Preservation
1 project
PlayhouseSquare Foundation, The Idea Center
Pioneering work at Playhouse Square continues with the design of interactive facilities integrating multimedia, performing arts, and broadcast for WVIZ/PBS and 90.3 WCPN ideastream and the Playhouse Square Foundation. Inserting a contemporary design concept into historic One Playhouse Square on Euclid Avenue, the new synergetic center breaks down the barriers between television and radio to foster a convergence of the two formerly independent media streams, with multilevel activities and movement...
Performing Arts / Historic Theatre
2 projects
PlayhouseSquare Foundation, Playhouse Square
Westlake Reed Leskosky orchestrated a master plan for a theater district downtown that is now a national model, major visitor attraction and economic development catalyst for Cleveland. Playhouse Square attracts over 2,000,000 patrons annually to a wide variety of arts and entertainment events, injects over $40 million each year in new income and has initiated a renaissance of development in the district with an annual impact exceeding $300 million. Key...
PlayhouseSquare Foundation, The Hanna Theatre - Great Lakes Theater Festival
The theatre, which has been adapted for use by the Great Lakes Theater Festival – an anchor production company of Playhouse Square and one of the country's top regional theatres - conveys an open plan that connects the patron to the stage from the street to their seat, always visually connected to the performance. Typical and atypical support spaces (such as a café integrated into the lobby through movable glass...
Performing Arts / Renovation
1 project
PlayhouseSquare Foundation, The Power of Three Project, Allen Theatre
Working in partnership with PlayhouseSquare, the Cleveland Play House and Cleveland State University, Westlake Reed Leskosky designed a renovation and expansion for the historic Allen Theatre. The transformation, at a cost of $26 million, features three new theatres created within the 81,500 sf Allen Theatre and 44,000 sf continguous addition.
Housed in the existing Allen Theatre, the Main Stage Theatre and its lobby transitions the existing...
