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COOKFOX Architects

Coordinates: 40°44′26″N 73°59′41″W / 40.740688°N 73.994726°W / 40.740688; -73.994726
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40°44′26″N 73°59′41″W / 40.740688°N 73.994726°W / 40.740688; -73.994726COOKFOX Architects (formerly Cook+Fox Architects) is a firm of architects founded by Rick Cook and Robert F. Fox, Jr. in 2003. The firm works on projects and on the adaptive reuse of existing buildings. COOKFOX is best known for designing the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park.

Projects

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COOKFOX has completed the redevelopment of Historic Front Street, which won an AIA-NY/Boston Society of Architects Honor Award for Housing Design;[1] 401 W 14th Street, a mixed-use building in Manhattan's Meatpacking District; and the redevelopment of Henry Miller's Theatre.[2]

In 2009, the firm completed constructing the Live Work Home, a home in Syracuse, New York, that was one of three winning entries in the "From the Ground Up" competition.[3] It was also completing the Center for Friends Without a Border, a visitors' center at the Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

The firm has won the Museum of the City of New York's Gotham Giant Award and the New York School of Interior Design's inaugural Honor Roll of Green Design Award.[4] COOKFOX’s LEED Platinum office is located in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. The firm built a green roof for its offices, which was featured in National Geographic's May 2009 issue.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Dunlap, David W. (3 July 2003). "Development in a Historic District: New Life on a Street Left for Dead". The New York Times.
  2. ^ Healy, Patrick (3 May 2009). "White Way Gets a 'Green' Theater". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Applebaum, Alec (15 December 2009). "Building New Neighborhoods in Syracuse, Using Some Pieces of the Old". The New York Times.
  4. ^ New York School of Interior Design (NYSID) to Present COOKFOX Architects with Green Design Award[permanent dead link].” New York School of Interior Design.
  5. ^ "Green Roof, New York City". National Geographic. May 2009. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
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