Tag / The Arc
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Suisman presents Arc at foreign ministry in Paris
Doug Suisman presented the Arc to a joint Franco-Palestinian conference held at the Quai d’Orsay, the riverfront home of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The conference on the Arc was arranged by Valerie Hoffenberg, special envoy to the Middle East for President Nicolas Sarkozy. The Palestinian Ambassador to France was in attendance, along with…
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Suisman wins two of three 2010 Honor Awards for Urban Design given by AIACC
The iQuilt project in Hartford and the Arc project in Palestine, both designed by Suisman Urban Design, receive Honor Awards by the AIACC. Los Angeles, 2010 – The American Institute of Architects California Council (AIACC) has awarded two of three coveted 2010 Honor Awards in Urban Design to Suisman Urban Design for its iQuilt project,…
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Palestinian Ministry of Transport and RAND take next steps for the Arc project
Minister of Transport and Doug Suisman representing RAND Corporation sign a joint Memorandum of Understanding. Ramallah, West Bank, 2010–The Palestinian Minister of Transport and Communications Saadi al-Krunz and Doug Suisman representing RAND Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding establishing a cooperation between both parties to prepare a vision plan based on the proposed Arc project,…
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Suisman presents the Arc at J-Street’s first national conference
Large crowd attends panel on economic development as a pathway to ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Washington, October 2009–Doug Suisman presented the Arc project for a Palestinian state to an overflow audience at the first national conference held by J-Street, the highly visible new lobbying group that describes itself as “pro-Israel, pro-peace”. There were more than…
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Arc Update at Palestinian Ministry of Transport
Arc Update Presented to Palestinian Ministry of Transportation. Ramallah, June 2009–A delegation from RAND and Suisman Urban Design met with the Palestinian Deputy Minister of Transport and 14 members of his staff for more than two hours to discuss a range of transportation issues raised by the Arc plan, including public transport in the West…
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Suisman presents Arc to Palestinian Unit at the U.N Geneva
Doug Suisman presented the Arc project to U.N. officials at the world organization’s Geneva headquarters. Geneva, May 2009–Doug Suisman of Suisman Urban Design recently went to the UN’s headquarters in Geneva at the invitation of the Office for Assistance to the Palestinian People, part of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, or UNCTAD.…
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Suisman presents Arc at "Global Challenge" conference in Geneva
Suisman Speaks at Conference on “The Next Generation of Global Challenges”. Geneva, May 2009–On the occasion of its 450th birthday, the University of Geneva organized a joint conference with its new partner, UCLA, to discuss a range of issues confront society in the 21st century. The Rector of UNIGE and the Chancellor of UCLA both…
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Suisman briefs the Arc for government of French President Sarkozy
Officials from the President’s Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs receive Anthony and Suisman at the Elysées. Paris, February 2009–Representatives of the government of French President Nicolas Sarkozy received Suisman Urban Design’s Doug Suisman and RAND’s Ross Anthony at the Elysées Palace–the presidential complex–for a briefing on the Palestine initiative and the Arc project.…
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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…