Ameritrust Complex

Westlake Reed Leskosky worked with a developer to design a $200 million redevelopment of the former Ameritrust complex in downtown Cleveland.  Featuring a luxury boutique hotel, a new Class A office building and a new multi-story parking garage, the mixed-use lifestyle center will encompass almost 10 square city blocks.  Integral to the project is the adaptive re-use of two landmark structures:  the 1908 Cleveland Trust Rotunda and the 1971 Marcel...

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...

International Management Group, IMG Conference Suite

During a long-term relationship with International Management Group, agents for major sports celebrities, Westlake Reed Leskosky master planned 80,000 square feet of their headquarters within a building designed by the firm for another client in 1968. Another 3,000 square feet of expanded conference facilities and the chairman's offices were designed in the building's penthouse. The conference suite comprises three rooms, with moveable partitions to function as one large room comfortably...

Invacare, Invacare Corporate Headquarters

Meeting a tight budget and aggressive schedule, the headquarters for a manufacturer of home healthcare products achieves a refined, world-class image on its industrial site. Expressing its utilitarian vernacular, the building uses a unique combination of standard and readily available construction materials with a high level of sophistication. The building skin is accented with composite metal panels, aluminum with exposed fasteners, masonry and clear glass with clear anodized aluminum frames....

Litigation Management, Inc., Litigation Management, Inc.

Efficient movement of documents through various departments was a priority, and resulted in centralized receipt, processing, copy and filing spaces, with task spaces branching from this core. The arrangement also ensures staff maximum exposure to natural light and views. The interiors have an informal quality, reflecting the owner's interests in the rural environment. Color, texture, working fireplaces and canopy of birch branches in the lobby all lend a residential quality,...

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

This Fortune 500 headquarters takes its cues from its site, formerly a golf course. A small lake and fairway defined by mature deciduous trees were instrumental in the placement of two wings connected by a glass-enclosed lobby. An exterior skin composed of two subtle shades of precast concrete alleviates the monumentality of the three-story wings. Metal panels contribute a finer scale, identifying lobby, cafeteria, stairways and a promenade past the...

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...

Superior Avenue Office Tower

Westlake Reed Leskosky's concept design for a speculative office building in downtown Cleveland projects a highly memorable image.  Located at a key transition point between Public Square and the Warehouse District, the canted form has dynamic visibility as a terminus to Euclid and Superior Avenues.   Designed for LEED Gold certification, the structure reduces heat gain by self-shading the south façade.  Horizontal blades on heat-activated sensors shield the east and west...

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...

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...

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...

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, 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...

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...