Downtown Fort Lauderdale, Las Olas Boulevard
Over the last 20 years, Cooper Carry has been involved in the planning of developments in a number of Florida cities including Fort Lauderdale. Our master plan in Fort Lauderdale is focused on connecting the city's downtown, central business district and riverwalk to the Las Olas shopping district through active and vibrant pedestrian-friendly spaces. Streetscapes include fountains along ground floor specialty shops and restaurants.
Cooper Carry's Las Olas City Centre building (Bank of America tower) is the latest mixed-use office and retail project to be located on Las Olas Boulevard. This project advances the trend toward densification and celebrates the urban experience as it has been conceived for downtown Fort Lauderdale.
Houston Galleria Expansion & Renovation
The Cooper Carry Retail Studio renovated Houston's famous Galleria and added 80 shops and two anchor stores through expansion. Rooted in classic modern architecture, the Galleria’s renovation and expansion is designed with clean, contemporary lines resulting in a timeless look. A sense of elegance and the distinctive use of natural light unifies the entire complex.
Emory University Science Village
A master plan to unite and integrate the sciences led to the design of Emerson Hall and the recently completed Math & Science buildings on the Emory campus in Atlanta. The Science Village is a "living laboratory" of sustainability using LEED criteria and a native plant palette. State-of-the-art teaching labs and classrooms are enclosed within the architectural expression of the Emory campus vernacular, a very sophisticated design for context.
Mercer University Center
The new "center" of the Macon campus houses an arena, indoor pool, numerous sports courts and fitness rooms, and an elevated track along with classroom and office spaces. Students socialize on the interior "street" or in the exterior arcades that connect with rest of the campus.
University of Georgia Student Learning Center
The Student Learning Center supports the UGA’s mission to teach, serve and encourage inquiry through the integration of classroom and library experience. The SLC promotes interaction and collaboration between the students, faculty and the extended academic community and has become a new intellectual and social destination for the campus.
The City of Raleigh, North Carolina
Like many metropolitan areas, Raleigh is a city that has grown toward its suburbs, leaving downtown real estate in recession—yet open for new development possibilities. Cooper Carry is working with Raleigh on a number of important projects that will help revitalize the city's downtown.
Downtown Raleigh Master Plan: In mid-2002 the City of Raleigh and the Downtown Raleigh Alliance hired The Center for Connective Architecture at Cooper Carry to facilitate the planning process for a downtown master plan. The Center collected all of the goals and guiding principles created by the citizens of Raleigh and generated a vision to revitalize the heart of the city. The plan seeks to improve the pedestrian environment of downtown and addresses the convention center on Fayetteville Street. The plan will encourage the Fayetteville Street Renaissance by filling in the development gaps, opening available blocks to vehicular activity, re-establishing the capitol vista, developing an outdoor festival and performance space and creating a strategy for the retail core.
Fayetteville Street Renaissance: In August 2003, The City of Raleigh, North Carolina retained Cooper Carry to prepare design drawings, storefront criteria and an urban design manual for the redevelopment along the corridor. With a series of public input workshops, a design concept was identified—setting the stage for the rejuvenation of the premier street in Raleigh . Today, design drawings are progressing with construction slated for later this year and a planned opening for early 2005.
Two Progress Plaza: Progress Energy originally engaged Cooper Carry to help plan uses for downtown property it was buying. Since then, Cooper Carry has worked with the firm to design its new downtown headquarters. The development will encompass a four block area and the design envisions the densification and redevelopment of the downtown core of the city. The plan calls for a rich mix of urban housing, office space, street level retail and structured parking. The first phase is the construction of a mixed-use development for Progress Energy on the city block due east of their current headquarters building.
Raleigh Convention Center Hotel: As part of the Stormont-Noble Development team, Cooper Carry was recently awarded the design of the new downtown Convention Center Hotel, a 400-room four-star Marriott and a key part of Raleigh's Livable Streets Initiative. Cooper Carry has been deeply involved in the design of the Livable Streets project, recommending numerous changes to the current convention center intended to reopen the Fayetteville Street corridor, as well as creating designs for a Fayetteville Street Mall.
Marriott Hotel & Lancaster County Convention Center, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
A masterful mix of existing historic architecture and modern hospitality design, this full service Marriott hotel and state-of-the-art convention center, currently in design, will enhance the historic and walkable character of Lancaster, Pennsylvania . This Public/Private venture requires contextual sensitivity as well as hotel and convention expertise.
In addition to the hotel and convention center, Cooper Carry is now on board as architect for the historic Lancaster City Amtrak Station Rehabilitation. This station can be a traveler's first impression and a lasting memory of the city, and can also anchor and catalyze new development on the northern edge of Lancaster .