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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.
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Suisman to serve on prestigious jury for World Infrastructure Awards
World Architecture News (WAN) has invited Doug Suisman, FAIA, to be a member of its jury for the newly launched World Infrastructure Awards for 2013. The jury includes members from internationally renowned engineer and architecture offices of Foster Associates, Buro Happold, HOK, and Arup. Since 2008, WAN has successfully run the World Architecture Awards; in…
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Downtown Santa Monica board unanimously approves Suisman design elements
The board of Downtown Santa Monica Inc. reviewed the final designs for the Third Street Promenade streetscape improvements and unanimously approved moving ahead on the pilot program to install key elements at the corner of the Promenade and Wilshire Boulevard.
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Suisman converses with Kipen on boulevards at A+D Museum
As part of its “InConversation” series, the A+D Museum invited Doug Suisman to join David Kipen to discuss the contemporary boulevard in Los Angeles. Suisman, author of Los Angeles Boulevards: Eight Xrays, addressed how the city’s urban identity flows from the growth and expansion of its main arteries. Streets, not parks, plazas or freeways, are…
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iQuilt Plan wins Award of Excellence from Connecticut Main Street
Suisman Urban Design and its client, the iQuilt Partnership and the City of Hartford, have received the Award of Excellence from the Connecticut Main Street Center. The award was given to Suisman’s iQuilt urban design plan for downtown Hartford, in the category of Public Space Master Plan. Suisman has been progressively designing and supporting the implementation…
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$100K state grant for Suisman’s “Inside/Out” placemaking in Hartford
The iQuilt Partnership has won a highly competitive placemaking grant from the State of Connecticut’s “Arts Catalyze Placemaking” (ACP) Program. Suisman Urban Design will lead development of iNSIDE/OUT, the iQuilt’s project focusing on a collection of beta sites that will demonstrate a wide variety of ways to externalize Hartford’s cultural assets. Pilot projects will be sited…
