Firm Profile

 van Dijk Pace Westlake Architects was founded in 1905 and has offices in Phoenix, Arizona and Cleveland, Ohio. With a professional staff of over 100, the firm maintains an average volume of $500,000,000 in projects in design and construction.

    Organized around the complementary abilities of four principals, van Dijk Pace Westlake Architects is recognized as a leading design firm and has been honored with more than 100 significant design awards in the last twenty-five years, including the AIA Ohio Gold Medal Firm Award and several honors from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The firm's work has been extensively featured in professional and popular publications, including Architecture, Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture and Interiors.

    The firm specializes in Healthcare, Performing and Cultural Arts, Restoration and Adaptive Reuse, Corporate Workplace and Academic work. Its services include architecture, engineering, interior design, and planning for projects throughout the United States and in India.

    van Dijk Pace Westlake Architects is highly regarded for its work in health care design for clients including the Cleveland Clinic Foundation; innovative designs include the world’s first facility for cardiac catheterization, the Center for Oncological Robotics and Computer Assisted Medicine with an experimental linear accelerator, the first dialysis facility and the world’s largest dialysis facility. Clients for corporate and interiors work include B.F. Goodrich, Parker Hannifin, Invacare, IBM, and Ernst & Young. In the banking sector, key clients include the Federal Reserve Bank, Huntington Bank, KeyCorp and Chase Financial. The firm has planned college and private school campuses and executed many award-winning academic projects.

    van Dijk Pace Westlake Architects is also nationally recognized for its work in cultural arts and restoration and adaptive reuse. The firm performed the master plan for the highly successful Playhouse Square Center in Cleveland, Ohio, the largest completed theater restoration program in the United States. At the Denver Center for Performing Arts, the firm transformed an arena into the 2800 seat Temple Hoyne Buell Theater. Blossom Music Center, the summer home of the Cleveland Orchestra, has been acclaimed the world’s finest outdoor concert pavilion. The firm has also completed cultural arts projects for the Cleveland Museum of Art and an award winning adaptive reuse to create the Akron Art Museum.