Just a quick note to wish everyone a Happy Holiday Season.
Cleveland itself has really begun to push towards some new sensibility with its self image. Projects such as the Euclid Corridor are starting to show their strengths as other projects such as the Lakefront Development Plan, East Banks Project and the Medical Mart struggle to gain traction but are still slowly pushing forward. Investment in public spaces are starting to take some precedent such as at Cedar Hill RTA Station or Public Square but are currently being reviewed as ancillary such as with the Medical Mart project. In a very unique twist Philip Johnson's (a Cleveland native) only Cleveland based project is currently being threatened as the Cleveland Clinic gobbles up land with its ever expanding campus.
New projects reach completion, most noticeably a series of townhomes and a major art museum expansion represent Cleveland's reaction to the apparent burden of contemporary design and Cleveland's struggle to create it's own vernacular or at the very least a local flavor.
These are things I look for in the new year.
Here's to 2010!
