With this issue, we turn three. It’s a time when toddlers explore their world, and we have certainly been doing this on our pages over the past three years as we have brought you the area’s most current, original and thought-provoking projects in residential, commercial and industrial design.

But like every toddler, we have a healthy appetite for exploring the world around us to find its most entertaining and intriguing offerings. And those offerings are the greatest resource our design community has—namely, those who are pushing old boundaries, exploring new concepts and making a difference with their work.

So each year, we allow ourselves the luxury of reveling in our discoveries, and showing off our latest ‘finds’ with our annual ‘Suite 16.’ Individually, they may be architects, designers or artists. Yet collectively, they’re innovative, unconventional, daring, visionary and perhaps a touch iconoclastic.

We think of this feature as our birthday present to ourselves, and you. Happy Birthday!