Archive for March, 2011
Get ready… AIA Cleveland 2011 Architecture + Design Month starts this Friday, April 1st! 6:00PM: Start your evening at 1point618 and check out the winning projects from the d3 Housing Tomorrow competition, an international competition searching for innovative housing solutions. 8:00PM: Finish your evening at the opening reception and party for Architecture + Design Month at the [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A new, pounding rhythm echoes in the Cuyahoga River valley. And it won’t stop till fall. It’s the sound of a bridge being built. A heavy-duty crane began hammering steel I-beams down to bedrock Wednesday, to anchor the first support, or pier, to go up for the newInner Belt Bridge… (go to [...]
As I mentioned before, I’m curating an exhibit on I.T. Frary for the Cleveland Artists Foundation. Recently, a colleague brought to my attention a watercolor painted by Frary, in 1897. It depicts a backyard scene in Zoar, Ohio. Zoar is a small community, located on the Tuscarawas River, about 75 miles south of Cleveland. It was [...]
On St. Patrick’s Day, 1871, nine base ball clubs gathered at Collier’s Pub in New York City to form baseball’s first major league, The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. The league was comprised of all professional clubs, for the first time in baseball’s history. Prior to this historic event, clubs were mainly amateur [...]
Northeast Ohio’s sustainability efforts continue to draw international attention – first Cleveland was tapped to host the International Public Markets Conference in 2012 (in part due to the West Side Market and the burgeoning local food Market District plan). Now comes the news that the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) will host its 2011 meeting in Cleveland. From [...]
Hidden Cleveland Tours Sunday, April 10th Sunday, April 17th cleveland is full of hidden history and architecture. Now, the neighborhoods of Downtown and Aroundtown Cleveland are offering two tours that will give Clevelanders a chance to explore these hidden spaces. A team of community tour guides with stories and background history will lead you through each location. Each [...]
It has been a very strange couple of months as the family has suffered a series of personal events that I won’t go into detail here, instead I thought I would regale you with tales of my Spring Break and the current happenings of TOIstudio… (go to article)
Terry Schwarz is the director of Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. Persistent, large-scale population decline is a challenging issue for many cities in the U.S., particularly older industrial cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, St. Louis and Pittsburgh. These cities experienced peak populations in the 1950s and have continually lost residents since then… (go to [...]
Frank Lloyd Wright found clients in Ohio later than he did in Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and other states. But he did leave his mark on the Buckeye state, and on Northeast Ohio in particular – even if it was late in his career. On Saturday April 9, the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, a Chicago-based organization [...]
Are ‘rust belt’ cities more attractive to Gen X and Millennials who share the openness and alienation which repelled their Baby Boomer parents? Cleveland State University Levin College of Urban Affairs graduate Angie Schmitt ponders at StreetsBlog:Are the policies of Boomers holding back the younger generation yearning to be free of the suburbs? Neil Takemoto at Cool [...]
The Japanese nuclear crisis has caused many people to look again at the pros and cons of nuclear power. Many of the most powerful reasons for doubting the viability of a large new nuclear power sector are economic. For example, here is an analysis of the costs of building, operating, maintaining, and decommissioning nuclear power plants… [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A $10 million apartment project could move forward in University Circle, now that a Cleveland councilman is willing to support rezoning of land along Hazel Drive. Councilman Jeff Johnson, who tabled the rezoning in early February, could introduce legislation Monday to prepare the 1.4-acre site for 59 apartments. After taking more than [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Look at all the excess space in Cleveland schools, and you might wonder why the district is considering shutting down only seven buildings. Of 94 district schools, 55 are at least 30 percent under capacity, according to data used in deciding which buildings to close. Enrollment was just one consideration, along with test [...]
A while back, I wrote about a more recent piece of this region’s built history – this house, built by Don Hisaka as his personal residence. The structure, an AIA honor recipient in 1970, is located at 14300 Drexmore Road, in Shaker Heights, Ohio. The Cleveland Artists Foundation is presenting an exhibit of the structures designed during Hisaka’s [...]
It is an oft-lamented fact, both locally and nationally, that the city of Cleveland hasn’t taken full advantage of its position on the shore of Lake Erie. The national media, in its seemingly boundless enthusiasm for stories about the declining fortunes of the city where I live, is quick to point out that we haven’t [...]
On Saturday mornings when I was 11 or 12, my mother would drop me off at the Rapid Transit stop nearest our home in Pepper Pike, an outlying suburb of Cleveland. There, I would board a train for the 30-minute trip to an orthodontist’s office downtown. Despite the prospect of having my braces fiddled with, [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The board of trustees for the Flats Oxbow Association has decided to close the organization, placed its executive director on administrative leave and contacted authorities — including the FBI — because of concerns about possible financial irregularities… (go to article)
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Creating a strong downtown requires public-private partnerships and a push to connect bustling districts, a panel of experts said Wednesday. The discussion, billed as “The State of Downtown,” attracted roughly 250 corporate leaders, property owners, developers and residents to the City Club of Cleveland… (go to article)
Picturesque America was a massive two volume set, first published in 1872. It is best known for the high quality illustrations of various natural features across the United States. In a way, it was the first popular coffee table book… (go to article)
Like many farmers, Tim Smith hopes he can scratch out a living. Smith’s not building his farm on The Great Plains but on a bare asphalt parking lot of the shuttered St. George parish at East 67th Street and Superior Avenue in Cleveland. He recently hired local entrepreneurs Tunnel Vision Hoops to build him six greenhouses for hisCommunity Greenhouse Partners venture. He will train Cleveland [...]
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