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Auburn, Alabama probably isn’t the first place you’d think to discover a stunning five-star styled luxury hotel, but The Laurel Hotel & Spa is all about defying and elevating our expectations.... Read More

There are several revolutionary projects that reflect HAIB at its core, and HAIB itself is still making news today. Just recently, scientist Jeremy Schmutz, who has been with HAIB since it opened in 2008, reflected on the progression of genomic sequencing technology over the last 20+ years for an article on Wired.com. Illumina had just announced a machine that can crack genomes twice as fast as its current version at a lesser price. This tech is at the core of what HAIB does. With the flexibility of HAIB’s physical spaces, there is room for growth as technological advancements and breakthroughs in the life sciences industry occur. ... Read More

The change allows the Miami-based developer to move forward with plans to replace the 50-year-old condo development with 60,000 square feet of retail, 730 multifamily units and 18 to 24 townhomes ... Read More

Architecture firm Cooper Carry led rebranding for the area. District 60 will include Springline, the Stonebridge Shopping Center and The Boulders Office Park. ... Read More

Colin Greene of Cooper Carry shares three ways that the design industry can work toward ensuring that an urban environment not only survives, but thrives.... Read More

“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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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