Cuyahoga Community College, Center for Creative Arts

Westlake Reed Leskosky designed the A/V and IT systems for Cuyahoga Community College's Center for Creative Arts. The new, state-of-the-art, $27 million facility encompasses 75,000 GSF and houses Tri-C's School of Recording Arts and Media Technology, which includes two full recording studios, five production control rooms and seven video editing suites. The facility also includes a multi-purpose black box theatre that doubles as broadcast production studio, dance and theatre rehearsal...

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...

Kent State University, Math and Computer Science Building

A classroom building for the university's mathematics department is located adjacent to the other science buildings of Kent State University. The completion of the building added a key component to an existing campus quadrangle. A 4,000-square foot research library on the top floor was a major design focus of the project. Its roof is expressed as a sine wave which is repeated in the interior linear metal ceiling. Flexibility is...

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...

Kent State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Westlake Reed Leskosky is the architect and engineer for the renovation and major expansion of Franklin Hall into Kent State University's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. This creates a state of the art facility that exposes students to the working world of mass media: print, radio, internet, and teleproduction. The renovated Franklin Hall houses faculty offices and various convergence labs: technical media rooms where information in all formats is...

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...

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....

Pennsylvania State University, Eisenhower Auditorium

Westlake Reed Leskosky was retained by Pennsylvania State University to conduct a study for additions and renovations to the Eisenhower Auditorium.  Built in 1974, the 2,589 seat facility is home to the Center for the Performing Arts. The focus of the study involved five key priorities that will allow the Eisenhower to accommodate contemporary programming and usage.  These include:  plaza improvements and integration of building with Shortlidge Mall; expansion of...

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...

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...