"COLDSCAPES: New Visions for Cold Weather Cities" is a multi-disciplinary design competition that encourages artists, architects, landscape architects, and urban designers to explore the exciting and untapped potential of cold climate cities. The competition is organized by Kent State University's Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC). Over 80 registrants participated in the 2013 COLDSCAPES Competition in its inaugural year, with submissions received from 15 U.S. cities and 13 countries spanning a wide range of cold (and warm) weather climates.
Bialosky + Partners Architects' submission for the 2013 Coldscapes Competition, titled GLOW, proposes iconic inhabitable relics to be built on Lake Erie.
PROJECT NARRATIVE GLOW ignites new poetic relationships between lake, city, and the rhythm of the seasons. A seasonal relic, GLOW engages the Lake Erie break wall, mediating the domestic (city side) and wild (north of the break-wall) sides of the lake, creating an infrastructure for cultures to develop that leverage the latency of water as public space – in both solid and liquid states. GLOW activates this linear infrastructure creating new experiences of the lake all year. Ramps bring users to an elevated deck that allows one to view and be viewed. The structures skin is inspired by the break-wall’s texture that becomes coated each winter by the crashing waves of Lake Erie. Inhabitable house-like (GLOW)bes hover still higher, creating an otherworldly, ethereal experience. The break-wall is a segmented lily-pad network by summer. In winter, when the lake freezes, the system becomes whole. This encourages engagement with the lake through skiing, snowshoeing, sledding, hiking, etc., to transverse the path and create their own way to engage with GLOW. An open canvas, GLOW is activated by each season uniquely, encouraging new cultures and economies in a non-prescriptive manner, providing the elements to awaken latent uses of one of our most important resources– water.
Inside a SNOW(GLOW)BE on Lake Erie.
Bialosky + Partners Architects' submission GLOW, which proposed building captivating structures on Lake Erie, received one of ten Honorable Mentions. The three winning entries and ten honorable mentions were selected by a jury comprised of leaders in a range of design fields, including architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and public art. These entries will be on exhibit in Cleveland in November 2013, and published in Volume 6 of the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative’s Urban Infill journal series, focused on advancing the design of urban environments for winter weather. Leaders of the GLOW submission included David Craun, Hallie DelVillan, Theodore Ferringer, and Michael Abrahamson (University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture; pre-PhD program, History/Theory of Architecture), and would not be possible without the hard work of Nathanael Dunn, Dave Berlekamp, Nick Dilisio, Andrew Vichosky, and Zach Anderson (Kent State University CAED).
The engagement of GLOW with the lake's break-wall to create an iconic network that connects City and Lake.
Scott Maslar Hometown: Concord, OH Education: BS Architecture 2013, Kent State University CAED Your Alternate Reality Career: Playing bass in a touring band that would play anything from James Taylor, Primus, Metallica, and Bela Fleck etc…. What Do You Do From 5:30pm – 8:30am? When I am not at work I like to go for a run or a bike ride, play bass, or find a pond or lake to go fishing. However Netflix tends to get me side tracked from time to time. Your Ideal Dinner With One Architect or Designer (Bonus: Non-Architect/Designer)? As cliché as it is, I would like to sit down to a steak and baked potato diner with Frank Lloyd Wright. Although one of my favorite works that he has done is the Robie House, the only architectural question I would ask would be, what single project do feel was your worst work or that you dis-liked the most, and why? 
Christy Scaglione Hometown: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Education: BA Interior Design 2012, Kent State University. Pursuing: BS Architecture 2014 and Masters of Architecture. Your Alternate Reality Career: Maybe a chef! I love cooking whenever I have free time. I especially loved cooking when I lived in Florence, Italy where all of the fresh ingredients were at your disposal right down the street at the market! My roommates and I had to get especially creative with our lack of an oven in our apartment! What Do You Do From 5:30pm – 8:30am? In the summer I love to relax in the pool, and in the winter I like to snowboard, unfortunately this summer I think most of my time between work will be spent studying for my summer class, the upcoming GRE, and preparations for grad school! Your Ideal Dinner With One Architect or Designer (Bonus: Non-Architect/Designer)? If I could have dinner with one architect/designer it would be Florence Knoll. She is an extremely successful and has studied under great people such as Mies van der Rohe and Eliel Saarinen. Having been to Knoll in New York and hearing the people closest to her talk about what a wonderful person and how talented she is I would love to sit down and have a conversation with her. I would want to hear about all of her time working and studying under such influential people and where she draws her experiences from. The non-architect/designer that I would want to invite to dinner would be Anthony Bourdain. He has been to many of the places that I want to travel to in the future and I would want him to share the best places to eat, stay, and see! The meal would be pasta and wine, which is one of my favorites, and maybe some gelato for dessert! 
Jeff Jasinski Hometown: Wickliffe, OH [East Side] Education: BS Architecture 2013, Kent State University CAED. Pursuing: Master of Urban Design Dual Degree 2015, Kent State University CUDC. Your Alternate Reality Career: Creator of Microsoft or a professional golfer. Whichever comes first. What Do You Do From 5:30pm – 8:30am? Spend time with my girlfriend. I also play guitar and try to go golfing as much as possible. Your Ideal Dinner With One Architect or Designer (Bonus: Non-Architect/Designer)? Architect: Michelangelo. I'd want to know how something such as the Florence Cathedral was even conceivable in that time. The meal would be Chinese food. Non-Architect: Paul Rudd. The conversation would be improvised so there's no way of knowing what the topic would be. The meal would most likely be hamburgers.
With a Masters in Urban Design from Kent State University fresh in hand, David joined our office in 2003 as one of our most well-rounded designers. It’s a common myth that architects cannot successfully balance theory and practice, but David has shattered that falsehood quite early in his career. He keeps a solid foot in each of these two worlds – theory through teaching at Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design, and practice through his work at Bialosky + Partners. Projects that stand out in his young career are Crocker Park, Lorain County Community College’s Ben and Jane Norton Culinary Arts Center, INTESA at University Circle, and Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design (CAED) Competition with Architecture Research Office. When not at the office or teaching architectural design, David volunteers design services for good causes, not just in his community, but also in faraway lands.
Tracy joined the Bialosky team in 2001, as an alumnus of the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. We knew from the get-go that Tracy wasn’t just a 9am-5pm Interior Designer, but immersed herself in the industry, and at a very early age. She has been an active member of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) since her college days, and is NCIDQ Certified (National Council for Interior Design Qualification). Even though Interior Design is not regulated in Ohio, Tracy strongly believes all designers should strive to be NCIDQ Certified. Tracy’s other key to success: absorbing books on leadership and business. This kind of knowledge / training is often the missing piece of the puzzle in Architecture and Design education- so step up and find titles about how the business works, and how to inspire others. It didn’t surprise me when Tracy mentioned she’s a life-long volunteer for many organizations, including the American Cancer Society – she clearly prides herself in giving back, lifelong learning, customer service and integrity. By now, you must be thinking Tracy’s schedule is packed, but she spends every chance she gets with family and friends, “because there is nothing better than being surrounded by people you love”.
We welcomed Cliff to Bialosky + Partners in 1997, where he entered the office with talents in both architecture and technology. He studied at the University of Akron, and is a Registered Architect in New York, Maryland, and Arizona. But Cliff knows that architecture should not just have the Registered Architect stamp on it, and that it should be built with a responsibility to our planet and its resources. He proudly supports green building strategies, and is a LEED AP BD + C professional within the U.S. Green Building Council. He also joins more than 3,000 affiliated architects, engineers, contractors and others nationwide with a passion for the science and good practice behind building enclosures in the Building Enclosure Council (BEC Cleveland Chapter). Cliff is also a well-known techie in our office (many of us have his number memorized for when we have technical difficulties) and is an active member of the Northeast Ohio Revit User Group (NEOREG).