Photo Credit: Susan Desko Square as well as residential work located coast to coast. That sounds like you’ve designed an entire city! Actually, a recent visitor to my studio commented, “You could fill a city with all of your models.” It had never occurred to me to do so, but their comment inspired me to test their theory. As it turns out, the site plans of all of my commercial experience would fill, in its entirety, the downtown core of Ketchum spanning both lengths of Main street from the Limelight Hotel to Hotel Ketchum and similarly Sun Valley Road from Ketchum’s City Hall to the Red Barn. All of my residential work (single and multi-family) would fill the entire Light Industrial District. What projects are people most familiar with? Locally, it would be the Sun Valley Visitor Center and Starbucks Coffee Shop located next to Ketchum’s Town Square. It has been recognized as one of the “Top 10 Coolest” Starbucks in the World by a dozen plus magazines, including Architectural Digest. There are currently 34,000+ stores worldwide. For anybody flying in and out of the Sun Valley Airport, it would be a house located in the Bellevue Triangle nick-named “The Starship,” you can’t miss it while flying overhead, it’s the only home “off the grid.” Which of your projects have advanced the field of architecture? The un-built Lewis Residence located in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Buckhead Branch Library in Atlanta, Georgia. 24 IDAHO ARCHITECTURE | 2025 | aiaidaho.com
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