Cooper Robertson

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Cooper Robertson
Industry Architecture
Founded New York, NY, United States (1979 (1979))
Founder Alex Cooper FAIA
Jaquelin T. Robertson FAIA (1933–2020)
Headquarters
123 William Street, New York City
,
U.S.
Area served
International
Key people
Michael Aziz, AIA, LEED AP
Donald Clinton, AIA, MRAIC, LEED AP
Bruce Davis, AIA LEED AP
Erin Flynn, RA, LEED AP
John Kirk, AIA
Services Architecture, Urban Design, Planning
Website www.cooperrobertson.com

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Battery Park City North Cove

Cooper Robertson is an international architecture and urban design firm, headquartered in New York City. It was founded in 1979 by Alex Cooper and Jaquelin T. Robertson.

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History

Cooper Robertson was founded in 1979, by Alex Cooper under the name Alexander Cooper and Associates. Both Cooper and Robertson attended Yale College during the same period, later working together at the New York City Department of City Planning. The firm changed its name to Cooper, Robertson & Partners when Robertson joined in 1988. In 2015, they rebranded again to "Cooper Robertson". [1]

The firm's work has included planned communities, urban infill, transit-oriented developments, including Battery Park City in New York and the new communities of Celebration, Florida, [2] [3] Watercolor, Florida and Val d'Europe [4] outside Paris, France. [3] In the past, the firm has focused on architecture, open space design, and university campus planning. The firm's work includes a plan for the expansion of Harvard University's campus [5] [6] into Allston, Massachusetts, MOMA QNS, [7] [8] (the Museum of Modern Art's temporary home in Queens, New York), the New Albany Country Club in New Albany, Ohio outside Columbus, the new Columbia University School of Social Work building [9] in Upper Manhattan, the Visitor Center at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia, the Framework for Campus Planning for Yale University, [10] Zuccotti Park, and numerous housing developments, primarily located in the Hamptons on the East End of Long Island and in the Caribbean.

Awards and distinctions

Some of the awards Cooper Robertson have received include, but are not limited to:

Select Projects

Work by Cooper Robertson includes:

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Battery Park City Master Plan (1980)
Battery Park City Esplanade (1985) The Esplanade in Battery Park November 2003 New York City.jpg
Battery Park City Esplanade (1985)
Max M. Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University (1999) Fisher Campus OSU Courtyard.JPG
Max M. Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University (1999)
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Stuyvesant High School (1992)
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Val d'Europe (2002)
Zuccotti Park (2006) Zuccotti Park Spring 2015.JPG
Zuccotti Park (2006)
Master Plan for Celebration, Florida for the Disney Development Company (1997) Celebration fl.JPG
Master Plan for Celebration, Florida for the Disney Development Company (1997)

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