University of Mount Union, Campus Master Plan

Westlake Reed Leskosky was retained by the University of Mount Union in July 2011 to prepare a campus master plan for its Alliance, Ohio liberal arts campus. The master plan, intended to build upon the 2010 strategic plan, will provide planning and phasing recommendations for near-term initiatives (within 5 years) and long-term initiatives (within 5 to 10 years). The master plan will help the University identify and prioritize...

Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music Renovation/Expansion

Westlake Reed Leskosky collaborated with Charles Young to renovate and expand the original Cleveland Institute of Music building, designed by our firm (then known as Schafer Flynn) in the1950's. The Cleveland Institute of Music is recognized as one of the premier music conservatories in the United States. Located on University Circle in the heart of the City's cultural district, the Cleveland Institute of Music facility features a renovated 750 seat...

Kent State University, Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative

Working with former Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC) Director, Christopher Diehl, as the Design Lead, Westlake Reed Leskosky provided architectural and interior design, structural engineering and MEP engineering services to renovate the upper floor of the historic Cowell & Hubbard Building (originally built in 1919 and modified in 1955) at 1305 Euclid Avenue. The renovated space houses new studios, gallery, classroom/conference spaces and faculty and staff offices for CUDC...

Pennsylvania State University, College of Arts & Architecture Master Plan

Westlake Reed Leskosky created a 20 year Master Plan for the College of Arts & Architecture, comprised of several academic and performing arts units, including: Theatre, Dance, Music, Visual Arts, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Art History, Integrative Arts, the Palmer Museum of Art, and the Center for Performing Arts. The College enrolls 1,900 students and currently possesses one million gross square feet of facilities across the University Park campus.

Akron-Summit County Public Library, Ellet Library

Sited on a former community park, this branch library is appropriate to the residential character of the site, as are deep front lawn and sweeping roofline. An exterior palette of deep red brick and standing seam metal reinforce the imagery. Parking and the main entry are located in the back, ensuring a sense of dignity along the main street. Inside, one of two loft like wings is dedicated to the...

University of Mount Union, Engineering & Business Building

The University of Mount Union retained Westlake Reed Leskosky to renovate the existing Wilson Science Hall into a classroom and lab building for its new engineering program and to provide additional office space for the Department of Business, Economics, and Marketing. The existing building, constructed in the 1950s, possessed various science labs, in addition to lecture spaces, faculty offices, and associated support program.

The project renovated...

University of Mount Union, Gartner Welcome Center

This Welcome Center designed for Mount Union College projects an image of gracious hospitality while referencing existing built forms on campus and evoking the traditional antecedents of recognized campus architecture. Sited within the main campus lawn next to the campus lakes, the building is omni-directional, respectfully addressing neighboring buildings and streets. The building will be the main threshold to the campus, welcoming and orienting prospective students and families...

Western Reserve Academy, Morgan Hall

Burton D. Morgan Hall is a newly constructed administration building on the campus of this private school, designed to complement the Federalist style of the historic structures that comprise "Brick Row." Its program consists of Administration, including the office of the Headmaster; Admissions; Development and Alumni Relations; a Board Room; and a Health Clinic. Its materials include red brick with limestone features, white-painted wood trim and columns, clay tile roof,...

Saint Vincent – Saint Mary High School, St. Vincent-St. Mary High School Master Plan

Selected through a design competition, Westlake Reed Leskosky completed a Master Plan for this co-educational, college preparatory Catholic High School in Akron, Ohio. The goals for the project were to give vision and direction to the campus for the next decade and beyond, while expressing the school's Catholic mission, displaying the energy and excitement of campus activities, and creating a legacy of fellowship for future generations of students, faculty and...

Oberlin College, The Bertram and Judith Kohl Building

The Kohl Building serves as the innovative new home of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music's acclaimed Department of Jazz Studies and its academic programs in music history and music theory. The new 37,000 SF facility interfaces with the adjacent Conservatory complex and creates an elevated pedestrian link that ties in three buildings. A massive cantilevered roof, three stories high, hovers in the air between the new and...

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Hillcrest Hospital Major Campus Expansion

Hillcrest Hospital serves a four county region in Northeastern Ohio-a population requiring broader healthcare services than when the hospital was built in 1968. It is one of only six hospitals in the US to be ranked ten times among the nation's Top 100 Hospitals and a Top 100 Hospital for its cardiovascular services by Thomson Healthcare. Continuing a two-decade consultancy relationship with Hillcrest Hospital that has encompassed more...

Zachary Bruell, Chinato

Chinato is a 130 seat restaurant located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. The setting is the first floor and basement of a turn of the century loft structure. Formerly a jewelry store, the former improvements to the space had been demolished prior to initiation of the design, revealing a backdrop composed of concrete floors and ceilings, and a series of dendriform columns positioned on a 15'-0" center to center grid. The...

Nick & Ruthie George, George House

Set on former farmland with gently rolling terrain and a dense coverage of trees, a major challenge was to work within subdivision covenants intended to direct design toward traditional vocabulary, yet achieve the classically modern dwelling desired by the owners. The result is a house whose forms, composition, and primary materials - masonry and standing seam metal - evoke farm structures, but which gains a sense of urbanity through color,...

Tom & Alison Klocker, Klocker Residence

The Klocker Residence is a town and boathouse located in an enclave of permanent boathouses in near west suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. The 2,800 square foot house is built on existing pilings and the site, which is 25' wide by 106 ' deep, is part of a lagoon leading to the Rocky River. The front portion of the dwelling, accessible by land, is three stories, with primary living spaces facing...

Zachary Bruell, L'Albatros Brasserie

L'Albatros is the second restaurant designed by Westlake Reed Leskosky for noted chef Zachary Bruell. Housed in a pair of connected, turn of the century carriage houses in University Circle, the design interprets and reimagines the setting of a Belle Époque brasserie. To invoke the characteristics of café society, and to provide choice in ambiance for clientele, there are two distinctly different moods established in the five rooms; the red...

Zachary Bruell, Parallax

Definitions of the name "Parallax" presented on a glass panel in the restaurant's vestibule set the stage for a sophisticated dining experience in a remerging inner city neighborhood. Creating a carefully scripted environment, the minimalist architecture serves as the backdrop for renowned chef Zack Bruell, and transforms the street level of the former mercantile building into an urbane destination that injects a new vitality and interaction with the street scene....

Select Restaurants, Pier W

In reimaging this seafood restaurant, the challenge was to create a sophisticated, urbane environment reflective of the cuisine and lakeside setting without relying on cliché. An aqueous palette of materials including heavily veined marble, rippling cast glass, ice-like resins and upholstery evocative of wet suit material is combined and modulated by transformational theatrical and LED lighting. The ceiling and floor planes appear to be extensions of the lake and sky...

Gerry Foundation, Inc., Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Master Plan

Westlake Reed Leskosky addressed the significant complexities of operational planning for a cultural and performing arts center of this significance. Drawing large numbers of patrons to outdoor performances and events, the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is designed to handle visitor flow and the movement of 17,000 to 30,000 people at a given time.

Design was just a part of the development of Bethel Woods Center for...

Cleveland Arts District Master Plan

Building on the firm's decades of involvement with Playhouse Square Center, Westlake Reed Leskosky is currently working with a developer to master plan an urban arts district in downtown Cleveland. The area in question encompasses approximately 1 million square feet at the nexus of several important educational and cultural institutions, including: Cleveland State University, Playhouse Square Center Theatre District, Cuyahoga Community College, Gateway Sports and Entertainment District (including Progressive Field),...

Oberlin College Green Arts District

Oberlin College is a four-year, liberal arts college that is noted for its academic excellence, its historical commitment to social engagement and diversity, and its artistic climate on campus. The College has retained Westlake Reed Leskosky to master plan the development of a downtown block in order to create a College and Community Green Arts District. This mixed-use development will be a LEED certified block that will set the standard...

PlayhouseSquare Master Plan and Implementation

Westlake Reed Leskosky orchestrated a master plan for a theater district downtown that is now a major visitor attraction and economic
development catalyst for Cleveland. PlayhouseSquare attracts over 2,000,000 patrons annually to a wide variety of arts and entertainment events, injects new income into greater Cleveland, and has initiated a renaissance of development in the district with significant annual impact. Key to the master plan of the 60-acre site was...

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

The historically significant Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland was originally designed by Walker & Weeks to harmonize with the Beaux-Arts classicism of Cleveland's 1903 Group Plan. When completed in 1923, this building was considered the last word in bank construction and a monument to superb craftsmanship and materials. The Bank retained Westlake Reed Leskosky, in association with HOK, to design an addition and renovation. Westlake Reed Leskosky was primarily responsible...

General Services Administration, Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. Courthouse

The $51 million rehabilitation of the Metzenbaum U.S. Courthouse is an exemplary model for preservation and adaptive reuse of an historic landmark. Selected by the GSA under the Design Excellence program, Westlake Reed Leskosky renovated this national architectural treasure to meet new requirements for function, efficiency, accessibility, sustainability and security. LEED-certified in a groundbreaking approach integrating sustainability and preservation, the 235,600-square-foot building houses the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts with four courtrooms,...

National Park Service/The Western Reserve Historic Society of Ohio, James A. Garfield National Historic Site

Honored with a NEA/Federal Design Achievement Award, the preservation of the home of the 20th U.S. President and site of the country's first "front porch" political campaign is recognized for its accuracy, detail, and integrity. The redesign of the 7.8 acre Historic Site included the restoration of the main house, grounds, and several outbuildings as a house museum and the adaptation of the carriage house for a new visitor information...

General Services Administration, James A. Walsh U.S. Courthouse

The $9.8 million Phase 2 major repairs and alterations to the Walsh U.S. Courthouse achieves GSA's priorities for safety, enhanced quality and experience of Tucson's significant National Register landmark. Exterior improvements included replacement of all non-historic windows with new energy-efficient, blast-resistant windows, perimeter security and landscaping enhancing the streetscape. Interior rehabilitation included returning the primary historic courtroom to original character, new judges chamber, state-of-the-art video conference hearing room, redesign/build-out of...

Arizona State University, Old Main Alumni Center

The restoration of a cherished campus building returns an 1895 brick landmark to original splendor, and transforms it into a vital, new home for the Alumni Association. The building was originally constructed in 1895 for Tempe Normal School, the first in Arizona to confer degrees for teaching. On the National Register of Historic Places, the building was the tallest in Arizona when constructed and the first in Tempe with electricity....

Jacobs Visconsi & Jacobs, Society National Bank

The Society Bank was Cleveland's first skyscraper, an outstanding example of the work of Burnham and Root. The ten-story building was completely rehabilitated involving extensive restoration of the exterior, banking hall, and mezzanine boardroom. Connecting existing floors to the bank's new adjoining 55-story tower, a new structural system capable of supporting required floor loadings was inserted within the outer stone bearing wall above the ground level. The original second floor...

Cuyahoga County Soldiers and Sailors Monument Commission, Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Restoration

Westlake Reed Leskosky recently completed the preservation and rehabilitation of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument on Cleveland's Public Square. Built in 1894 at a cost of $280,000, the structure is the city's major Civil War Memorial and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and Save America's Treasures. The current preservation effort represents a joining of private and public groups-including local foundations, the non-profit Monument Commission, and...

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...

Brittany Corporation, The Union Club of Cleveland

The key initiatives for this project include the consolidation and renovation of the principal Member Spaces on the entry level, including the Formal and Informal Dining rooms and the Reading Room. Private meeting rooms on the second level were equipped with audio-visual and computer technology to address contemporary needs for presentation and conferencing. A fitness center was planned for an underutilized portion of the building. The building mechanical and electrical...

City of Phoenix, Tovrea Castle Restoration

Tovrea Castle has been a beloved Phoenix landmark since its construction in 1929. Originally meant to be a hotel surrounded by a garden of exotic cacti, the building and grounds were purchased within two years by Edward A. Tovrea, a leader in Arizona's cattle industry. Mr. Tovrea died in 1932, leaving the estate to his wife, Della Tovrea, a socialite who later married William Stuart, publisher of the Prescott Daily...

General Services Administration, Wayne Aspinall Federal Building

Westlake Reed Leskosky, as part of a Design-Build team led by Beck Construction, is designing the Partial Modernization High Performing Green Building (HPGB) renovation of the Wayne Aspinall Federal Building in Grand Junction, Colorado. Funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the project will transform the 1939-built structure into a sustainable facility. The building's HVAC system and security system will be upgraded along with renovating the...

Akron Art Museum, Akron Art Museum

In the early 1980s, Westlake Reed Leskosky preserved the former U.S. Post Office and adapted it into a distinguished museum of photography and contemporary art. In the last 20 years, the museum's programming needs increased. Our firm performed master planning and programming and associated with international design architects Coop Himmelb(l)au on a major addition completed in 2007, which increased the museum's size from 36,000 to 88,000 sf. Spatially, the expansion...

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art

Over the years, Westlake Reed Leskosky has designed numerous projects on behalf of the prestigious Cleveland Museum of Art, including galleries, the library, and a parking structure. We also designed the expansion of the museum's bookstore: spaces adjacent to the original store were annexed, doubling the available square footage, and allowing for the creation of a children's shop and a separate store for postcards, posters, stationary and other paper objects....

Cleveland Museum of Art, Gartner Auditorium Renovation

Westlake Reed Leskosky renovated the Gartner Auditorium in the Cleveland Museum of Art. The space, originally designed by Marcel Breuer in 1971, needed to be re-imaged, re-tuned, and technologically upgraded to accommodate the changing outreach and education needs of the Museum. The space now hosts films, lectures, dance and chamber music performances.

The project included the redesign of the walls, ceilings, and the stage for architectural and acoustic...

Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Nathan and Fannye Shafran Planetarium

The Museum's new planetarium evokes precisely machined astronomical instruments, and takes the form of a chamfered cone, angled at its latitude and aligned with the North Star. The 60' high, titanium spattered stainless steel clad form enhances this prestigious cultural institution with a striking, sculptural quality and unique astronomical content. The challenge was to take a program that is traditionally circular in shape and without windows, and transform it into...

Patuxent River Naval Air Museum

Westlake Reed Leskosky is providing architectural and engineering services for the design of a new Patuxent River Naval Air Museum in Lexington Park, Maryland.WRL will provide concept plan, final schematic design, preparation of construction documents, construction cost estimates and construction support services.

The Patuxent River Naval Air Museum preserves and interprets the Patuxent River Naval Air Base history and heritage of advancing Naval aviation technology. This Museum is the...

Pro Football Hall of Fame, Pro Football Hall of Fame

Westlake Reed Leskosky was retained in 2010 by the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio to develop a long-term master plan for its museum facility, campus, and adjacent properties. Founded in 1963, the Hall of Fame hosts 200,000 visitors a year as well as the annual Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremonies and Festival on the campus and in adjacent Fawcett Stadium. Fawcett Stadium, originally built in...

Yorktown Victory Center Museum of the American Revolution

The mission of the Yorktown Victory Center is to present the history of the American Revolution; this new museum replaces three brick structures with a new structure that is organized principally on one (ground) floor with a partial lower level of support spaces and a partial mezzanine level.

The Yorktown Victory Center is comprised of building and site interpretive areas on a site designed to support...

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Euclid Hospital Emergency Department

In 2007, Westlake Reed Leskosky completed a $4.8 million expansion of the Emergency Department for this 371-bed hospital. The expanded Emergency Department provides 13 new exam rooms, a new two-bay trauma room, decontamination room, and 7 renovated exam spaces. Organized with the exam rooms surrounding a central staff work core, the design allows surveillance of all rooms, the ability to allocate space to specialized functions, and expedites the time patients...

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Hillcrest Hospital West Tower

In the context of a $150M master planned capital project, the firm was retained to analyze three options for developing expansion of medical surgical beds with a $40M budget and an accelerated construction process. The resultant West Wing is comprised of two floors of vertical expansion over two floors of renovated space for services including surgery, oncology, ICU and PACU. An addition to the first floor houses an enlarged Radiation...

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Medical Center, Abu Dhabi UAE

Westlake Reed Leskosky engaged in a facilities assessment for the Sheikh Khalifa Medical Center site in 2007. The scope include the assessment of forty-one (41) buildings totaling over 1,300,000 sf. Assessment included architectural, medical, mechanical, electrical, structural and all other systems on the 100 acre main campus site.

In addition to this, Westlake Reed Leskosky evaluated sixteen (16) clinic buildings throughout Abu Dhabi totaling over 550,000 sf. The...

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, South Pointe Hospital

With surgery as the cornerstone, the 100,000 square foot expansion creates a distinctive and highly visible, new entry to the campus; a technologically advanced surgery center and intensive care unit with an innovative, 4-bed decentralized nursing module; and a comprehensive medical education center. The project includes conference facilities and a 150-seat auditorium funded by a $6 million grant from The Brentwood Foundation for medical education and community use. Serving the...

Salem Community Hospital, Surgery Center Expansion

This new 32,000 sf, two-story surgery center includes a suite of six operating rooms arranged around a sterile core with potential for future expansion to eight ORs. The design provides natural light, logical circulation separating staff, public and patient traffic, and maximizes adaptability/flexibility. Adjacent inpatient and ambulatory areas are each other's overflow space and feature universal bays to handle pre- and post-operative patients. Intended to blend with...

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Twinsburg Family Health and Surgery Center

Westlake Reed Leskosky master planned and designed the multi-phase development of an award winning new 80-acre suburban medical campus. The first two phases encompass a 160,000 sf Family Health Center and 304,000 sf complex comprised of an Emergency Department, Ambulatory Surgery Center and 140-bed hospital. A third phase is planned for an additional bed tower with outparcels for specific areas of care. The design challenge involved issues of...

Maricopa Integrated Health System, Maricopa County Medical Center

Westlake Reed Leskosky was involved in several capital improvement projects at Maricopa County Medical Center.  These projects include substantial engineering work such as the replacement of two air handling units (one serving the OR and the other serving ICU, PICU, SICU, and NICU), replacement of two cooling towers, and central plant modifications. 

Salem Community Hospital, New Central Plant Replacement Facility

This uniquely intelligent Central Plant replacement deploys sustainable design meeting LEED silver certification, and innovative engineering technology that exceed standard healthcare requirements to meet the hospital's current loads, potential emergencies, and future expansions. The entirely new 76,000 square foot Central Plant is one of the first healthcare plants in the country of its size to deploy rotary flywheel technology for uninterrupted power, an innovative green battery-free power source for the...

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Hillcrest Medical Center MOB

A welcoming atmosphere for patients and maximum flexibility for lease space were important design criteria for this 117,000sf M.O.B. A tree-shaded atrium, highly visible day or night from the road, provides the medical campus with a new main entrance. It encloses an intimate food court with cafe style seating and provides flexible areas for a variety of hospital and public functions, for example, exhibitions on preventive health, art exhibitions, concerts...

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Lerner School for Autism

The new Lerner School for Autism, Debra Ann November Wing, at Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital is a benchmark facility for the programming and design of an environment specifically for people with autism, from infants to early adulthood. The 24,000 square foot single-story building expresses a strong modernist simplicity and clarity of purpose, with a forward-thinking image that supports one of the country's premier healthcare institutions and its leadership in the...

Case Western Reserve University, Wolstein Research Institute

This new 332,000 gross square foot Research Building transforms the typical research lab, hidden behind closed doors, into collaborative architecture that is visible, open, and engaging. Designed as a response to its tight site in Cleveland' University Circle, the architecture projects its research image on the urban street front through its materiality and transparency; yet is carved away in deference to the residential scale to its north side. Putting a...

Gerry Foundation, Inc., Bethel Woods Center for the Arts

The new Bethel Woods Performing Arts Center designed by Westlake Reed Leskosky preserves the original 1969 Woodstock concert site as it creates a vibrant international cultural destination. Along with multiple performing arts venues, the project includes a Museum of Woodstock with immersive exhibits to tell the story of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, its historical context and its influence on American culture. The interpretation extends throughout the 37 acres of the...

Broward Center for the Performing Arts

Westlake Reed Leskosky has completed a Master Plan and Conceptual Design Study for the complex that envisions the Broward Center as a new western entrance to Downtown Fort Lauderdale, weaving cultural arts and community into one comprehensive district.  At the core of the Broward Center's $75 million campaign for Capital Improvements and Endowment, Westlake Reed Leskosky has re-invented the underutilized garden courtyard as a new central community 'living room'.  This...

Friends of the Coronado, Coronado Theatre

Recognized by a National Trust Honor Award, the revitalization and expansion of the Coronado Theatre serves as an exemplary testament to the importance of the performing arts and preservation of America's landmark theatres. Drawing on extensive research, the faithful $18.5 million restoration of the former 1927 movie palace is the result of a unique public/private partnership and a catalyst for urban redevelopment. The annexation and adaptation of the adjacent two-story...

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...

City of Tempe, Tempe Performing and Visual Arts Center

When the City of Tempe, Arizona considered building a new performing and visual arts center, they first commissioned Westlake Reed Leskosky to perform a feasibility study and master plan. Based on the firm's work, the City overwhelmingly passed a bond issue including $35 million for the construction of the facility and staged a design competition. Westlake Reed Leskosky's competition finalist design was created in association with architects Hodgetts + Fung...

St. Ignatius High School, Breen Center for the Performing Arts

The $11.5 million performing arts center at St. Ignatius High School is sited at a terminus view corridor across the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, strengthening the urban conditions of the site and reinforcing connections to the 16-acre school campus and outdoor Mall to the north. The 36,000 sq. ft. building includes: a 550-seat proscenium theatre, a 150-seat band room, a rehearsal room, chorus room, practice rooms, and a range of stage and...

The Clemens Center, Clemens Center

The Clemens Center honors Samuel Clemens in his adopted home of Elmira, New York. Westlake Reed Leskosky developed a master plan to be implemented in two phases. Phase 1 architectural and engineering work, completed in 1999, has restored the Clemens Center's place as one of the most significant venues for the performing arts in the region, and paves the way for future improvements. Premium fixtures and finishes provide a rich...

Germantown Performing Arts Centre/ The North Group, Inc., Germantown Performing Arts Centre

Located in a culturally-rich suburb of Memphis, the Germantown Performing Arts Centre (GPAC) is a keystone of the Germantown Smart Growth Redevelopment Plan. The 156,000 square-foot expansion integrates a 1400-seat theater, a 250-seat black box, a school of the arts, rehearsal rooms, special event spaces, and offices with an existing 800-seat theater. The building's compact design preserves many existing mature trees surrounding the north and west exposures. To the east,...

Jeanne B. McCoy Community Center for the Arts

Through the collaboration of the local public School District, New Albany Village and Township, and the New Albany Company, the $15 million performing arts center is the cultural center for this fast-growing community just outside Columbus, Ohio. The Center includes a proscenium theatre, which is a venue for the Columbus Symphony, a small black box/rehearsal room, a dance studio, a range of stage and performer support spaces, classrooms, and an...

The City of Lauderhill, Lauderhill Performing Arts Center and Library

The City of Lauderhill, Florida has retained Westlake Reed Leskosky, in association with Barranco Gonzalez, to design a new cultural arts center for its residents. The Center will include a 1,200 seat theatre with a full stagehouse and performer support, a black box theatre, rehearsal spaces, a multi-functional lobby for events and performance, and front-of-house amenities. The Center will also have a full community library. Energy efficiency measures include heat...

City of Lone Tree, Lone Tree Cultural Arts Center

The new $19 million Lone Tree Arts Center is a state-of-the-art, sustainable and energy efficient facility for the arts, and a new focal point for the City of Lone Tree, Colorado. Expressing a forward-looking identity for this growing community, the 43,000 SF facility is as a vibrant and multipurpose community center, with flexible space for a range of cultural arts performances, meetings and events.

Set in...

Maricopa Community College District, Paradise Valley Community College Performing Arts Center

Designed as a campus center for music, theater and art, the 24,870 square foot teaching and performance facility incorporates a 281 seat theater, rehearsal spaces, classrooms, practice rooms and gallery. The exterior, in form, material and color, is inspired by the natural characteristics of the starkly beautiful setting; chiseled forms and tactile surfaces evoke and interact with the distant mountains, undergoing continual transformation under the dramatic natural light. The intent...

City of Peoria, Peoria Center for the Performing Arts

The Peoria Center for the Performing Arts was the first step in a comprehensive initiative to develop the city center of Peoria, Arizona. The primary user is the preeminent community theatre group Theater Works. A craggy copper clad roof hovering above a base of masonry evokes the color and forms of the desert basin and distant mountains. The complex features 250 seat and 80 seat theaters with support spaces...

Sonoran Desert Center for the Arts

Westlake Reed Leskosky's conceptual design for the Sonoran Desert Center for the Arts in Scottsdale, Arizona takes advantage of an extraordinary natural environment, revealing the beauty of the surrounding desert while being minimally invasive to the landscape. Encompassing 110,000 square feet, the planned campus includes a 2,000 seat theatre, a small studio theatre, a museum branch and amenities such as an outdoor patio grill and a full service restaurant. Illuminated...

Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center

Westlake Reed Leskosky is currently completing a master plan for enhancements to the existing Performing Arts Center, one of the four largest in the country - that will include a hotel, artists' housing, patron amenities such as a restaurant and VIP areas, river mooring, and conference/banquet areas. We are working to establish an appropriate site program for a mix of uses that includes drop-off, parking and bus staging as well...

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...

BF Goodrich, BF Goodrich Corporate Headquarters

The 125-year-old company with origins in tire and rubber manufacturing made a transition in the late 1980's to chemical engineering and aerospace technology. The exterior of the building reflects the dynamics of a corporation rooted in tradition yet looking forward, as glass and aluminum are set against monumental walls of cleft sandstone. Dramatically cantilevered roofs, reminiscent of airplane wings, evoke the weightlessness of flight. The L-shaped building embraces...

Buckingham Doolittle Burroughs, Buckingham Doolittle Burroughs

This interiors project provides 60,000 square feet of newly constructed space for a prestigious, Akron, Ohio based law firm. Attorney offices are non-hierarchical in terms of actual size, allowing optimal flexibility regardless of ownership matrix. Administrative support workstations are generously sized to accommodate the paper management necessitated by an industry which trends toward increased numbers of attorneys per assistant. An expression deploying traditional materials in a contemporary way echoes both...

Parker Hannifin, Parker Hannifin European Headquarters

Located in Switzerland midway between Geneva and Lausanne, the project is the 75,000 square foot European headquarters for an American based Fortune 500 Corporation. The building is intended to provide workspace for 150 full time employees. It will also be a conference, marketing and public relations facility, anticipating a significant volume of visitors. The headquarters is planned to double in size and eventually connect to a 5,000...

Parker Hannifin, Parker Hannifin World Headquarters Expansion

Parker Hannifin is an international manufacturer of products associated with hydraulics and pneumatics. The profile adds a 95,000 square foot wing to an existing 200,000 square foot corporate headquarters and provides façade re-imaging for the original facility. The new wing provides a combination of private offices and workstations for their marketing and research divisions. In addition to workplaces, the building contains an amphitheatre, interactive product display space and boardroom. Primary...

Penton Media, Penton Media

Penton Media publishes trade journals focusing on the manufacturing, construction and hospitality industries. They wanted an environment that conveyed the vitality of a dot com enterprise without compromising qualities necessary for concentration while writing and editing, and a shift from an environment of closed offices to one more conducive to teaming and interdisciplinary interaction. A palette of stainless steel, encaustic plaster, blonde millwork, dolomitic limestone, slate and varied clear and...

The Cleveland Foundation, The Cleveland Food Bank

The Cleveland Food bank relocated their main warehouse, distribution and headquarter operations to a new facility. Westlake Reed Leskosky was commissioned as an architectural design consultant to the Design/Build Contractor. Our challenge was to create a building with what has been dubbed a quietly dignified image. This was achieved by the use of conventional and economical warehouse building materials, with careful and creative attention paid to the proportions, detailing, planning...

Westlake Reed Leskosky, Westlake Reed Leskosky Corporate Headquarters

Westlake Reed Leskosky's design studio is an efficient arrangement of custom designed workstations, conference rooms and areas for model making, material samples and display. Indirect and task lighting along with large windows that provide natural lighting and a lookout on views of the city create a pleasant work environment. There is an economy of materials and a simplicity of detail. Color and finishes such as cork, medium density fiberboard, carpet...

General Services Administration, A.J. Celebrezze Federal Building

Through a GSA Design Excellence selection process, Westlake Reed Leskosky was awarded the current architectural and engineering project to modify space and rehabilitate the A.J. Celebrezze Federal Building in Cleveland. The scope includes a building wide assessment, upgrade of mechanical systems, two full floors of renovated tenant space, improvements related to the core and shell and GSA's First Impressions program. The 32-story building of approximately 1.5 million square feet houses...

City of Flagstaff, USGS/GSA Shoemaker Astrogeology Facility and Campus Master Plan

Compatible with its majestic landscape at the base of Mount Eldon, the new facility for the U. S. Astrogeological division initiates a campus redevelopment plan that includes replacement structures and vehicular circulation improvements. The 27,000 sf facility houses scientists working on space program development and instrumentation, including the Mars Rover project. Sustainable design includes energy efficient systems, passive and active solar radiation techniques to reduce energy consumption and overall life...