Archive for March, 2008
“Fritz Haeg
Monday, March 31
7pm, Aitken Auditorium
Gund Building
CIA, 11141 East Boulevard
Lecture is free and open to the public…” (go to article)
“Commissioners will open bids Wednesday for the old Ameritrust Tower, a rotunda, three office buildings and two parking garages.
K&D Chief Executive Doug Price has said the company will make a proper offer Wednesday. The company wants to build a $200 million development with offices, retail and condos.
Seven other groups bought bid packages that detail the [...]
“Last month, Cleveland architect Kevin Dreyfuss-Wells and his family moved into the neighborhood, where he designed and had built one of the greenest new houses in the nation.
The house, at 3021 Ludlow Road, is the leading contender to be the first in Ohio to win a coveted Gold rating under the U.S. Green Building Council’s [...]
“What: KSU CAED AIAS Spring Lecture Series
Who: Mimi Hoang of nArchitects
Where: Kent State University, Micheal Schwartz Center
When: March 31 7:30pm…” (go to article)
“On Sunday, June 29, the museum will take the wraps off the renovated galleries on the second floor of the museum’s 1916 building, the neoclassical palace that overlooks Wade Lagoon in University Circle.
That reopening, the first of several phases planned for completion over the next four years, will mark the symbolic renewal of the museum’s [...]
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“Demolition of the remaining buildings along the east bank could start within 30 days, followed by grading of the property. Foundation work for a residential building near the river and the office tower could start before the end of summer.
The Wolstein Group and Fairmount Properties hope to release details about their building designs within the [...]
“Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed strange Clevelandesque slogans posted on billboards around town, with the attribution ‘Mind of Cleveland‘. I remember wondering if this was another Cleveland+hype campaign… or about AIDS prevention… and planned to google it later…
No need. It turns out the billboards are part of an innovative collaboration of Case and [...]
via Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog: “Just over a month ago, we brought you a dozen new cities in Street View, and now I’m excited to say we’re topping that. We’ve added imagery for 13 new metropolitan areas - and a national park! We have expanded our coverage in 6 of our existing cities. Among [...]
“In an effort to increase Bicycle safety Portland, Oregon has implemented (and started enforcing) a bike box at some test intersections. These “bike boxes” are marked areas in which motorized vehicles are not allowed to rest at during red lights. They are only for cyclists to allow them to safely initiate their riding when the [...]
“A Kent State University urban design studio class applied theoretical concepts and a healthy dose of imagination into a new vision for Parma, Ohio, an inner-ring suburb of 80,000 largely blue-collar residents.
The class, ‘Parma 2.0: Re-thinking the Suburb’, took a typical working class American suburb which has been buffeted by economic and demographic changes, and [...]
“Updated plans from The Wolstein Group and Fairmount Properties, who hope to transform the former nightlife center into a neighborhood by late 2010, show changes to the layout and scope of the development.
Among the most notable revisions: The office portion of the project has nearly doubled in size, to a possible 975,000 square feet. The [...]
“Neighborhood Public Art Workshop
Friday, March 28, 2008
The Wooltex Gallery at the Tower Press
1901 Superior Avenue Free parking
Cleveland, OH
11am - 3pm
To help community development organizations and staff navigate the possibilities of working with artists, the Cleveland Neighborhood Development Coalition and Cleveland Public Art are hosting this workshop. Learn the various ways in which public art can [...]
“The contractor is expected to remove more damaged concrete around the crater in Public Square this week so that fast-setting concrete can be poured and, if all goes well, downtown streets will be reopened within two weeks, Randy DeVaul, the city’s commissioner of engineering and construction, said…” (go to article)
“If one was to exhibit urban design speculations about the storied suburb of Parma, Ohio, where would that be? Of course, the exhibtion would be hung in Parmatown Mall.
Work from Kent State’s CUDC Fall 2007 Urban Design Studio is now on display in a vacant storefront in the Mall. The student work considered a Parma [...]
“Preliminary design and engineering work for the first phase, which includes road, tunnel and intersection improvements adjacent to the Shoreway, is under way. Construction should begin in 2012, or 2011 if right-of-way issues can be settled.
Construction on the second phase should take about two years to complete. Timing will depend on the completion of the [...]
“The Chronicle Review has posted some of the 120 submissions to the George W. Bush Back-of-the-Envelope Design Contest. They are asking readers to vote on their favorite of the submissions.
If you are a disenfranchised voter, don’t fret. You do not have to claim a political affiliation nor should you be worried whether your electorate will [...]
via Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog: “An advisory committee is being formed to research and establish guidelines for the creation of a ‘Ukrainian Village’ concept for State Road stretching from Brookpark Road to Grantwood Avenue.
‘The idea was originally proposed by parishioners of St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral who felt that the concentration of Ukrainian owned [...]
“While Edmonton is willing to call a ‘cow’ a ‘cow’ and better yet call ‘crap’ projects for what they are I wonder who in the local community is attempting to interject a touch of civic pride into their decisions. I have been to few reviews and I wonder that quite often. For those of you [...]
“Is this not the most spectacular sports mural you have ever seen? This was a Kenneth Bates mural created specifically for the lobby of the new Campus Sweater Company building at 3955 Euclid Avenue. Campus Sweater Company was launched in 1922 by entreprenuers Samuel Kaufmann and Loren Weber originally in the Warehouse District. The Company [...]
