...and I think others still may.
Douglas Hoffman of Weber Murphy Fox said that he and a cadre of fellows from WMF as well as Max Bond of Davis Brody Bond are more then willing to visit the Cleveland Planning Commission and present their solution for the highly debated new County Commissioners facility in the contested Breuer Tower at their own expense. However they are having troubles getting the models and drawings of their submission released by the county.
Recently the county has refused to share the submitted materials from the competitors that resulted in Madison International and KPF being awarded the commission saying "The commissioners don't feel it's in the best interest of the project to rehash it with a firm that was not selected". Fine, how about showing the constituents what the submissions were? How about letting the PEOPLE of the County take a peek behind the curtain and evaluate for themselves how and why the selection was made?
I find it brave and amazingly wonderful that WMF and DBB is willing to step up and present their ideas, share their vision with the city they were willing to work (and live) in (and with) and would love to see all the submissions, side by side, to evaluate and judge as public buildings ought to be. One must suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune if one wants to achieve something good. We can't all be carps at the spillway fighting for a piece of soggy bread.
"We feel duty-bound by conscience to share what we know," ~Hoffman.
"Trotter said that the materials in question are county property and could be considered public records if requested by citizens or the press, but would not be released for use by an architecture firm that makes a presentation to another government body."
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