While her freckled, fresh-scrubbed face and wholesome smile may remind you of the girl next door, take a closer look at Suzan Lucas Santiago. She is a woman who makes things happen.
As a principal and the director of interior architecture at GRAD Associates, she and her team of designers at the venerable, century-old firm have created interiors for an impressive roster of blue chip firms, first class hotels, government offices and healthcare facilities.
A 23-year resident of Boonton Township, Santiago’s accomplishments have twice earned her a place in Who’s Who in Interior Design. She has received regional and national design awards from the American Society of Interior Designers, and several of her projects have been featured in major architectural magazines. (more…)
Buildings give life to the landscape, but they are not normally considered alive. This one is: it breathes, it sleeps, it wakes up in the morning – and it is not impossible.
When Fortune invited my design firm, which specializes in sustainable architecture, to share our vision of a building of the future, we decided not to guess about conditions decades or centuries away. Instead, we looked at the possibilities that exist now.
Buildings consume 40 percent of our energy and can have life spans longer than humans. Because we live, work and associate with others in buildings, they form part of the fabric of human life – and thus have an enormous effect not only on the quality of individual lives but also on the state of the earth. (more…)
When Fortune invited my design firm, which specializes in sustainable architecture, to share our vision of a building of the future, we decided not to guess about conditions decades or centuries away. Instead, we looked at the possibilities that exist now.
Buildings consume 40 percent of our energy and can have life spans longer than humans. Because we live, work and associate with others in buildings, they form part of the fabric of human life – and thus have an enormous effect not only on the quality of individual lives but also on the state of the earth.
In the photographs that that follow, we have configured a structure that is not just kind to nature; it actually imitates nature. Imagine a building that makes oxygen, distills water, produces energy, changes with the seasons – and is beautiful. In effect, that building is like a tree, standing in a city that is like a forest. (more…)
