Tower No Match for Weather
Cleveland State University, Rhodes Tower
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
CSU Architect/Project Manager: Melanie Boyd, senior architect, Cleveland State University
Specifier/Consultant: Bud Griffith, Construction Resources Inc. (CRI)
Contractor: Mark McMahon


RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The University of California, Riverside (UCR) is embarking on a $32.5 million project that will expand and modernize its recreation center on campus.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The University at Buffalo recently unveiled the design for its new $375 million School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to be constructed in the downtown Buffalo medical campus.
PASADENA, Texas — Set to be equipped with facilities to support careers from cosmetology to construction, the Pasadena Independent School District recently broke ground on the 246,000-square-foot Career and Technology High School (CTE).
HARTSELLE, Ala. — With a façade of old southern charm and an interior boasting innovative educational design, students of Hartselle High School Monday moved into their new 260,000-square-foot school building.
NEW YORK — After an eight-year struggle and millions of dollars in fundraising efforts, the students of the low-income Bronx neighborhood Highbridge will have its first middle school come fall.
WEBSTER GROVES, Mo. — Webster University students are enjoying their third semester of an entirely different level of collaborative learning at the school’s 94,323-square-foot East Academic Building, which became fully occupied in March 2012.
EASTHAMPTON, Mass. — Easthampton High School’s 475 students will return from spring break this April and be greeted with a new $39.2 million academic facility.
RALEIGH, N.C. — School safety is a hot topic nationwide and states are doing their part in order to see that students continue to thrive in a secure environment. In North Carolina, Gov. Pat McCrory recently announced the creation of the N.C. Center for Safer Schools.