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June 07, 2010
LEHRER ARCHITECTS LA and WESTLAKE REED LESKOSKY FORM STRATEGIC ALLIANCE
Synergy in Architectural Design and Delivery of Nationally Distinguished Firms
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (June 2010) – Two internationally published, award-winning distinguished national design firms have formed a strategic alliance to bring a potent combination of complementary practice in architectural design and delivery to the built environment.
This alliance joins Lehrer Architects LA, an innovative design studio based in Los Angeles with a reputation for its agile, spirited design, nurturing a culture...
June 06, 2010
Oberlin College scores big time with its new Bertram and Judith Kohl Building for jazz, designed by Westlake Reed Leskosky
Kevin G. ReevesGlassy faculty offices and a "Skybar" on the third level of the new Bertram and Judith Kohl Building at Oberlin College shelter an inviting outdoor plaza. Great buildings don't just happen. You need a brilliant design team; a great client, with high aspirations and sufficient cash; and a site with high potential, even if it looks highly unpromising at first.
Oberlin College found all three in its new Bertram...
Link: http://blog.cleveland.com/architecture/2010/06/oberlin_college_scores_big_tim.html
Author: Steven Litt
June 06, 2010
PlayhouseSquare gains flexibility by getting smaller via the Allen Theatre renovation
Cleveland's downtown theater district, one of the great success stories in a city with a shortage of them, is growing again. This time by getting smaller.
If the bold Allen Theatre renovation by the Cleveland Play House and Cleveland State University goes forward as planned, PlayhouseSquare will have eight theaters with 1,000 or fewer seats by the fall of 2011, and seven of those eight will have fewer than 600.
Since...
Link: http://www.cleveland.com/onstage/index.ssf/2010/06/playhousesquare_gains_flexibil.html
Author: Tony Brown
June 06, 2010
Proposed renovation of PlayhouseSquare's Allen Theatre promises big payoff
Cleveland will lose its third-largest theater -- PlayhouseSquare's 2,500-seat Allen -- in September.
The promised payoff, a year later: A three-venue, 1,000-seat complex for the flagship Cleveland Play House, which sold its outmoded facility, and for Cleveland State University's undergraduate drama program.
All for a relative bargain -- under $30 million -- and preserving the 1921 Allen's architecture.
That's the potential held by new plans, released exclusively to The...
Link: http://www.cleveland.com/onstage/index.ssf/2010/06/proposed_renovation_of_playhou.html
Author: Tony Brown
June 06, 2010
Cleveland's Soldiers and Sailors Monument reopens
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Public Square reopened Saturday morning, in a patriotic ceremony with songs from the Singing Angels, a flag ceremony by Civil War reenactors, and remarks from dignitaries who recalled the contribution of Ohio's volunteers in the war that began in 1861.
On the Web
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (the monument's own site)
Designed by Levi T. Scofield, the monument was dedicated...
Link: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/06/clevelands_soldiers_and_sailor.html
Author: Evelyn Theiss
