Cleveland Gets A Case of Gehry's Totally Unreserved
The forecast called for snow, the first storm of the season even though it was mid-January. Construction crews rebuilding the Pentagon had been working 20-hour days, six days a week and were making remarkable progress toward their goal: rebuilding and reoccupying the damaged portion of the Dept. of Defense headquarters on Sept. 11, 2002, the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack. A snowstorm was not going to stop them.
It's not his biggest, wildest or most unorthodox design. But architect Frank O. Gehry still forced the team for the Peter B. Lewis Building for the Weatherhead School of Management to think outside the box. In this case, the engineer also kept within the rulesruled surfaces that isto create Gehry's signature sloped and energetic elements that form the $62-million building, which is just weeks away from completion on the campus of Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University.