Stand at the edge of Lake Erie on a gray Cleveland morning, where the water throws silver light against a pyramid of glass and steel, and you feel it before you see it: this building has spent three decades turning noise into memory. Soon, the way you walk into that memory will change forever.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has landed a $10 million gift from Dee and Jimmy Haslam, and it’s headed straight into the museum’s sweeping expansion, the most ambitious reimagining of the Cleveland landmark since I.M. Pei’s original design opened in 1995. The money christens the new Haslam Atrium, the grand public threshold every visitor will cross when the addition opens this fall.
A Living Room for the Whole City…