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The Nieri Family Alumni and Visitors Center overlooks the 18th green on the shores of Lake Hartwell. The new facility will replace the current Alumni Center on Daniel Drive, which has been the Alumni Association’s home for nearly 50 years. ... Read More

Sora at Spring Quarter by Cooper Carry and Fogarty Finger - “A light in the urban forest” is how Fogarty Finger describes this structure, its first multifamily project here, for which it handled interiors, with Cooper Carry architecting the 29-story base building. ... Read More

Palm House has made a splash in Palm Beach. The British owners, L+R Hotels, aimed to infuse a fresh vibe into the island’s traditional aesthetic with their first U.S. property in the USA under the Iconic Luxury Hotels collection. They enlisted architects Cooper Carry and the interior design studio Muza Lab to craft a lively design centred around the concept of fun.... Read More

And the new dining space, Perry Place, with 600 seats and a set of surefire concepts, including a full-service Chick-fil-A. Signature venues include AMP Coffee, a sustainably focused coffeehouse; Smoke, a BBQ joint (complete with smokers); Solarex, an all-day breakfast diner; Veloces, classic Italian; Trax Deli for sandwiches; Fresh & Feta for Mediterranean cuisine and Addison’s Provision, a grab-and-go spot. (Note: All designed by Cooper Carry.)... Read More

The affordable housing lottery has launched for Lighthouse Point, a 12-story residential building at 5 Bay Street in St. George, Staten Island. Designed by Cooper Carry Architects and developed by Triangle Equities, the the structure yields 115 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 30 units for residents at 40 to 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $33,875 to $218,010.... Read More

Locally based development firm Crescent Communities has broken ground on Novel River District, a 318-unit apartment community in west Charlotte. The property will serve as the first multifamily component within The River District, a 1,400-acre master-planned community that will eventually house approximately 2,350 apartment options and 2,300 single-family homes ... Crescent’s design-build partners for Novel River District include Cooper Carry (architect), Crescent Communities Construction (general contractor), Ellinwood + Machado (structural engineer), ENGR3 (MEP engineer), BB+M Architecture (interior design) and Land Design (landscape design and civil engineering).... Read More

Shamin Hotels, the region’s largest privately owned hotelier, is moving forward with construction of the first of two new properties planned for the Springline at District 60 development in Chesterfield ... Atlanta-based Cooper Carry was tapped to handle the hotel’s architectural design. (Note: Cooper Carry also did the master planning and brand identity for Springline and District 60.)... Read More

Design firm Cooper Carry has completed an extensive renovation of 101 West Ponce, a 6-story, 112,828-square-foot office building located in the heart of Decatur, Ga.’s historic downtown square. With the goal of radically reimagining an office building built in 1992, Atlanta-based Cooper Carry repositioned 101 W. Ponce to fully engage with the energy of Decatur Square, creatively repurposed underutilized space and infused modern amenities and design features throughout the building.... Read More

In collaboration with two Charlotte-based firms - 505Design at Cooper Carry and LandDesign, Inc. - Clear Springs Development crafted an overall vision for Kingsley that honors the mill town's industrial history and textile legacy while creating an engaging destination for generations to come.... Read More

Intent on creating a distinctive space, the design team dug into the country club’s history and discovered it was once neighbors with North Carolina’s lost Bloomsbury Park. The theme park, which featured a roller coaster, carousel and intricate trolley network, was open 1912-20. Feeling inspired, the designers remodeled the country club’s bar, lounge and dining room, aptly named The Bloomsbury, with design elements and themes that hearken back to the whimsy and vintage character of the theme park.... Read More

The 31-story Society Atlanta is the latest project in a national brand that developers say offers relative affordability in choice locations ... Perks of the building include a yoga lawn and pool deck positioned atop a parking garage, an app-based key entry system, and modern gym and fitness studios described by project officials as “massive". The Cooper Carry-designed building claimed a surface parking lot at the southeast corner of Peachtree and 6th streets.... Read More

“We are currently working on a project in Nashville, which has a very long, narrow, unusable space that doesn’t get a great amount of sunlight,” says Ali Gagliardo, associate principal and director of interior design with Cooper Carry, an Atlanta-based architecture and design firm. “We decided to make it into an edgy, moody speakeasy that has a bowling alley. The client loved the idea, and we have yet to see this amenity in any other developments. We had a similar situation on another project with a basement space. We decided to design around that concept and make it feel like a rec room in your grandma’s house. Wild patterns, unique lighting, gaming and viewing rooms as well as a workshop were all included to bring that concept together.”... Read More

Palm Beach is set to welcome its first new hotel in four years with the opening of Palm House in November 2024. The property is the first US outpost from London-based L+R Hotels’ Iconic Luxury Hotels collection. Design by architects Cooper Carry, interior designers Muza Lab and art consultant Minda Dowling reimagines the signature pinks and greens of vintage Palm Beach to create spaces that pay homage to the enduring allure of the island, whilst also establishing new traditions for its next generation. Palm House’s lively, coral façade peeks out from behind coconut palms and lush greenery, while accents of carved, cypress arbors and pale-pink, limestone arches add warm detailing to the charming, three-storey building.   ... Read More

Tasked with repurposing the city’s oldest operating foundry, the Johnson Studio at Cooper Carry worked in collaboration with Carlisle Restaurant Group to create an elevated dining concept centered around a dramatic focal point—a custom chandelier made of warm amber glass and dark textured stone that suspends in the main dining room. ... Read More

“One critical way to attract new students is to provide more amenities and student housing options,” says Suffolk’s Edwards. That includes offering temporary living quarters that serve the school’s recruitment and events agendas. Cooper Carry’s Hospitality studio has developed a niche for designing hotels located near or on university campuses. For example, the Forum Hotel at the University of Virginia, which opened in April 2023, is an active component of the university’s Darden School of Business, with classrooms that support UV’s executive MBA program. “University hospitality projects are typically viewed as extensions of existing learning experiences,” says Bob Neal, AIA, a Principal with Cooper Carry. ... Read More