BSHM Architects, Inc.

Taft Technology Center

Taft Technology Center is a Design/Build project located in downtown Youngstown, Ohio procured through a competitive design process. Home to Turning Technologies, the facility is owned by the Youngstown Business Incubator, whose credentials include being ranked 11th in the world for these types of business start-up generators. The building’s winning open plan embraces the Incubator’s concept of collaborative entrepreneurial partnerships.

Eleanor Beecher Flad Pavilion/Ford Family Recital Hall

The heart of this major addition to the DeYor Performing Arts Centre is a 600-seat pure acoustic Recital Hall. The venue is also home to “Overture,” a full service restaurant for patrons and the public. The opaque zinc clad hall is a counterpoint to the transparent public spaces and adjoining restaurant which illuminate and enliven the bosque and streets bordering the facility.

South Range K-12 School

The new LEED Certified South Range School serves 1,350 students in grades K-12. The two-story brick building creates a campus feel using a familiar vernacular style reminiscent of the community’s older public buildings.

Butler Institute of American Art and the Beecher Center for Technology in the Arts

The Beecher Center for Technology in the Arts was funded through a partnership between The Butler Institute of American Art and Youngstown State University. A part of Wick Avenue corridor, the project provides facilities for artists and students to research, teach, produce and exhibit art using an electronic or technology based medium.

Featured Project

Cleveland-Heights University Heights Project

The Cleveland Heights-University Heights School Community and the Design Team participated in an integrated and highly public engagement process to develop a program to re-invent their existing high school. After removing numerous non-functional additions to a historic 1926 Beaux-Arts high school, this $72,000,000 project renovates 130,000 square feet of the building’s historic academic core, along with building’s 235,000 square feet of new construction. The sloping urban site dictated a compact …