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...

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...

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...

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 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....

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...

Toronto Symphony Orchestra and National Arts Centre Orchestra, Project Niagara

A new outdoor music festival will set the stage for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and National Arts Centre Orchestra in the Niagara peninsula.  Westlake Reed Leskosky is collaborating with KPMB Architects, Toronto to program and plan Project Niagara, located on a wooded, 250-acre site on the southern shore of Lake Ontario.  The pavilion will include ±2500 seats under cover, and up to 10,000 on the lawn.  The program will be...

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...

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Westlake Reed Leskosky developed a comprehensive 5-year Capital Plan for the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the nation's most active performing arts center. The project included a survey and evaluation of the 1.5 million square foot building and its systems as well as recommendations for future capital projects in consideration of current codes and standards, lifetime of existing equipment, and operational issues or deficiencies. The Capital Plan will serve as...

The City of Phoenix, Phoenix Symphony Orchestra

The $18.5 million Symphony Hall renovation, for which Westlake Reed Leskosky is the architect and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineer, is executed in conjunction with the expansion and renovation of the Phoenix Convention Center, designed by HOK Venue in association with Leo A Daly. The project involves a new grand entrance and a greatly expanded lobby, as well as a new audience seating configuration to enhance ease of access, extensive...

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...

Wilmington Performing Arts Center, Wilmington Performing Arts Center

Representing a private/public sector partnership, the new 70,000 sf Concert Theatre on the University of North Carolina Wilmington campus will serve the University as well as the surrounding community. A primary user of the space will be the Wilmington Symphony. Complementing the traditional architectural style of the campus and influenced by regional historic landmarks, the design features a brick volume fronted by an exterior portico and glass enclosed veranda that...

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.

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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...

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...