Nestor Santa-Cruz

Nestor joined SKB Architecture & Design in 2003 after previously serving as Associate Partner and Interiors Studio Head for the Washington, DC office of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill LLP for almost ten years. With over twenty years of corporate interiors experience, Nestor is noted for his award-winning designs as well as his comprehensive management and technical abilities. He has designed projects for law firms, financial, government, corporations, professional service firms, associations, telecommunications companies, entertainment and institutional/educational clients, both nationally and internationally. These projects have ranged in size from 150 sf to over one million sf. He was recently selected to be a member of the prestigious Washington Design Hall of Fame. He is the first commercial designer to join this group.

Nestor's projects have been extensively publised in Interior Design, Interiors, Contract, Washington Business Journal, Southern Accents, Elle Decor, Metropolitan Home, Washington Home & Design, Legal Times and The Washington Post, and have won several awards from the American Institute of Architects and the International Interior Design Association. He was first alternate for the Steedman Fellowship/American Academy in Rome Fellowship in 1987 and 1990. In September 2005, he was featured on the cover of Interiors & Sources. He has designed interior spaces in a wide variety of national and international locations, such as Washington, Los Angeles, New York, Mexico, Japan, China, Great Britain and Kuwait. He is often called to serve as juror in international design competitions and is frequently quoted in magazines and professional journals on creative design trends.

Nestor's project for The Human Rights Campaign Headquarters in Washington, DC recently received the Top 2004 International Design Award from the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and the Contract Magazine Interiors Design Award for 2005.