Articles by Suzanne Stephens

616 20th Street

Slice of life: A new condominium building in an old waterfront section of San Francisco sparks up the neighborhood with its serrated facade.

Suzanne Stephens

October 16, 2014

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A new condominium building in an old waterfront section of San Francisco sparks up the neighborhood with its serrated facade. 'When I was looking for an apartment, I saw the facade and immediately called my real-estate agent,' says Mark Chila, a resident of 616 20th Street in San Francisco. 'I was lucky: the condominiums were almost sold out.'

Suzanne Stephens

September 16, 2014

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Changes in office design give new meaning to “open plan.” Photo © Eduard Hueber In 2013, Perkins + Will used benching—desks arranged like conference tables—for the New York offices of Vente Privée USA, a joint partnership of the French online fashion retailer and American Express. The main workspace lacks walls or partitions and features casual seating clusters. The reception area is furnished with found art and idiosyncratic furniture, to give the space the energy and insouciance it purveys in its business. Speed, spontaneous interaction, flexibility, and collaboration describe the brief for office design today, where the “open plan” reigns. Fueled

Visitor Reception Center

Grand Entrance: Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi create an uplifting gateway for a corporate campus.

Suzanne Stephens

July 16, 2014

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Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi create an uplifting gateway for a corporate campus.

Building 335

Pattern Play: Weiss/Manfredi breaks into the box, ingeniously chiseling out a variety of spaces for a new office building.

Suzanne Stephens

July 16, 2014

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Weiss/Manfredi breaks into the box, ingeniously chiseling out a variety of spaces for a new office building.

Montemartini Hotel

Roman Holiday: At the Palazzo Montemartini, a small hotel in a renovated transportation building, King Roselli Architetti provide a quiet, luxurious refuge with modern interiors.

Suzanne Stephens

June 16, 2014

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At the Palazzo Montemartini, a small hotel in a renovated transportation building, King Roselli Architetti provide a quiet, luxurious refuge with modern interiors.

Where Credit is Due

Conflict can occur when an architect departs a firm but still wants to get credit for the design.

Cheryl L. Davis

Suzanne Stephens

June 16, 2014

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Conflict can occur when an architect departs a firm but still wants to get credit for the design.

Suzanne Stephens

May 16, 2014

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Julia Morgan's impressive legacy of architectural achievements from her 45-year practice in San Francisco has won her the AIA Gold Medal for 2014. Photo © Richard Barnes Studies in Paris would lead Julia Morgan to the playful Bear House at Wyntoon in California (1933). Julia Morgan The well-publicized announcement that Julia Morgan (1872–1957) is the recipient of the American Institute of Architects' Gold Medal for 2014—the first woman to receive the honor—naturally raises questions about why it took so long. She died 57 years ago. (We also might wonder about the logic of posthumous Gold Medals—but more about that later.)

Suzanne Stephens

March 24, 2014

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The Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the Pritzker Architecture Prize, has announced Shigeru Ban as the recipient of the award for 2014.

Suzanne Stephens

March 16, 2014

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New York's Museum of Modern Art offers a fresh look at the influential architect's ideas for skyscrapers and city planning. Photo: © Ezra Stoller/Esto The exhibition is devoted to the city planning and skyscrapers of Frank Lloyd Wright, shown above in 1945. Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City, conceived in 1934–35, was the emblematic manifesto of decentralized urban planning. Its first public viewing in New York's urbanistic heart, Rockefeller Center, was heralded by Architectural Record in its April 1935 issue, and commended by Lewis Mumford in The New Yorker the same month. Wright explained that his city would accommodate “little farms,

Suzanne Stephens

March 11, 2014

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The large, enclosing, rectangular frames in a new set move to generate a spatial dynamic on stage. Act Two: The Linden Trees, from Massenet’s Werther, Metropolitan Opera. Most of those thronging to the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Massenet’s Werther this winter have gone to hear tenor Jonas Kaufmann’s mellifluous singing as the protagonist and the plush sounds of mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch as Charlotte. But some operagoers might also have appreciated the choreographic performance and efficiency of the set, which mechanically slides and shifts in different directions within the shallow space of the three-dimensional stage. In recent years the Met

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 1 IIBEC CEH

Evaluate advanced PVC solutions that improve fire resistance, support WUI compliance, and enhance resilience in residential and commercial building design.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU

Upon course completion, participants will possess a deeper understanding of glass railings to help ensure that safety, aesthetic, and performance objectives are achieved.