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I hate to say it, but I think a big part of the reason it was chosen is that R.P. Madison is a minority owned architecture firm. Design teams should be chosen on ability to enhance the city/public space, not based on race to fulfill affirmative action percentages. To this point every decision in this entire project has been the exact opposite of what it should have been . *Site selection (why not Public Square or 668 Euclid Ave?) *Demo or rehab (save at least $40,000,000, avoid environmental problems, and keep project salaries in the city, with renovation) *Architect selection process (Davis Brody Bond is the superior architecture firm of the group) Well done County Commissioners. Inadequacy at its finest.

I hate to go back-to-back-to-back here, but I keep looking at those images and can't believe what a piece of shit this thing is going to be.

^Why would want to raise tax for a system of submarine sandwich franchise? Big waste money adn only 2 employees at store.

And for being so concerned with being on the corner of East Ninth and Euclid, they sure as hell don't address that facade (or any for that matter) successfully. It's like trading a bustling Euclid Avenue, for strip malls and lifestyle centers. Oh, yeah, this city already did that.

^But the current stone and marble isn't good enough for you. Well well, who didn't see the second year studio solution to this project? Now who is really on board to tear down the Breuer tower because they think it's ugly, and receive this monstrosity in return. Sad stateof affairs.

It's as if edisou just has conversations with itself. Funny s&*t.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm staying at the W Center City (not as nice as the Lake Shore W, but oh well). Looking forward to checking out a few of these spots tonight, then heading to a wedding reception at the Conservatory tomorrow night. Good times. Thanks again.

...and looking for some chill places to hang out for drinks on a friday night in the Loop with my girlfriend. I've been to Chi before but spent most of my time in Lincoln Park. We're patial to Lava Lounge in Tremont and Bier Markt in Ohio City while in Cleveland. Any suggestions UO'ers?

They're moving it for St. Ignatius's new performing art center.

I misread the post.

This is for real...

Great news. ...City Architecture............

^I know what I can and can't say, and this is something that isn't ready for the public yet. Farshid Moussavi (the designer) couldn't even talk about it at her lecture last month. Just the way it goes.

^Yeah, it's going to be an interesting. Wish I could say more, and I'll reveal as much as I can when the time comes, but it's very hush hush.

I've seen some renderings, but am not at liberty to get into detail. It is moving forward, no worries.

^"It, in turn, is owned by Fred Peters of Pizza Pan and Gene Zannoni Jr., whose family founded Zannoni's in 1911."

Those fountains were my second favorite thing downtown behind the Terminal Tower when I was a kid (early 80's). They also used to have the Rib Burn Offs there if I believe. I remember on a Christmas list one year my first item on it was for the fountains to be turned back on after years of being off. What a sap.

The Clinic just can't get it right; either they have faceless facades directly ontop of the street (Carnegie) or huge abysalls between the street and the building (Euclid). Both are very very poor solutions.

^He has said that many times in his articles.

Bringing back the hobo camps of pre-Torso Murderer in Kingsbury Run would be fine with me. While a lot of these homeless people are so dispositioned because of drugs/job loss/mentally ill, there are also a lot of people who just choose to be homeless because they're too lazy to get a job. I find it hard to have any sympathy for the people that piss on the streets, get confrontational when I don't give them my hard earned money, basically just leech off of the public and make parts of my city unacceptable for the tax paying, law abiding citizens.

I like it. Next they should be targeting these supposed do gooders who are handing out bowls of soup on sunday mornings/afternoons attracting hundreds of homeless to my city's main public space. That pisses me off more than anything.

^^^I worked in Dick's office for a very short period of time and I must say it was the worst working experience ever. A bad combination of me being fresh out of college (they don't teach much on the construction document side in college for better ot worse) and having an entire commission being thrown in my lap by a guy that starts yelling at employees and consultants from the time he walks in in the morning to when he leaves at night. It wasn't pretty to say the least.

Damn, now that's some major progress. I had no idea they were that far along.

That would be something to have a regime of UO'ans running the city. Anybody want to donate to my mayoral campaign?

Ideally they will wait long enough for Hagan and Dimora to be voted out of office, and get someone with a level head to swing the project towards PLJ and restoration. When are they up for reelection, 2008?