April 13, 2007
  Project Watch
Centerbrook Designs New Park East Synagogue
The new Park East Synagogue, Pepper Pike, Ohio, serves as a new east campus for the large, expanding congregation of the Park Synagogue in Cleveland Heights, designed by Eric Mendelsohn in 1950. The new copper-clad building, by Centerbrook Architects and Planners, incorporates a sanctuary, school, and library. The synagogue, which occupies a protected wetlands site, welcomes its community into secure, flexible, and intimate spaces well suited to congregants’ suburban needs and priorities.

St. Louis Residential Tower Design Unveiled
Glass high-rise redefines residential options in St. Louis
Chicago-based Metro.Arch recently unveiled its design for Skyhouse, a glass-and-steel, 22-story mixed-use tower in downtown St. Louis. The building will comprise 166 units on floors 5–22, with 240 indoor parking spaces residing on floors 2–4. Metro.Arch plans to make this $67 million building LEED® certified, a first for the area. Skyhouse is significant because it will be the largest, new-construction downtown residential building. Downtown St. Louis has seen little new residential, high-rise construction due to the popularity of converting its historic, elegant buildings to loft residences. Groundbreaking is expected in March 2008.

Walking the Contemplative Path
Wooded spa retreat designed around a labyrinth
Situated along the shoreline woods of Green Lake, Wis., Evensong Spa is a place of refuge and contemplation. The 1,500-square-foot spa was designed by the Scottsdale, Ariz., firm CMD Architects for developer The Fiore Companies. The spa shares its site with the historic Heidel House Resort and was conceived around the idea of the labyrinth as a contemplative tool.

 

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