It’s one thing to take an architectural boat tour as a sightseer. It’s another to do so when you design buildings for a living.
That’s what some 25 Cooper Carry architects did last week when Alexandra Lopatynsky, managing principal of Cooper Carry New York, took a group of employees on a boat trip by the Big Apple. And it wasn't any old boat. They set sail on the Ventura, a 70-foot sloop originally commissioned in 1919 as a private yacht for banking pioneer and philanthropist George Baker to go duck hunting.
The summer sail, an annual event before COVID, "was started by my predecessor who opened the NY office," Lopatynsky said in an email. "We sailed out of the marina by Brookfield Place (near Battery Park City) and sailed down the Hudson up towards the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge and back up past the Statue of Liberty and home to the marina."
As part of the trip, the yacht sailed past Lighthouse Point, the mixed-use project on Staten Island designed by Atlanta-based Cooper Carry and Garrison Architects for Triangle Equities. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2023.
When the Cooper Carry crew snapped a photo during its excursion, the team made sure to capture some of New York's iconic skyline in the frame. "What a wonderful summer sail with the Cooper Carry NY team, a terrific time had by all," Lopatynsky said in a LinkedIn post. "Oh and the back drop ain't bad either!"