Strada

Piatt Place Residences Completed in the Heart of Pittsburgh

Sixty-five new condominium units were recently completed as part of the Piatt Place conversion of the Lazarus-Macy's department store to a mixed-use complex. To add condominiums to the existing building, Strada designed three new floors of light-weight construction around a central courtyard, on top of the existing four-story building. The new residences capitalize on the dramatic skyline views available at the center of the City.

When it is fully occupied, Piatt Place will constitute the dramatic transformation of a vacant single-use building to a diverse complex incorporating underground parking, ground floor retail and entertainment, large-floor plate offices and three floors of condominium flats, or duplexes. Through multiple, iterative design studies Strada was able to solve the complex planning, architectural and engineering challenges to integrating these diverse uses in one existing building. To see more photographs please click here

Edward Shriver's article "Retail Ecology: Organic patterns and networks that make downtowns thrive" was recently published in Downtown Idea Exchange . For more information click here. In addition to this article Shriver presented at the AIA National conference on this topic.

Intern Architect Paulina Wilkowska recently participated in a local design-build competition in association with the carpenter's training center. In collaboration with a contractor and carpenter they designed and built a tree house in 8 hours. To see photos click here

John Martine will be acting as delegate to the NCARB Annual Meeting in Chicago the week of June 22-26th

At the recent AIA Wisconsin convention and expo John Martine and Tom Price gave a presentation on "Design as a Team Sport"