Jan 13, 2018:

Somebody posted a great Cincinnati set at Skyscraperpage.com...

 

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=232449

Main Street in Over-the-Rhine today:

 

Cincinnati skyline from the rooftop of my company's office in Pendleton:

 

Fifth Third looks worse now...and that's saying something.

Fifth Third looks worse now...and that's saying something.

 

Looks like they twisted the top of a salt shaker onto its matching pepper thingy. 

Fifth Third looks worse now...and that's saying something.

 

It definitely looks really odd in the daytime now. It actually looks pretty good at night when it's lit up, although I'm not sure if there's any rhyme or reason why it turns different colors.

They really need to lost the top band altogether. The verticals terminating at the sky made the building look great in older photos. The top horizontal band ruins the entire aesthetic of the building.

They really need to lost the top band altogether. The verticals terminating at the sky made the building look great in older photos. The top horizontal band ruins the entire aesthetic of the building.

 

EXACTLY

 

I always thought free standing letters on the roof itself done in a modern fashion would work better, and give the branding even more exposure. This look is nearly impossible to read during the daytime, and looks unfinished.

While we're redesigning the 5/3 tower, can we also rally to bring back the original skin on the Kroger building?

 

Fifth Third looks worse now...and that's saying something.

 

Thing that bothers me at night when the band is lit up, is that the under band lighting was not mounted the same. You can see it the way it cast light down on the vertical members. I look at it all the time from my place and my OCD makes me want to write to them and say hey you know the northeast corner of the signage band has a lighting placement issue...

While we're redesigning the 5/3 tower, can we also rally to bring back the original skin on the Kroger building?

 

 

Ford had the good sense to never renovate its circa-1965 headquarters south of Detroit.  That thing looks great, even though it's in the middle of nowhere, and surrounded by a moat of Mercury SUV's. 

 

 

 

While we're redesigning the 5/3 tower, can we also rally to bring back the original skin on the Kroger building?

 

 

YES!!!!!  I would think advances in glass tech would allow that super see-thru look to be energy efficient. You see it it in other buildings now.

^ I made the argument somewhere on this website that the old Kroger building had to have looked much better than the current avreage-looking facade (I'm not old enough to have seen the original). I think it was John Schneider that shot me down and said in person, it was really, really ugly. In pictures, it reminds me a lot of Lever House, which is considered one of the best examples of its kind.

I may be in the minority, but I don't like skyscrapers where you can see the windows that have blinds pulled down. It makes it look really cluttered.

 

The idea of the old Kroger building design is great, but it doesn't look that appealing to me. Make all of the windows uniform and you might have something.

 

In fact, I don't want to be able to see inside a skyscrapers windows at all. It just adds unnecessary noise to the structure. Make the glass almost one-way so you can only see out of it. Maybe it looks better when a building isn't all windows. I'll have to pay attention next time I'm downtown.

I think the extensive use of roller shades for a large part of the day before the re-skin made it uglier than it really was.

The old Kroger looks OK in black & white, but the color pics I have seen of it make it look way worse than the current one.

 

Edit: Found a color pic

http://keywordsuggest.org/gallery/29550.html

I don't mind the current building.  The two worst "prominent" skyscrapers in Cincinnati are ***One Lytle Place (so ugly) and Fifth Third

I'm more offended by generic office buildings like Atrium One and Two or the PNC Center. Those buildings look like generic clip art images for "office building" and have no distinctive flair whatsoever.

I'm more offended by generic office buildings like Atrium One and Two or the PNC Center. Those buildings look like generic clip art images for "office building" and have no distinctive flair whatsoever.

 

And when you see the collections of buildings they replaced its even more shameful.

Cincinnati skyline from the rooftop of my company's office in Pendleton:

 

I love the back view of Cincy.  It shows how deep the city goes.  Would have been a great place for FC's stadium but the casino made horrible use out of that land.  You may be able to squeeze an arena in there but even that might not fit.  Instead we have a bunch of dead space surface lots in the front and back of the casino when all they had to do was move the parking garage all the way back towards the Liberty overpasses. 

I don't mind the current building.  The two worst "prominent" skyscrapers in Cincinnati are ***One Lytle Place (so ugly) and Fifth Third

 

I really like One Lytle Place. New windows and some clean concrete it would look great.

Rhinegeist roof top patio is now open for the season:

 

New skyline shot from Mt. Echo Park:

 

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I don't mind the current building.  The two worst "prominent" skyscrapers in Cincinnati are ***One Lytle Place (so ugly) and Fifth Third

 

I really like One Lytle Place. New windows and some clean concrete it would look great.

 

I regularly think that Cincy would have one of the best skylines in the US if everybody just decided to power wash their buildings. A lot of dirty concrete around town.

New night pano from Bellevue Hill Park:

 

Pendleton, as seen from the Carew Tower on July 3:

 

^See that parking garage at top right?  One time I was walking past there on a Sunday and heard a guy practicing his trumpet in the garage.  Also, the cicadas LOVE those small street trees right in front of it.  Brace for an intense reprise in 2021. 

Morning skyline panorama I made in July when I woke up too early and had nothing else to do:

 

Some photos from a rainy night. 

Someone walking barefoot down Clifton Ave.:

A lot of haze, but all 4 downtown tower cranes in this shot:

 

 

Here's a close up of 8th and Main, it's partially hiding behind the old URS building at 7th and Walnut:

 

 

Beautiful shot!

 

This guy visited Cincinnati and took some great shots!

 

See them!

New panorama from Fairview Park this evening:

 

On 7/23/2019 at 7:12 PM, taestell said:

New panorama from Fairview Park this evening:

 

 

4th and Race will fill that gap between the Netherland Plaza and the Millennium nicely. Wish it was a bit higher (or really that 8451 was higher but I've beat that horse dead long ago), but it will still add to the density of the skyline. It's exciting to think of the impact the new convention hotel will have, should it come to fruition.

 

Also, great photos @taestell. The warm light in this photo is really nice.

^Nice, except the black street light messes with the shot.  Those things aren't, in my opinion, a "classic" form, meaning they aren't quickly understood by the brain.  That means that they are very distracting from whatever else is happening in a view of DT Cincinnati. 

Awesome photo, I was just thinking, Carew could use a nice upgrade. Maybe it's one of the next inline for a full makeover, after they do the work on the PNC Tower and maybe that company will be the ones that do Carew too.

 

 

On 7/23/2019 at 10:12 PM, taestell said:

New panorama from Fairview Park this evening:

 

 

 

A good 'before' photo before FC Cincinnati takes up the bottom right corner as well.

 

23 minutes ago, SleepyLeroy said:

A good 'before' photo before FC Cincinnati takes up the bottom right corner as well.

 

I have been making that same panorama every year since 2016 and I got lucky that I picked this field of view back then. The stadium should be fully visible in my 2021 panorama.

A shot of Main Street from last summer, showing the Davis Furniture sign which was painted over on 1/1/2020:

 

View from Queensgate:

 

My latest skyline shot from Bellevue Hill Park (top; taken yesterday) compared to my first shot from this location (bottom; taken 2016):