sizzlinbeef

It's a recurring cleveland design element. The Edge, the Federal Building facade, the cornice on the base of the Hilton....

Appears to be in this photo from the historic photos thread:

^Has never parked at the Halle garage.

Bets on people asking where the pharmacy counter is when they get inside?

Just built there, not that they patrolled the great lakes.

Going for the Kowloon look I guess.

The upside of a foundation built on battery acid? Probably don't have to worry about termites or carpenter ants.

Beachwood has some of this on Timberlane.

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Found one on the Cleveland Memory Project:

They state that they are failing because of University Square, but it reads more like they want to capitalize off of University Square's current state; use it as leverage. Overall just a very whiny sounding argument. Why now? The worst argument was, 'University Square sucks, so we deserve digital signage'.

I went through my stash and found a couple sweeping shots of downtown with this building in it, but it doesn't show any detail.

Was going to post this in the Euclid Grand thread, since someone asked about facade coverups and if there were any remaining downtown, but that would have drifted off topic. Does anyone know if there is anything historic behind the facade of 1404 E 9th, the Cathedral Square Plaza building with CVS on the ground floor? Property records indicate it was constructed in 1920.

It will also be good to see this bank of windows filled in properly, much like 668 before it.

My god....it's full of density.....

I count 3 different configurations presented.

Definitely some serious issues with the facade. I had jury duty earlier this year. On the last day of service a downpour happened to blow in from over the lake. Water was cascading down through the windows, on the interior. It was an incredible amount of water, just flowing seemingly floor to floor, flowing through the under-window hvac equipment, over electric wires, etc. Must have been a common occurrence as no one on the floor seemed alarmed. Great views from the upper floors though.

That and the Stark HQ in the WHD.

What the heck? Am I missing something here? What happened to the elevated rail? Or is second photo predating the first?

Ernst and Young tower at FEB?

That's one of the least exciting, least creative things I've seen in a while. At least the Osborne's are nailing it on one end of the spectrum.

And yet Medical Mutual chose not to build a new tower in a place like downtown that's not car dependent. So these quotes mean that talk is cheap, certainly cheaper than a new office building. BTW, I just realized. The first quote suggests MM is moving people from its other offices around Ohio to Cleveland. MM has offices in Cincinnati, Columbus, Toledo, Strongsville (soon to be Brooklyn), and its downtown Cleveland HQ. MM's lease of its Toledo building expires in 2020. Can anyone shed some insight? Those quotes don't reflect any sort of corporate direction. I assume she's talking about young web/app developers that they have been hiring downtown lately. There is a reshuffling that's going to take place to redistribute the workforces in Copley, Hinkley Pkwy, Beachwood, and Strongsville between Rose and Brooklyn by 2020.

I'm fine with advances in technology that are designed to make our lives more convenient/easier. However there is a whole other category of technological advancements that are designed primarily or exclusively to drive up profits. Self-checkout lanes, for example; disguised as the former, but clearly falls in the latter category once you've tried using them. 'Cloud' services, 'x as a service (AAS)' probably as well.

Amazingly this is shown in the original renderings, but is so subtle I never noticed. In real life the effect is much more jarring. But the design choices were noted in the original Cleveland.com blog article on the renderings being released. There's a link on page 1. "The results could be strange and disorienting, especially where Young designed his glass facade to peel away from the top of the Celebrezze tower, or to extend like a skirt below the lower edge of the tower block, above the arcades at the base of the building."

Right, isn't Marie the daughter of the guy that had the Hippodrome torn down?