I-Beam Design, founded by Suzan Wines and Azin Valy, is an award winning New York based architecture and design firm. Their key personnel have a broad range of design and construction experience including corporate, commercial, cultural, landscape and residential projects. A proposal by I-Beam Design won the International Open Competition for the redesign of Lt. Petrosino Park in Lower Manhattan as well as an award for the International Competition for Temporary Refugee Shelters in Kosovo. Their projects have been published in numerous newspapers and architecture magazines and have received much praise for their sensitive yet highly innovative solutions to the design.
Personal attention by the partners and their team to each project is assured through their active participation in all phases of research, site analysis, space planning, schematic design, design development, construction documents, specifications, and construction.
Ms. Wines and Ms. Valy both attended The Cooper Union School of Architecture on full scholarships and graduated in 1990. Suzan Wines is currently teaching in the Architecture School of The Cooper Union and Ms. Valy is a guest critic at Parsons, Pratt, Columbia and City College. Ms. Wines writes regularly for the Italian Art and Architecture magazine, Domus. Ms. Valy is a guest critic at Parsons, Pratt, Columbia and City College.
