Author / Doug Suisman
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ORO Editions will republish Doug Suisman’s classic, "Los Angeles Boulevard"
Suisman Urban Design is pleased to announce that in the Spring of 2014, ORO Editions will publish the 25th anniversary edition of Doug Suisman’s seminal monograph, Los Angeles Boulevard. Since its first publication by the Los Angeles Forum in 1989 in a limited run of 1,500 copies, the book has been much sought after and difficult…
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Santa Monica Council OK’s Pilot Project for Third Street Promenade
The new street furnishings designed by Suisman for Santa Monica’s famed Third Street Promenade were unanimously approved today by the Santa Monica City Council. The designs have been developed under the leadership of Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. A pilot project will move ahead at the corner of the Promenade and Wilshire Boulevard. It is expected…
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SUD Plan for Bushnell Square headlines the Courant
Suisman’s conceptual master plan for the campus of the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts has landed on the top of the front page of the Hartford Courant. The newspaper devoted several pages to the project, and to the history of Hartford’s landmark cultural center. The project is being developed in concert with the State…
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The Houston Underground
Our specialization in the architecture of walking means we are keenly interested in walking systems that extend above or below traditional street-level and sidewalks and crosswalks. Minneapolis and Calgary have extensive elevated walking systems (Calgary calls theirs the “Plus Fifteen” system, or 15 feet above the sidewalk), and many cities have bits and pieces of…
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Houston – Neighborhood Centers, Inc.
Last October I was lucky enough to participate in the CityLab conference in New York, organized by Bloomberg and the Atlantic, where I met some amazing people involved in making better cities around the world (more on that in another post). One of the people I was particularly privileged to meet was Angela Blanchard, President…
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An Early Icon Turns 50
I can still remember my excitement, as an eight year old kid, when the Phoenix Building opened on Constitution Plaza in downtown Hartford, my hometown. When visitors came to our little provincial capital, we boasted we had the world’s first and only two-sided building (to our young ears it sounded like a wicked trick question…
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Former top State Department official endorses the Arc
Anne-Marie Slaughter, former director of policy planning in the US State Department (2009-2011) and President of the New America Foundation, has given a strong endorsement of the Arc project for a Palestinian State, designed by Suisman Urban Design in partnership with RAND Corporation. Calling the Arc “a genuinely inspiring plan”, she writes, “Anyone who spends…
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Suisman Helps Phoenix Celebrate 50th
Doug Suisman joined the leaders of Phoenix and the mayor of Hartford to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Phoenix’s famous modernist landmark “boat building” and to cut the ribbon on a new green terrace surrounding. The landscape project is a key piece of the iQuilt Plan’s one-mile Greenwalk, a continuous pedestrian walkway from the State…
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Gateway Project Presented to Pali High Board
Suisman Urban Design’s proposed Gateway Project for Palisades Charter High school was presented to the school’s Board of Directors tonight and favorably received. The phased project will create a safe and beautiful pedestrian promenade from Temescal Boulevard to the campus’s main quad. The first phase of the project – the California Garden – was initiated…
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Zimmer Children’s Museum publishes Suisman-produced "Visionary Prospectus"
The Zimmer Children’s Museum has published the “visionary prospectus” developed by Suisman Urban Design in collaboration with a special board committee and staff leadership. The 40-page document sets the direction for the Zimmer’s relocation from its current location on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile.
