Cooper, Robertson & Partners Architecture, Urban Design

The January 2012 issue of Architectural Digest distinguished Cooper, Robertson & Partners' on its list of "The New AD100, Today's Greatest Talents in Architecture & Design". As described in AD, "Driving each [of the firm's] projects is an appreciation for vernacular building traditions, an interest in sustainable design, and an enduring excitement."

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We are pleased to announce that Earl G. Jackson, IV, AIA has joined our Urban Design group to help lead the firm's work in the USA and to develop our reach abroad. Earl comes to us from SOM where he was Associate Director of the New York office's Urban Design studio. His work on high density mixed-use, waterfront, and transit-oriented development, as well as slum redevelopment and urban academic campuses extends to India, China, South Korea, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Mexico. Earl is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University where he teaches Urban Design Studio and a seminar in Urban Design Manifestos.

Lennar Urban has selected the Cooper, Robertson & Partners design team to prepare a master streetscape plan for Hunters Point Shipyard Phase 2 and Candlestick Point, two new mixed-use neighborhoods on San Francisco Bay. We are pleased to win another project in Northern California on the heels of our master planning work for Bay Meadows and at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Congratulations to our Senior Associate, Hiro Hayakawa, for being selected as a Runner-Up in Architectural Record's 2011 Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest in the Professional Architect Category. With more than 1,200 napkin sketches submitted, it's quite an accomplishment. Hiro's sketch at left can also be seen in the October 2011 issue of Architectural Record and on Architectural Record's website. Learn more about the contest here.

Cooper, Robertson has been selected by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to assist in planning for the redevelopment of a CHOP-owned site on the Schuylkill River. Following the successful completion of the Plan for the Central Delaware Riverfront, we are proud to continue helping shape the future of Philadelphia’s waterfront.

Cooper, Robertson is planning Honeywell's Campus in Morris Township, New Jersey, the site of its Global Headquarters. The plan improves old uses as well as providing a number of new uses on the property. Learn all about the project on the Honeywell website.

Master planners for Philadelphia's Central Delaware Riverfront, Cooper, Robertson has transformed the city's waterfront in a plan to be officially unveiled to the public on Monday, June 13, 2011 at 6:30pm at the Pavilion on Festival Pier in Philadelphia.

For details of the event and how to attend, please visit the Plan for the Central Delaware's website.

The Richard Rodgers Amphitheater, the new state of the art facility designed by Cooper, Robertson, opened to the public on June 2, 2011 in a ribbon-cutting ceremony presided over by NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe with remarks by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Mary Rodgers-Guettel of the Rodgers Family Foundation, which donated $1 million to the $7 million project.

Read the NYC Parks Department Press Release.

The Whitney Museum of American Art broke ground on its new building at Washington and Gansevoort Streets in downtown Manhattan’s Meatpacking District on Tuesday, May 24th. Designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Cooper, Robertson & Partners, the new 200,000-square-foot space will open to the public in 2015. See a full description of the project on our Whitney Museum project page.

Rose Diamond has joined Cooper, Robertson to lead our education group. A passionate educator and architect, Rose brings 25 years of experience in education and the planning, design, and facilities management of learning environments. Working with three of the top five school districts in the United States, she has overseen capital budgets in excess of $4 billion. Previously, Rose served as Vice President for Real Estate and Facilities for the Global Partnership Schools / GEMSA and also as Chief Facilities Officer for Miami-Dade Public Schools.

A number of Cooper, Robertson's large-scale urban design projects including Val d'Europe are featured prominently in The Language of Towns and Cities, a new book from Rizzoli by Dhiru Thadani.

You can learn more about it on Amazon.com.

As part of the MVVA team, Cooper, Robertson was chosen winner of The City + The Arch + The River 2015 St. Louis International Design Competition. Lauded as “a winning combination of the ambitious and the manageable,” our team will embark on Program Analysis and Design Development to enliven the Gateway Arch area and connect it to downtown, the Mississippi River, and Illinois Park. Details are here and read the press release here.

Architect magazine introduced their new annual ranking of architecture firms based not on revenue or number of employees, but on profitability, commitment to sustainability, and caliber of design. Cooper, Robertson is number 23 on this list of America's top 50 firms, the "Architect 50." And having won many prestigious design awards, Cooper, Robertson is number 4 on the survey's Top 10 Award Winning list.

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