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I have some crappy pictures on my iPhone. Mostly of Natalie Portman....

2.4 km? You have GOT to be kidding me....

I got there right after the Breeders set. The National were in top form. I agree Rando, it was a great evening.

There wasn't much to see when I went there on the tour. Since it was essentially a warehouse the floors were empty, so they could cut them up into individual condos. All of the metal studs were in place, but that was about it (they did have some downstairs that had drywall up already). That said, the place has definite potential. Nice view of Mt Adams from the front units.

^ You could let the museum keep all of they space they're currently in and just rebuild the huge concourse that was torn down behind the current structure. I think we're a couple decades away from realistically seeing enough demand for that large of a train hub, but it would be pretty easy to do. I forget exactly how to get to it, but there's a tucked away elevator right before you get to the Omnimax that will take you up to some train enthusiast club in the old control tower. They're open to the public and have a ton of old pictures of Union Terminal and the concourse. Plus a giant control board. Pretty cool stuff.

Nice set. I've always said if I absolutely HAD to live on the west side again I would live in Cheviot. I love the housing stock.

There's no disputing he's a sloppy drunk, but man....you're missing a lot of good music to write off GBV entirely. Plus you have to be a little toasted to do those leg kicks at his age. I saw Pollard open for Pearl Jam at US Bank a couple years ago, he brought the house down when he played Game of Pricks.

I did miss the reunion tour. The bad blood between Kim and Black Francis goes back as long as the Pixies have been around. I'm frankly surprised she signed on for the tour, and I don't see them being friendly enough to ever record again (Besides that awful reunion single 'Bam Thwok'). Other than that, The Breeders have never done anything for me. On the list of all time bands to have come out of Dayton, they're behind Guided by Voices by a mile.

I was at the Black Keys, and aside from the fire alarm going off 2 songs into their set (which delayed the rest of the set for ~40 minutes while we all evacuated onto Madison), the show was amazing. Patrick Carney is a BEAST on the drums.

I'll be there. The National are absolutely fantastic. I could take or leave the Breeders, though anybody associated with the Pixies would be fantastic to see in person.

Great set. City looks a bit depressing in bad weather, though that's hardly your fault. Spent my freshman year living in that very neighborhood in clifton. Didn't look that great from the ground....

Are we being sarcastic or is there really somebody who lives in Cincinnati who doesn't know what pop is?

I know it, you could park the death star in that lot. The more room we make for surface parking the less interesting the city becomes. It's a cycle that has gone on for decades and things will just get worse unless the city takes a stand. Does anybody know of any taxes cincy levees against surface parking lots? Seems like an easy way to spur development. Here's to hoping Cincy has a future without them. Guess it's time to change my picture.

Welcome to post WWII city planning. We need to make room for the fleets of suburban SUV's when they caravan up to venture downtown.

^ That map makes me sick to my stomach...

They may not be architecturally significant by themselves, but they are significant as a whole because they present an unbroken street front in an area of downtown that has a block wide parking lot right next to it. Density, density, density. Those buildings could be renovated into condo's very easily, or made into apartments etc...

I belive, and if someone w/ inside connections can verify, that the same company is doing the piling for both QCS and the Banks. I imagine they'll shift their effort completely to the Banks when they finish the piling for QCS. That's just an educated guess anyhow.

Think of Hausman buildings in Paris. They're all pretty much the same, but who in their right mind would say Paris is boring? Now imagine each of those Hausman buildings replaced by some monstrosity like those listed above, each at different setbacks from the street (because we know modern architects wouldn't want to be 'restricted'). Can you imagine that? It would be a complete clusterf#$%. These buildings are just egos made out of steel and glass and they arrogantly reject their surroundings and the rest of the great San Francisco architecture. The only positive thing is that they will make the rest of the city seem that much more beautiful.

Just horrible. The Federal building especially......MAN. What am I supposed to feel when I look at that? How am I supposed to relate to it? It's every bit as bad as the monolithic rectangles built by the original modernists. No amount of 'quirks' are going to help, and there is certainly nothing delightful about it. To paraphrase James Howard Kunstler: 'there's not enough prozak in the world to make people feel OK about that'

Gorgeous set Rando

The houses in the last picture have definite potential. Strange that you saw what appears to be a group of young buddhist monks looking into a reflective egg.....in Price Hill...

Might as well jump on this bandwagon. Can I get mine changed to just REK from rekxu83?

You're probably right. I was speaking more to the general direction set by FDR and the New Deal public works etc...

^--- I'm going to go ahead and disagree with that last statement. A credit crises of this magnitude coupled with the alarming rate at which investment banks, insurance companies, and a couple regular banks are going under is absolutely the WORST time to try a project of this size. That doesn't mean I don't think it will get done. Everything was drawn up and all of the dotted lines were signed well before this mess, but that doesn't mean things will continue as planned. Especially if any of the major companies involved (God forbid) goes under.... We all have FDR to thank for the amazing projects of the 30's in Cincinnati (Carew, Union Terminal, Waldvogel (sp?) viaduct). He set the tone nationally and had the federal government sponsor a number of projects to keep people working. I definitely know the current administration won't be sponsoring anything of the sort, and it's hard to imagine even an Obama administration having enough power/clout/money to do much either.

Fr. Graham came to my place of employment a couple weeks ago to meet w/ XU alums & current grad students to go over the new projects at XU (and to ask for money in a roundabout way). Most of what he said jives w/ what has been listed in this thread, but it was nice to hear it from the horses mouth. He said the new "main" entrance to the university would be at Ledgewood and Dana. They're bringing the library (now called the "learning commons"....ugh) around to frame one side of the entrance, and the new Williams College of Business will frame the other side. Both will have towers on the corners to further the effect of a "main" entrance. He said they plan on having both of those buildings, along with Fr Hoff Quad online in time to coincide with the first buildings in Xavier Square. I've decided to string my grad school out over the next few years so I can see all this completed..... Definitely not the same XU as it was when I got there back in '01.