“Rhodes Tower Plaza really is the main center to the whole campus,†said Marc Bittinger, AIA, principal of CBLH Design, Inc. in Cleveland. “The plaza had become overgrown with trees and vegetation. We ripped them all out and started a new design.â€
The architect, who was part of the team that was hired to redesign Rhodes Tower Plaza, explained that careful planning went into the new design. “We thought about how the students would use it - where they would walk, where they would sit and where to put green spaces to play,†he said. “We were going to make one area of the plaza a ziggurat - a Mayan term for 'step pyramid.'â€