5
Stories
77,000
Square Feet
1995
Year of Completion
PROJECT TYPE
Education, Museums
LOCATION
Akron, Ohio
OWNER
National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation, Inc.
ARCHITECT
Polshek Partnership Architects
Inventure Place
An Innovative Space to Honor Innovative Thinkers
Five levels. A 70-foot-tall “sail” constructed of stainless steel. A broad plaza and exhibit space built 33 feet below street level. The list of unique features incorporated into the Inventure Place complex matched the innovative spirit of the content it contained. Welty oversaw the complex construction of the structure, built in the heart of downtown Akron, and home to the Hall of Fame for 13 years.