Design Partner, SOM
Based in New York, Chris Cooper is an ambitious design leader who brings foresight, elegance, tectonic rigor, and artful experiences to his buildings. Throughout his two decades at SOM, he has led projects with a careful attention to scale, sustainability, and placemaking.
As a founding partner of SOM’s Climate Action Group, Chris always seeks to elevate standards for sustainable design in his work—from 7 World Trade Center, which was the first commercial office building to achieve LEED- C/S Gold certification; to the redevelopment of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center in Cambridge, a cutting-edge headquarters designed to achieve net zero carbon; to a new, secure and sustainable production facility for the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C.
