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Actually, at 8,446 posts, he gets to be daddy. And mommy.

Honey this company started in Sweden. I would hope they know snow better than we do, to say nothing about furniture.

Fortunately this is rarely the case, especially with a development (and developer) this big.

Ha ha. Welcome to running a long-term civilization!

Not only was every adorable tirade you threw at me right there completely the opposite of what I am, I was also instrumental in founding this website, and I think I'll pursue having you banned. Have a great day! :)

Have you heard of such a notion as societal expectations? This is actually a very interesting example. Maximillian isn't attacking low income people. Max just has expectations given to him by his society of how one behaves in the public realm, and when he observes people breaking these expectations, it makes him uncomfortable. He is actually behaving exactly how he should, as this is one of the sociological fundamentals that both forms and maintains a society. I want to quickly separate expectations of social behaviour from philisophical human rights. For instance, one may argue that it is a human right for people to pursue relationships with othres of the same gender, but it is a societal expectation that they do not screw on the sidewalk. It may be a human right to have an education regardless of your race, but it is a societal expectation that you buy your textbooks with money isntead of seashells. This is a really important thing to understand as upper and midle class people across America's cities start to rediscover urban areas and the public realm. There ARE societal expectations about how one behaves in the public realm, and the consequence of breaking these expectations is social isolation. So Maximillian is not "fucking immature" for his reaction. On the contrary, whether you like it or not, his reaction is actualy a NECESSARY part of our sociological system.

I find it ironic that the only thing the Cincinnati Bengals have won in the last decade is sweet lease terms on a non-existent development.

Regardless of your opinion on this matter, you have to admit the Enquirer is being extremely, let me repeat that for emphasis, extremely biased towards Carter on this issue. It is rare to see such bias from a professional newspaper, even for the Enquirer.

Haha, i bet that trash took them 10 minutes to do in Maya.

I'm going to tell you a story: Cincinnati has some land in a nice location, but it's in a hole and nobody can afford to raise it up. Next time you are wondering aloud why "they don't just build something already!" please read the above story. It's a quick read.

I can tell you that the "car footprint" is close to what you have guessed. On that same note, I can also tell you that developers don't love or hate parking stalls any more than the average person. They simply see demand for them from the jurisdictions that they build in and from the tenants that they build for. Usually the tenant demand is higher. One of the things that would revolutionize urban design in America is a smaller median vehicle size. If I could design a mixed-use block that had a resonable parking ratio (even 3 spaces per 1,000 SF instead of 5) and could do it for a car the size of a Yaris instead of an F-350, i could literally cut my car-related land use and infrastructure cost in half. Little things add up so much. It's amazing.

Does anyone around here know how accurate or honest that model really is? Aside from armchair speculation?

If you look at the image credit, it's to the architect that they have invited to the discussion. That lends legitimacy to using the image in the flyer.

It's just a building. It's fairly well proportioned and knows what it is. It shows signs of classical aesthetic values creeping back into contemporary architecture. It tries to be in harmony with the scale of the buildings around it. It's not trying to be a deconstructivist crack trip. It is not dull.

That's pretty cool.

http://www.emporis.com/images/6/2001/12/136491.jpg That's a 19 story building. So that's less than 20 stories, and still too high to defer to the existing skyline. I had always imagined something along the lines of 10 stories, like this:

I'm not defending the design, but as an architect who has worked with developers, aesthetics aren't usually high on their list of priorities. Criticism should be dolled out appropriately. ;-) As an urban designer who works ONLY with developers, aesthetics aren't usually high on their list of priorities and sometimes aren't on their list of priorities AT ALL. But I still wouldn't design something crappy. Because I don't design crappy things. One can refuse to design something poorly, and lose a client to someone who will. I'm just not the guy who will. That is terribly snobby of me. Boo hoo. America has paid dearly for having not enough design snobs and too many pragmatists. Extruding the corner towers 24 inches beyond the main building wall wouldn't have killed this developer's program, and it probably wouldn't have killed Heather to do it. So yeah, mean of me, but not inappropriate criticism, since it's my profession.

Heather Estridge Curless, Architect Hey Heather. Learn 2 articulate.

Shit man. When did Cincinnati turn into Chicago? All those people must be some kind of hologram... Nice photos Monte. The new neon wall backlighting the fountain at night will surely be postcard material.

I've been playing with some Sketchup massing of the proposed new program...trying to extrapolate the heights block by block. It's toooo daaamn biiiig guys. Seriously.I'm starting to think Carter only took the plunge because they ran their pro formas on this new density, not on the one envisioned by the Banks plan.

Good god in 20 years Cincinnati's urban experience from the vantage point of a boat floating from Dayton to Covington is going to triple.

Thanks Kevin

I would like to see the ascent built on top of the jenga building. it would be the world's largest piece of flair. Post of the day, imo.

That would be cool

Oh and of course Miami won't be as hot as Montana in the summer. That's one of the hallmarks of the continental climate zone. It's not moderated by oceans or their currents. (Thus, continental.) Here in Orlando, a hot summer day is 96, and a chilly summer day is 95. A real scorcher might see 97. If we didn't have ocean on both sides of us, the sun here could easily heat us up to the 110's.