Architecture and interiors firm The Turett Collaborative (TTC) has named two new partners: James Saisakorn, RA, and Aleksandr Nizhikhovskiy, RA. Alongside founder Wayne Turett, Director of Interior Design Jessica Shaw and Partner Simeon Seigel, RA, the new partners will lead the firm’s growth into new markets, emerging technologies and evolving aesthetics.
In addition to dozens of Manhattan townhomes, apartments and multifamily residences, TTC’s projects include Newsbar (Manhattan’s first coffee bar/retail hybrid) in the 1990s to the recent Greenport Passive House (an award-winning net-zero all-electric home) and Civic Hall (a technology hub for the world’s civic innovators).
“We are thrilled to welcome James and Aleksandr to the partnership,” says Turett. “Together they will strengthen our identity as a firm and our commitment to collaboration, sustainability and inventiveness. Collectively bringing a variety of distinctly valuable expertise, passions, and capabilities to the table, this next generation will continue to provide clients with innovative design and a future-forward perspective.”
Saisakorn joined TTC in 2004. After studying architecture in Switzerland at the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL) under the tutelage of the late Luigi Snozzi, a leader of the Ticino school of architecture that included fellow esteemed Swiss architects Mario Botta, Aurelio Galfetti and Livio Vacchini, he returned to complete his Bachelor of Architecture with a double major in French from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996. Notably, his past work on energy-efficient and green building design contributed to the production and publication of the 1996 Building Design Manual for the Pennsylvania Energy Code.
Alex Nizhikhovskiy has been a member of the TTC team for over eight years. Nizhikhovskiy is a licensed architect in the state of New York, with a Master in Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York, where he was recognized with the AIA Henry Adams Medal. He previously spent five years as a Junior Designer at Montoya-Rodriguez Architects + Planners, where he focused on public projects, primarily public schools, and other educational buildings.
