Street Talk
Fresh ideas about design
Earth Day 2020
04.2020
By Chelsey Atkins, Assoc. IIDA, LEED Green Assoc., WELL AP
No doubt April 22nd 2020 looked different than the forty-nine Earth Days that have come before.
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Interior Design: Transformer of Space, or Mindset?
07.2019
By Jo Berchielli
At Strada, we “Design with People in Mind®,” as we recently gave name to a practice we continually partake in. It emphasizes how the people we design for are the backbone of our creations; they are the faces and the stories responsible for the transformation.
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STRADA WELCOMES ARCHITECT JESSE H. POINTON
05.2019
By Street Talk Editor
“I have wanted to be an Architect since I was thirteen,” Jesse noted. “Having my dream job is something I never take for granted. My expertise lies in the craft of Architecture, and that has been my focus since I was a student. I've always been passionate about detail, and I think ahead on how to make intricate details a reality from the initial concept.”
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Strada’s Newest Creative Mind
01.2018
By Street Talk Editor
Last month, we welcomed an extraordinary architectural designer, Timothy “Timo” Ong to our team. Not only has he hit the ground running with projects and proposals, but he does so with a spirited energy, air of positivity, and always with a smile on his face. Timo’s experience and passion for design excellence perfectly complements our ...
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Inside a mid-century classic, glimpses of our Pittsburgh office
08.2016
By Leah Patgorski
Strada’s Pittsburgh office has been in the former Alcoa building for a year and a half now. This distinctive modernist skyscraper (completed in 1953) has offered us plenty of design inspiration, from the aluminum details around every turn to the vintage advertising sketches and collages left in a flat file by former inhabitants. The new ...
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How design is like quantum physics
02.2016
By Edward A. Shriver, FAIA
I doubt that architecture and quantum physics have ever been considered in the same sentence, but I’ll argue that they are different perspectives on the same problem. Some background In the early 1900s, physicists worked to explain how sub-atomic particles behaved. The standard (Newtonian) worldview had for centuries described how everything worked, until suddenly it ...
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Storytelling in Architecture: Learning from Pixar
02.2015
By Grace Ding
Story is important in architecture. It is seen in how a new building continues the story of an existing place. It is used verbally to convey how a design was developed. And it is experienced as one moves through the resulting spaces of a project. Story is everywhere, whether we are aware of it or ...
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Happy New Year!
01.2015
By All of us at Strada
As we look ahead to 2015, we asked everyone at Strada to share a resolution for the new year. We thought you might enjoy hearing what some of us hope to make, learn, visit, and share. I WANT TO MAKE… pretty things, friends, and a difference. —Grace I WANT TO MAKE… a mobile for over ...
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Strada’s Pittsburgh office is on the move
12.2014
By Melanie Sloan
Close Quarters In 2002 when Strada first moved into its current space on Liberty Avenue in Pittsburgh, there were fourteen people and space was ample. That same space now holds 31 people and growing. A studio that once embodied the open-air feel of a lofty workspace now more closely resembles a “studio apartment,” in which ...
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