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Suisman Urban Design awarded 2008 EDRA/Places Award
Suisman Urban Design was awarded the 2008 EDRA/Places Award in the category of Place Planning for The Arc Project. As a visionary exercise grounded in research, the jury praised the project for its use of planning to “move the bar.” Since its initial release in 2005, it has had an overwhelmingly positive reception, as evidenced…
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First Street Next
Following the successful completion of its master plan study for First Street in downtown Los Angeles and Boyle Heights, Suisman Urban Design and its partners Rios Clementi Hale Studios and Campbell & Campbell are poised to begin the next stage of the project in early 2007. The next phase will involve implementation of certain pieces…
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ARC Update
The Arc, Suisman Urban Design’s award-winning infrastructure proposal for a Palestinian state developed in partnership with the RAND corporation, continues to inspire interest both internationally and in the region. The election of Hamas last January to lead the government has led to a series of political repercussions that have stymied peace initiatives, damaged the Palestinian…
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Suisman helps envision a new home for the Exploratorium
The Exploratorium, San Francisco’s renowned interactive science museum, invited Doug Suisman to join a group of thirty experts from across the U.S. and England to help the museum plan for its proposed relocation to two piers along the Embarcadero, the city’s revived waterfront district. Joining more than twenty staff members of the Exploratorium, Suisman and…
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Doug Suisman discusses the past and future of historic Canyon School
Suisman Urban Design has been helping the administration, faculty and parents of Canyon Charter School develop a long-term vision for the school campus. The school, which was founded in 1894 and is the second oldest in Los Angeles, has been in its present Santa Monica Canyon location for nearly 100 years, although it has been…
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Suisman completes study for North Hollywood Station
Suisman Urban Design has prepared preliminary design concepts for developer JSM Construction to create a new high-density, mixed used district centered around the North Hollywood transit station serving the Red Line and Orange Line. Suisman developed the concept of a dramatic station shed to create a covered plaza for transit users, office workers, and shoppers.…
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Suisman selected to help link cultural assets on Pittsburgh’s North Side
The Childrens Museum of Pittsburgh has selected Suisman Urban Design to lead one of four design teams examining prospects for urban revitalization in Pittsburgh’s North Side district. The museum is one of a number of nationally recognized cultural institutions on the North Side, including the Andy Warhol Museum and the Mattress Factory arts center; the…
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Gulf South Regional Perspective After Katrina
RAND Corporation has turned to Suisman Urban Design to help develop a comprehensive strategy for its new RAND Gulf States Policy Institute. Based in Jackson, Mississippi, the Institute was created in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Institute now provides immediate access to RAND’s research and analytical services for regional decision-makers. Suisman helped RAND describe…
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Suisman Urban Design takes home a 2006 P/A Award for the ARC
At an awards ceremony attended by more than 300 people at the Center for Architecture in New York, Doug Suisman accepted a prestigious P/A award for Suisman Urban Design’s project with RAND Corporation, “The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State”. The P/A Awards program, now in its 53rd year and administered by Architecture…
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The Arc wins 2006 AIA National Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design
The U.S. architectural profession’s highest recognition of excellence; jury calls project “compelling” and “visionary”. Suisman Urban Design received the architectural profession’s highest recognition of excellence for a project when its plan for a Palestinian state, “The Arc”, won a national Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The…
