RJohnson

6 million dollars to destroy Hades. it is well worth it. think of the lives that have been lost to alcohol and its sinister ways. once these hell-bound tunnels are finally destroyed and covered by new highrises, Cincinnati can forget those tormented days and get our nation back on track (hopefully a trolley track). I propose erecting the first monument along the new Central Parkway diet as a memorial to Carrie Nation. the hatchet-toting divinely ordinated "bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what he doesn't like". Nation claimed a divine ordination to promote temperance by destroying bars. Phase II, the Harambe Memorial. a forty-foot statue of Harambe offering the baby back to where it came from ala Lion King.

i heard that the woodenknickle got the bid on this and they are removing the albee facade with care and deliberation. hit it with a wrecking then pick up the pieces.

im so glad it's not some variation of corrugated color-changing siding like the apartments at sycamore and 8th. the additions around Findley have added a little authenticity to the neighborhood and will stand the test of time. we don't need more of this.

i saw the top right corner that looked that a wrecking ball had smashed it several times. and, the nice part isn't protected at all. I'm afraid another one strikes the dust.

it still amazes me how telephone poles and wires are never there until you take a photo of them.

Why are these big time Cincy companies soooo bad at addressing the tops of their buildings? The cart logo will be awful if it happens. But no worse I guess than the abomination that Fifth Third placed upon their gorgeous International a few years ago. That Fifth Third crown absolutely wrecks the vertical aesthetic. Kroger and Fifth Third think "we don't need no stinking artists, hold my beer. " Kroger thinks it should make shopping for food fun, like Disney World. 5/3 seems to think, if the public can't read the name maybe the logo will work and if they don't get the logo maybe sprouting wings will get some attention. More is always better.

i don't know where this belongs, but I noticed over the weekend the proposed 4 dorms between Calhoun and McMillan, seem to be underway. at least there are lots of bulldozers and digging going on. I hope it looks better than the line drawing that was posted in UO a month or so back. After the grand hotel/apartments that were proposed a few years back 4 cinderblock dorms will be very disappointing.

if Government Square becomes available to the city for redevelopment they only have to look to the past. there are old photos of where “The Genius of Water” stood for years as a median on fifth. Some sort of replication of that block/long island seems appropriate. Or, since Cincy doesn't have an identifying landmark, i.e., the Arch in St. Louis, the Seattle Space Needle or the Eiffel Tower, Cincinnati should commission a 1000 foot tall water-related monument called "The Shape Of Water". This of course would be a perfect piece for Zaha Hadid. she is no longer with us but here is a few examples of what it could look like.

im afraid that ship has sailed. soon with more autonomous technology, drivers will think the auto is doing all the hard work and it (the auto) should be happy that it has been chosen to chauffeur the princess around.

found this on my feed today. looks right up Urban Ohios Bailiwick

i hear that in an election year, big corps and bankers etc. don't start big projects.. conservatism rules the day. maybe everyone wants to know what is the country gonna look like next year.. hell four years and not a catfish holler have we heard on the new ohio river bridge, not to mention the harrison viaduct.

If those carts were completely enclosed like the French made, AMI. and if they could be a little more climate-friendly, then yes. unless Peachtree City is a total failure then, "I know nothing!" just like Schultz. i could imagine an entire neighborhood from 74 to the river as an enclosed/gated Buckeye City. only electric vehicles are allowed/or not. i have a cousin who lives on bald head island; electric vehicles only.

i have never been harassed by anyone entering any door at the library. granted I don't go nearly as often as I used to. i have seen what I will call homeless people sleeping and using the big soft chairs. i have also seen security wake them and warn them about sleeping. the idea behind libraries is a place of learning through research, with the ability to take books home. people who don't want to get their information from phones can still research old rare books and periodicals. In the past, this is what higher education was; reading, researching, and documenting ideas. People like Carnegie opened public libraries so the masses could become more educated if they liked. Instead of hearing dogmatic stories about how the first humans happened, big fish eating people, finding yesus on toast and barns. anyone, even the homeless could find what is true. there is this myth that says, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. there are cults all over town that proclaim that is their purpose. in addition, their leader said, we will always have the poor. maybe, we the people should find a better solution. maybe fewer atomic bombs, or fewer armed warcraft, or stop blaming the poor for their situation or maybe medical care would help. the truth is that there are people who were given everything and still need to seek medical care. if your leaders tell you to do unto others... we will always have the poor, make this your baseline. get 3cdc to form a committee and solve this problem. the north building could be a home base for the needy. It sits a stone's throw away from the largest food store chain in America and is attached to an institute of learning. what is that old saying, if you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem.

kroger and i guess other supermarkets deliver to your front door. and if cincinnati/americans had alternative transportation .i.e, reliable enclosed golf cart style vehicles for 2 to 3 people, High-density neighborhoods could thrive. (see above JaceTheAce 41). if you lived or worked downtown, and if vehicles were not symbols of your man/woman/neuterhood, parking areas could be smaller or hold more vehicles. and, if fully electrified could be used as fueling stations. Queensgate, Westend and Camp Washington could be developed into dense urban neighborhoods with all the amenities of the suburbs. the city could help by having a rental or leasing for electric vehicles. if you moved away from downtown you could park it at the dealer at the end of the lease. once I was in Pisa, and people walked all over the downtown area; a passeggiata.

if we were building a new arena on Central Parkway right now, we could add a 4th professional team. With Caitlin Clark changing the WNBA, this would be a great time to get into that league.

i guess you are talking about Williams YMCA. when I was 28 i played there often. I was challenged(?) to a one-on-one bb game. we played until he beat me by one shot. I was exhausted. I said well I'm 28, thinking I was old, and he said he was 28 too and had played for Cleveland State. glad I could warm him up.

Even better, a covered climatized 1 and 1/2 mile oval track with personalized viewing seats and private entrances straight onto the track would really set the condo in a league of its own. why settle for some when you can have it all. sunday! sunday! sunday!

the facade of the SW building, plus the facade of the Taft Theatre could be kept and springboard a return to a classical style of building, with greek columns. then brought into the 21C with a modernist and postmodernist twist like philip johnson would do. it would be nice to see what architects could do to coordinate past and future. If we can't go that far back maybe the art deco period? some say it's coming back around. parking garages across the street from p&g doesn't sound very nice, but storefronts with shops could work. put the garages in the back.

thanks. and for the next answer, thanks. and for the following one, "I learned!" as many times as I've been in that alley and gone to play racketball at the workout place, I've never noticed that brick wall. and thanks for the reference material. i do appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions. "Sir (or Ma'am) this is a Wendy's." I know nothing about this meme. probably a westside thing. "I don't enjoy talking about architecture and more so because conversations about style are circular, unending, and lead nowhere." well it did lead somewhere. i learned that shillitos building was recladded, and you learned that the pogue building was, by the scholars, still considered an international style building". and everyone knows that the scholars are always the final word. "to deflect overbearing or subjectively tiresome statements or questions, as well as comments that are bizarre." 1) the comment was bizarre because neither the existing building or my perception of the sketch are Brutalist. 2) the caption was subjectively tiresome to me because from the standpoint of someone with two architecture degrees, I am exhausted by folks equating Brutalism with ugliness. let me just throw this out there for your consideration. maybe get another degree. then you could appreciate someone with questions. just ask socrates. the word bizarre smells a bit snobbish. "your bizarre is my mundane." -Rrose Selavy. but as a scholar yourself, with your degrees and such, I'm surprised you took the time to participate in the repartee. look on the bright side you still got a chance to talk about something you hate talking about. Brutalism: a style of architecture or art characterized by a deliberate plainness, crudity, or violence of imagery. some would say the definition itself defines something ugly. I think it does. and, even if you had 4 degrees I would still think it is an ugly building. and, if you comment on my posts again I'll not only tire you, I will probably put you to sleep. c'est la vie.

this is your lucky day. go to third and race. gaze upon the "brutal beauty" of this "brutalish stack of bricks." and we thank you.

it was a comment on someone with a smartphone taking the easy way out. "it is the bane of this generation". you might care to read your comment. it goes, ...what was that about banes of generations? again, if you actually read the description "a brutal (referring to its ugliness) brutalish (maybe that was a "meme", referring to George Santos who said, I didn't say I was jewish or a jew, I said I was jewish.) remember. before we go any further, I on the other hand have no degrees in architecture, but am interested in architecture and its history. so I read, look and attempt to sketch ideas instead of writing about them. Just to let you know I was top of the class in every Evelyn Woodhead's Speed Reading Course I ever took. and I enjoy the chance to express myself in the queen's english. so i won this one because the authors more closely agreed with me. but then again writing styles are like genres, fluid and fuzzy. and besides the terrace hilton is brick and I think you think it is a brutalist-style building. but it wasn't. it was built with brick and "looks" nothing like W&S or Shillitos. so since it was designed one way and built another, it is what I say it is and that is ugly. maybe the bastard child of Erte and Alison and Peter Smithson, those crazy "beats" and their bongos. here I was talking about the art deco building on 7th. Are you telling me that 7th street building was first built and then later they replaced the facade with an art deco design? you said in your comment, "This is exactly what happened. You can still see the original façade on the south side of the building". do you think I was talking about the pogue building? Do you have any idea when the facade changed? i read and skimmed a few wiki articles and I never saw a comment about that. you would think someone would have mentioned it. I went to the CHS website but was unable to break the code. i was unable to figure out how to peruse the wiki stacks at the historical society. as far as taking the bait and the direction this conversation went, I enjoyed it. and learned a lot, but not about architecture.

some poured/formed concrete that spans 2 floors and a semi-faux portico do not make that art deco for me. but a large brick slab of a building and whatever additional minimalist filagree the architect added to please the client doesn't change the fact that it is a "brutal brutalish building", especially my rendering. I figured your comments were claiming that my attempt to alter and make it more presentable was taking away the brutalist character of the building and making it "too" art deco. you weren't saying that at all. quickly referring to an article, you read most likely online, is the bane of this generation. there are books that pinpoint elements of style and why and how they are used. pointing out the tradespeople, and saying your referenced buildings use the same materials and at the same time. have little to do with styles and motifs used at any particular time. and there is a reason why catherals are often called Romanesque or Gothic. and of course, some buildings use elements of both. I would love to hear the conversation between the Hakes and the client. the pogue building to your point was built in 1947. a quick google says that Art Deco was from 1919 to 1939. and even though wiki world says the following, "In spite of its impressive size, the Fourth Street store was not enough to contain the business after two decades. Shillito again used architect McLaughlin to erect an L-shaped six-story building with basement and sub-cellar[2] on the SW corner of Race and Seventh Streets, moving his store there in 1879". god, I hope this is a typo. i have included a few examples that to me a little closer to the definitions. when I think art deo it looks like the Chrysler building in NYC or the iconic Union Terminal. maybe this building was built in 1879 and later they added the art deco facade.

thanks for the link. those were very nice photos of the Pogue building. Ive seen it for many years and never saw it this way. when I think international I think bauhaus maybe or what grew out of it. Is the seemingly attached charcoal building a part of it? maybe a later addition? those windows and doors remind me of a nightmare ghetto. needs more graffiti though. if the charcoal part is part of this property that inspires me. It is just not presented well. I'd love to see proposals making the two separate but equal, if you will, look. as it looks now seems like the last warehouse at the dock. i see seagulls flying and smell the sea.

Im a little confused. your comment from 4 hours ago, is it stating that the building is an art deco building or are you saying my proposal of the reworked building looks to you like an art deco building? If I'm not mistaken, I read an article on this site, urbanohio, that the building is a brutalist style building, and someone commented that the building shouldn't be altered very much from its current look. i cannot find that article or I would have quoted it in my comment. As far as my altered version goes my comment on my rendering has to do with brutalism and my lack of ability to alter this brutalist building style. for example, the old hilton convention center hotel has beautiful illustrations of its transformation, but if done no one can figure out how to replace the light bulbs that make the subtle brickwork economical. I guess you know a lot about this building and its international style and the cast stone. Or maybe you just left out a word or two. i.e., "is giving Union Terminal." in any event, I can't understand your statement. If this is an art deco building then it is probably the ugliest art deco building I have ever seen or someone confiscated all the art deco elements and took them to the wooden nickel. Furthermore, my comment said, "a brutal brutalish transformed for 21c". you see, it was sort of a self-critique and play on words at the same time. It was "brutal" as in ugly and brutalish alla representative santo not brutalist. now if I read any of this wrong let me know. but I attempted to correct the ugly parking lot into something more appealing to front 3rd. you see, when you stand in the lakefront park in Chicago and see the long row of beautiful buildings that run along the avenue I am reminded of the dutch guild-style buildings in Amsterdam. at present that building and its neighbor are not aesthetically pleasing buildings for the Cincinnati skyline or street wall. writing styles are like genres, fluid and fuzzy.

a brutal brutalish transformed for 21c