I-Beam Design

I-Beam Design I-Beam Design, founded by Suzan Wines and Azin Valy, is an award winning New York based architecture and design firm. Ms. Wines and Ms.

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 bee

n 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. 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. Wines writes regularly for the Italian Art and Architecture magazine, Domus.

SSA, CCNY, Advanced Studio: Legends of Architecture.Faculty: Suzan Wines.Student work by Matthew LeRouzicAT&T Long Lines...
05/29/2026

SSA, CCNY, Advanced Studio: Legends of Architecture.
Faculty: Suzan Wines.
Student work by Matthew LeRouzic
AT&T Long Lines Building [Titan Point] at 33 Thomas Street NYC by Warnecke Architects was built in1974 as part of the communications infrastructure that became part of NSA’s surveillance program. Extra judicial wire-tapping and mass identity data bases have been made available to government agents via 33 Thomas Street and buildings like it. What is the role that architecture plays in facilitating or concealing these operations?

SSA, CCNY, Advanced Studio: Legends of Architecture. Faculty: Suzan Wines.Student work by Arnab Joseph GomesCity Hall St...
02/26/2026

SSA, CCNY, Advanced Studio: Legends of Architecture. Faculty: Suzan Wines.
Student work by Arnab Joseph Gomes

City Hall Station designed by Heins & LaFarge Architects with Rafael Guastavino opened in 1904 before subways became the primary mode of transportation for a growing urban population. Gran Tessera: City Hall IRT: A Ghost Station is a meeting place for characters from past, present and future eras whose worlds move at different speeds in an endless loop.

Slide 5: Image courtesy of The New York Public Library Digital Collections

The Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital, by James Renwick Jr, opened in 1856. This narrative analysis unfolds in space an...
01/21/2026

The Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital, by James Renwick Jr, opened in 1856. This narrative analysis unfolds in space and time to reveal the building’s legacy of overlapping legends using hand drawing, collage and 2D/3D modeling techniques. The Smallpox hospital houses every part of its past, present and future within its architecture.




Happy Holidays and best wishes for a happy, healthy, peaceful and creative 2026.
12/25/2025

Happy Holidays and best wishes for a happy, healthy, peaceful and creative 2026.

Great Memories of Halloween’s past.Satellite Sisters, Highway to Hell and Stairway to Heaven and UNfortunate Cookies.   ...
10/31/2025

Great Memories of Halloween’s past.
Satellite Sisters, Highway to Hell and Stairway to Heaven and UNfortunate Cookies.

Congratulations to Era (.hlj.art) and Rafah (), SSA, CCNY 3rd semester Architecture undergraduate students for winning 2...
09/05/2025

Congratulations to Era (.hlj.art) and Rafah (), SSA, CCNY 3rd semester Architecture undergraduate students for winning 2nd place in ACSA 2025 Concrete Masonry Student Competition.

Happy 93rd Birthday James,May you enjoy these Art Forum magazines and make many more covers and projects. Love Suzan    ...
06/30/2025

Happy 93rd Birthday James,
May you enjoy these Art Forum magazines and make many more covers and projects. Love Suzan

Join us for SEE & BE SEEN Talk, this Saturday 3/1/25 [3-5pm] at National Academy of Design 519 W 26th St. 2nd Floor NYC ...
02/24/2025

Join us for SEE & BE SEEN Talk, this Saturday 3/1/25 [3-5pm] at National Academy of Design 519 W 26th St. 2nd Floor NYC 10001
James and Suzan Wines [SITE + I-BEAM] discuss The Communicative Power of Public Space with Ignacio G. Galán.

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