Severance Hall Renovation and Restoration

Client: Musical Arts Association

Architect: GSI Architects

Value: $35 million

Location: Cleveland, Ohio

Highlights Include:

• Construction of a 39,000-SF addition at the rear of the hall.
• Complete renovation of the spaces on the ground floor.
• Restoration of existing historic and architecturally important spaces amid 79,000 SF of space spread over four stories.
• The design respected the integrity of the existing building and the intent of its original architect, Walker and Weeks.
• Restoration and relocation of the hall’s original E.M. Skinner Norton Memorial Organ designed to complement the auditorium’s original architecture, while retaining the hall’s unique and important acoustical properties.
• Extended the original design of the dramatic stone addition of the neoclassical building.

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