Terrapin Bright Green:

PROJECT SUMMARY
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
the space in 2006, a number of the office’s key features were
underused and in poor condition. Much of the original ceiling
and Corinthian column details had been either damaged or
covered up, and the office was heavily segregated and divided
into individual office blocks. According to Rick Cook, what was
to become a high profile green roof “[was] a tar beach with rusty
mechanical equipment.”