Terrapin Bright Green: Cookfox Architecture Biophilic Design Case Study

The COOKFOX studio at 641 Avenue of the Americas started as a renovation project, occupying the entire 12,121 square foot penthouse of the former Crawford Simpson department store in the Ladies’ Mile Historic District. When COOKFOX first leased underused and in poor condition. Much of the original ceiling into individual office blocks. According to Rick Cook, what was the space in 2006, a number of the office’s key features were and corinthian column details had been either damaged or covered up, and the office was heavily segregated and divided to become a high profile green roof “[was] a tar beach with rusty mechanical equipment.”