Very funny Tim!

Do you know someone who would head up a newly organized preservation org, cause restoration might not be enough to stop the demo.

Marc wrote it up at GCBL. That's a (very modern) wrap.

I have been researching the history of Breuer in Cleveland -- how we got to have his presence here. So far dead ends, but I'm following a hint about Severance Millikin. Anyone know anything about him?

I found the annual report of Cleveland Trust Company which gave me great images and the fact that it was to be a $30 million building. According to Mary Swindell in a 1971 article in the Cleveland Press, the building of the Cleveland Trust Tower was overshadowed by the CMA addition -- built at the same time. Breuer was busy in Cleveland then. He is quoted in the same article as saying, "Cleveland leaves a substantial impression. It's easy to see that this is a hard working town. The buildings are heavy, impressive. You do have some interesting landmarks here. One of the best, I believe is the old Cleveland Trust bank building that we're building on to. We preserved it beacuse it's neoclassical design would be impossible to duplicate today."

I thought that it was interesting to find mention of Breuer in an article in the New Yorker reviewing Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, Zaha Hadid's Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Photo: Hélène Binet

"Hadid has managed to give the building a hint of formal, institutional grandeur without making it feel formal or institutional. It is reminiscent of the work of Rudolph; of Marcel Breuer, who designed the Whitney; and of Edward Larrabee Barnes’s Walker Art Center in Minneapolis." -- Paul Goldberger read more

Not surprising that Cincinnati is more modern than Cleveland. They push the envelope with dance, too. More by Hadid. The commissioner's didn't go far with their search for new work.

MOCA and CIA went farther and promise some interesting designs to add to our built environment. Foreign Office Architects for MOCA and MVRDV for CIA. Interesting that Cleveland Trust was sold to Ameritrust who razed the building's at the northwest corner of Public Square to build their office tower which was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox -- the commissioner's architectural team of choice with RP Madison of Cleveland. But it never happened (society bought Ameritrust, Key bought Society) and instead we have surface parking telling a tale of missed opportunity. The never ending tale of Cleveland’s built environment. One miss after another.  Building's razed that we miss and buildings planned  that never materialized.