zsnyder

why do we keep seeing two story renderings for a four story project?

I figured I'd counter some of my cynicism about local architecture/development by saying I have nothing bad to say about this one (including its other phases of development). I hope it's a success and provides the impetus for others to be this ambitious in other parts of the urban core. This terrace above downtown could use more highrises...it astounds me that the views this will afford aren't prioritized more in Cincinnati.

Quite the gamut there for things people don't want to live next to.

is there another part of the project that looks like the sign in the grass? because this photo looks like a different beast. This developer-driven contemporary compulsion with half-heartedly disguising the repetitive elements of a building with random-number-generator repetiveness of its own is just gross.

Those sure are two completely uninteresting buildings.

Little two-bay garage Hosbrook Motors, which used to sit on this corner, is where I took my beater cars in high school. What a change in scale.

a tower?

Where we could be getting, from the downtown view, peeks of Newport through some more imaginative massing... we get a wall.

Indeed...the correct name should be SIGNALISATION

Sixth street is far too important to western hills/interstate access with the current configuration of highways downtown. I mean, one of those highways is called the 6th street expressway.

I hope the Deacon project is successful. Anything to compete with Uptown. Those buildings are street-killers.

Oh My God

I was really disappointed when I saw that the outfield at GABP would open up to Kentucky (with a view of our most generic bridge) and not Cincinnati. It distresses me more now that Ovation is going up. Getting a tower or towers on the left field side in place of the coliseum would make up for that to a great extent, as long as something truly unique happened in the interaction between the buildings and the ballpark.

For sure, I used WCH because people are likely more familiar with the distances involved. and I think the Cincinnati CSA only includes Maysville because of outdated Clooney-trips-in-and-out data.

Washington Courthouse is in the Columbus CSA. Not really a good metric for urban form.

the Royals and Chiefs stadiums are quite nice. That sea of parking around them is awful, though. Makes sense with the shift toward urbanity that either of them might get antsy about leaving at this time.

I wonder if they would complete the bowl if they put a roof on it. Those swoops and cuts only work because of their views out of the stadium, and preserving them would likely drive up cost.

After the Royals left Cincinnati, they were the Omaha-Kansas City Kings for a bit...

I share this suspicion

That arch is an entry form, though. Putting it atop a tower makes it even more ironic. At least they preserved that aspect of it (however poorly) in the convention center.

Phillipus is a great end-of-axis, marking the edge of the basin. The view on foot from Findlay Market is great. Another rear view mirror landmark for vehicles, though.

the viewshed is your rear-view mirror!

This fell apart for me when you asserted that the Highways should be the boundaries of the Urban Core. Not enough blood and guts in that idea.

Would be great to see the Arch From the Albee Theater find a less ironic home.

Your example shows two lanes of parking. I live in a neighborhood that works this way... two lanes of parking and one clear lane down the middle. cars can often drive past one another, but when they are parked on opposite sides of the road from one-another, it creates little one lane bridges. It's a great calming device, as driving down it becomes a polite game of, "after you."