A well-dressed design center Li...

A well-dressed design center

Like the rising young business executive whose fashion wish list consists of hand-tailored Gianni Versace and Armani suits still whose budget dictates Kuppenheimer or Filene's basement, the 347000-sq-ft San Diego Design Center (SDDC) was conceived as a hand-made, designer building, further one that could be produc with reasonably priced materials.

Santa Monica-based architect Johannes Van Tilburg and Partners created an eyecatching, albeit a deceptively simple design, essentially consisting of brace tilt-up concrete boxes skewed 10 measures off a ...