New Theatre

Westlake Reed Leskosky designed an innovative new theatre as a future addition to a new public magnet school for 775 students in grades 6 through 12. Designed to be a visible symbol of the arts in the community, the proposed theatre features a unique envelope and a performance space with unparalleled flexibility. The building has a double glazed skin with the outer layer of a different geometry than...

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...

Kent State University, Competition for the College of Architecture and Environmental Design

Westlake Reed Leskosky recently completed a concept design for a new building for the Kent State University College of Architecture and Environmental Design as one of four finalists in a design competition. The 120,000 SF building will contain design studios, offices, classrooms, fabrication labs and library / research spaces as well as a café. The building is sited along the esplanade, a new campus pedestrian thoroughfare linking 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...

Hathaway Brown School

Westlake Reed Leskosky has a longstanding relationship with Hathaway Brown School, a private independent school for girls situated on an eighteen-acre campus in Shaker Heights, Ohio. This 20,000 sf natatorium addition, designed in association with Graham Gund Architects, includes an eight-lane, 25-yard competition pool, 1-meter board diving well, instructional pool and support functions. The materials match the context of the existing school, assembled so as to create a light pavilion-like...

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...

Cleveland School of the Arts, New Theatre

Westlake Reed Leskosky designed an innovative new theatre as a future addition to a new public magnet school for 775 students in grades 6 through 12. Designed to be a visible symbol of the arts in the community, the proposed theatre features a unique envelope and a performance space with unparalleled flexibility. The building has a double glazed skin with the outer layer of a different geometry than...

PlayhouseSquare Foundation, Idea Center at PlayhouseSquare

Pioneering work at PlayhouseSquare continues with the design of interactive facilities integrating multimedia, performing arts, and broadcast for WVIZ/PBS and 90.3 WCPN ideastream and the PlayhouseSquare Foundation. Inserting a contemporary design concept into historic One PlayhouseSquare 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 of space adding...

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,...

General Services Administration, Wayne Aspinall Federal Building

Westlake Reed Leskosky, as part of a Design-Build team led by the Beck Group, is designing the Partial Modernization High Performing Green Building (HPGB) renovation of the Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Grand Junction, Colorado. Funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the project will transform the 1918 structure into a sustainable facility. The building's HVAC system and security system will be...

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...

Salem Community Hospital, Central Plant Replacement

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...

Summit Tri-Star Digestive Wellness Center, Digestive Wellness Center

Westlake Reed Leskosky has designed a new 11,700 square foot medical office building in Norton, Ohio. Supporting the needs of two physician practices, the program is organized into two sides: endoscopy (2 procedure rooms and 9 patient bays) and more general medical office space (7 exam rooms and 2 special procedure rooms) with support offices for staff in the center. Each of the spaces has its own waiting room and...

The City of Las Vegas, The Mob Museum, National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement

This $40 million project for the City of Las Vegas will convert a historic former Post Office and Courthouse into a contemporary cultural destination in the heart of downtown. When completed, the 40,000 square foot museum will contain permanent and temporary exhibit galleries, administrative, retail, support and event spaces and will feature state-of-the-art interactive technology and exhibits. Westlake Reed Leskosky is providing Content Planning, Architecture, Engineering, and LEED/Sustainable Design consultation...

City of Yuma, Yuma Art Center

The Yuma Art Center is a unified performing and visual arts center featuring the Historic Yuma Theatre and highlighting a new two story museum, with a loggia compatible with the historic character of Main Street. Designed with integrated theatre technical services, this first phase includes upgrades to the historic theatre, renovations to an adjoining building for art studios and classrooms, an outdoor courtyard, and contemporary new construction housing art galleries...

American Revolution Museum at Yorktown

The mission of the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown 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 American Revolution Museum at Yorktown is comprised of building and site interpretive areas on a...

Gerry Foundation, Inc., The Museum at Bethel Woods

Part of the new Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on the site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, The Museum at Bethel Woods expresses a strong sense of place and complements the rural character of the iconic site.  The 40,000 sf structure, built of locally-quarried stone, copper, and an innovative laminated wood structure, includes a 10,000 sf Main Exhibit Gallery, 6,000 sf Special Exhibit Gallery, a 130 seat  Museum Theater, Museum...

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...

Musical Arts Association, Blossom Music Center

The experience of being at this beautiful 250-acre site, bordering and strongly related to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, evokes an appreciative response from visitors. In a recent redevelopment plan beginning at the front entrance, the landscape architect worked together with the land conservation manager at a neighboring arboretum to replace turf grass with a mix of tall native meadow grasses and wildflowers that make the approach to Blossom a...

Wausau Performing Arts Foundation, Artsblock

ArtsBlock, in Wausau, Wisconsin is a $13.1 million cultural and civic asset that expands the 1927 Grand Theater as the centerpiece of an entire city block, and creates a community arts center with the restoration of the 1,200-seat historic theatre at the heart. The design concept for ArtsBlock links three historic structures on its downtown block, and creates flexible new facilities as it restores, enhances, and connects the existing buildings....

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, Hanna Theatre at PlayhouseSquare

The theatre, which has been adapted for use by the Great Lakes Theater Festival – an anchor production company of PlayhouseSquare 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 partitions)...

Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center, Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center

The revitalization of the Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center rejuvenates two landmark theatres: The magnificent 1,267-seat Strand Theatre, restored in its entirety with new 250-seat mezzanine balcony seating, and the 600-seat Capitol Theatre, enhanced with stage expansion and improvements. The $17.3 million project, encompassing restoration, adaptive reuse, and new construction, creates a unified performing arts block by integrating four varied landmark buildings and three complementary building additions was a model for...

Tennessee Theatre Restoration, LLC, The Tennessee Theatre

The restoration of the landmark Historic Tennessee Theatre in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee serves as an exemplary project in terms of its financing strategies. The rehabilitation of this 1928 movie palace, a superb example of Spanish-Moorish architecture, could have stopped at a $14 million project, merely restoring it as a movie house. Instead, in January 2005, the theatre debuted a new stage house for symphony, opera, and a variety of performing...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...