Getting from the sidewalk into the main sanctuary of Beth Sholom synagogue, in San Francisco, is hardly a matter of opening a front door and entering.

Project Specs Congregation Beth Sholom Synagogue San Francisco, California Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects << Return to article the People Architect Stanley Saitowitz / Natoma Architects 1022 Natoma Street #3 San Francisco, CA 94103 T: 415 626 8977 F: 415 626 8978 Project Team: Stanley Saitowitz, Neil Kaye, Markus Bischoff, John Winder, Derrick Chan. Engineer(s): Structural Engineers: Forell/Elsesser Engineers Inc. Mechanical Engineers: Rumsey Engineers Inc. Consultant(s) Landscape: Blasen Landscape Architecture Interior: Shelter Acoustical: Charles M Salter Associates Inc. General contractor: Overaa Construction Photographer(s) Rien van Rijthoven (415-810-0973) Bruce Damonte (415-845-6919) CAD system, project management, or other software used: autocad   the Products

From its perch in the foothills of the Andes, the new graduate center on the Peñalolén campus of Adolfo Ibáñez University overlooks Chile’s capital city of Santiago.

Although widely known as a composer of electronic music, 42-year-old Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda began working with light as a medium in the 1990s as a member of the multimedia art group Dumb Type.

Project Specs spectra Amsterdam Ryoji Ikeda << Return to article the People Artist Ryoji Ikeda www.ryojiikeda.com Lighting consultant Speirs and Major Associates 11-15 Emerald Street London WC1N eQL United Kingdom ph: +44 20 7067 4700 fx: +44 20 7067 4701 www.samassociates.com Photographer Robert Such www.robertsuch.com   the Products Vondel Park Muziekkoepel Philips www.philips.com Van Gogh Museum Robert Juliat www.robertjuliat.fr Westergasfabriekterrein Philips www.philips.com Kop van het Java Eiland Philips www.philips.com

In May, This Way was switched on, illuminating the pedestrian entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood.

Project Specs This Way Brooklyn, New York Linnaea Tillett and Karin Tehve << Return to article the People Client The City of New York, Percent for Art Program 31 Chambers Street 2nd floor New York, NY 10007 ph: 212.513.9300 http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/panyc/panyc.shtml DUMBO Business Improvement District 111 Front Street Suite 258 Brooklyn, NY 11201 ph: 718.237.8700 http://dumbonyc.org Artists Linnaea Tillett Tillett Lighting Design 172 North 11th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211 ph: 718.218.6578 www.tillettlighting.com Project team: Stephen Horner, Kate Gardner, Seth Ely and Jennifer Bickford Karin Tehve K3TD, LLC 176 Grand Street 2nd floor New York, NY  10013 ph: 917.692.6042 www.kt3d.com Lead design

Oklahoma City is experiencing a second wind. Having transformed its river from a trickling Army Corps of Engineers drainage ditch into a series of connected lakes that are scullers’ paradises, the Midwestern capital is enjoying an urban renaissance.

Project Specs Underground Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Elliott + Associates Architects << Return to article the People Architect Elliott + Associates Architects 35 Harrison Avenue Oklahoma City, OK 73104 ph: 405.232.9554 fx: 405.232.9997 www.e-a-a.com Principal in charge: Rand Elliott, FAIA Project architect: Michael Hoffner, AIA Project team member: Joseph Williams, Assoc. AIA Structural engineer Wallace Engineering Structural Consultants 120 E. Sheridan, Suite 104 Oklahoma City, OK 73104
 ph: 405.236.5858 fx: 405.236.2058 www.wallacesc.com MEP engineer PSA Consulting Engineers 3031 NW 64th, Suite 101 Oklahoma City, OK 73116 ph: 405.840.1901 fx: 405-840-1916 www.psaokc.com Audiovisual consultant Audio Video Design ph: 405.799.7555 Historian Pendleton Woods

Architecture tourists may think of Milwaukee as a destination thanks to the Quadracci Pavilion, the 2001 expansion to the Milwaukee Art Museum by Santiago Calatrava featuring a dynamic, wing-like sunscreen.