ClevelandDesignCity

“While approximately 250 attended the Cleveland Restoration Society’s 36th Annual Community Luncheon and celebrated the renovation of the The Cleveland Museum of Art and other recent projects Cleveland really has little to celebrate. Cleveland has very little to be proud of in the area of historic preservation. In the last few years an astounding number of buildings have been demolished and others have been allowed to stand disgracefully neglected. On more than one occassion we have graciously funded boorish developers to destory our architectural history. Recently we have lost the entire East bank of the Flats – part of the authentic industrial history of Cleveland. Cleveland State demolished their Student Center built in 1974 by Donald Hisaka. It was a classic example of the Brutalist style of architecture….” (go to article)