Massing and façade design for a 13-story mixed-use building containing Columbia University faculty housing and ground floor retail at Broadway and West 103rd Street in Manhattan.

To help ensure our master plan was built out properly, Cooper, Robertson purchased a lot at WaterColor on which we designed and built a house. The result is a sophisticated ‘model home’ which displays the standards set out in our Pattern Book while taking risks such as placing the main house at the back of the lot instead of the front in order to access open views of trees and Western Lake. Quickly and easily constructed and sold for its asking price, the project also demonstrated to local contractors and architects that following the guidelines need not be complicated.

This mixed-use development of five buildings, located on one of the Capitol's most prominent sites, was conceived as a single entity which creates 250,000 square feet of office space, a 250-room luxury hotel with conference rooms, 190 apartments, and 45,000 square feet of retail space and underground parking while integrating four existing landmark buildings and an important monument.

Built on schedule and under budget, this office complex combines both modernist and traditional devices to enhance its memorable location north of L'Enfant Plaza on Maryland Avenue, one of the great diagonal axes radiating from the Capitol. The design is shaped by the site's symbolic location and triangular shape, the architectural character of its neighbors, its program, and zoning requirements.

Set into a hill, the brick structure bridges the site’s major streambed, filtering and redirecting its flow into a lake via open stone channels on either side of a tall central pavilion. The building is thus a dam and waterworks for the area as well as the headquarters for an important regional company. The three-story pavilion, containing a lakeside cafeteria, entry level executive suite, and top floor boardroom, is flanked by two-story office wings.

Arlington Town Center is a new mixed-use, primarily retail center which lies between two major arenas: the new Dallas Cowboys' Stadium and the Texas Rangers' Ballpark. Johnson's Creek, a natural water course, runs through the site providing a focal point for the development.

In order to improve pedestrian access to the water, a new streetscape plan reduces traffic, mitigates physical barriers, and helps define public areas using landscape and special paving designs. At critical junctures around the Harbor, the plan reconfigures roads and enlarges public spaces to increase pedestrian access and foster new development.

The design encompasses pastures, gardens, a guest lodge, a greenhouse, and barns housing exotic animals and birds as well as offices and vehicles. Set in the trees on a steep rock slope, the stone and timber guest lodge is both luxurious and rustic, drawing on the great Adirondack camps of the 19th century. In addition to a high balconied living room, the three story house has five bedrooms, a kitchen, dining, screening, and exercise rooms, and terraces with panoramic views of the estate and Croton Reservoir beyond.

Built on an empty land-fill area created from the excavation of the World Trade Center site in the 1970s, Battery Park City is today the premier waterfront destination in New York and perhaps the most successful new commercial development in the United States. The Master Plan proposed two then-radical concepts: first, extension of the adjacent street grid and geometry across the property to create a normalized development pattern while discouraging through traffic; second, an open space system consisting of a continuous esplanade, a commercial plaza, and several neighborhood-scaled parks with walkways connecting them to one another and the city.

Running along the edge of Battery Park City for its entire 1.2-mile length on the Hudson River, this one-of-a-kind open space links the 92-acre mixed-use site to the rest of lower Manhattan at key points and, in turn, links lower Manhattan to the water. With striking views of the river, New York Harbor, Ellis Island, and the Statue of Liberty, the Esplanade is used by residents, tourists, and office workers both as a destination setting and as a path to walk, run, bicycle, or roller skate along the river.

A former racetrack, this site benefits from its proximity to a regional rail line. Providing a new station stop will reduce the number of workers and residents arriving by car, while establishing links under the rail line and to the surrounding neighborhoods will help sustain new uses throughout the site. Two weeks after the City of San Mateo Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval of the plan, the San Mateo City Council officially approved it on April 21, 2008.

This 831-unit new community is an extension of the old hamlet of Benice on the agrarian outskirts of Prague. A wildlife corridor running through the town connects the new town's commercial center to Prague's larger open space system. Radiating out from this town center, a residential street network of mixed density contains a wide variety of housing types, two recreation centers, and two community schools. Incorporated into the town's design are numerous "green" features, including a BioMass power plant, wind power, and super-insulated houses each with cisterns for rainwater collection.

Adjacent to downtown, interstate highways, Logan Airport, the deep water port, and South Boston, the Seaport District represents the next growth frontier for Boston. To overcome the perceived isolation of the 300-acre site, the plan extends three important downtown streets into the area and preserves Boston’s scale and character with smaller block sizes, narrower streets, and low building heights near the water. A variety of public open spaces along the water's edge are also linked to residential neighborhoods and the new convention center.

Beginning with a programming phase to isolate principal needs, the firm’s master plan for the Garden includes the construction of a new visitor center and off-site science and library buildings.

The quality of Cooper, Robertson’s master plan for the International Trade Center prompted the Calvin Klein Cosmetics Company to consolidate all of its east coast operations into a single facility here. The building houses all non-corporate functions and facilities in one building including laboratories, production, assembly, distribution, offices, an employee cafeteria, a fitness center, and a company store.

Design and construction of a platform on the New Haven riverfront accommodating a 25,000 sq. ft. boathouse with office/meeting facilities, festival sheds, docks, and a public park.

These condominiums are currently under construction as part of the final build-out of Celebration's town center.

Cooper, Robertson has worked for Disney on Celebration for over a decade. The plan is organized around existing fields, trees, and natural drainage ways, all of which give a sense of age and permanence to new streets, buildings, and open spaces. The firm also provided comprehensive architectural services for all elements of this new town of 20,000, served as design architects for 11 town center buildings, and guided the pattern book for the residential neighborhoods.

At the crossroads of two of Celebration’s most important streets, the Clubhouse serves as a transitional ‘doorway’ between the recreational precinct and adjacent residential areas. Its domestic scale makes it almost another house, yet a house with a significant public presence marked by a central tower, a windmill, and the greenbelt of the golf course on both sides.

At the southern end of San Diego Bay, Downtown Chula Vista is cutoff from the waterfront by Interstate 5 as well as by privately-held industrial properties. This master plan reconnects the city to the water and transforms the waterfront into a vibrant mixed-use destination with an active entertainment harbor, a variety of new open spaces, 700,000 square feet of new retail space, 1.3 million square feet of new office space, and 2,500 residential units.