zsnyder

I don't like the West End for this project, either.

That Casino site feels like an impending traffic nightmare. That part of downtown/Pendleton is a bottleneck.

Would be nice to just develop the lot and leave the building? I like the repurposed church.

That building is mural proof. More points against it? Also, look at the latest in the Montgomery thread for even more inspiration about which sliders to enable on this design.

Okay guys. This isn't funny. Who's been tweaking the knobs.

An arena is going to be surrounded by events-centered development. I think that sort of thing makes more sense down near the convention center, which is already primed for that. If the West End is "up and coming" let it come up as the West End with the one venue it has, and not whatever makes sense to graft onto The Banks: but North/South.

Those black spandrels cannot survive this redesign-by-committee. Just cop to the precedent and use brick.

Yeah, that spot on Liberty would be pretty awkward for an arena, in terms of both the siting and its surroundings.

I was under the impression that the Taft would remain, and would couple with the Temple to be a larger entertainment complex.

Yeah, not what I was expecting at all.

"You don't like it? Let's see you do better!" is not a response that I ever expected to see on this forum. I understand the pragmatic realities of the site, and that everyone else is making the winning argument. I just wish there was room for more than pragmatism.

This argument is...non-aspirational... and borders on being a threat. If you're going to have any hope for great looking buildings in this city, Central Parkway seems like a good place to have it.

That slender vertical brickwork drives me nuts. Very un-brick-like imo.

I get it, but it's so difficult to agree. The renderings don't do justice to the address.

Greg Hand was the spokesperson for UC at the time and gave the quote for the article. Is he on this forum?

what made me remember balconies was the bent railing, but now that I've had time to think about it, I think there was a balcony at the base of the building that was hit and deformed, and my memory placed it higher on the building, therefor giving the entire building balconies. Anyway, i found the story on the library site. Was in the Enquirer on Nov 16 1987.

Would have been 1986 if I had to pin it down. I had a friend who lived in Daniels around that time.

someone drunkenly fell off one of them in the late 80s early 90s and died. you could see one of the railings he bent on the way down for quite some time after until they got rid of them.

it's like an appendix. Shame we won't get a 71/75 configuration that might reverse that.

Remember when that building had BALCONIES?

A terror? That sounds tearable.

I wish there was some real Office Space where that suburban box sits.

And Cincinnati doesn't really have an analog to High St., meaning a corridor along which such a heavy proportion of amenities are concentrated.

Uptown Rents is swallowing Corryville whole in super slow motion.

Neither of the tall buildings seem particularly interested in the view down Vine into the West End.