in  johnson and burgee had moved their offices into one of their new buildings the lipstick building the popular name of the skyscraper they built at  third avenue in new york and given its nickname because of its resemblance to the color and shape of a stick of lipstick burgee who wanted to play a larger role in the firm negotiated a smaller part for johnson and in  the firms name was changed to john burgee architects with philip as the design consultant by  johnson had split with burgee and opened up his own practice