Cooper, Robertson & Partners Architecture, Urban Design

Scott Newman, Partner at Cooper, Robertson & Partners will present a learning session, Facilities Planning in the New Economy, at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Alliance of Museums on May 20 in Baltimore, Maryland at 1:45 p.m. He is joined by Sara Urizar of The Art Institute of Chicago, and Meredith Mack of Rise Group, an ARCADIS Company. Please also visit CRP's booth in the MusuemExpo.

MGM Resorts International has announced its vision for a new public realm on Las Vegas Boulevard at New York-New York and Monte Carlo resorts and a public park leading to a new state-of-the-art arena. Cooper, Robertson & Partners is proud to be leading the planning and design team in the creation of an unprecedented pedestrian environment on the Strip, with new retail, dining, and entertainment attractions framed by a lushly landscaped setting with water elements, outdoor dining terraces and informal performance spaces.

John Kirk and Manuel Mergal, Partners at CRP, will present on the topic Traditional Building and Climate Change: Wind, Water and Waterfronts at 9 a.m. on April 3 at the 2013 Traditional Building Conference in Norwalk, Connecticut. The session will explore approaches to designing traditional homes and communities on waterfronts in our changing climate, including lessons learned via projects such as WaterColor, WindMark Beach, and a private house in Southampton.

The Cancer Care Center at Duke University Medical Center has been awarded LEED Gold certification by the US Green Building Congress. The 266,000 square foot facility opened in 2012 and features optimized energy performance, advanced water conservation strategies, and a particular focus on indoor air quality. The building features a green roof as well as non-toxic, low-VOC and PVC-free, and regionally sourced materials and provides bicycle storage and changing rooms as well as connectivity to public transportation.

Cooper, Robertson & Partners will be at the National Association of Independent Schools annual conference, February 27-March 1, 2013 in Philadelphia. Please visit our booth. Coinciding with NAIS' 50-year anniversary, the three-day conference hosts more than 4,000 school leaders and colleagues in a celebration of new ideas, successful presidents, and projects on the horizon for independent education.

We are pleased to announce that Cooper, Robertson & Partners has been selected to prepare a master plan for the future of the historic Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville, Virginia. We are proud to build upon our legacy of work in the region, which includes past projects for The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Amvest, the Miller Center for Public Affairs, and the University of Virginia .

Scott Newman, Partner at Cooper, Robertson & Partners will present a learning session, Successfully Implementing Building Projects in the New Economy, at the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums' Building Museums Symposium on Tuesday, February 19 in Fort Worth, Texas. He is joined by Sara Urizar of the Art Institute of Chicago and Meredith Mack of Rise Group, an ARCADIS Company.

On December 17th, after nineteen months of construction, the highest of the beams for the new Whitney Museum in Manhattan's meatpacking district were installed and celebrated with a "topping out" ceremony. Cooper, Robertson & Partners, the Executive Architect for the project, alongside Whitney Museum staff and members of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Turner Construction project team, took part in the signing of the highest steel beam of the 9-story building, a construction tradition. The museum will open in 2015.

On Friday, November 9th, the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina and President and CEO Bob Geolas launched the new master plan http://www.rtp.org/about-rtp/planning-and-progress to guide the 50-year-old park's development through the next century. In attendance was head of CRP's Urban Design Studio Donald Clinton, AIA, MRAIC, LEED AP, who presented the comprehensive design for a more compact, walkable, and mixed-use park. CRP's plan [link to new CRP project page] includes cutting edge research space, incubators to nurture start-up companies, new transportation, retail, multi-family residential, hotel/conference facilities, and education and cultural amenities.

The Ethical Culture Fieldston School Middle School is in The Edgeless School: Design for Learning. The exhibit, which runs at the Center for Architecture until January 19th, 2013, explores designs and constructed school buildings that transcend boundaries between learning needs, approaches, and environments.

On October 2, 2012, the Morris Township Committee approved Honeywell International's master plan and zoning change to redevelop its New Jersey corporate headquarters. Cooper, Robertson & Partners prepared the redevelopment plan for Honeywell, which preserves the 147-acre site's significant topography while creating a LEED-certified corporate headquarters.

Founding Partner Alexander Cooper's essay on Zuccotti Park, titled "Places that Matter: Zuccotti Park Before / After / Now," is featured in Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space, recently published by New Village Press. Cooper's article seeks to get at the question of why Zuccotti Park, of all downtown locations, was chosen as the Occupy Wall Street headquarters. His answer is twofold: "Zuccotti Park was designed to maximize the personal, intimate, small-scale activities afforded by an urban oasis," while at the same time "has been called apon to broadcast a very large-scale, public message to the world. It has served both equally well."

Join Partner Edward Siegel at "Architecture as Fine Art," part of the Architecture as Fine Art Lecture Series; November 14th at 7:00 p.m., hosted at the Bruce Museum. Mr. Siegel's presentation of Cooper, Robertson & Partners' recent work will include the addition to St. Luke's Parish House, the addition and renovation of a Greek Revival farmhouse in Waccabuc, New York, and the total redesign of a SoHo loft. The event is organized by a collaboration of Kais Custom Builders, East Coast Home + Design magazine, and Montag Windows & Doors. Free Admission. $20 Suggested donation, all proceeds to benefit The Bruce Museum. Please RSVP here.

The new Whitney Museum of American Art, situated between the High Line and the Hudson River on Gansevoort Street, broke ground on May 22nd with a celebration that featured Mayor Michael Bloomberg and museum Director Adam D. Weinberg. Designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Cooper, Robertson & Partners, the museum will open to the public in 2015.

Two Cooper, Robertson & Partners projects were featured in the AIA's "Design by New York" subway show at the West 4th Street subway station this fall: the Master Plan for the Central Delaware and the new Whitney Museum.

The Master Plan for the Central Delaware will be featured in The City and the World, an exhibition of award-winning new works of architecture and urban planning, at Istanbul Technical University in Turkey November 5-30. The Chicago Athenaeum is an event sponsor.

David McGregor, Managing Director, Cooper, Robertson & Partners will present a learning session, System and Institution: Meeting their Differing Needs Concurrently, at SCUP 47 on Tuesday, July 10, 2:15 – 3:15 pm with Barbara D. Chernow, Senior Vice President for Administration and Pamela Gibbons-Mahler, Capital Program Manager, State University Construction Fund.

The new museum in Florence, South Carolina designed by Cooper, Robertson & Partners celebrated its official ground breaking on May 21st. The museum is an important addition to the city's cultural corridor located at the point where performing arts, educational and library buildings meet the downtown historic district.

The new Charter High School building designed by Cooper, Robertson & Partners fronting Marcus Garvey Memorial Park on 124th Street in Harlem will open its doors in September to welcome 400 students.

Cooper, Robertson's Cultural Studio will be a featured exhibitor at the American Association of Museums Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo™ in Minneapolis April 29 - May 2. We are also one of a select few exhibitors chosen to participate in the MuseumExpo™ Preview Tour entitled Building Museums on Monday, April 30th at 9 a.m. CST. Partners Scott Newman and Bruce Davis and Director of Marketing Joy Habian will join museum professionals from around the world in exploring the myriad ways the design and building of museums impacts and enhances community.

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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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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.

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.

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.

Read the article and see the lists.