Latest Projects

La Brea Tar Pits Museum
Ice Age old bones, now in a bright modernist setting
Burlington Great Streets Initiative
Burlington’s Main Street serves as an important gateway into the downtown, and a vital connection between the waterfront and the University of Vermont.
Bushnell Park North & Horace Bushnell Promenade
As part of the iQuilt plan, Hartford narrows a road to create a new promenade along a historic park edge
The iQuilt Plan for Downtown Hartford
The nationally acclaimed culture-based urban design plan reimagines downtown Hartford as a walkable cultural district
Palisades Charter High School Gateway
A growing suburban charter high school rethinks its front door, and gets a green promenade
The Arc: Building A Palestinian State
Developed by RAND and Suisman, this widely acclaimed vision and strategy would help a prospective Palestinian state emerge, and succeed
Reimagining the La Brea Tar Pits
A new vision for Los Angeles' famed tar pits
A New Media Arts Campus for Vancouver
Emily Carr University of Art and Design moves to the Great Northern Way media campus with a new urban vision
The Museums of Miracle Mile

Los Angeles’s Museum Row—a six-block stretch of Wilshire Boulevard’s Miracle Mile—is home to five museums: L.A. County Museum of Natural History (NHM)/La Brea Tar Pits, L.A. County Museum of Art

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Santa Monica Third Street Promenade Upgrades
Downtown Santa Monica Inc. is upgrading and reconceiving its street infrastructure and furnishings
Downtown Hartford Wayfinding System
The first iQuilt project, this low-cost high-impact strategy uses existing infrastructure to help people discover downtown Hartford, on foot
Canyon School
A historic elementary school brightens its campus with color and imagery
Bushnell Performing Arts Campus Master Plan
Hartford’s venerable concert hall is transforming the neighborhood...and itself
Downtown Hartford’s Statehouse Square
Statehouse Square has historically been the crossing point or hub of the entire transportation system for downtown Hartford.
Hartford’s Church Street Master Plan
A new vision for Church and Main, where theater, commerce, cathedral, and college meet
Tower Square: A New Civic Space for Hartford
As part of the iQuilt plan, an existing corporate plaza is transformed into a true public square, and a front door for a distinguished art museum
Reimagining the Children’s Museum
The Association of Children’s Museums sees the museum as a new public square, with multiple linkages to the outdoors and surrounding community
Reimagining the Zimmer Children’s Museum
The Zimmer, a hidden treasure, comes out of its basement setting and looks for the right urban setting and built form to carry on its institutional mission
North Hollywood Station Master Plan
Los Angeles’s new commitment to mass transit finds a symbol in this multimodal Metro hub and mixed-use development
Rebuilding Pittsburgh’s Lost Downtown
Instigated by the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, a vaguely remembered era of destruction provides the poetry, and premise, for a revival of Allegheny City
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes Master Plan
A new cultural institution reshapes El Pueblo, the most historic urban landscape in Los Angeles
Nordhavnen: A New District For Copenhagen
An international competition for docklands in the heart of Copenhagen yields a sweeping vision of urbanity on the Øresund.
Los Angeles First Street Master Plan
Instigated by Project Restore and the City of Los Angeles, the plan spans from Bunker Hill to Boyle Heights, connecting Mozart to Mariachi
A Wellness Center Prototype For Qatar
The wealthy Gulf nation looks to RAND and Suisman for a new model of delivering health care to its less privileged workers
A District Master Plan For Los Angeles City Hall
With its Civic Crossroads plan, Project Restore seeks to connect the landmark city hall building to its historic roots in El Pueblo, just three blocks away
Metro Rapid System Graphics and Architecture
The country’s first comprehensive BRT (bus rapid transit) project has striking graphics and shelters
Los Angeles Civic Center Master Plan
The Ten-Minute Diamond plan reconceives a government ghetto as a walkable cultural district
Grand Central Market Court
In downtown Los Angeles, a former loading dock and parking lot becomes a colorful landscaped terrace, with a view
Gateway Signs for Downtown L.A.
LADOT asks Suisman to transform freeway infrastructure into a collection of urban gates