McKenzie, Voorhees and Gmelin
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| Industry | Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Design, Lighting Design |
| Founded | New York, New York, United States (1885) |
| Founder | Cyrus Eidlitz |
| Headquarters | New York, NY |
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Number of locations
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New York, NY, Madison, NJ, Los Angeles, CA, London, U.K., and Shanghai, China |
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Area served
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International |
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Key people
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Susan Boyle, Jennifer Brayer, Richard Brennan, John Gering, Scott Herrick, John Mack, David Swartz |
| Services | Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Design, Lighting Design, Strategy, Sustainability, Graphics and Brand Design, Urban Planning |
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HLW is an award-winning, global design, architecture and planning firm. HLW is headquartered in New York, NY, with offices in Madison, NJ, Los Angeles, CA, London and Shanghai. HLW is one of the oldest design firms in the United States, tracing its beginnings to 1885.
The firm traces its origins to 1885, when Cyrus L.W. Eidlitz worked on the design of the Metropolitan Telephone Building on Cortlandt Street between Broadway and Church Street in Manhattan. Eidlitz was the son of noted architect and a founder of the American Institute of Architects Leopold Eidlitz and nephew of Marc Eidlitz, a major New York builder. The commission began the firm’s long association with what was to become the New York Telephone Company and, later, Verizon.
Works as C.L.W. Eidlitz:
Eidlitz formed a partnership with structural engineer Andrew C. McKenzie, establishing the firm of Eidlitz & McKenzie, to pioneer a new building design. With Andrew McKenzie, he formed one of the first architecture firms that put architects and engineers on equal footing. Eidlitz and McKenzie worked primarily on telephone buildings, a new building type in the period.
In 1905, the firm designed one of New York’s first and most famous skyscrapers, The New York Times Building on the site then renamed Times Square in its honor. The task was complicated by the simultaneous construction of a subway at the building’s foundation.
Works as Eidlitz & McKenzie:
In 1910, Eidlitz withdrew from the firm. Stephen F. Voorhees and Paul Gmelin, already with the firm became partners and Eidlitz and McKenzie was reorganized and renamed as McKenzie, Voorhees and Gmelin. This became a tradition of the firm: partners choosing their successors from within the firm in order to establish a smooth transfer of ownership. Over the next fifteen years, the firm added notable designs for clients in the telephone, banking and R&D industries, including labs for Western Electric (1922), the South Brooklyn Savings Bank (1924) and the Brooklyn Municipal Building (1924).
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