Tag / downtown
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Doug Suisman on Public Radio about Downtown Hartford’s iQuilt Plan
Doug Suisman joins key Hartford leaders on WNPR to talk about the ongoing efforts to revitalize downtown Hartford, through the efforts of the State of Connecticut, the City of Hartford, business interests, and cultural institutions, including the iQuilt Partnership:
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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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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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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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SUD organizes downtown field trip for 3rd grade students
Suisman Urban Design organized and led a field trip to the historic El Pueblo de Los Angeles for the third graders of Canyon Charter School in Santa Monica. A day-long expedition, the tour began at the Southwest Museum Rail Station on the Gold Line. After riding the train into Union Station and touring the adjoining…
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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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First Street Master Plan in Downtown Los Angeles
Project Restore announced that the team of Suisman • Campbell • Rios has been selected to develop the conceptual master plan for downtown Los Angeles’s First Street. The 2.4 mile corridor links Disney Concert Hall on Bunker Hill to Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights. The street runs by Los Angeles City Hall, which was renovated…
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New Town Center and Transit Station on the Monterey Peninsula
Suisman Urban Design has developed a vision plan for downtown Marina, focused on a new town center that combines a major transit facility, housing, retail, and a public square. Working with Sacramento-based Local Government Commission, which led the project, Suisman was brought in by the city of Marina to help reconcile the city’s redevelopment goals…
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Symphony: Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall
The “official” monograph on the Disney Concert Hall, published by Abrams, includes a chapter length essay on the history of planning in downtown Los Angeles, including the work of Suisman Urban Design on the “Ten Minute Diamond”, the master plan for the Los Angeles Civic Center. The essay, by the noted planning historian Carol McMichael…
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The Slatin Report: Grand Avenue
The long and somewhat tortured history of planning efforts along Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles has been elegantly summarized in a Slatin Report essay by Morris Newman. Newman’s chronicle, which includes Suisman Urban Design’s work for the CRA/LA in the late 1990’s, reviews the succession of initiatives and visions which–despite strong political support–failed to…