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Perusing Gerardo Broissin's portfolio, it's hard to believe the depth and breadth of work the 32-year-old has built in his short career, especially considering he wasn't always sure of what he wanted to do.

The form of the city rises from the convergence of legislation, imagination, ambition, and resistance. This complex of forces is getting a workout a few blocks from my office in Lower Manhattan, where Donald Trump and partners are building the Trump SoHo, a 45-story “condominium hotel” containing 400 apartments—ranging in size from 425 to 10,000 square feet—priced at $3,000 a square foot and said to be selling briskly. The tower, which is going up fast and is scheduled to open in spring 2009, sits adjacent to SoHo and will be, by far, the tallest building in an area characterized by

One obvious question is why Trump and his partners aren’t simply building an actual hotel on the site. According to Julius Schwarz, executive vice president of the Bayrock Group (which initially secured the site with the Sapir Organization before bringing in Trump for his inimitable cachet) and the managing partner for the project, “It’s a financing mechanism” designed as a hedge against a potential glut of hotels. “You can model it out 10 years. Right now, there’s a shortage of hotels. So people are going to be building hotels and the rates will eventually come down. Hotel rooms will always

Toronto, Ontario Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects Award of Excellence This year’s awards recognize an exceptional amount of first-rate architecture rising in Toronto. Of the many contributions to the city’s cultural fabric, the intimate, low-budget Young Centre for the Performing Arts stands out. Photo: © Tom Arban Slide show captions: Henry Ng The project’s two clients, Soulpepper Theatre Company and the George Brown College Theatre School, partnered to consolidate and improve their facilities, which had been less than adequate. Working with Toronto-based Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB), the partnership created a unique collaborative space, which raised the college’s public

Project Specs Young Centre for the Performing Arts Toronto, Ontario Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects << Return to article the People Architect Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects 322 King Street West Toronto, Ontario M5V 1J2 416-977-5104 (TEL) 416-598-9804 (FAX) Tom Payne Partner Chris Couse Senior Associate Mark Jaffar Project Architect Project Team: Goran Milosevic Ann Lok Ramon Janer Thom Seto Krista Clark Steven Kopp Carolyn Lee Architect of record Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects Engineer(s): Structural: Read Jones Christofferson Ltd Electrical/Mechanical: Crossey Engineering Inc Consultant(s) Acoustical: Aerocoustics Engineering Inc John O’Keefe, Tom Neudorfl Other: Heritage: ERA Architects Inc Michael McClelland,

Pensacola, Florida ASD Inc. Award of Excellence The Navy Federal Credit Union’s (NFCU) new call center in Pensacola, Florida, is the greenest building on the winners list this year. The 62,000-square-foot structure at Heritage Oaks Commerce Park is only the second LEED Gold–certified building in the state. Architecture, interiors, and graphic design firm ASD provided comprehensive design services to kick-start what the world’s largest credit union has come to call “the Pensacola Project.” Photo: © Maguire Photographic Slide show captions: Henry Ng The first in a future four-office-building complex, ASD’s building includes fitness facilities with personal trainers, a health clinic,

Project Specs Navy Federal Credit Union Pensacola, Florida ASD Inc. << Return to article the People Architect   the Products Structural system:

San Diego, California Antoine Predock Architect PC Citation for Excellence Home to the San Diego Padres since April 2004, Petco Park has as its mission to be more than a ballpark—to serve as a large-scale city planning project. For the first time in professional sports, a franchise was required to invest hundreds of millions in at-risk capital for the development of the neighborhood surrounding its publicly owned facility. Photo: © Timothy Hursley Slide show captions: Henry Ng Near the Gaslamp Quarter of downtown San Diego, the Ballpark District occupies land that had been mostly vacant when the Padres project received