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The Bertram and Judith Kohl Building 2010 Jonathan Kurtz of Westlake Reed Leskosky Cleveland Architecture Coloring Book The Bertram and Judith Kohl Jazz Studies Building is a dynamic interplay of planes, concealing and exposing use at key moments. The rhythm of the skin sets the building apart from the conservatory’s three neo-Gothic structures by Minoru Yamasaki (a,b,c), [...]
In leafy Oberlin, ohio, the central Tappan Square is dominated by the town’s namesake college—an example of a town-gown relationship that can’t be ignored. The well-regarded liberal arts school provides lots of architectural interest, with notable buildings by architects ranging in era from Cass Gilbert to William McDonough. “Oberlin is branded by innovation,” says Paul [...]
OBERLIN, Ohio — It’s been clear for a decade or more that neighborhoods around colleges and universities offer some of the hottest development opportunities in American cities. But it took three freshly minted graduates of Oberlin College starting in 2002 to see the potential in a vacant former Buick dealership on the tattered eastern flank [...]
David Stull is not one you’d expect to wax poetic, but wax poetic he does about the Bertram and Judith Kohl Building. As dean of the Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College, Stull was instrumental in bringing the new $24-million home for jazz, music history and theory to life. Stull is standing on the rooftop [...]
For its August issue, Vanity Fair surveyed 90 leading architects, critics, and deans to identify the “greatest buildings of the last 30 years.” Based on 52 replies, the clear winner was Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum, in Bilbao, with 28 votes—nearly three times as many as the runner-up, Renzo Piano’s Menil Collection. As I wrote in my blog on [...]
When three recent Oberlin College grads wanted, like so many grads, to find a reason to hang around their campus a bit longer, they came up with the idea of becoming developers. They saw the need for a complex of high quality housing for all income levels in a way that would foster new jobs [...]
Great buildings don’t just happen. You need a brilliant design team; a great client, with high aspirations and sufficient cash; and a site with high potential, even if it looks highly unpromising at first. Oberlin College found all three in its new Bertram and Judith Kohl Building, the new home for the college’s programs in jazz, [...]
Ten years ago, writes Andrew Michler in Inhabitat, three college students – Naomi Sabel, Josh Rosen and Ben Ezinga – devised a plan to reclaim a stagnant brownfield in Oberlin, Ohio for mixed-use revitalization. Today the project, which is participating in the LEED for Neighborhood Development pilot program, is nearing readiness for occupancy. The three partners formed Sustainable Community [...]
OBERLIN — The new East College Street Development in downtown Oberlin is set to open its first two buildings this weekend, while Sustainable Community Associates has started construction on a two-story office building as part of the project. The first two buildings will house condos, restaurants and retail space. The third building will have office [...]
Regular readers may be familiar with the East College Street Project, a sustainable urban village in Oberlin, Ohio proposed in 2002 by three graduate students, now known asSustainable Community Associates. Check out previous entries about the project from 2009,2006, 2005 and 2004. It’s such a great story, that we’re continuing to tell it. Here’s what’s been happening since the past [...]
OBERLIN — It’s going to be a star-studded weekend at Oberlin College when the Bertram and Judith Kohl Building has its grand opening. Stevie Wonder, Bill Cosby and his wife, Camille, actor and Oberlin alum Avery Brooks (“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” “Spenser for Hire”) and author/musician and Oberlin alum James McBride (“The Color of [...]
OBERLIN, Ohio – A special grand opening celebration is taking place at Oberlin College in Lorain County on Friday and Saturday. On Friday night, performers Stevie Wonder and Bill Cosby joined Oberlin Conservatory alumni, faculty and students in the grand opening celebration for the $24 million Kohl Building at Oberlin College. The Bertram and Judith [...]
I don’t want to write too much about the Kohl building. I can’t do it. The upgrade from Hales to Kohl is sort of like if someone gave you a Porsche to replace your old car, which was just some dude who followed you around punching you in the face until you arrived at your [...]
OBERLIN, Ohio — William Darity gathered his two guitars and a small amplifier Saturday afternoon at the entrance of Hales Memorial at Oberlin College and headed for a rehearsal for an evening concert at Finney Chapel. Darity, a junior from Durham, N.C., has spent untold hours at Hales the last three years preparing for a [...]
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