The Hathaway Brown School

“The Hathaway Brown School Addition shows how to build anew in Shaker Heights, without slavishly imitating the past. The...Primary School Wing...maintains a delicate balance between tradition and innovation.”
- Steven Litt, Architecture Critic, Plain Dealer

“...The architect’s attitude towards historic context is refreshing and (without) any hint of historical mimicry or caricature...the primary school wing is very much an expression of its own time, and engages history as an on-going project rather than as a condition of sacrosanct ‘pastness.’ At the Hathaway Brown School, the architects have managed to negotiate ideological vicissitudes of historical context without compromising either the context or the integrity of the final design.”
- Stanley Matthews, Architecture Critic, Inland Architect

The Denver Arts Center, Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre

“The true measure of a performing arts center is in its performance spaces, and here the Buell shines...achieving the all-too-often elusive combination of intimacy and grandeur...the success of the new theatre lies in the architect’s willingness to accept the eclectic buildings and design...in clear opposition to its neighbors.”
- Architecture

“The architects succeeded in their aim of making a very large theatre seem more intimate than anyone had a right to expect.”
- The Denver Post

“Until the latest round of renovations, the arts complex was visually drab...the effect of van Dijk Pace Westlake Architect’s contribution is to add a spark to the once-gloomy core of the complex.”
- Cleveland Plain Dealer

Massillon Museum

“The museum depends on Massillon's residents for funding. Voters have approved and renewed a property tax levy earmarked for operating costs — proof of the institution’s value to locals and the success of the new museum building.”
- Architectural Record