CO OP West is Officially Open For Business
After working in California for the past two years, we've opened our new office in the heart of DTLA. We're thrilled to expand our destination footprint in La La Land....
After working in California for the past two years, we've opened our new office in the heart of DTLA. We're thrilled to expand our destination footprint in La La Land....
We're excited to welcome three incredible women to our leadership team. Melissa Lerner joins us as our new Partner & Chief Operating Officer. After spending most of her career in media, she brings an expertise to COOP that will streamline internal processes, improve workflow and improve profitability.Loves: gambling, her daughter (Isabella), Diet Pepsi & Montauk...
We often hear developers talk about “icons,” “greatness,” and “one of a kind” - all hallmarks of the Pantheon skyline. But do these buildings ever live up to those boasts? Obviously yes if I’m asking a developer but for mere mortals like us, they are typically just another building…tall, great amenities, blah blah blah. But when...
Over the past year, I was lucky enough to experience all 4 seasons of Stowe VT working on the rebrand for Spruce Peak. It was pretty easy to be inspired by it’s indigenous natural beauty and the many color hues of landscape and light. So when It came to developing the new brand color palette, it...
Where Exactly? We were awarded a new Carroll Gardens project, an ambitious, high design, highly amenitized apartment development. In Carroll Gardens. Well almost. Looked at another way the site is absolutely at the geographic center of Gowanus. On the canal. The superfund site polluted Gowanus Canal. In Manhattan it seemed so plausible that we could make...
Transforming this 125 year old brand was about helping a company find itself. (a bit of brand therapy) Houlihan Lawrence is smart with forward-thinking qualities which were completely hidden by a traditional corporate facade. We set the horses free—literally and figuratively—to express what makes them the obvious choice....
Where do you find inspiration for your work? Travel. I’m on planes constantly for projects and speaking engagements, but I always try to carve out time to see new things. I’m writing these responses from Athens, where I saw sunshades on a balcony that I thought could work well for our project in Newark, New Jersey....
Automated food space, glorified vending machine, fastER food–whatever you call it, it may be the future of how we grab on the go. But what happens when you replace a friendly face with an interface… will it work? It’s no surprise that in the age of instant gratification, ease and speed are essential parts of the...
Downtown Houston is in the midst of an exciting transformation from a commuter city to a true live, work, play destination. We’ve been working on two commercial assets that are poised to embody this new Houston in unique ways. In the Galleria area, we’re transforming a classic 80’s Houston office building into a space for unexpected...
This pink-walled maze glows with a frenetic energy that makes NYC seem lazy. Outside in the streets, getting lost is inevitable, goods spill from every corner, and negotiating is the norm. Behind the walls, inner courtyards and gardens provide quiet spaces of calm. The synergistic relationship between what’s happening outside and what happens inside makes...
