jrz19

I couldn't agree more. To further that thought, the Terrace was built at a time when most downtown buildings were shorter, and the overall grunginess of the city was nearing its peak with all the smoke and soot filling the air. The design conventions were of a "retreat from the city", so there was no aesthetic reason to have windows that looked out on to general unpleasantness. Look at the contrast between the historical photos of the building when it set itself apart from most of the surrounding buildings during its heyday. Then contrast that with how awful and out of place the giant wall looks today in modern downtown Cincinnati. Preserving that giant, ugly, unwelcoming brick wall serves no purpose in 2018 other than to satisfy a fringe minority of architectural buffs. That wall is almost as offensive to the eyes as just about anything from the Brutalist era in my opinion.