Projects

Home & Garden Show | 1979

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National Fisheries Lab | YEAR

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RTA Rail Maintenance Facility | YEAR

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St. Mary’s Catholic Church | YEAR

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Brecksville Community Center | YEAR

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North Point Tower | 1986

  • “Sight Easements” run diagonally through the plan, enhancing natural lighting, maximizing views to the lakefront and the city, and creating a 94% efficiency factory.

  • Large atrium space supported multiple functions, including dining, break-out space and a lecture space.

  • Influential site location on Cleveland’s lakefront serves as an entrance to the city from the Shoreway, and also serves as a transition between Northcoast Harbor and the business district on East 9th.

  • Panelized tile wall system permitted panels to be made and installed in winter months.

Award: 1990 Developers Award for Excellence
Award: National Commercial Builders Award of Merit
Award: AIA Urban Design Award

One To One Fitness Center | 1989

  • Joint venture between Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland

  • Project scope was to refurbish the existing gymnasium (1880), existing field house (1918), and an existing addition (1974), as well as a new addition

  • Design was to complement all existing buildings and unite the aesthetics

Award: 1995 Historic Preservation & Adaptive Use
Award: 1989 AIA Honor Award

Landerbrook Place | 1989

  • “I want this building to look more like a Boeing 727 than a brick mausoleum.” (Client Quote)

  • Form is based on a kinetic response to traveling at speed

  • Utilized standard industrial construction technology with an innovative approach to create a beautiful, economic solution

  • Utilized a corrugated metal aesthetic for an office building, long before it became possible

Award: 1989 AIA Honor Award

Central Reserve Life HQ | 1991

  • Client required a design that was flexible and responsive to ever-changing corporate needs

  • Lighting and HVAC were distributed so that perimeter offices could be reconfigured over the weekends

  • Open floor plan created the desired flexibility for centrally located work stations

  • Project was developed with a second phase 100% expansion in mind

Award: 1991 Builders Exchange Craftmanship Award
Award: 1992 Developer’s Award for Excellence

Coventry Parking Garage | 1996

  • Community opinion of the project changed animosity to admiration as he project became a vital and successful piece of the urban environment

  • Provides convenient parking to a dense urban area

  • Maintains street activity by integrating 5,000 SF of retail space into the perimeter of the ground level

  • The design also made considerations for a farmer’s market on the top level of the structure

Award: 1996 AIA Design Award

Salem Community Center | 2002

  • The “village-like” composition of multiple connected volumes stemmed from the site location in a residential neighborhood

  • Flexibility of space was a major focus to provide the maximum amount of activities to the community, both in the present and future

  • Payto Architects has since worked with the Salem Community Foundation on the three additions/expansions for the project

  • Architectural character was derived and reinterpreted from the local YMCA, which had served the community for many years

Award: 2002 Recreation Management Award

University of Akron Garage | 2004

  • Contains office facilities for Parking Services, a museum space, and open tenant space for future retail

  • Pedestrian bridge over Buchtel Avenue provides access to the dining hall and residence complexes south of the project

  • Successfully integrates a large parking structure in a manner that respects the scale and urban fabric of the campus

  • A pedestrian path was created to the north to transition between the garage and E.J. Thomas Hall

OSU Ninth Avenue Parking Garage | 2012

  • Design challenge was the create a 6 story parking garage that was sympathetic to the surrounding neighborhood

  • Perforated metal panel facade acts as a veil for the concrete structure and provides visual access into the garage, improving the security

  • Computer controlled LED lights play across the structure at night to create a dynamic display of colors

Award: 2013 AIA Ohio Honor Award

KSU Regional Academic Center | 2012

  • Provides access to Ken State University’s Executive MBA program to the Twinsburg area

  • Flexible classroom spaces with demountable partitions for expansion and contraction of class size

  • LEED Silver Certified

  • Building and site plan provided for a future expansion

  • The 5 year projections for student growth were met in just 2 years

Award: 2012 NAIOP Office Development of the Year

KSU Center for the Visual Arts | 2016

  • Provides open, collaborative spaces for interdisciplinary work between the various art programs

  • This project renovates the Art Annex (1927) and Van Deusen Hall (1950), and connects them with a new addition

  • Creates a unique identity and single location for the School of Art, which was previously distributed between 8 different locations

  • With a frontage that is 1/8 mile long, the facade is designed to be a kenetic progression, rather than a static experience