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. here is the title for the article I quoted: A mix of the urban and urbane: Zaha Hadid’s remarkable Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center if I left important information out it was merely a mistake. If you decide to google the article above and it says something different than I quoted, I stand corrected. If you read it and you find that it makes since then whoever wrote the article is responsible for the naming and claiming to your question. I copied or tried to copy "parts" of the article to explain why "streetwall" is a term that has more than one definition and usage. Since i live near the CAC downtown I thought that creative architects could take a word and be creative with it. In this case Hadid's "urban carpet". The article explains how hadid was attempting to blur the line between outside/inside and street/floor vs. wall. She claimed that the street scape continued under the feet of the pedistrians into the building then curved up the entire height of the building becoming a wall. A 'streetwall" if you will. When the first ziggurat was designed it had what some would call a street wall. But, when some architect decided to stack ziggurats one on the other the ziggurats became pyramids. In effect, they were just streetwalls stacked on each other. ziggurat 1, zigguart 2, etc. If creativity and word play is allowed in the architectural language, then Hadid's use of a new term "urban carpet" blurs the definition of streetwall.

Definition of streetwall in English Dictionary (architecture) One of the long side boundaries of a street, formed by buildings, hedges, etc. your dictionary architecture) One of the long side boundaries of a street, formed by buildings, hedges, etc. Streetwall means the wall of a building or portion of a wall facing a streetline that is below the height of a specified stepback or angular plane, excluding minor recesses for elements such as doorways or intrusions such as bay windows; Streetwall means any exterior wall of a building abutting a public street. Streetwall means the building wall that faces the front of a lot. streetwall: streetwall (English) Origin & history street + wall Noun streetwall (pl. streetwalls) architecture - One of the long side boundaries of a street, formed by buildings, hedges, etc. MASSING and STREET WALL: The street is often described by urban designers as “a large outdoor room.” The ability to shape this room exists on every street, and its walls are defined by the primary façades of its buildings, which create a street wall. How building mass is distributed on a site usually has the greatest impact on a project’s overall appearance and on the strength of the street wall. Breaking down large floor plates and varying a building’s height through the creation of smaller structures or façades is a valuable concept when designing large projects that consume half a block or more. Sculpting a building’s massing can also help avoid big bulky structures, which provide more visual monotony than variety. It is the well-balanced variety of building massing and textures of shadow, light and materials that in total adds to the richness of Downtown’s built environment. Hadid's Urban Carpet. Can an Urban Carpet transistion into a streetwall? Here is an excerpt: Which is not to say that Hadid’s work has no political and theoretical depth, only that she does not talk about it much. Hadid’s image of the city is radically new. It suggests a layering of social complexities, where cultures move and interact with remarkable fluidity, while the public forum retains the energy and vitality of the dense, towering cities that artist-renderer Hugh Ferris drew in the 1920s. The CINCINNATI Contemporary Art Center could not be better suited to that vision. The building will sit on a 10,000-square-foot corner lot downtown, across the street from the Aronoff Center, a performing arts complex designed by Peter Eisenman, an American architect who is also a key figure in the contemporary avant-garde. Although the arts center’s lobby will be sheathed in glass, conceptually it is intended to be part of the urban street, what Hadid beautifully terms “the urban carpet.” Hadid’s design lifts the galleries 28 feet off the ground, allowing the city to sweep right in underneath. The lobby will function as an immense public forum, a place for performance and installation artworks, an active extension of the street life outside. The performance hall will be tucked underground, its roof puncturing the lobby with a narrow, knife-like stair leading down along the hall’s outer edge and slightly detaching the hall and the lobby floor, as if the hall were a ship’s prow carving through a sheet of ice. But the design’s most radical feature is in the way that circulation is used to unite art and the street. The museum’s lobby is conceived as a large floating plane that slopes gently upward toward the back of the building, where it becomes a series of ramps that lead up to the galleries. From the ramps, openings are cut through the building’s structural wall, offering unexpected views of the art in the galleries. It is as if Hadid’s urban carpet has been wrapped right into the building. On the upper floors, Hadid has created a compressed landscape of shifting volumes and planes. Galleries, offices, light--all interlock like parts of an intricate 3-D puzzle. Taking advantage of the rooms’ differing heights--typical gallery spaces will be 20 feet high, the offices half that--Hadid is able to create a remarkably complex and compact building: The roof of an office becomes a balcony overlooking a gallery, a floor bends up to become a partition. Even light has physical substance here. The entire building is pierced by three voids--enormous light wells that cut vertically through the structure, illuminating the galleries on each floor. In the Un-Museum, at the top, these voids become giant jewel-like skylights. That interlocking of forms continues on the building’s exterior as well, where the activity inside is expressed as a collage of various materials: The concrete shell and metal cladding of the galleries, the glass windows of the offices and various electronic displays will all be woven together like a high-tech quilt. As such, the building will read as a perfect expression of the various activities it contains. Hadid is erasing boundaries--between inside and out, between a controlled and private inner world and the chaotic energy of public life. Crowds will spill into the lobby and down into the performance space below, or sweep up into the galleries above. After hours, the gallery ramp can be closed off, allowing the lobby, cafe and performance hall to remain an active part of the public realm. Henry James once wrote of a museum high up on a hill, “from whose doors and windows, open to grateful, thirsty millions, the higher, the highest, knowledge, would shine out to bless the land.” Art and the public now spill through in both directions, the ultimate expression of a democratic egalitarianism. Since the early part of this century, museums have struggled uneasily with their shifting role vis-a-vis the common man. With a little manipulation or usage of the word streetwall, becomes an urban carpet. and maybe includes art. Anyway, seems there are several definitions of streetwall. In many of the definitions "hedges and etc." fall within the definitions of streetwall.

all those gaps are actually real. They are not murals of parking lots, they are actually parking lots. seems to me it would be better to have retail shops instead of all the forgotten streetwalls. google streetwalls images.

if Cranley and all those others you dislike for one reason or the other have done something criminal wouldn't it be better to take them to court instead of sounding like some Karen with nothing to back himher up? Isn't everyone tired of acquisations that have no weight. Im thinking of John Prine, "Dear Abby, Dear Abby...

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c9a73454d87117017c01508/t/64c52deb79731077adf079fb/1690643971845/230726_WEMU_Community+Meeting_reduced.pdf seems that someone has been thinking about this corner. Those are beautiful drawings and photos of the TQL village. Love the radiating arms that correspond with the curve of the stadium itself.

I bet i get chastized for this but, here goes anyway. Here is a link to a history of Segregation in Cincinnati Neighborhoods. https://www.cincinnati.com/in-depth/news/2022/02/23/segregation-cincinnatis-neighborhoods-brief-history/9259891002/ It is an easy to read and visually interesting history of black people moving to Cincinnati since the early 18 hundreds. Read the section called 1930s. In the 1930s federal programs helped to red line and monitor the blacks from certain areas in town. The blacks were clustered in the poorest areas and kept from moving into the nicer areas: Mt Auburn, Evanston, Clifton Heights. So, since certain people were not given loans, and clustered into specific areas you can't really blame the color of someone's skin for the demise of old Cincinnati. People have a limited amount they can borrow and if the banks, lawyers, city government decide to ban people they can and did do it. If you could afford a car you needed more room. So, the burbs were a place to go. If you relyed on public transportation you probably lived where there was public transportation. To the moderators; I'm just following the thread of the conversation. https://www.cincinnati.com/in-depth/news/2022/02/23/segregation-cincinnatis-neighborhoods-brief-history/9259891002/

this complex and the stadium have the potential to be something outstanding. But, the midwest, banks, and lack of people limit a Bilbao style complex. Architects could design a unique, contemporary village or design a safe traditional brick italianade style neighborhood. Which reminds me of Red Green from the great frozen north who said, "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy." None the less, when it's completed Liberty and Central Parkway will continue to bring investment and people to that part of town.

Since the stadium is ultra modern the entire area could have a gehry look. That is to say not cincy. Or Maybe a transistional modern hotel and the surrounding buildings get more traditional as they near Liberty. Clever brick work. A thicket of trees and loud waterfall could help keep the busy street quieter.

great video... was just waiting for a taliban come around the corner.

It looks great. Lots of buildings and at least one is taller than five stories. Damn. Cincinnati will be dragged into the 21c whether we like it or not. Liberty and central parkway was the ugliest corner in downtown and soon it will be the talk of the town.

On 7/1/2023 at 11:47 AM, Cincy_Travels said: Anybody know the meaning of this name? Appears the developer likes to style it in lowercase "ila" which is kinda obnoxious but also somehow better than title case where the capital I and lowercase l look indistinguishable in most sans-serif fonts. Seems like a pretty horrible name on multiple accounts! In Sanskrit, Ila means “earth” or “speech.” In Greek, the name can mean “from Ilion,” the ancient city that was the site of the famous Trojan War.

I noticed a second crane at the District over the weekend. this one is smaller and looks to be for the hotel. No photo. it was a drive by.

maybe Indescent

great design. And a possible idea for the convention center.

looks really nice.

I really like the addition rendering. of course it's an idea but still impressive. I thought even the lowest ranked tennis players had backers. And, have you ever played golf in Charleston in August? 100 and muggy, not cincy muggy but swamp muggy. Younger kids, if they don't like conservative cincy are already close to Columbus. A town bustling with youngkins. In my youth all that stuff about food and housing was unimportant. Visiting almost anywhere that is not home was totally fascinating. I don't know how much a newby gets per year, but this town is much cheaper than Paris, London or Monaco. I looked up last year's tennis winnings. The last on the list ranked #200 Otto Virtanen Finland points 515 $78,249. You need to work harder Otto.

when i saw the "a" frames atop the tallest buildings at ovation, I couldn't figure out what and who had the use of these 2 or 3 story gymnasism size glass enclosed structures. They could be indoor pickle ball courts. At first I thought, no way is this gonna happen. Public images kept showing these structures included in the plan. Now what is happening is function over form. Remove all imagination, stack cubicles atop cubicles. These apartments could be built anywhere, and are. What a waste of the premier location in all of NKY to make a statement. "If you lived here, not only would you be home now, you have arrived". Now when you move to the top floors at ovation, your view includes airconditioning units and stack pipes. Government houses were replaced by bank houses.

embracing otr history with cartoons

saw this movie on tv years ago. i always thought it was skateboards.

this is a great renovation image. If the siding is 3d and lighted, that will really help locate the building. This building was always lost in the skyline. One big monolith from most views, Vine street oneway north, 6th street one way west and a step back vertical plan. All these things made walking past it very forgetable.

not saying europe is right, but on my last visit, all kinds of two wheeled vehicles shoot the gaps, if you will. And people in cars pay little attention. Maybe crosswalks should be raised, identified with (flashing lights lights, yellow signs and arrows). Hitting a speed bump once is enough to slow drivers down for a few weeks. It won't take long for the general public to catch on. this has been Bo and "it's just a thought".

`it has taken 20 years for a bridge that doesn''t exist. So I'm guessing the hotel project will take another 15 or so. Someone will say it should be 5 stories and no taller. Another will say it doesn't fit the overall look of the west side of town and another will say, you're giving that prime location away to a hotel? Finally, a 5 story 2x4 wood structure will be built that looks a lot like all the other 5 story apartment buildings in town. All hail the spagetti monster and raptor jesus. Oh, and that serpentine monster/convention center will be moved to Covington.

how about having a Main Street "Best Looking Facade and Sidewalk contest" and even extend it into the street. Announce winners once a week and give a hundred dollar prize. (plus signage) You had to clean a mess up but there could be $100.00 every week. okay $200.00 per week.

turns out I was wrong again. there is life in cincy. i just happen to be in bed at 2am. as far as the trash goes, shame on the people who don't respect themselves enough to be courteous. Ive been in many med. beach towns. Turns out, people don't come out until 2am. I think that was because people didn't have AC in the past. So, the street life became the place to be in the summer heat. Now if this is happening in Jan. Feb. we got a problem.

a dorm could be built across Clifton Ave where DAAP has built a large building. sort of on campus