zsnyder

"small town feel" Why are we worried about this in the middle of downtown?

It looks like they honored the old shape, but the new sign is noticeably thicker.

And He blocked the view of Great American and its treacly tiara and it was good.

while Christ would block the eastern half of the CBD, you only really see the tops of the buildings elsewhere, I'd think. This view to the west end is more interesting.

Who would that appeal to? And what's the distinction between housing for students and housing for non-students?

Given the choice, I'd rather have a hotel-shaped guitar.

ugh

I used to live on Hoff overlooking this property in the 90s. When the landlord was showing me the property, one of her selling points was that you could watch barges race on the river from the back deck. Barges don't race on the river...but the view was ok.

don't you know what that means in this towne?

the density is great. The era of "hide the cube in a wrapping of graphic games" can please end, though.

looks like it's going to be a Kresge's

I've witnessed many back alley couch burnings in Columbus.

"this video isn't available any more" for me.

I'm talking more about the massing vs. transparency vs. catholic vs. modernist box.

that building looks so conflicted.

Who else remembers when that was a Rink's Ontario?

article says 3 9-hole courses.

Hate the idea of a garage on the corner of central parkway and ezzard charles. The casino diagram makes a lot more sense for the city...

Rest In Peace, Colonel.

agreed. Really happy they're taking the approach of platting this for different developers rather than Corporexing it and creating a campus of homogenized cluelessness.

Looking at their site, it's bizarre that Newport is in the mix. All other locations are in bona fide tourist destinations. Does this have something to do with how much Cincinnati loves Buffet? Seems like a thin justification for building one here, but they must know what they're doing, right?

the carew tower facade has nominal relief and a much greater percentage of fenestration, which negates these strategies. The first example doesn't look like a flood light, at least in the sense that it doesn't nearly compare to what is needed for the tower. those lights were freaking bright, and had a lot of range. Also, if these are to be residential, you'll get a lot more interior illumination from the building at night than when it was offices, giving the buiiding some presence. The carew exterior is a heavily value engineered surface and really doesn't call for exterior lights imo.

might be a bit of an issue with night-time occupants.

i'm not sure what pole-building-looking is, but the additions to Columbus really brought the original building down, as it's just rote repetition on a budget. It was also a very time specific design , as it functioned as a kind of ghost of the neighborhood around it that was deserted and all but gone when it was built. now that area is dense with buildings, skywalks have been built across high, big hotels...etc. and that impression is lost. Columbus has to be given credit for taking a chance like that. It delivered.

This reply is not at all in the spirit of what you originally suggested.