Rising star architect Jonathan Kurtz leaves Westlake Reed Leskosky to start own firm (photos)

By Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer

on October 31, 2016 at 11:54 AM, updated October 31, 2016 at 12:24 PM

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Jonathan Kurtz, one of the most gifted young architects to emerge in Cleveland in recent decades, has left the venerable, 111-year-old firm of Westlake Reed Leskosky to start his own practice from scratch.

 

His move, unusual in a city dominated by legacy architecture firms with long histories, coincides with Westlake Reed Leskosky's merger with Minneapolis-based DLR Group, announced last month.

 

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http://www.cleveland.com/architecture/index.ssf/2016/10/rising_star_architect_jonathan.html

Interesting architectural comparison of ballparks....

 

A tale of two ballparks: Wrigley vs. Progressive

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161025/NEWS07/161029924/a-tale-of-two-ballparks-wrigley-vs-progressive

Mystery solved - I've said for years the Tiffany rumor was just that. http://www.cleveland.com/architecture/index.ssf/2016/11/mystery_solved_researcher_find.html#incart_river_mobile_home

Peter Van Dijk, Architect Of Blossom Music Center, Dies At 90

 

https://wcpn.ideastream.org/news/peter-van-dijk-architect-of-blossom-music-center-dies-at-90

 

 

The UBS Building in Rocky River never gets the love it deserves.  I think it's both good looking and wonderfully ingenious for using space both above and below the old bridge's roadway.

 

When was it built?  I assume that was the old Detroit Rd. bridge. 

Edited December 10, 20204 yr by skiwest

I never knew that was the old bridge. That's pretty cool

Yes, it was built in 1910 and had the longest concrete arch span in the USA if not the world. It was demolished (mostly) after the new bridge opened in 1980. I did an ilustrated article in Sun News about bridges over the Rocky River roughly 20 years ago.

 

It also carried two tracks of the Lake Shore Electric railway which operated on its own right of way west of here at 80 mph to Lorain with less frequent service to Sandusky and Toledo, and through freight service to Detroit. East of this bridge, it operated over the Cleveland Railway Co. streetcar tracks on Sloan, West Clifton, Clifton, Lake, Detroit and Superior into downtown Cleveland.

23 hours ago, KJP said:

It also carried two tracks of the Lake Shore Electric railway which operated on its own right of way west of here at 80 mph to Lorain with less frequent service to Sandusky and Toledo, and through freight service to Detroit.

There is still one remnant in Rocky River of that interurban line.  It used to run between the divided lanes of two-block long Beaconsfield Boulevard.

When was UBS built on the remaining portion of the bridge?

2 hours ago, Dougal said:

There is still one remnant in Rocky River of that interurban line.  It used to run between the divided lanes of two-block long Beaconsfield Boulevard.

 

So is the underpass below the Norfolk Southern railroad, now used by Smith Court.

 

1 hour ago, skiwest said:

When was UBS built on the remaining portion of the bridge?

 

1989

https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/231

 

 

1 hour ago, KJP said:

 

So is the underpass below the Norfolk Southern railroad, now used by Smith Court.

Live and learn. I had a friend who lived on Smith Court. I always though it dead-ended at the tracks.

it was a looker.