Architecture/Design of Cleveland (Akron, Canton: fit in, 2015, houses)

[theurbanfiles]

What do you think are the top examples that this illustrious city has to offer? Here are some that I'd consider for a Top 10. We can expand this out really to anywhere in the region within an hour or so, so Akron, Canton, Lake and Ashtabula and Lorain and Medina counties, etc.

I will get started (in no exact order):
1. Key Tower
2. Terminal Tower
3. Group Plan (in general, the combination of incredible buildings and public space there
4. City of Shaker Heights (I've seen it listed as outstanding garden style suburbs in America along with Coral Gables and Beverly Hills)
5. Cleveland Museum of Art
6. Severance Hall
7. Hope Memorial Bridge + Guardians of Traffic
8. The Arcade
9. Playhouse Square Complex
10. Lakeview Cemetery (landscape and building architecture there)

What are some of your other favorites? Can include individual residences, modern structures, historic districts/planned areas, historic structures, engineering projects, landscaped parks, etc.

[WRnative]

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum; Peter B. Lewis Building at Case Western; Crile Building at Cleveland Clinic; West Side Market; ASM Geodesic Dome; Heinen's at the Cleveland Trust Rotunda; Fifth Street Arcades; Blossom Music Center; and Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM_He..._Geodesic_Dome

https://www.asminternational.org/about/materials-park

PlayhouseSquare theaters, especially the repurposed Allen and Hanna Theatres.

[andrew61]

West Side Market
Franklin Castle

[216facts]

For urban park design, I would say the cultural gardens and the museums around Wade Oval in University Circle.
For skyscraper architecture, I would put the Terminal Tower as #1.
For residential, I would offer Stan Hywet in Akron (not sure if this meets your criteria for "Cleveland")
For best re-use/restoration: Playhouse Square
For best suburban plan: Shaker Heights then Lakewood
For best transient oriented design: the greyhound bus terminal. (that's my usual lame attempt at humor)

[usaf_1832]

1) Maltz Performing Arts Center of Case Western Reserve in University Circle:

Case Western Reserve University, Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center - Theatre Projects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltz_...ng_Arts_Center

2) 925 Euclid Ave

https://nikonites.com/architecture/3...#axzz5bVKT2KcC

3) MOCA Cleveland

https://www.archdaily.com/69301/moca...medium=gallery

4) Heinen's Downtown

http://ruhlman.com/2015/02/opening-of-heinens/

[theurbanfiles]

Some great thoughts by all, thanks guys! It is interesting to look at the diversity of the area, so Stan Hywet Hall would certainly fit in. I think there should be more of a strength through partnership thing there. So many places really have an active connection with the 2nd city in their region. If Dallas can be Dallas/Fort Worth and it almost sort of rolls off the tongue without thinking about it, why can't Cleveland-Akron be the same way? I'm not as familiar with structures in Akron, so any that would belong or compete with some of the more impressive structures in Cleveland, definitely share them too.

[D231]

The massive old synagogues from the 1800's-1900's throughout Midtown and Glenville are really interesting. They have a unique antique look that you won't find anywhere else. Many of them are still standing, and can be seen with a drive through Midtown. They're almost all now being used as black churches, but almost all still have the Jewish markings on the buildings.

Cleveland 's Old Still-Standing Synagogues

[usaf_1832]

Originally Posted by D231

The massive old synagogues from the 1800's-1900's throughout Midtown and Glenville are really interesting. They have a unique antique look that you won't find anywhere else. Many of them are still standing, and can be seen with a drive through Midtown. They're almost all now being used as black churches, but almost all still have the Jewish markings on the buildings.

Cleveland 's Old Still-Standing Synagogues

Very cool.


One of those was actually my #1!


1) Maltz Performing Arts Center of Case Western Reserve in University Circle:

Case Western Reserve University, Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center - Theatre Projects

[theurbanfiles]

The Maltz PAC was ranked as one of the 8 "Religious Wonders of America". Don't remember the source, though.