20220504. Cleveland’s Tower City Center skylight. FROM 2014.
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20201126. Jail is a brutalist place to be. Jail II, Justice Center Complex, Cleveland, Robert P. Madison International, 1995.
20170804. A block of brutalism with slits on stilts. Cleveland Justice Center Complex.
20170727. A block of brutalism at Cleveland’s Justice Center Complex with Jail II in the foreground designed by Robert P. Madison International.
20140910. The Key Tower in downtown Cleveland. At 947 feet, it is the tallest building in the state of Ohio.
20140908. Looking south over the Cuyahoga River from below the arches on the 32nd floor of Cleveland’s Terminal Tower.
20140906. The Cleveland Masonic Temple and Performing Arts Centre.
Built 1921, Architects Hubbell and Benes, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
20140904. The Miller Family Pavilion front plaza fountain, Cleveland Clinic main campus.
Peter Walker, Landscape Architect. Walker is the landscape designer of the National 9/11 memorial.
20140901. The Crile Building at the Cleveland Clinic medical center’s main campus.
Purpose: Outpatient care. Facade: banded granite. Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. Built: 1984.
20140826. Pointy-ended, vertically-suspended stairwell ductwork. Louis Stokes Wing, Cleveland Public Library main branch.
20140824. The stunning Cleveland Public Library Main Branch ground floor front desk.
Unlike Toronto, you are allowed to take pictures inside the library without applying for permission!
20140816. Light shines through two skylights to brighten a basement classroom in Frank Gehry’s Peter B. Lewis Bldg, Cleveland.
20140814. The deconstructivist architecture of the Frank Gehry-designed Peter B. Lewis Building (c.2002) in Cleveland.
20140812. The weird and wonderful Frank Gehry-designed Peter B. Lewis Building (c.2002) in Cleveland.
This is the home of the Weatherhead School of Management at the Case Western Reserve University in east Cleveland. Wait until you see the rest of this building!
20140810. The rear view of the great I.M Pei’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (c.1983) in Cleveland.
I.M. Pei designed Commerce Court in Toronto.
20140808. Looking UP at Cleveland’s 1907 B&O Railroad Bridge No.464 – a single-leaf rolling lift bridge.
20140806. The stepped and striped east face of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
This latest addition to the museum connects the original museum building with the 1971 addition through marble/granite stripes that change in character. Near the striped 1971 addition the new wing features the same stripe ratio whereas near the original building, as shown above, the marble stripes outnumber the granite stripes as the original building is all white marble.
20140804. The Cleveland Museum of Art’s new football-field-length glass atrium with original museum facade.
If you have watched the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier, you may recognize this atrium as SHIELD headquarters.
20140803. The Cleveland Museum of Art’s banded Brutalism; a striped facade of white marble and brown granite.
This most recent addition uses the same white Georgian marble as the original 1916 building. The 1 to 1 ratio of white to brown stripes acknowledges the equally banded brutalist 1971 addition. As the stripes move closer to the original building, the ratio of white to brown stripes increases until it is almost all white acknowledging the original building.
20140802. The Cleveland Museum of Art’s banded Brutalism – 1971 Marcel Breuer wing (left) meets the 2009 Rafael Viñolyon expansion (right).
20140729. Cleveland’s Victorian-era Arcade – now a Hyatt Regency hotel but once one of the earliest indoor shopping malls in the United States (c.1890).
20140725. Cleveland’s Tower City Center skylight.
20140723. Looking north at the West Third Street Bridge (c.1940) over the Cuyahoga River in the Flats of Cleveland.
Note the remains of the demolished Inner Belt Bridge in the background. The West Third Street Bridge looks great now but underwent a botched rehabilitation in 2004 including the installation of lift cables that were three feet too short! It is a Vertical Lift Pratt through Truss bridge with a navigation clearance of 100 feet.
20140721. The 201m 200 Public Square as seen from Cleveland’s Terminal Tower. Note how the building’s shape comes from being parallel to both side streets.
20140719. A line of light and oddly asymmetrical column placement in Cleveland’s Tower City Rapid Transit Station.
