Built in 1968-1971, this Brutalist Modern 29-story skyscraper was designed by Marcel Breuer was constructed for the Cleveland Trust Company as an office annex to their original building, and stands immediately to the south of the original structure. When it was completed, it towered over the original structure, dwarfing it with its massive scale, and featured a facade clad in dark concrete panels, with a grid of concrete-framed punched window openings on the upper floors, and relatively simple, unadorned facades at the top and bottom of the structure, with wide and tall openings on the ground ‹›
Ameritrust Tower

Marcel Breuer

Exterior · Cleveland, United States · 1971

Photo: w_lemay · 2023-04-30 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 4032×3024

Built in 1968-1971, this Brutalist Modern 29-story skyscraper was designed by Marcel Breuer was constructed for the Cleveland Trust Company as an office annex to their original building, and stands immediately to the south of the original structure. When it was completed, it towered over the original structure, dwarfing it with its massive scale, and featured a facade clad in dark concrete panels, with a grid of concrete-framed punched window openings on the upper floors, and relatively simple, unadorned facades at the top and bottom of the structure, with wide and tall openings on the ground

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