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April 9, 2013

Market Square at Crocker Park Approved

Market Square, the next exciting phase of Crocker Park, has been approved by the City of Westlake. This civic space provides various types of events throughout the year, and ultimately is a place where culture and life can be shared amongst the community. WKYC Cleveland visited our offices Friday to sit down with architect and planner David Craun to learn more about the developments of this project. Construction should begin in 2014.

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Crocker Park Market Square Street

Crocker Park Market Square Ice Rink

For more information check out:

> WKYC Cleveland

> Westlake Patch

> The Cleveland Plain Dealer

> The Morning Journal

> Fox 8 Cleveland

Published by Andrew Vichosky in Announcements, Community

Tags: Civic, Crocker Park, Green Space, Market, Market Square, Residential, Westlake

March 25, 2013

Bialosky + Partners Wins a Title at Cleveland Canstruction!

The Bialosky + Partners Architects CANstruction team would like to thank our sponsors for their generous donations. Thanks to their help we were able to raise over $4,500 and purchase over 5,500 cans of food to donate to the Cleveland Foodbank during their Harvest for Hunger Campaign!

Freshly loaded off of the truck, Bialosky's can-count was the highest among the teams with 5,500+ cans of food for Harvest for Hunger.

With this year’s theme of “Cleveland Rocks”, our team created a can replica of the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) – the newest architectural “gem” in Cleveland. Architecture and monuments circling around culture become precious rocks in our region- buildings such as MOCA renew and unite Cleveland. It’s these attitudes that are the “meat and potatoes” in fighting hunger. Luckily, this 5,500+ can structure has not only meat chili, and white potatoes, but also a variety of vegetables, organic black beans, tuna, pork & beans, and beef stew.

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The BPA team was awarded the term “Can-Spirit” by the judges for the most enthusiasm and most cans donated by a single team.

The Museum of Contemporary Art created by the 5,500 cans Bialosky raised. You can view all the designs at the Beachwood Place Mall through April 6th.

Bialosky + Partners Architects Cleveland Canstruction Design

Published by Jill Christoff in Announcements, Community, Competitions / Awards

Tags: Art & Design, BPA Success, Cleveland, Exhibit

March 12, 2013

Bike Cleveland Planning Charrette

This past weekend, Bialosky + Partners hosted key members from cycling advocacy organization, Bike Cleveland, for a charrette to kick off the design process for a conceptual proposal of a separated cycle track network in the city of Cleveland. Bialosky + Partners is providing pro-bono planing and design services for the initial conceptual design of the project.

What is a separated cycle track? Let's let The Bicycle Network tell us:

Separated bike lanes provide a physical separation of bike riders from motor vehicles on a road. The physical separation makes the bike lane more comfortable for a wider range of people who want to ride their bikes than a painted bike lane.

In the case of Cleveland, our team is working on a proposal to reclaim right of ways in streets around the city of Cleveland that were home to street cars decades ago, before they were removed during America's post WW-II shift to a car orientated society. Many streets in Cleveland are not as wide as they are because there was a traffic demand that necessitated that width, even when the city population was 900,000 in the 1950s. Instead it was because the cheapest and easiest solution was to pave over the lines and add more car lanes when streetcar lines were removed. The current traffic counts the Bike Cleveland team have are only a small percentage of the potential capacity for many of these former streetcar streets. Many streets in Cleveland are ripe for a road diet. The Cleveland Separated Cycle Track Network seeks to reclaim these right of ways, previously used by street cars, and return these streets to their historic use of providing multi-modal transportation options to the public.

See some photos from Saturday's design charrette and stay tuned for farther updates on this exciting project!