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The firm approaches design as an open, iterative process with the client integrally involved during all phases of the work. Our firm listens to each client’s needs and applies fresh thinking to each project, in each case attempting to respond to the special character of the particular client, as well as the site, the context and the budget. The LDA Team has built a reputation on personal service and attention to detail for our clients’ projects. The vast majority of our work is for repeat clients, proving their satisfaction. LDA has completed a variety of successful projects for the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA), Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and numerous other not-for-profit, municipal and private organizations. The strategic hiring of the most talented young architects has allowed our staff to grow, while always maintaining the highest standards of technical skill and professionalism. With offices at the Historic Agora Theater in Cleveland, Ohio, LDA designs beautiful environments that balance function, aesthetics and cost.

LDA architects, a full service architectural firm founded in 1995, is proud of its solid reputation with numerous clients for superior service, quality design and technical skill. LDA has completed numerous municipal, commercial, institutional and residential projects as well as planning and urban design studies. Of the hundreds of projects completed, the work of the firm remains a diverse mix of affordable and market rate multifamily residential developments, adaptive reuse renovation and historic preservation, new commercial office, university and municipal projects.

We believe that people respond positively to well-designed and beautiful environments; therefore, we are not interested in design trends or fashion rather we strive to produce design that will be timely but timeless as well. We see our work as a balancing act – we strive to enhance the functional with the aesthetic and to manage value while creating beauty.

Dominick Durante offers over 30 years of professional experience in architectural design and construction. He is the owner, design and managing principal at LDA Architects. He directs business development, the daily operations of all ongoing projects and is responsible for maintaining our high standards of design and technical quality. Dominick is deeply familiar with building design standards, codes, rules and regulations in the industry. He has significant experience in both public and private sector projects. Dominick also serves as the City Architect for Chardon, Ohio. Dominick’s experience is the cornerstone for the firm’s succes and he a key asset to every project.

Overview of the Firm

Dominick Durante, Jr. AIA NCARBFounder/President

Sustainable Design

Awards and Affiliations

LDA architects is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council and employs LEED Accredited Professionals. LDA has completed several multi-family housing projects to meet the Enterprise Green Communities guidelines. Projects that have incorporated green and sustainable concepts include:

Beachwood Community Center L’Oreal USA Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority Bohn Tower (Green Communities) Euclid Belmore Senior Apartments (Green Communities) Woodhill Community Center Scattered Site Infill Homes (designed for LEED Silver) Lorain Metropolitan Housing Authority Redevelopment of Wilkes Villa The Westin (LEED Silver) McKinley Grove Apartments (Green Communities) Wayne and Holmes Independent Living (Green Communities) Emerald Alliance VI - Buckeye Commons (Green Communities) Regency Square Apartments (Green Communities) Helen S. Brown Senior Apartment Tower (Green Communities) Greater Abyssina Senior Apartment Tower (Green Communities) Glen Cove Apartments (Green Communities)

LDA architects is an agency member of National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) and has completed the following projects with the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority which have received National Awards of Merit in Housing & Community Development. Mildred L. Brewer Place (Euclid Belmore) Historic Restoration of the Woodhill Community Center Historic Stokes Community Center Rehabilitation Revitalization of Riverside Community Center Riverside Park Homes Lonnie Burton Learning Garden Congressman Louis Stokes Museum Sara J. Harper Library Phoenix Village

Cleveland Restoration Society Preservation Awards Domestic Violence Center McBride House

Northeast Ohio Apartment Association Property of the Year Stonebrooke Village Luxury Apartments

Winner of the Quincy Avenue Housing Design Competition

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Design

Planning

Construction

We use a variety of presentation techniques

throughout our projects to describe our work

each appropriately suited for the phase and task.

Autodesk Revit 3-D modeling allows for accurate

representations of form and materials. LDA will

work in an open iterative process with the client

and its partners involved each step of the way.

LDA architects consistently assembles highly

qualified teams of consultants that compliment the

project goals and offer a full service collaborative

design solution.

The importance of a diligent needs analysis

and programming phase on projects cannot be

underestimated. In this initial “discovery” phase,

LDA will serve both as a catalyst and the leader of

a team effort in the hopes of achieving maximum

participation from a wide array of sources. This

process of participation will insure that consensus

is achieved among the members of the design

team, the client, and the stakeholders. Our

primary goal is to capture a “shared vision” of our

projects early in the process.

LDA has completed over 1,000 on-site construction

meetings and field inspections. We regularly review

construction progress to ensure that the design

intent and project goals are executed successfully.

We have worked in a variety of construction

delivery methods including competitive bidding

and design/build projects.

ServicesArchitecture

Preservation

Interiors

Estimating

We consider it imperative to document the past through our buildings and vital to rescue and preserve the historic fabric of our cities and towns. It is our passion to transform distinguished, but tired, buildings of the past into vibrant new structures with efficient contemporary uses. In our judgment, it is smart to protect the historic buildings in our communities – not only because they are beautiful aesthetically, but they also still possess utility and serve to give our communities a sense of themselves and their place in history.

In all of our projects we take great care in creating

interior environments that reflect the client’s goals

and mission. We have completed interiors for

new buildings and existing buildings. We often

create interior architecture or preserve existing

elements that can be exposed and give character

to the space.

LDA maintains current RS Means online cost

estimating software to ensure that the most up-

to-date and accurate data can be utilized. This

software, in combination with our Building

Information Modeling software, allows us to

provide precise estimates to make certain that

each project is within the client’s budget.

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Affordable Housing

Market-Rate Housing

Supportive Housing

When working with our affordable housing

clients our mutual goal is to create more livable

and dynamic environments to promote the

advancement of the residents within the local

community. We have ongoing relationships with

several public housing authorities, who focus on

changing lives for the better and we are proud to

be part of that process.

We endeavor to create better and stronger

communities and we know that high quality

housing is a key component in doing so. Through

our multifamily housing work, focused primarily

in urban and first tier suburban neighborhoods,

we are creating green, healthy, delightful places

for people to live. Higher density multifamily

housing projects afford us the opportunity to

position buildings sensitively together to create

great streets and public spaces – enlivening

the public realm. Our single family work varies

immensely and encompasses an array of styles to

suit each individual client.

Our supportive housing projects help to deliver safe

and affordable housing to persons with variety of

disabilities. Often these tenants may have been

homeless and suffer from severe and persistent

mental illness and/or physical disabilities. We

consider all aspects of our design in relation to the

unique needs of the client’s tenants to provide a

promising future.

Project TypesResidential

Institutional/Governmental

Commercial

Mixed-Use

When working with institutional, governmental

and not-for-profit clients, we first seek to deeply

understand each organization’s aspirations and

work diligently to capture a shared vision for each

project. We do this through intense collaboration

and dialogue with the client as well as in depth

critical analysis of the site, the project budget and

the program. Our institutional projects are about

creating well-designed facilities while using land

and physical resources effectively. We believe

our institutional projects should be a catalyst: for

institutional advancement, for institutional pride

and for promoting the mission of the organization.

We know that all businesses must manage

uncertainty and risk to be successful. We help by

designing facilities for maximum flexibility – for

expandability, contractibility and convertibility

– since change is one of the only certainties in

business. We seek to meet our clients’ current and

foreseeable needs but design our projects to adapt

to change as the nature of work, technology and

workforce demographics continues to transform.

Buildings often have multiple personalities,

there are always unique conditions that offer the

opportunity or need for mixed uses. We pride

ourselves in the design and integration of these

individual, yet cohesive elements. These could be

new buildings or old buildings, we have completed

mixed used projects as adaptive reuse and historic

preservation projects.

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Client Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing AuthorityLocation Cleveland, OhioConstruction Value $6,000,000Completion Date 2011Total Building Area 20,500 square feet

The Woodhill Community Center is located in the Buckeye Neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio on a site that is significantly sloped and centrally located within the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) Woodhill Homes Estate. The project included major restoration, renovation and additions to an existing 10,000 square feet, two-story Community Center that was built in 1939 and had been vacant for over 25 years.

WOODHILL COMMUNITY CENTERAND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES

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BEACHWOOD COMMUNITY CENTERCity of Beachwood

Client City of Beachwood, OhioLocation Beachwood, OhioConstruction Value $3,000,000Completion Date 2006Total Building Area Addition 6,250 square feet Alteration 8,850 square feet

LDA architects, in partnership with Panzica Construction Company, completed the expansion of the Municipal Complex for the City of Beachwood, one of Northeast Ohio’s most sought-after suburbs. The city’s Community Center houses various flexible multiuse conference and meeting rooms, an art gallery, and catering kitchen. LDA’s design – the winning entry in a formal design competition – included an inviting central “Main Street” commons with abundant daylight. The commons was envisioned as a grand living room for the community to be used for informal community gatherings and before and after program events.

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L’OREAL USA RECEPTION CENTER AND OFFICES

Client L’Oreal USALocation Solon, OhioConstruction Value $3,700,000Completion Date 2008Total Building Area Addition 9,638 square feet

LDA has created a new entry-connector and office building for the L’Oreal Solon, Ohio Campus. This new building connects the existing production building together and will provide a single entry point for all visitors and employees. This new building will also provide locker rooms to improve production cleanliness levels. This building will also become the visual icon for the Solon Facility. Green building technologies have been designed into this structure such as day lighting, bio swales, and recycled and renewable building products.

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EUCLID AND BELMORE SENIOR APARTMENT BUILDING

Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority

Client Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing AuthorityLocation Cleveland, OhioConstruction Value $7,700,000Completion Date 2013Total Building Area 47,930 square feet

LDA architects designed a 39-unit apartment building for seniors (26 units per acre). The design features a garden courtyard and winter garden/community space. The building will also include office space and a large lounge room with an attached warming kitchen.

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Client Case Western Reserve UniversityLocation Cleveland, OhioConstruction Value $1,000,000Completion Date Fall 2008

LDA architects has created a new interior classroom and student lounge in this iconic Frank Gehry building on the CWRU campus. LDA, working closely with the CWRU staff along with the Marous Brothers Construction Company, has built a new student gathering place with food and beverage service. The new student lounge and classroom were designed to serve the needs of the business students while complementing the existing interior architectural design.

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THE WESTIN HOTELSage Hospitality

Client Sage HospitalityLocation Cleveland, OhioConstruction Value $44,000,000Completion Date 2014Total Building Area 510,000 square feet

LDA architects worked with the Marous Brothers Design Build Division to completely renovate this twenty-two story circa 1974 hotel in downtown Cleveland adjacent to the Convention Center and new Medical Mart. The renovation includes new exterior materials, storefront features and canopies, interior lobby, restaurant, all meeting rooms and hotel rooms. LDA was responsible for the exterior design and detailing, as well as the architectural construction documents for the project.

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32 CLINTON APARTMENTSGeis Development

Client Geis DevelopmentLocation Cleveland, OhioCompletion Date Design

LDA is working on the design of the new 32 Clinton apartments. The new building is designed to blend with the surrounding context of the exisitng neighborhood. This will be accomplished by locating the parking conveniently under the building, as well as maintaining the size of the apartment to be similar in width and height to the adjacent buildings. Complete with a courtyard that gives the illusion the complex is two separate buildings, the Clinton Apartments will be equipped with large windows, abundant landscaping and garden patios.

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KENILWORTH MEWS TOWNHOMESParan Management, Ltd

Client Paran Management, LtdLocation Cleveland Heights, OhioConstruction Value $5,000,000Completion Date 2012

LDA architects completed a Master Development Plan and residential prototype design drawings for this 17-unit infill housing project. The two-acre site is nestled in a wooded historic neighborhood near University Circle, the cultural nexus of Cleveland. Each unit’s floor plan includes first floor Owner suites, two-story living spaces with open lofts and charming enclosed gardens. Designed in the Arts and Crafts style to be compatible with an adjacent historic landmark district, the homes are reaching a higher level of quality than previously seen in this first tier suburb of Cleveland.

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WILKES VILLA MASTERPLANNINGLorain Metropolitan Housing Authority

Client Lorain Metropolitan Housing AuthorityLocation Elyria, OhioConstruction Value +/- $45,000,000Completion Date 2013

LMHA engaged LDA architects and its team to prepare a new multi-phase master plan for the total redevelopment of the Wilkes property, including the community center, a new health clinic, and management and maintenance building. The Master Plan proposed a new iden-tity and image focusing on the development becoming a beautiful Green sustainable com-munity that is designed to encourage healthy lifestyles and provide a safe environment for residents. The result of such a re-creation will be a community that is marketable to a wider range of income groups.

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RICHMOND HEIGHTS MUNICIPAL CENTERCITY HALL

City of Richmond Heights

Client City of Richmond HeightsLocation Richmond Heights, OhioConstruction Value $2,900,000Completion Date 2007Total Building Area 9,973 square feet

LDA architects, in partnership with Marous Brothers Construction, were the selected team to provide the City of Richmond Heights with a new city hall and renovated fire station. LDA’s design – the winning entry in a formal design competition – created a municipal campus master plan which stitched together the existing fire station and police station with a new city hall building. The municipal campus concept along with the demolition of out-of-date portions of the existing city hall/ fire station provided a solution to the City of Richmond Heights, which gave them a mix of new and renovated facilities to improve operations and responsiveness to the city’s residents.

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MCKINLEY GROVEExtended Housing, Inc.

Client Extended Housing, Inc.Location Painesville, OhioConstruction Value $2,000,000Completion Date 2013Total Building Area 17,100 square feet

Extended Housing, Inc. is a private, non-profit corporation whose mission is to provide safe, decent and affordable housing to persons with severe and persistent mental illness, including the homeless, and those at imminent risk of being homeless. LDA architects designed a community housing project to provide 17 residential apartments with associated supportive programming.

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PRIVATE RESIDENCE

Client WithheldLocation Medina, OhioConstruction Value WithheldCompletion Date Fall 2006

This private estate is nestled on 35 wooded acres in a rural Ohio township. The project includes a primary residence and several outbuildings such as a barn, workshop and potting shed. Designed in the style of Western Reserve Architecture, the house incorporates authentic, high-quality materials and a casual rambling footprint evoking the imagery of country estates built over time.

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