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Who We Are
Challenge the Expected.
FCA is a full service, mid-size architectural and design firm. Employing a tailored collaborative process between ourselves and our clients, we define and create resonant spaces uniquely suited to the needs of those who use them.
We design buildings and spaces that enhance our clients’ lives.
Markets
Academic
Civic-Cultural
Corporate / Workplace
Healthcare
Residential / Mixed-Use
Science-Technology
Offices
Philadelphia
New York
New Haven
Orlando
Our Guiding Principles
People
We design spaces for all, through an inclusive process, tailored to each client’s culture.
Place We create environments that elevate the human experience through a deep sense of place using holistic empathetic design.
Planet
We are committed to environmental responsibility through innovative, sustainable strategies.
Process We live a collaborative journey through imaginative and inspiring design.
Prosperity We create value for our clients and communities to thrive and succeed.
Our Services
Cornell Scott Hill Health West Haven
Healthcare
A Vista Award-winning firm with over 2M square feet of cutting-edge work.
FCA is consistently ranked among the nation’s leading healthcare architecture and design firms delivering facilities for prominent medical institutions, both private and public.
Our clients receive expert programming, planning, and design services. With experience that spans a wide array of clinical space types, including inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory care, surgery, and specialty practice spaces, such as women’s health, pediatrics, behavioral health, and cancer care. Combining this deep experience with thought leadership on industry developments and research, our designs create healthy, collaborative, highperformance environments that help our clients serve their patients, staff, and advance to the forefront of their practice.
RWJBarnabas Melchiorre Cancer Center
RWJBarnabas Health Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
RWJBH Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center
Geisinger Henry Cancer Center
Yale Child Studies Center
Virtua Samson Cancer
Healthcare Facilities Planning
Our Healthcare Facilities Planning process takes a data-driven approach to ensure every facility aligns with evolving clinical needs, operational efficiency, and long-term strategic goals. Utilizing interactive visioning workshops and dynamic gaming sessions, we center clinical teams and their needs in the planning process. Backed by stateof-the-art technology and robust benchmarking, our team delivers informed, forward-looking solutions.
St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center
Healthcare Master Planning
Our Healthcare Master Planning creates a structured framework to evaluate current state and growth objectives, and identify optimal strategies for facility and environmental needs. We view master plans as living documents—flexible, adaptable, and designed to evolve alongside your organization. Our process moves from information gathering and data translation into space needs, to the development of innovative concepts, option selection, and implementation planning with detailed cost and year-by-year modeling.
RWJBarnabas Health Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
RWJBarnabas Cooperman Surgical Services Expansion
Northwell Health Phelps Hospital Maternal Child Health
Good Shepherd
Medical Equipment Planning
As experienced Medical Equipment Planners, we specialize in developing fully integrated equipment and design solutions that align seamlessly with architectural and construction processes. Our multidisciplinary team—including project managers, healthcare supply chain specialists, and architects—collaborates to analyze and plan your capital assets for optimal integration. This helps reduce risk, limit costly changes, and prevent delays. We focus on strategies tailored to the financial, clinical, and operational needs of healthcare environments. Whether partnering closely with FCA’s design team or providing standalone services, we deliver planning that drives efficiency and results.
RWJBarnabas Melchiorre Cancer Center
Shepherd Rehab Hospital
Science & Technology
FCA designs technology-forward research environments that reflect unique missions while accelerating discovery, innovation, and wellness.
The ultimate success of our efforts is the development of comprehensive environments that support client identity, purpose, and needs. With decades of experience designing and renovating specialized science and technology environments across private, public, and academic sectors, FCA delivers spaces that enable discovery and innovation.
Our team of experts creates world-class facilities—including medical and pharmaceutical research environments, quantum computing labs, vivariums, wet and dry labs, and device manufacturing—that solve critical challenges.
Technology
Halda Therapeutics (now Johnson & Johnson)
Xing Imaging
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals
Yale University Aquatics Quantum
Laboratory Planning & Design
Having designed millions of square feet of laboratory facilities for academic, government, institutional, pharmaceutical, and healthcare clients, the planning, programming, and design of complex research and innovation facilities is a core focus of FCA’s award-winning practice. We are skillful designers of intricate environments that are more comfortable, productive, efficient, and inspiring. Our broad experience enables us to benchmark critical issues of flexibility, functionality, and financial viability, while providing the insight our clients need to make informed decisions about their projects and the future of their organizations.
Princeton University Moffett Hall
Circuits
Campus and
FCA integrates strategic planning, human-centered design, and architectural expertise to help institutions and communities support learning, work, and longterm growth.
Our practice brings together strategic campus planning and visionary urban design to shape environments that reflect identity, anticipate change, and foster innovation.
For academic and corporate institutions, we integrate space analytics and stakeholder engagement to align plans with organizational vision, supporting instruction, research, student life, and hybrid work models, as well as and long-term growth. We translate complex needs into actionable strategies that are both visionary and grounded. At the urban scale, we combine creative placemaking with strategic thinking to design vibrant, inclusive communities.
Asbury Park Arts Culture Plan
and Urban Design
CUNY City College of New York Campus Plan
Historic Philadelphia Center City District Vision Plan
St. Louis Garment District Placemaking Initiative
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences Campus Plan
University of New Haven Bergami Center
Higher Education
For seven decades, FCA has partnered with academic institutions to deliver inspiring campus environments that foster knowledge, collaboration, and community.
We ask foundational questions in every creative engagement: How can we enliven the collective search for knowledge? How do our solutions leverage the benefits of collaboration and communitybuilding? These questions are rooted in the essential need to understand our relationship to others—how we are inextricably connected, and how can we serve the life of an institution.
We challenge ourselves and others to find creative responses that elevate institutions while also being grounded in strategy and cost effectiveness. Our promise is to leverage your uniqueness to inspire your community today, tomorrow, and into the future.
Education
Rochester Institute of Technology Institute Hall
Southern CT State University Health & Human Services Building
Hackensack Meridian Health Seton Hall School of Medicine
Yale University School of Nursing Simulation Lab
University of New Haven Bergami Center
Corporate
We build long-term partnerships that deliver strategic, brandaligned environments that enhance the employee experience.
At FCA relationships matter. Whether you’re in the nascent stage of transition or ready to launch a project, our expert team of designers share a passion for listening and finding innovative solutions. Employing a tailored discovery process, we develop a comprehensive understanding of your unique brand, processes, and challenges. Together, we meet your goals, whether that’s identifying opportunities for enhanced workflow, designing optimal employee experiences, creating a powerful showcase for customers, or simply planning for the future. Finding the right strategic partner is essential, and FCA has been that partner for countless organizations for over 70 years: Delivering results, because your success is our success.
Fox Rothschild Wilmington
McCarter & English
Kreitler
Innovative Design & Display
Sustainability
FCA reimagines sustainable design through a flexible, client-driven approach that makes impactful and achievable projects possible.
Our sustainability practice began by asking two simple questions: Why is sustainability so hard, and how can we move forward in a way that is imaginative, generative, transformational, and eminently doable.
Our response comes in the form of a new and revolutionary approach allowing FCA’s clients to achieve sustainability on more projects, with more consistency, and with more accountability. The key to our system is to move from a third-party, externally validated sustainability system to a firstparty, adjustable approach. We’ve transformed what was an onerous, expensive activity into a costeffective, client-centered, co-created process.
University of New Haven Bergami Center
