Breuer in the New York Times
The Breuer building was in the New York Times this morning:
New Focus on a Forlorn Cleveland Tower
Here's an excerpt:
New Focus on a Forlorn Cleveland Tower
Here's an excerpt:
County leaders and preservationists agree on the tower’s shortcomings. By modern standards, its layout and ceiling heights are cramped. Its mechanical systems, designed for a building twice its size, are outdated and overly large. Its porthole windows provide terrible insulation.Yep - that about covers it.Some government officials have grown tired of pointing all this out.
“We represent the philistine position, those people who are too stupid to realize the architectural significance of this building,” David Lambert, assistant Cuyahoga County prosecutor, said dryly at a recent meeting of the Cleveland Planning Commission. [emphasis mine]
posted by Christine Borne at 7:22 AM
3 Comments:
thanks for posting the link to the NYT article -- inspired me to make a post about the tower as well.
yours was a great post, audient.
i just wrote a letter to the editor suggesting that instead of condemning us midwestern simpletons who don't know anything about architecture, perhaps some rich CEO should relocate his company from manhattan *into* the poor, abandoned Breuer tower.
I didn't know much about Breuer's history, either... I liked how the Times likened destroying his ugly building to destroying one of Picasso's lesser works. good way of thinking about it.
that's an excellent point. no matter what significance preservationists say the tower has, the fact is, it has been empty since the late 80s. If it is such a gem, why hasn't anyone used it in all of this time?
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