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A sampling of recent articles on the firms's projects demonstrates the diversity of our work.

  • › Veranda magazine, March 2010
    "Defining Design: Four Questions"
    produced by Leslie Newsom Rascoe

    Founding Partner Jaque Robertson was asked four questions for the March 2010 issue of Veranda. "What do you see as new directions in design and architecture?," "what are your favorite design books?," etc. His answers are straightforward and illuminating.

  • "Carnival Cruise Line to sail from SC year-round"
    by Bruce Smith

    "Earlier this week, the State Ports Authority chose Cooper, Robertson & Partners of New York, an urban design firm, to develop a plan to improve the authority's existing passenger terminal on the Cooper River and nine acres of land around it."

  • "Reston Heights gets Silver LEED Certification"
    by Tierney Plumb

    Reston Heights in Reston has earned the Silver Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification -- the first neighborhood development in Virginia to achieve the rating.
    The first national system for neighborhood design from the U.S. Green Building Council takes into account principles of smart growth, new urbanism and green building. Aspects of the project that contributed to the rating include: all new buildings being LEED Silver certified, proximity to the Dulles Toll Road and two future Metro stations at Wiehle Avenue and Reston Parkway, green operations, cleaning, organic landscaping and maintenance programs for all new buildings and reducing water use by 30 percent."
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  • "Firms Adapt to Tough Times"
    by Suzanne Stephens

    Founding Partner Jaque Robertson is quoted in this article in which noted architects discuss strategies for staying alive during this recession.

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  • "The New Old World"
    Patterned on a traditional French town, Euro Disney's Val d'Europe community is being carefully designed for a prosperous future.
    by Michael Foreman

    "Cooper, Robertson & Partners was brought in to handle architecture and design. And the company's senior urban designer and partner Michel Dionne was tasked with weaving toegther a coherent plan. Mr. Dionne had only a small parcel of land to work with, hemmed in by Disneyland Resort Paris and a boulevard circling the park. The team also had to figure out a way to design around a 1.2 million square-foot shopping center already under construction."
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    "Hunter College School of Social Work to Move"
    by Glenn Collins

    "The new school will be built to the specifications of the university by the architect Cooper, Robertson & Partners, designer of the 2004 Columbia University School of Social Work."
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  • "Zuccotti Park"
    by Robin Pogrebin

    Cooper, Robertson's AIA-award winning project Zuccotti Park is featured in International New Architecture magazine from Shanghai, China.
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    "New Amphitheater for Harlem Park"
    by Robin Pogrebin

    "The park is across the street from where Richard Rodgers, the Broadway composer, grew up. His daughter, Mary Guettel, attended the announcement at the park. A preliminary design by Cooper Robertson & Partners has been developed with money from the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City and the City Parks Foundation, which is presenting the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival at Marcus Garvey Park this weekend."
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  • "Bicentennial Park Renovation price tag: $2.5M an acre"
    by Yudislaidy Fernandez

    "That sort of price sounds high but is within the norms for a "world-class" signature park for a major city, said Alex Cooper, founding partner of Cooper, Robertson & Partners, the New York-based urban planning and consulting firm hired to transform underdeveloped Bicentennial Park into a Museum Park. "The site is very special, is right on the bay and surrounded with gardens and museums," Mr. Cooper said. "This is the combined vision of a lot of people including the mayor (Manny Diaz)." In March, city commissioners approved Cooper, Robertson's crafted master plan to include 8 acres of parkland for the Miami Art Museum and the Museum of Science and a remaining 24 acres for the park's many elements."
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