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I think this is excellent news.  I really hope Case doesn't snag the site and drop another institutional building on it.  I know it ain't gonna happen, but I would love to see a non-institutional mixed use building on the former Freiberger Library site too.

 

DEVELOPMENT

Art institute's board weighs luxury condos

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Steven Litt

Plain Dealer Architecture Critic

The Cleveland Institute of Art may soon build the most highly visible address for the wealthy in Cleveland since the demise of Millionaires' Row in the early 20th century.

 

The art institute's board is thinking seriously about replacing an aging, outmoded classroom building opposite the Cleveland Museum of Art with a luxury condominium tower. The building would overlook the museum and the Case Western Reserve University campus, making it one of the most desirable addresses in the region.

 

The board also wants to consolidate its campus several blocks farther east around the Joseph McCullough Center for the Visual Arts at 11610 Euclid Ave. There, the art institute would add a new, four-story classroom building and a dormitory for up to 200 students.

 

[link to remainder of article unknown]

 

This sounds fabulous.  This could be a really cute area with some condo's.  With a lil programming at the lagoon.  This could be hot!

Wow...this is exactly what UC should be talking about!  I'm getting tingly all over just thinking about it!  The site is pretty large and offers a great deal of opportunity to build a mixed-use, revenue- and activity-generating project.  I can't wait to see the proposals!

While this is a viable project, it can also be considered a bargaining chip.  Either way, CIA would win.  I would love to see an architecturally-sensitive residential building go on this site. Case doesn't really need the space, they just want it to keep their options open.

 

Don't be surprised to see other similar projects proposed for this area.  While many like to paint UCI as the agent of neighborhood destruction, that's history.  There is a concentrated focus on adding market rate housing in the Circle.  Just because you don't see it all the time in the PD doesn't mean that its not actively being pursued.

Don't be surprised to see other similar projects proposed for this area.

 

Oh, I'm counting on it!

I'm having a hard time picturing the location. Can someone post a map?

http://www.universitycircle.org/ASSETS/ASSETS_FILES/ucmap.pdf

 

 

#13 is the location.

Thanks. Neat site for the tower.

I'm having a hard time picturing the location. Can someone post a map?

  You're such a west-sider.

....Who lived for 26 years on the east side.

Yeah, yeah I was just kidding.

but what about that 1960s monstrosity? won't someone save it!?

but what about that 1960s monstrosity? won't someone save it!?

 

I heard that it will be saved and its space utilized for a museum for bad architecture.  The keynote address at the museum's opening will be given by the architect who designed that Louisville-jenga thingie.

Oh, Wimwar, always so full of sarcasm! 

 

It's pretty exciting to think of what could replace this structure, though...

^This corner is very important for the Circle.  A lot of thought would need to go into designing a residential building.  Situated between Severance, CMA and PBL, you wouldn't want to try to upstage those structures.  At the same time, you wouldn't want to be a cheap imitation of Judson Manor.  The site has a large footprint.  If it hugged the sidewalk, it would look out of place with its neighbors.  It it is set back too far, it could look too suburban.  Its a unique site that deserves a lot of thought.

I was thinking about the setback issue...I definitely don't want to adhere to it, but it may be tricky to respect Severance without serious consideration for this "front yard" aspect.  I know it can be done right...I'll have to pay another visit with this in mind and then I'll come back with a killer proposal!

^This corner is very important for the Circle. 

 

Circles don't have corners, ha!

 

Anyway, I don't think the site is close enough to Severance to worry about harmonizing their setbacks.  For what it's worth, the two adjacent buildings (PBL and the law school) have pretty modest setbacks (at least I think the law school does).  I have yet to see any building in the Circle er by having too little setback, in my opinion, so I think the risk is pretty one-sided: I think it's time to make the Circle a little less office-parky so I vote for something that comes up pretty close to the street for at least part of the footprint.

 

Wimwar, I agree that some crappy, conservative brick building (a giant Dively Center) would be wasted opportunity.

pbl, modest set-backs?

 

I disagree sir.

PBL's set back matches the other buildings' setbacks at that corner.  If it were any closer to the curb, you wouldn't be able to see much of the building.  The location is pretty poor anyways. PBL should have been at at spot where you could see the entire facade. As is, no one is able to see the entire front because its so close to the buildings across the street.  The best views are from Wade Oval and my apartment :)  Seeing it from a far is pretty cool.  The roof is neat and the sun does crazy things to it in the morning and evening. 

i remember during the design that an issue was "allowing the building to breathe"

pbl, modest set-backs?

 

I disagree sir.

 

I wasn't very clear: by "modest" setback I meant it has little or none which is what I think you all are confirming.  In fact, i think it actually has less of a setback than the other buildings at that corner (I believe MSASS's matches the frat houses to its East).  I was just trying to say that the nearby buildings wouldn't necessarily dictate any particularly significant setback for a new development on the CIA site so there is no need to give it a suburban front lawn.

 

You guys know the campus a lot better than I do; I have to rely on my crap memory and google satellite images.

 

I'm sure this has been asked and answered countless times, but is RTA still considering moving/adding to their existing UC stops?

I was just trying to say that the nearby buildings wouldn't necessarily dictate any particularly significant setback for a new development on the CIA site so there is no need to give it a suburban front lawn.

 

oh, i agree with that. The north quad is relatively back from the street (harkness, hayden, guilliford, while mather is a slight exception). However towards the ford bellflower intersection most are built out to the corner (msass, dively), then the homes (wheter institutional/frat/private, have your "modest front lawns, nothing that screams suburbia because most of those homes are probably getting around 80-90 years old.

Art institute readies for important period of creative growth

 

Sunday, March 26, 2006

 

Steven Litt

Plain Dealer Art Critic

 

The Cleveland Institute of Art is on the verge of a major transformation after seven years of planning, dreaming, belt-tightening and brainstorming.

 

Trustees of the 124-year-old art college soon may embark on twin real estate deals aimed at improving the school's competitiveness and producing big benefits for Cleveland.

 

The physical improvements are evolving in tandem with academic changes aimed at making the college a stronger player in its field nationally, more up-to- date technologically and a bigger contributor to the city's economy...

 

more at:  http://www.cleveland.com

Wow, great article!  CIA, an institution that is often lost amongst all the discussions of CSU, CWRU and other high-profile Cleveland institutions, is one of our greatest assets.  Sure, an enrollment of 550 isn't anything monumental, but the reputation of many of CIA's programs is known far beyond our borders. 

 

As with many other things in Cleveland, many outsiders know about its reputation, while locals don't.  I, for one, had no idea that CIA housed one of the first and still most prestigious industrial design programs in the nation until very recently!

 

Kudos to CIA for thinking boldly and for advancing these plans that will ensure its growth as one of the greatest amongst a neighborhood of greats!

I noticed the Institute of Art launched a redesigned website. Great move in my opinion, and long overdue.

http://www.cia.edu/

 

The website doesn't feature any details about CIA's plans, but I'm sure they will in the near future. Also, I find it interesting that it was mentioned that a lot of these developments at CIA will occur in the next five years! It sounds pretty exciting.

^I wonder if anyone was interested in going to school to be a spy would be disappointed in that website?

Anyone (Wimwar) know where exactly the new CIA buildings would be located in relation to the factory?

Late notice on this one, but it starts today:

 

May 10-12

9:30-5:00

 

Closing Reception

May 12, 5:30-9:00

 

Strong work ethic, teamwork and talent are qualities that embody

Industrial Design students at The Cleveland Institute of Art. The

current group of students embodies CIA’s long tradition of

developing outstanding designers, and the graduating class is

a group of exceptional individuals ready to step into industry

and contribute. We hope that you are able to attend the 2006

Spring Show to see the work for yourself and interview students

for internships and full-time positions.

 

RSVP: Spring Show

D o u g l a s  P a i g e

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www.cia.edu/academic/undergraduate/industrialdesign/

MVRDV?!?!?!?!?!?!  :-o WOW!!! Can you imagine what that area will be like with the new Vinoly building, in addition to a new MOCA and who else knows what?!?!  How about some Herzog et de Meuron too?!

 

Case needs to bring back its College of Architecture!  It's a shame that this city doesn't have a true architecture school!  Cincy, Columbus, Pitt, Detroit, and Chicago...They all have one(s). 

 

Anyways, I'll be back home from France in mid June! 

This one almost snuck by!  From Crain's:

 

Institute of Art cites rising tuition in shift to four-year plan

 

By SHANNON MORTLAND

 

6:00 am, August 7, 2006

 

After 40 years of going against the grain, the Cleveland Institute of Art this fall will follow the lead of its competitors and change to a four-year curriculum from a five-year curriculum.

 

The move by the 124-year-old college in University Circle is an effort to attract more students and to cut tuition costs, said David Deming, president and CEO of the Cleveland Institute of Art. With an annual tuition of $26,791, the school is expensive, but the overall cost to attend it will now be 20% less by shaving off one academic year.

 

“As costs kept escalating, it was a problem,” Mr. Deming said. “We saw fewer parents wanting to commit their kids to a five-year program.”

 

In the four decades that the Cleveland Institute of Art had a five-year program, only one other arts school had a similar curriculum, Mr. Deming said. Initially, the five-year program set the Cleveland Institute of Art apart from its competitors because the curriculum enabled students to mature more before entering the work world and to spend more time in the art studio, he said.

 

That approach worked for many years — with the institute’s highest-ever enrollment topping out at 640 students in 2002 — but enrollment has dropped in recent years, said Nancy Stuart, provost at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Last fall, enrollment was down to 548 students, including a class of 120 incoming freshmen, which was 14% lower than the incoming class of 140 the institute had projected, she said.

 

Dr. Stuart said the art institute had trouble attracting transfer students who had attended other four-year art schools, as well as foreign students who wanted to study in the United States for a year. Mr. Deming said the new four-year program “helps us open the door to students who were choosing other places.”

 

Under the five-year program, students spent the first two years taking prerequisite classes and didn’t enter the art studio until the third year. Going forward, students immediately will begin to explore the various arts in their first year, while continuing to take those foundation courses, Mr. Deming said. Students now will need 126 credit hours to graduate instead of the 150 required under the five-year curriculum.

 

“They’re getting the same things. It’s just being condensed,” Mr. Deming said.

 

However, students may stay longer and can take more master-level courses. Graduate programs, scholarship opportunities and enrollment will increase over time, but the art institute will need a new campus to support the growth, Mr. Deming said.

 

The art institute for several years has talked about moving its East Boulevard campus to its other building at 11610 Euclid Ave., Mr. Deming said.

 

“We’re committed to building a single campus by our factory building. A new building would be added next to it,” he said.

 

Mr. Deming said the institute is talking to Case Western Reserve University and developers about a plan to redevelop the Triangle property on Euclid Avenue at Mayfield Road, which is owned by Case and is next to the art institute’s Euclid Avenue factory site. He said the institute should know within three months whether it has a shot at building a new school there.

 

i did hear a thing that the reason tuition spiked up so much is that one of the Gund's moved out of town and stopped altogether or donates considerably less money to the institute now. 

Great news. No mention of what they might do with the current building on East Blvd.  I'll bet that we'll be hearing news soon about the UARD!

 

The Gund Foundation is really donating a lot of money for the Triangle. They gave MOCA $5 million and now this. Gund's president had Ronayne's job before he moved over to the Foundation. 

 

$3.5 million grant to help art institute

New University Circle campus planned

 

Friday, September 22, 2006

Steven Litt

Plain Dealer Architecture Critic

The Cleveland Institute of Art on Thursday won a $3.5 million grant from the George Gund Foundation, the first major gift in a campaign to build a unified campus in University Circle.

 

The money will allow the institute to pick an architect and pay for detailed plans to consolidate a two-part campus that has been split for 25 years.

 

"This is huge," said David Deming, president of the institute. "I've been personally dreaming about getting this going almost from my first year as president at the institute, and this is beginning of my ninth year."...

 

more at:  http://www.cleveland.com

 

 

CIA mentioned the Dutch firm MVRDV as a possible architect for the new building in a past article.  That would be freaking awesome.

Check out some of their work.

http://www.mvrdv.nl/_v2/

wow, fantastic news!

"The expansion around the McCullough Center would include a new, four-story, 80,000-square-foot classroom building, a garage and a dormitory for at least 220 students. The dormitory would most likely be built by a private developer, Deming said."

 

I wonder if this dormitory will be rolled into the scope of the University Arts and Retail District - just as student housing was a component of Columbus' project.

 

Maybe the upcoming UARD news will address it...

soo... a little bird told me that MVRDV will be coming to Cleveland to design some kinda CIA building...  Steve Litt will tell us all about it this weekend...

MVRDV, eh?  Well, it should be interesting!

^Finally more news on that?  MVRDV and Foreign Office Architects (MOCA) on the same block in Clevleand, f yeah.

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/plaindealer/steven_litt/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1171704638159150.xml&coll=2

 

 

YES!  How did I beat all of you to this and I have to check crappy Cleveland.com ?  and WHY?!?! wasn't this on the "front page" of Cleveland.com?  Anyways...

 

This is amazing!  I hopefully will be making a stop in Rem's and MVRDVS's studio when we visit the Netherlands in April for school-maybe I can use Cleveland as a tool to get a job?!  :wink: 

 

You all know what this means?  Busloads (and hopefully packed Rapids and BRT) with tourists (everyone from archie students to Japanese)! 4 years old and the MTCC still gets groups of tourists.  I hope we see some renderings soon.  Especially from FOA since they've been announced for awhile!

 

This is so sweet!  I can guarantee the entire College of Arch. at IIT will be making trips here in the future!  Great collections of art in buildings worthy of holding said works.  Cleveland deserves nothing but the best.  Now I'm not saying that these architects are to be canonized-God knows there's a lot of probs with the MTCC, BUT it's good that Cleveland isn't settling for something with a Sears-look to it!  And even though it's nice to support the hometown locals, sometimes they need a little fire under their @sses to stop making the same things over and OVER again. 

 

About Ch.19...We could win an olympic bid but their top story would be about all of the traffic or terrorist opportunities-some crazy $hit like that.

 

I'd like Herzog et de Meuron to do something here.  I don't recall a skyscraper by them but they'd make something very crisp that would look great on PS.

 

Vive la Cleveland!

This is very cool.

I am getting this feeling (as I imagine everyone else here on the forum is) of being able to tell people 5 - 10 years from now "Told you so."

 

Here's the article:

 

Dutch firm to design art institute expansion

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Steven Litt

Plain Dealer Architecture Critic

 

Aiming for an iconic new building that will grab international attention, the Cleveland Institute of Art has hired MVRDV, a highly regarded Dutch architecture firm known for edgy, humorous and provocative buildings, to design a major expansion of its campus on upper Euclid Avenue.

 

The project, which could cost $40 million and take three to four years, will be a major component of the University Arts and Retail District planned by Case Western Reserve University and local developers in University Circle.

 

"Finally we got here," said David Deming, president of the art institute, Thursday, pounding his fists joyously on the round wooden conference table in his office. "This has been my dream since the day I arrived here" nine years ago.

 

 

more at:  http://www.cleveland.com

Sounds exciting.  The museum, along with the Triangle project, in total, will finally pull the great U. Circle together as a retail and housing area bonding with the already world-class institutions.  Question:

 

I'm not quite sure where "lot 45" is and how these buildings will be situated.  Also, am I to understand they want to build a condo tower on East Blvd on top of a new CIA building at the current location?  How will that work? anyone got a map? 

^No, I think CIA is planning on moving everything to the Euclid location. The old site would just be residential.

Great news!

I can't picture any of this, are there renderings or does the univ. circle website indicate in detail what these project will look like?

I'm pretty split on MVRDV's work.  They have several works that are variations on the glass box(es) theme that are nicely detailed and that seem to respond well to the urban environment around them.  They also have a number of more sculptural works, which see to work best when placed in the middle of a large plain and are taken as individual works of art.  Hopefully they realize what this site calls for.

The architects will be in town next week at CIA to talk to faculty and students and see what the needs are.  so no there isnt any rendering or proposal yet

Lately I've been hearing from a lot of people that CIA plans to start their construction this year and then it will take about 3 years to complete.  apparently its a very interesting design, its code name is being called "the wave and the kiss" in the way its being designed.  which sounds interesting and exciting.

 

unfortunately they've opted to sell the building near CMA which is really unfortunate since they could have used that to redevelop into condos/offices, etc...

Refresh my memory, where will the CIA project be located?

Who is going to buy the building? Case? A developer?

 

It really seems that its too late for CIA to start this year. They haven't even gone through design review yet.

well "this year" as in "this school year" so i would assume in springtime.  i do feel the same way that its kind of early still and its all rumors im hearing right now.  however i have to say that the designing process has been going on for quite a while now, its been a year now since the architects have started seeking input from the community. 

 

they're expanding towards the McDonalds on the glassy/atrium side of the building at E115th and Euclid Ave.