Posted June 16, 200618 yr I'm new to posting on this forum, however I've been a lurker for the past year or two. For those of you who frequent SSP you might know me as I post there pretty frequently. I've never posted any photo threads before, so this is a first for me. I'm not a professional, so hopefully these are decent for all of you out there. I flew home to Northwest Ohio from Houston last August. While home, I made plans to drive down to Columbus to visit with a couple of friends I made while going to OSU. I wanted to hang with them at the Gallery Hop and go out clubbing, as well as check out the campus and take a closer look at the buildings that have been finished in the 14 months since I graduated (now 24 months). I must say it was great being back on campus and walking around. I definitely miss it very much. I brought along my digital camera and took 80+ photos. I had planned on going down to German Village the next day, but after filling up with $37 of gas after leaving my friend's house on the north side, I decided against driving all the way down there and using up more gas. So the only photos I have from this trip are from my walk around the OSU campus. I got lucky with the weather. It was suppose to be mostly sunny and about 85F & humid, however the forecast was blown and it ended up mostly cloudy during the afternoon with heavy rain just barely missing to the south. But all of that cloud cover helped to keep temperatures extremely comfortable. I felt like I was in heaven after the oppresive heat I'd been living with day in and day out in Houston the entire summer (and what I'm dealing with now). Ok, so enough talk. Here's the photos: Taylor Tower: the dorm I lived in for 2 years on north campus Curl Drive with Taylor Tower on the right, Jones Graduate Tower on the left, and Drackett Tower further down Houck House (across from Taylor Tower) Walkway in between the north campus dorms North Campus dining commons (where they served mostly bad food) Fisher College of Business on the right with the new Physics building straight ahead Neilwood Gables on the left, new Physics building straight ahead Fisher College of Business New Knowlton School of Architecture building... I'm not crazy about it's design, but the building it replaced was a total dive... I had a class in it my freshman year New Physics building again Courtyard on the east side of the Physics building (this land during my first 3 years at OSU was run down, fenced off land... looks good now) :) A new building, but I can't remember what it's replacing (just south of the Physics building) A view down 19th Avenue Looking south down an alley from 19th Avenue toward the Math Tower Corner of 19th Avenue where it curves around and becomes Neil Avenue Walkway over Neil Avenue connecting Caldwell Laboratory and Dreese Laboratory A view to the north toward the Fisher College of Business Knowlton School of Architecture main entrance Tuttle Parking Garage on the right with some retail stores on the first level Central Classrooms building with the McCracken Power Plant smoke stacks in the background View down Millikin Avenue with the Power Plant on the right The numbers just outside of Central Classrooms Looking down a walkway toward Oxley's by the Numbers and Ohio Stadium Postal Trucks lined up along Neil Avenue (Journalism Building is ahead on the left) University Hall The old Larkins Hall (student rec center) being torn down to build the newer facility (half of it is already finished ... the glass structure just beyond the demolition zone) South end of Ohio Stadium with the scoreboard and Morrill Tower in the background The Oval Blurry view looking east along the north side of the Oval View eastward along the north side of the Oval The Main Library Derby Hall, the building I spent the majority of my final two years in (atmospheric science... among other things in this building) Orton Hall Faculty Club (on the south side of the Oval) A view down one of the hilly walkways across Mirror Lake Hollow Kuhn Honors House Mirror Lake, my favorite spot on campus (so I have quite a few photos from here) Browning Amphitheater... a wedding was happening Beautifully landscaped walkway leading up from Mirror Lake toward the Main Library I didn't want to get too close and possibly disturb the wedding, so this was as close as my zoom could get (and without a tripod, it ended up blurry) Beautiful day for a wedding Mirror Lake Looking over the bike racks toward the Dental building (low one) and the James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Center (tall one) Intersection of Neil Avenue and 11th Avenue on South Campus OSU's Younkin Success Center on Neil Avenue with retail on the ground floor A view southward down Neil Avenue toward Victorian Village about a couple miles away I took this picture for all of the grit fans out there even though I don't like grit. This is a view down an ally on the far southern edge of campus. University owned buildings on the south edge of campus Jesse Owens Rec Center South South Campus dorm Looking east down 11th Avenue with a row of south campus high rise dorms lining the street Walkways between south campus dorms Drinko Hall, home of the Moritz College of Law University Gateway Project nearing completion along High Street on South Campus East campus housing The Gateway Project looks great to me. I like the architecture style they went with. Reminds me of typical architecture for Seattle or Portland which I love. Wish this had been around when I was a student College of Law again South Campus dorms Newly remodeled Page Hall I had a psychology course in Page Hall my sophomore year and it was a horrible building. I remember the floors actually being so uneven that you could feel the slope as you walked through it. It looks great now! :) Hughes Hall, where you can walk by in the fall and spring and hear the sounds of many instruments coming out the open windows (and where I took a vocal singing course that I very much enjoyed…. too bad I lost my voice the week of finals, LOL) View looking west down 17th Avenue. The taller brick building on the right is Lord Hall, probably the building on campus that is in most need of major repair/face lift. Side view of Derby Hall (home to my major) Walkway between a cluster of science buildings between 18th and 19th Avenues. A map of campus I started off my tour at my old dorm, Taylor Tower, and I finished it here. One final photo taken behind Taylor Tower along Lane Avenue, looking west toward the new bridge over the Olentangy River
June 16, 200618 yr Excellent! Welcome to the forum! Ohio State certainly has some beautiful parts, but those high-rise dorms just don't do it for me.
June 16, 200618 yr Those south campus high-rise dorms look like the projects lol but OSU has a beautiful campus and it's pretty much impossible to be bored.
June 21, 200618 yr You know, the Knowlton School of Architecture, I hated it at first, and in some ways I still do. But it has grown on me a bit. That might have been because of the fact that i was applying to get in there. I took a tour of the place once and was rather pleased with the openess of all the studios. I mean, it would be a nightmare for a security gaurd but hopefully that would never be an issue. Now the inside needs a little work as most of it is nothing but exposed concrete columns and walls but the idea is that it is a building in progress. Things will be added to it to as time goes on to give it its character. I think that is a rather interesting concept. Now whether or not it will happen--things being added to it that is--has yet to be seen. But then again it is only a year old.
June 21, 200618 yr You know every time i see the Gateway project it makes me wonder why UC didn't look to that for inspiration when designing the calhoun Street buildings. :wtf:The Gateway actually has character and it looks to be filling up. Calhoun (what is built so far) is very bland and seems cheap. I hope that what is being built on the other side of Calhoun looks more like gateway and not like the other side of the street. It should, considering the new stuff is market rate condos instead of student housing. I guess i'll keep my fingers crossed until i see the plans. ....I always love going up to OSU. It truly is a great campus and the vitality on campus is second to nowhere in Ohio. ...Go bucks :-D
June 22, 200618 yr Nice photos, but you have a funny idea of "grit". Try driving through the King-Lincoln district or Main st east of 71. Now that's grit.
June 22, 200618 yr Nice photos, but you have a funny idea of "grit". Try driving through the King-Lincoln district or Main st east of 71. Now that's grit. Because he was on "the otherside of Derby," he didn't get one of Dr. Kevin Cox's tours of Columbus. Thus he didn't get to see the near east side.
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