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Welcome to the Comfy Office of the Future | Wired | Mar 2023
“I call it corporate-to-comfy,” says Brian Parker, principal of the Interiors Studio at Cooper Carry, a firm that designed the State Farm office campus in Georgia and had been tapped to work on Microsoft’s potential Atlanta headquarters before the plan was paused. Before the pandemic, office buildings and campuses were often constructed almost to a formula, Parker says. The number of employees, percentage of different types of jobs, and predictions about future headcount growth went in one end; out the other came the number of desks and square feet required. Function ruled over form.... Read More
How to Ensure Long-Term Redevelopments Don’t Turn Neighborhoods into Dead Zones | Crain’s New York | Feb 2023
As New York undergoes its next evolution, navigating the interstitial space between past and future requires cooperation between all stakeholders. For the city's unique urban fabric to remain intact while we wait to meet its next iteration, community-oriented short-term solutions will ensure these neighborhoods endure.... Read More
Hotels and Office Conversions Are Bright Spots for Architects Amid Slowdown in Business | CoStar | Jan 2023
Cooper Carry’s new contracts include the design for a new W Hotel in Orlando, Florida, near Disney World. The firm also recently began design work on the redevelopment of a 200,000 square-foot former office building at 1101 King St. in Alexandria, Virginia, into apartments and retail.... Read More
Donohoe Lands $75M Loan For Dual-Branded Reston Town Center Hotel | BisNow | Jan 2023
A new hotel development at Northern Virginia's Reston Town Center has landed a $74.7M construction loan even as rising interest rates and economic uncertainty have led many lenders to pull back in recent months. The Donohoe Cos. secured the financing from Artemis ... Designed by Cooper Carry, the hotel will have amenities including an indoor pool, a fitness facility and a 4K SF ground-floor restaurant. ... Read More
Return of the Max | Atlanta Magazine | Jan 2023
Recent years have brought a shift from the crisp minimalist aesthetic that dominated Instagram feeds over the past decade to one that’s colorful and expressive. One of the most notable examples is the Garden Room, the cocktail bar adjacent to Atlas at the St. Regis Atlanta, which opened in 2019. The hard-to-book locale feels like it was ripped from the pages of Alice in Wonderland: A vaulted ceiling of steel and glass encloses a patio filled with colorful furniture and statement pieces such as a white tree sculpture and a tiled mosaic that echoes the work of Gustav Klimt. “It’s just pattern on pattern,” says Anita Summers, principal at the Johnson Studio of Cooper Carry, the firm that designed the space. ... Read More
Artemis Provides $74.7M in Financing for Dual-Branded Hotel Project | SE Real Estate Business | Jan 2023
Artemis has provided $74.7 million in financing for the construction of a dual-branded Marriott AC Hotel and Residence Inn at Reston Town Center in Reston, approximately 20 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. ... Totaling 267 guest rooms and designed by Atlanta-based Cooper Carry Architects, the project will include a 120-room extended-stay Residence Inn and a 147-room boutique AC Hotel. ... Read More
Anticipated “Heat Belt” Means Different Design Requirements | Connect CRE | Jan 2023
In response, J.D. Harper, sustainability leader at Cooper Carry, suggested that the built environment should be shifted to meet this problem of extreme heat in the coming decades. In a recent article he wrote for Urban Land Magazine, Harper suggested four design approaches that could help with extreme heat challenges.... Read More
Interior Renovations At Las Vegas’ Miracle Mile Near Completion | Chain Store Age | Dec 2022
Miracle Mile’s signature indoor rainstorm show, which also dates back to its Desert Passage days, is undergoing extensive upgrades that include an immersive light and water show. The center’s traditional sky-painted ceiling will also remain. Still to be completed are new state-of-the-art exterior LED screens and signage, projection mapping technology for a new show above V Theater, modernized landscaping, new interior seating, updated fixtures, and touchless digital directories.... Read More
Developers Explore Reusing Metro Atlanta’s Aging Office Towers | AJC | Dec 2020
Larger office buildings, like those downtown, present design challenges that are only complicated by a tower’s height. Scott Fleming, a principal at Cooper Carry who specializes in corporate office architecture, said concrete floor plates, wide hallways and office common areas have to be adapted on a case-by-case basis.... Read More
Rooftop Bar Suspends Hotel Guests Above ATL | Restaurant Development + Design | Dec 2022
Spaceman needed to be an energetic, flexible space with an eye-catching element to be seen from the highway below. In order to fulfill the program, The Johnson Studio designed a large communal bar inside a 20-foot-high glass box that overhangs the hotel, which quickly became the focal point of the design ...... Read More
Four Resilient Design Approaches Mitigating Extreme Heat | Urban Land | Dec 2022
The science tells us extreme heat will become a growing issue for more cities and we should be designing our built environment accordingly. Whenever possible, we are recommending climate-resilient design strategies to future-proof our projects for the decades to come. As it relates to extreme heat, our strategies include ...... Read More
Berry College’s McAllister Hall Animal Science Building | Lab Manager | Dec 2022
Lab Manager speaks to Tim Fish, principal in Cooper’s Carry’s Higher Education Studio, about Berry College’s McAllister Hall Animal Science Building in Mount Berry, GA. The facility was built to replace an outdated facility on campus. This 26,500 sf building was completed in July 2021, at a cost of $13 million. The project team consisted of Cooper Carry and Brasfield & Gorrie Construction.... Read More
Crescent Communities Releases Details On Carson & Tryon Project | Charlotte Business Journal | Nov 2022
Carson & Tryon calls for the construction of a 31-story, mixed-use tower that will include nearly 560,000 square feet of office space, 10,000 square feet of retail space, 200 Novel-branded apartments and a 200-room boutique hotel ... Other partners in the Carson & Tryon project include Cooper Carry, LandDesign, Uzun and Case, Barrett Woodyard and ECS.... Read More
Atlanta’s 25 Largest Architectural Firms | Atlanta Business Chronicle | Nov 2022
Cooper Carry is ranked #1 for the fourth year in a row. ... Read More