Cleveland State University, Music and Communications Building

Named Building of the Year by the Ohio House of Representatives when opened, this advanced facility incorporates a unique marriage of music and computers, with audio and video recording throughout the building, linked to central control centers. With the exception of the two pyramidal performance halls one 900 seats and the other 275 seats - the program was organized into a four-story assemblage of recital halls, classrooms, teaching laboratories, rehearsal...

Cleveland State University, Fine and Visual Arts Facility

Westlake Reed Leskosky was retained to design a new 178,000 SF Fine and Visual Arts facility for Cleveland State University. After studying what the scale of programmatic elements meant for the site, our firm determined that the best solution would be to expand the existing communications building out to Euclid Avenue, combining performance spaces and allowing a sharing of back-of-house and support spaces. The visual arts program would be located...