Photo via Baltimore Design School On Thursday, June 19, 2014, the Baltimore Design School won a Preservation Award from Baltimore Heritage , Inc. Ziger/Snead was the lead architect on the building that was abandoned for over 30 years and was a blight on the Greenmount West neighborhood until the renovations were completed in September 2013. The building was built in 1914 and was originally a manufacturing plant for Crown Cork and Seal. At its peak, Crown produced half of the world’s bottle caps. As times changed, the building was leased out to Lebow Brothers’ Clothing Company which made high-end men’s clothes. In the ’80’s there was a labor dispute and when workers left the building that day, it was shuttered and never re-opened. In fact, when the builders came to start work on the badly decaying structure, they found coffee cups still sitting where workers had left them more than 30 years previous as well as racks of clothes left standing. The building… Read More
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