Introducing IIDA Gateway Chapter’s New President-Elect When IIDA Gateway Chapter announced their new board members, we saw a familiar name on the list: Fox Architects interior designer Dani Sheley! An IIDA… Read More
The Silver Lining Blog posts and articles over the last few months have focused on the uncertainty and challenges surrounding COVID-19, Fox included. This week, however, we decided… Read More
MCM in STL St. Louis has a storied history of Mid-Century Modern design, especially as it applies to architecture. Broadly describing architecture, interior, and graphic design from the… Read More
A Party With a View The holidays are long past, which means it’s time for Fox’s annual Winter Party! Invested in the future of downtown, Fox chose to host the… Read More
Rocking A Stocking 2019 On December 5, Fox Architects was excited to be involved in this year’s Rocking A Stocking event benefiting SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center. At… Read More
Fox Fall Family Picnic On October 5, Fox Architects hosted our annual Fall Family Picnic in beautiful Tower Grove Park. Family, friends that are family, and furry family members… Read More
Canstruction 2019: Pollinators Fox Architects participated in the Canstruction STL event held at the Saint Louis Science Center this year. On June 22, the Fox team joined other… Read More
Women in Architecture Firm Crawl Fox was honored to be one of the firms hosting the second anniversary event for the AIA St. Louis Women in Architecture (WIA) Forum. On Monday,… Read More
Fox Winter Party is a Hole-in-One Because December is crazy busy, Fox decided to host the annual Winter Party after the first of the year at TopGolf in Chesterfield. With four… Read More
Fox Architects Participates in STL Design Week This year Fox Architects participated in STL Design Week. For one of this year’s Bright & Early Panel Discussions “Design in Our Time”, our Partners… Read More
ModernSTL Annual Home Tour Our Project Architect Greg Turner and board member of ModernSTL will take part in the Annual House Tour in Ridgewood. The Ridgewood tour will feature Mid Century… Read More
Fox’s Dani Sheley Participates in Career Day for Taylorville High School On October 3rd our Interior Designer Dani Sheley, NCIDIQ, IIDA participated in Career Day in her hometown of Taylorville High School. This was the very… Read More
Fox Hosts SAME STEM Camp Visit On the same day Fox hosted STEM Camp, bill passes for Architecture to be added to STEM Program. Thursday, July 26th – Fox hosted 10 high… Read More
Tiny Art Competition Fox Architects employees participated in TOC Artwork‘s 2018 Tiny Art Competition this past month. There were so many wonderfully “tiny” art pieces completed by designers… Read More
Explore More Each spring the Virginia Bluebells blanket the Saint Francois State Park for a short time for all nature lovers to enjoy. I headed out this… Read More
2017’s Running Reflections As we come closer to the end of the year I wanted to reflect back at my first year with the Program, I Run 4 Michael… Read More
Ugly Sweaters and Architects on Ice Yesterday Fox Architects celebrated the season with an ugly sweater party complete with hot chocolate bar. Awards were divvied out for “Ugliest Sweater”, “Almost as… Read More
Fox Architects Visits Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wingspread While working on the InSinkErator headquarters project in Racine, Wisconsin, the team visited Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wingspread. Herbert Fisk Johnson, Jr. commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright… Read More
Fox Celebrates the Eclipse With filtered glasses in hand, the Fox team enjoyed the eclipse! We hope you were also able to enjoy today’s spectacular show. Now back to… Read More
Construction Update: The Jesuit Archives On Friday the Fox Architects team took to the Central West End to visit the Jesuit Archives site. We snagged the snapshot below of Fox’s John… Read More
Fridays are for Bocce Ball Last Friday the Fox Architects team ventured to Milo’s Tavern for an afternoon of bocce ball. Janet and Jeff proved to be unmatched bocce ball… Read More
An International Day of Food at Fox Architects Today at Fox Architects we feasted on delicacies from around the world and celebrated our employees‘ international heritage. We started our day with Bosnian coffee and… Read More
Fox Architects Represented at the International Institute of St. Louis Adnan Omeragic, Elise Novak, and Alen Basic were spotted on the Construction Forum St. Louis website! They were in attendance at the International Institute of… Read More
A Birthday Bonanza at Square One Brewery with Fox Architects The Fox team went out to Square One Brewery in Lafayette Square to celebrate Amanda‘s birthday on Friday. This lunch was filled with fun stories,… Read More
An Office with a View Fox Architects faces the Arch grounds from the 18th floor at 1 Memorial Drive. Today we were spoiled with views of a hockey game at… Read More
A Graduation Celebration at Fox Architects Fox Architects’ Heather Taylor graduated with her Masters in Architecture this weekend. We celebrated appropriately with tacos and plenty of chips and salsa at Mission… Read More
Arrived Perfect – Opening Reception Tonight Yesterday I received a call from a friend who got an early viewing of the installation “Arrived Perfect (Assembly Required) Sculpture and drawings by Tad… Read More
Design Competition Recently, we entered an architectural design competition in which we were tasked with designing a memorial to commemorate the Baltic Way. On the 23rd of… Read More
The USO – Supporting Our Troops Fox recently had the honor to help our local USO at Lambert Field with some renovations to their facility. We, along with our friends at… Read More
Understanding “Sense of Place” I am a firm believer that you need to spend quality time in a place to understand the nuances that make it what it is. … Read More
Alberti Lecture on Mid Century Modern Design Spring Semester 2016 for the Alberti Program at Washington University is here, and once again Fox has delivered a lecture, this time on “Mid Century… Read More
Happy 50th Birthday, Gateway Arch! Fifty Years ago today at 11:00AM, the last piece of the Gateway Arch was set in place. In celebration, The City of Saint Louis conducted… Read More
Alberti Lecture, Wash U Recently Elise Novak and I gave a Saturday afternoon lecture to the Alberti students at Washington University. This is probably about the 6th year in… Read More
Client Appreciation Day Last Friday of the every month is always client appreciation day not because of invoicing, but because we truly do appreciate all of our clients and… Read More
MEC Headquarters Last Friday, a few of us from the office went out to get and project update on The Emerson Process Management MEC Headquarters. The building is… Read More
Take (to) the Street – Gravois Avenue https://www.facebook.com/events/810775869020738/ On Tuesday evening July 15, 2015, I and about 75 others interested in the future of Gravois Avenue met at the Five Star Senior… Read More
Used to be Something Else Chris Montroy and I were fortunate this year to give a presentation to the Alberti Program at Washington University. This is something we’ve been doing… Read More
Neill Scheiter, 2014 Focus Class of Emerging Leaders Neill Scheiter has been named to the 2014 class of Emerging Leaders for Focus St. Louis. A few fun facts about Neill: He’s a member… Read More
Summer Sketching here again Following up on last year’s theme of sketching at local coffee houses, we kicked off the 2012 season with coffee and breakfast at Blondie’s, 1301 Washington… Read More
Architecture in The First Grade On Thursday March 8th I was lucky enough to “present” to Mrs. Towe’s First Grade Class at Old Bonhomme Elementary School. My granddaughter Liza Brown… Read More
New website up and running Pictured above: Brent, Jason, Cullen and Amanda Fox recently launched a new website. The new site gives us greater flexibility to add and change projects, and… Read More
Coffee Shop Sketch Fridays We started our summer sketch series this year in Lafayette Square. After hitting the neighborhood coffee shop several times, Jessica came upon the brilliant idea… Read More
Bike MS: Gateway Area Chapter This past weekend I rode the 2011 Bike MS Gateway Getaway in Columbia, Missouri. I rode as a member of team United by Design, a… Read More
Visit from Bruce Lindsey Last week we had the pleasure of hosting Bruce Lindsey, Dean of the College and Graduate School of Architecture, and Aly Abrams from the Washington… Read More
How I Spent the Fourth of July On July Fourth I once again manned my mini- bike and with my companion clowns took to streets of downtown St. Louis. Our “skat kitty… Read More
Sketching in Lafayette Square This morning we made it to Lafayette Square to sketch the Old Police Station Building. This is a Victorian structure built in the 1800’s –… Read More
Summer Sketching begins We met this morning before work at Old Post Office Plaza. I had my doubts about this space when it was first constructed: stark white,… Read More
throw some seeds in the ground and see what you get The warm weather, sunshine, and blooming dogwoods all mean it’s time for gardening, or what I prefer to think of as “plant experimentation”. The shear… Read More
Alberti Students and Sustainable Neighborhoods Ian and I had the opportunity to talk to the “Alberti Students” at Washington University School of Architecture this past Saturday. The program is an… Read More
Leslie Laskey One of the highlights of my Holiday season this year was meeting Leslie Laskey for lunch the week before Christmas. My wife Dianne and I… Read More
Lost in Translation This post concerns two important topics. First, Happy Birthday Frank Rosario! You don’t look a day older than 45. Frank recently took an internet test… Read More
Googled. Probably like a lot of people out there, sometimes curiosity strikes and you end up googleing yourself. Outside from the typical thousands of sites that… Read More
Planting a SEED On September 22, 2010, a group of local architects, designers and active community members gathered at FOAM – a coffee/beer bar at Jefferson and Cherokee… Read More
Found In translation As a St. Louis neophyte and latest Brazilian import, I knew of very little this city could offer me. I was recently hired as an… Read More
Summer Sketching around St. Louis Our small group has been meeting again this summer to sketch various places around town. We started in Tower Grove Park but have since moved… Read More
Upcoming Speaking Engagements Here’s some information on a couple of programs I’m involved with this summer/fall. The first is GovEnergy 2010 in Dallas, August 18th. I’m part of… Read More
Thoughts about where the materials we specify come from…. I recently had the good fortune to visit the Pacific Northwest. I spent about a week and a half in Olympic National Park and the… Read More
John Berendzen Quoted in Post-Dispatch Article In the Friday January 8th edition of the St Louis Post-Dispatch Fox Architects’ Partner John Berendzen is quoted on the importance of a St Louis… Read More
The value of drawing by hand Here at Fox, we have a tradition of meeting Friday mornings before work in the summer months to sketch. We generally choose an area of… Read More
Ville Marketplace funding on President’s desk Since spring of 2006, a group of us here at Fox have been working through AIA St. Louis to design, fund and construct an open… Read More
