So, they saved and adaptively reused the Grosse Point library?

Helps when you have cooperation from the building's owner, I suppose. Thanks for spreading the word to the international community about the efforts to save our Breuer, Susan.

The Archinect site puts it very nicely here:

According to architect Aldo Rossi, the collective memory of a city is based on common places that a community remembers. Buildings that evolve over time are key to the collective memory of a city: they are shared memories that shape a city's identity. Rossi called these buildings urban artifacts, and likened them to works of art because they help shape and are shaped by the public's unconscious. These urban artifacts evolve over time: they change their functions, they grow, they shrink, but the core stays the same.

Was the site responsible for the design competition?

Anyway, three cheers for the Cleveland organizers of a design competition for our Breuer.

Oh, btw, I came across this publication called, The Planning Commissioner’s Journal. It has posts all over it about preservation efforts. Their editor’s currently doing an across the country tour and stopped in Chillicothe, OH (posted about preserving a building there; wrote about how it could revitalize its downtown) – maybe we should email him about the debate among Cleveland’s Planning Commission over the fate of our Breuer? Check out this article about adaptively reusing the Missouri State Penitentiary.