H. Peter Seidel, aiaSelected Projects

Notable among his projects is Pedestrianspace - the Midtown Pedestrian Study, for the NYC Department of City Planning, advocating a differentiated grid for the most densely trafficked streets, to act as a strategic framework for specific improvements such as Broadway Plazas, presently coming to fruition:

The 58-block Upper East Side Historic District was a collaboration of the Department of City Planning and Landmarks Commission, facilitated by Seidel’s complementary zoning revisions. Since, these have enabled numerous new buildings within the District, particularly along the commercial Madison Avenue:

As consultant to the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles (CRA-LA) in the course of planning for the city’s first four stations of its new Metrorail system, Seidel helped shape the Downtown Development Framework and specific Station Area Masterplans:

Promoting pedestrian connectivity in downtown Johannesburg, the 7-block, 200,000 m² BankCity Development by First National Bank of South Africa has adopted Seidel’s design principles of urban integration, overcoming the bank’s initial security concerns:

Commissioned by Olympia & York, the Canadian developers of Battery Park City, New York, Seidel assisted with the developer competition for the pivotal Sony am Potsdamer Platz, Berlin:

As head of Arup Städtebau, Berlin, Seidel won the invited urban design competition for regeneration of Erfurt-Brühl, a 27-hectare site of walled-off, polluted and obsolete industrial structures among historic remnants, situated within the medieval city center:

Collaborating with SPUR - the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, Seidel chaired the AIA/SPUR Civic Center Task Force, to determine a better use and design of the desolate and crime-ridden Civic Center Plaza:

Again with SPUR - the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, Seidel produced the report “Mid-Market Visions”, stimulating improvements along San Francisco’s Market Street corridor:

In projects such as the Berlin Regionales Strukturkonzept for the Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft Brandenburg and Hanoi New Town, with Bechtel Corporation of San Francisco, anticipating a population of 700,000, Seidel initiated generic notions of sustainable urban design, with landscape ecology as primary focus, befitting concerns of mega-city expansion:

Prestigious private residential commissions on Long Island, New York, have allowed Seidel to serve clients’ aspirations, pursuing notions of contextual design, sustainability, and getting things built:

Seidel’s passion and feel for design encompasses landscape, interior design and furnishings, with successfully completed projects for private clients in the United States, Europe and Asia: