Rick Cook

Career

To date, COOKFOX has completed 3 Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design Platinum projects in New York City, including the firm"s own office, Skanska"s full floor office in the Empire State Building and the Bank of America Tower. COOKFOX also designed the Center for Friends Without a Border, a visitor’s center for the Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap, Cambodia. As part of their involvement with this project, COOKFOX implemented “The Green Initiative,” a social venture to fund five local Non-governmental organizations through the production of sustainable fuels.

The project was a semi-finalist in the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge.

Cook and Fox partnered with Bill Browning in 2006 to form Terrapin Bright Green Limited Liability Company, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm. Cook was born in Massachusetts and grew up in Latham, New New York

He attended Syracuse University where he graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1983 and was awarded the Norman J. Wiedersom Traveling Fellowship to study in Florence, Italy.

Achievements

• He developed a portfolio ranging from master planning to various commercial and residential projects, including The Caroline, one of the largest new buildings ever completed in a New York City historic district. The Chelsea Grande, which received a Charter Award from the Congress for New Urbanism. And 360 Madison Avenue, which was called "the best new building in years" by the New York Sun. COOKFOX designed the award-winning redevelopment of the Historic South Street Seaport neighborhood, which received an American Institute of Architects-New York/Boston Society of Architects Honor Award for Housing Design, and the new Henry Miller"s Theatrethe first green Broadway theater.