wharf. continue reading »

D.C. developers have spent years churning out homogeneous office buildings, maximizing the height under the city’s zoning limit and creating all-glass exteriors to bring in light, but the latest projects have begun to differentiate themselves, a trend D.C.’s leading architects say is intentional. continue reading »

This occupied renovation in Washington, D.C.’s central business district incorporates a vertical expansion and connection of two office towers—2000 L Street and 2001 K Street—into a single 1-million-sq-ft lot. continue reading »

Cosmo Couture — the annual fundraising fashion show hosted by the IIDA Mid-Atlantic Chapter — is one of the Washington D.C. metro area’s favorite and well-attended industry events. continue reading »

Fox Architects principal JP Spickler, speaking on the architecture and construction panel, said the way architects are designing office buildings is changing with societal trends, like the rise of bicycle commuters. continue reading »

Washington, DC-based digital marketing agency, the Jake Group, has won a 2018 Best of Industry WebAward from the Web Marketing Association for its work on the FOX Architects website. continue reading »

Who better to tell us about the coolest new features being designed for office buildings than the people designing them? continue reading »

Recently, there has been much press about open office plans, mostly about how bad these work environments are and that they don’t work. continue reading »

FOX Architects, a full-service architecture and interior design firm announced today the appointment of a new Chief Operating Officer, Lisa Revitte, effective immediately. continue reading »

Ranked by 2017 metro-area interior design revenue. continue reading »

FOX Architects appointed Lisa Revitte chief operating officer. continue reading »

FOX Architects, a full-service architecture and interior design firm announced today the appointment of a new Chief Operating Officer, Lisa Revitte, effective immediately. continue reading »

As COO, Revitte is responsible for directing the operations of the firm in accordance with its vision, values and objectives. continue reading »

Derek Wood remembers when D.C. rooftop structures were pretty much limited to mechanical equipment. continue reading »

Architectural Record released the 2018 edition of its annual list of the Top 300 Architecture Firms in the United States. Compiled by Record‘s sister publication Engineering News-Record, the list ranks firms based on architectural revenue from services performed in 2017. continue reading »

The Carlyle Group has reached a deal to extend and expand its lease at 1001 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. continue reading »

As two of D.C.’s largest tenant classes, the real estate decisions law firms and associations make have a wide-ranging impact on D.C.’s office market. continue reading »

Some developers, like Akridge, are sending executives to all corners of the world in areas such as Portugal, Greece and Japan to look at the latest designs. continue reading »

Ranked by 2017 metro-area billings. continue reading »

Fish & Richardson has completed its swim to the water’s edge. continue reading »

The latest addition to the revitalization of downtown Columbia, Maryland broke ground Monday: a 12-story, 350,000-square-foot, LEED Silver-certified building that will serve as the new headquarters for cyber-technology company Tenable. continue reading »

A sold-out crowd gathered on April 18th at FOX Architects for Work Design Magazine’s latest TALK in partnership with Leesman. continue reading »

Development to house Tenable’s new headquarters and strengthen cyber corridor. continue reading »

Gov. Larry Hogan was in Columbia on Monday for a special groundbreaking near Merriweather. continue reading »

The Merriweather District in Columbia is a new walkable, mixed-use, urban core with plenty of office space, 2,300 residences, a 250-room hotel, a central park and technology that’s so high, it’ll make Columbia the first city in the nation to... continue reading »

FOX Architects Principal Derek Wood walked late last week onto the rooftop terrace of a trophy-class office building his company designed at The Wharf, wearing a white hard hat, boots and a blue suit, to take in the panoramic views. continue reading »

Spotify is a music company, yes. But, really, it’s a tech company. And as such, it has to compete for talent that might also be looking for jobs at Google or Uber. continue reading »

From healthier, people-centric designed offices to increasingly flexible workspaces, Work Design Magazine’s very own, Bob Fox, shares seven workplace trend predictions he expects to see in 2018. continue reading »

Modern companies understand that in order to attract and retain the best talent, they have to compete on more than salaries, vacation, and healthcare. continue reading »

The D.C. investment sales market has kicked off 2018 with a bang, with several major office buildings trading hands in nine-figure deals, but brokers expect that pace to slow as the year progresses with fewer properties on the market. continue reading »

The Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce announced new members. continue reading »

After breaking into the D.C. market in October with a $140M Bethesda acquisition, French insurance giant AXA has come back for more. continue reading »

WASHINGTON – In a 43-square-block portion of the booming central business district, there are just 23 residential unites, condos in a row of four late-19th-century townhomes on Jefferson Place, just south of Dupont Circle. continue reading »

In an interview with FOX Architects Interior Design Director Marie Moutsos, Curbed DC learned about this past year’s biggest office design trends, and what the public should look forward to this year. continue reading »

The completed renovations include a newly refurbished, two-story lobby looking up at its 13-story atrium, which brings light in and allows tenants to have interior-facing windows. continue reading »

October’s grand opening of The Wharf has created new activity on the Southwest Waterfront. continue reading »

Leading Cybersecurity Software Company to Occupy 150,000 Square Feet of New Office Space in the Merriweather District. continue reading »

A cybersecurity company is expanding with a new corporate headquarters in Columbia, Maryland. continue reading »

The American Institute for Research (AIR) has signed on for 90K SF at Crystal City’s 1400 Crystal Drive, a Lowe Enterprises-owned building, and it plans to vacate two of its Georgetown offices. continue reading »

The Wharf–a $2 billion new development on a former industrial stretch of the D.C. waterfront–has finally opened. continue reading »

What started as an industry-wide discussion in one market has extended, and the conversation is getting deeper and increasingly thought-provoking. But how do you drive change in an entire industry? One conversation at a time. continue reading »

Contemporary office design is as much about community as it’s about the work. Increasingly, architects are recognizing in ways both subtle and striking-that space determines human behavior, and perhaps nowhere more than in the workplace. continue reading »

On Tuesday, August 7, a second round of the CBRE Furniture Forum kicked off; this time in Washington, D.C. With a similar process to the Chicago Forum, CBRE partnered with Contract Consulting Group (CCG) to facilitate. This time the team... continue reading »

The District-based economic consultant has been based at 1300 Eye St. NW for more than a decade but will move to a new home early next year. continue reading »

Goodwin Procter LLP signed an 80,329-square-foot lease at JBG Companies’ planned 1900 N Street trophy office development in Northwest Washington, DC. continue reading »

The new building replaces three buildings that Sodexo occupied at the Amherst International Park in Williamsville. The company took the opinions of all 515 local employees into account when designing the new structure’s interior, an 18-month process that senior finance... continue reading »

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s planned departure from 1333 New Hampshire Ave. NW will kick off a major overhaul of its longtime Dupont Circle home. Its landlord, Boston Properties (NYSE: BXP), is in the early stages of planning... continue reading »

Lobbying giant Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld is leaving the Robert S. Strauss building in Dupont Circle for K Street. Landlord Boston Properties is using the departure to turn its Brutalist building into a trophy. continue reading »

In the gig economy, it’s about giving people a space to make it their own. MFE spoke with Bob Fox, founder of Work Design Magazine and FOX Architects, who works with companies to execute the latest concepts in office spaces.... continue reading »

The 780-square-foot wall — 66 feet wide, with a height that varies from about five feet to 19 feet — is more than just plants stuck in pots on a wall. The active green wall system recirculates air, water and... continue reading »

“Collaboration” is one of those overused words, so much so that we’ve watered down its subtle differences in meaning. This is especially true for the workplace design community. continue reading »

While employees rebelled against this lack of personal space, architects were already crafting a different kind of workplace design — the activity-based work space. This describes an office where workers have a choice where they want to work, every day... continue reading »

The open-office plan — to some, it’s the ultimate workplace layout for a cutting-edge tech company. To others, it just feels cheap. continue reading »

The Wharf is the center of the DC commercial real estate universe at the moment, by virtue of its location—right on the Washington Channel, a short walk from the National Mall—and its scale as the second-biggest mixed-use project in the country. continue reading »

Leasing has commenced for 1000 Maine, an office building under construction at The Wharf, the development team announced. continue reading »

Hoffman-Madison Waterfront has unveiled detailed plans for the northernmost mixed-use building at The Wharf, what it describes as “one of the most visible and recognizable office buildings on the East Coast.” continue reading »