Françoise Bollack Architects

Design Philosophy: We provide fresh and inventive designs that take advantage of the project specific circumstances (existing buildings, budgets, quirks of the program, etc.) to create a new whole. We believe that new designs incorporating existing elements result in richer buildings.


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Contemporary Architectural Drawings – Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, published by Pomegranate Artbooks, San Francisco, 1991.

Co-Author of “Everyday Masterpieces - Memory and Modernity” published in 1988 by Edizioni Panini, distributed in the United States by Princeton Architectural Press.

Co-Author of “Ely Jacques Kahn – New York Architect” published in 1994 by Acanthus Press.


2004 MASterwork Award., Municipal Art Society of NY

AIANYS 2003 Award of Merit in Design Historic Preservation & Adaptive Reuse

New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Certificate of Merit

New York Landmarks Conservancy Lucy Moses Award

Victorian Society Citation of Merit

Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Village Award


“Designing The High Line” Friends of the High Line New York N.Y. 2003

“Queens Plaza” Design Ideas Competition. Queens , NY 2001
Project exhibited at the Van Alen Institute New York City -2001


In association with Tom Killian:

Roosevelt Island Housing: 1975 – Project selected for exhibition
Les Halles (Paris): 1979

A Monument for Melbourne Australia: 1980
(Drawings in the collection of Columbia University’s Avery Library – 1991)

Invited entry for Paris Biennale: “Manhattan Parks”: 1982

Times Square Competition: 1984

Clemson Performing Arts Center, Clemson, Georgia: 1989


New Design in Historic Settings and Historic Preservation

New York State Capitol, Albany, NY – Restoration and Renovation of Certain Assembly Spaces.
Combination of restoration and new design for spaces related to the Assembly

David Bohnett Cyber Center (LGCSC) New York City:

Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, New York City:
Renovation and adaptive re-use of 19th century school house located in the Greenwich Village Historic District for use as a community center.

Mental Health & Social services & Youth Enrichment Services, (LGCSC) New York City:

New York State Capitol, Albany, NY:

Restoration and Handicap Accessibility for the New York State Assembly:
Assembly Chamber East Gallery – restoration and accessibility
Assembly Chamber West Gallery – restoration and accessibility
Assembly Chamber Rostrum – restoration and accessibility
Assembly Chamber East and West Lobbies and public bathrooms

Chesterwood Visitor Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts:
Addition to historic barn and design of a visitor center for the summer home and studio of Daniel Chester French, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Village of Tuxedo Park, NY.: Review of new projects for site listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

New York State Capitol, Albany, NY: Governor's Reception Room:
Restoration of ceremonial space in the New York State Capitol and design of new monumental lighting fixtures.

Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, N.Y.:
Restoration of Greek Revival buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places for the New York City Department of General Services.

Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center:
Facade Restoration and Barrier Free Access, New York City:
Restoration of 1858 masonry façade in the Greenwich Village Historic District, NYC: recipient of numerous civic awards.

Master Plan for the Gomez Foundation for Mill House, Marlboro, NY:
Master Plan for property listed on the National Register of Historic Places for a non-profit organization.


Residential Renovations

Apartment Renovation, Upper East Side New York City:
Redesign combining two adjacent one bedroom apartments.

Penthouse Design, New York City:
Redesign of floor-through penthouse in new apartment building

Penthouse Renovation, New York City:
Renovation of a triplex penthouse for a young art collector in turn of the century townhouse in New York City’s Upper West Side.

Loft Renovation, New York City:
Adaptive reuse of a loft for a young family

Tribeca Loft Renovation, New York City:
Design of a renovation for a live-work triplex

Townhouse Renovation:
Renovation of townhouse in Manhattan's Upper East Side

Carnegie Hill Tower Garden, New York City:
Design of a rooftop garden for a post war condominium building

Apartment Renovation in the Dakota, New York City - Phase 1 and 2:
Renovation, new design and restoration

Terk Penthouse and Conservatory, New York City:
Renovation of a penthouse in a 1929 building and addition of a monumental glass conservatory.


Corporate and Institutional Interiors

P.C.F.G. New York Headquarters, New York City:
Corporate headquarters offices in midtown for an international financial institution

Kershaw Manufacturing Executive Offices, Montgomery, Alabama:
New offices for chairman

Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, Anchorage, Alaska:
Consultant to Mitchell Giurgola Architects for Interior Design

IBM Executive Education Center, Palisades, NY:
Consultant to Mitchell Giurgola Architects for Interior Design

Offices for K.N. Dayton, Minneapolis, Minnesota:
Design of executive offices


New Buildings

Scalera Beach House, Remsenburg, NY:
Design of a beach house on Moriches Bay

Three New 14 Bed Residences for Mentally Retarded Adults:
New buildings in New York City for the New York State Facilities Development Corporation


Master Plans & Reviews

The Cornwall, New York City:
Design guidelines for apartment building’s ground floor retail and implementation


Retail Design

Julien Rose, Great Neck, NY:
Women’s clothing boutique

Scalera Boutique, New York City:
Women’s clothing boutique

Zohar 1 and Zohar 2, Great Neck and Hewlet, New York:
Women’s shoe stores

Chipp of New York, New York City:
Men’s tailor showroom and workroom


Saint Peter Claver Convent & School - design the adaptive reuse of a 1930's school and a new residential building as part of the redevelopment of the school's site in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

60 Gramercy Park North lobby restoration; Restoring a Renaissance Revival lobby in a building, facing Gramercy Park, designed by Emery Roth in 1928

Residential loft Renovation: Chelsea, New York City

Store Front & Façade Improvements Early 19th Century Building in Greenwhich Village, New York.

Presbyterian Senior Services Center, Harlem New York. Community Center in a Landmark Building (Metropolitan Baptist Church)