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"A $35 million renovation project at Rosslyn City Center in Arlington will transform an 84,000-square foot space into a place for all-day dining, working and socializing, real estate lender American Real Estate Partners (AREP) announced Wednesday ... Other partners for the Rosslyn City Center project include Cooper Carry, interior designer Karen Herold of Studio K, Wow & Flutter, Friction Design and DPR Construction."... Read More

"With the existing 1.5-acre Marie Sims Park anchoring the entire AMLI community, Cooper Carry saw an opportunity to forge a stronger link between the indoors and outdoors at AMLI Lenox. This idea led us to add the linear Oak Valley Park to the design plan, which will connect to Marie Sims Park via a well-lit, thoughtfully landscaped path and make it even easier for residents to access a green oasis in the heart of Buckhead."... Read More

Megan Fagge, K-12 Studio, Cooper Carry... Read More

"Novo forms part of The Main Las Olas, a 1.4 million-square-foot mixed-use community between 201 E. Las Olas and SE 2nd St. ... Designed by architecture firm Cooper Carry, Novo features studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, with quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, private balconies/terraces and electronic locks ... The development also features the city’s first GreenWise Market, a 28,000-square-foot store owned and operated by Publix Super Markets."... Read More

" As planners and designers, we have a responsibility to address inequity in the built environment, which includes determining how we grow and distribute food and eliminating barriers to participate in the process. Here are three ways we can start."... Read More

"Midtown Medical on Ponce, a new seven-story, 150,000-square-foot mixed-use medical office building (MOB), is planned at 272 Ponce De Leon Avenue, according to a press release Monday announcing that JLL has been tasked with leasing the project ... Cooper Carry is the project’s architect having the past five years designed more than 16 million square feet of corporate and medical office space, including various medical office properties in Atlanta."... Read More

The $100,000 gift will enable even more Black architects-in-training to pursue their goals of shaping the built environment. “Our students have incredible potential and through this partnership with Cooper Carry, we will be able to not only attract more students to our program, but we’ll be able to keep our current students in the program, and on track to graduate,” said Fluker.... Read More

"The 140-seat restaurant will feature relaxed seating in a lounge area and counter seating surrounding an open kitchen, as well as traditional table-side service. The color palette sets a romantic tone for the restaurant, which also features a chandelier and hand-painted floral tile by Italian ceramicist Giovanni de Maio in the kitchen. The Ritz-Carlton hired Atlanta-based architecture and interior design firm The Johnson Studio for the project."... Read More

"Michelin-starred restaurateur Mario Iaccarino will launch his first U.S. restaurant, Casa Don Alfonso, this fall at the Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis. The Mediterranean concept will reflect the Southern Italian sensibility of Iaccarino’s existing Don Alfonso locations around the world. Atlanta-based architecture and design practice the Johnson Studio is tasked with realizing the relaxed and approachable new eatery, which will total 140 seats."... Read More

This redesign effort was handled by Cooper Carry’s Hospitality Studio and The Johnson Studio at Cooper Carry. “We wanted to celebrate the history and bring it back as a vibrant hotel that is the centerpiece of downtown, but to do so in a modern way that felt relevant today, not like a stodgy museum. Balancing the historical with the current was really important,” says Anna McGrady Miller, director of interior design for The Johnson Studio at Cooper Carry.... Read More

"Tuskegee University’s Department of Architecture has received an unparalleled contribution of $100,000 from the Cooper Carry Charitable Foundation, Inc. The gift will be used to increase access to the architecture profession for African American students ... Eighty thousand dollars of the gift will be used to establish new need-based scholarships for undergraduate students. Twenty thousand of the gift is designated for a student technology scholarship that will allow students to receive technology assistance by providing laptops and/or architecture design software – as Tuskegee has transitioned to remote instruction."... Read More

"Major additions to amenities are planned at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in North Naples. Work began last week on a project that includes a new outdoor restaurant, pool bar and event lawn targeted for completion by the end of November, as well as new swimming pools, a lazy river, waterslides and more to be completed next May, according to a news release from the local luxury hotel ... The remastering design is a collaboration of Cooper Carry and Parker Torres Design."... Read More

"Approved in 2017, the development is expected to deliver 302 apartments; Lowe Enterprises is the lead developer and Cooper Carry is the architect."... Read More

“When designing hotels, one of the first questions is: How can we bring F+B into this space? We expect to see more areas in the hotel become flexible spaces to dine informally. The entire hotel could become a great F+B experience,” says Bob Neal, a Principal with Cooper Carry’s Hospitality Studio. He, like other AEC sources, is seeing a spurning of buffets (which are highly profitable but can be infection traps) in favor of prepackaged room service and grab-and-go areas in lobbies and corridors.... Read More

Simmel says projects now under construction are incorporating many of his firm’s social distance–friendly concepts, which perhaps foreshadowed the need but in fact predated the pandemic. “I don’t know if that says anything about the way we designed them or the situation that we’re in, but we haven’t really been asked to make a whole lot of changes to things that are under construction,” he comments. ... Read More