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UC in at #5 by Travel & Leisure Magazine.

A decades-long renewal topping $1 billion is paying dividends for Cincy, which has cultivated a strikingly modern look—and proven that “it doesn’t need ivy-covered brick walls” to be beautiful, as UC Magazine put it.

Notable architects Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, Frank Gehry, and Peter Eisenman have each made their mark on the campus, whose Main Street leads to the prow-shaped Steger Student Life Center and the Tangeman University Center, which, in 2005, dramatically repositioned the original clock tower atop a skylight in a 90-foot atrium.

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While I agree, this is from 2016.

(12-06-2018 08:29 AM)bearcatdp Wrote:  While I agree, this is from 2016.

Yes I poste then but did again when I got a new email on same. Nice to remind us. A selling point for any conference expansion along with updated arena, stadium, major research, big endowment, etc.

(12-06-2018 08:34 AM)doss2 Wrote:  

(12-06-2018 08:29 AM)bearcatdp Wrote:  While I agree, this is from 2016.

Yes I poste then but did again when I got a new email on same. Nice to remind us. A selling point for any conference expansion along with updated arena, stadium, major research, big endowment, etc.

Some are bigger than others

(12-06-2018 08:34 AM)doss2 Wrote:  

(12-06-2018 08:29 AM)bearcatdp Wrote:  While I agree, this is from 2016.

Yes I poste then but did again when I got a new email on same. Nice to remind us. A selling point for any conference expansion along with updated arena, stadium, major research, big endowment, etc.

Totally agree. We'll take all of the positive press we get.

Good thing they didn't do this survey in the mid 80's.

I don't think they'd have been too impressed by the big hole in front of the field house, walking past the lovely physical plant and feeling some sort of mystery substance dropping on you or taking in a baseball game on portable aluminum bleachers that were just thrown in there at cockeyed angles.

Thanks for this - good to know. In other news, did anyone see that Sander Hall came down? It's about time. Some video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q08y6cFsTw

(12-06-2018 12:55 PM)geef Wrote:  Thanks for this - good to know. In other news, did anyone see that Sander Hall came down? It's about time. Some video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q08y6cFsTw

(12-06-2018 12:55 PM)geef Wrote:  Thanks for this - good to know. In other news, did anyone see that Sander Hall came down? It's about time. Some video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q08y6cFsTw

(12-06-2018 10:55 AM)Def Berkkat Wrote:  Good thing they didn't do this survey in the mid 80's.

I don't think they'd have been too impressed by the big hole in front of the field house, walking past the lovely physical plant and feeling some sort of mystery substance dropping on you or taking in a baseball game on portable aluminum bleachers that were just thrown in there at cockeyed angles.

It only cost a billion to redo the campus. I wish UC could buy the rest of Burnet Woods. Today, Burnet is about 90 acres, but it was 170 acres when first established in the 1870s by two wealthy landowners, William Groesbeck and Robert Burnet, and leased to the city as parkland. Cincinnati bought a lot of it, but so did the University of Cincinnati, which develop it into its college campus.

Put in a 9 hole golf course, etc.

(12-08-2018 11:44 AM)doss2 Wrote:  

(12-06-2018 10:55 AM)Def Berkkat Wrote:  Good thing they didn't do this survey in the mid 80's.

I don't think they'd have been too impressed by the big hole in front of the field house, walking past the lovely physical plant and feeling some sort of mystery substance dropping on you or taking in a baseball game on portable aluminum bleachers that were just thrown in there at cockeyed angles.

It only cost a billion to redo the campus. I wish UC could buy the rest of Burnet Woods. Today, Burnet is about 90 acres, but it was 170 acres when first established in the 1870s by two wealthy landowners, William Groesbeck and Robert Burnet, and leased to the city as parkland. Cincinnati bought a lot of it, but so did the University of Cincinnati, which develop it into its college campus.

Put in a 9 hole golf course, etc.

Me too, but Cincinnati people are old Germans with long memories. Someone said way back (when well to do people lived around the woods) that no more should be sold to the University, so that's how it must always be.

unfortunately if you touch burnout woods, i'll cry. i'll understand, but i'll cry. i've said it before, the only thing burnett woods needs is a forest biergarten. well actually that's the first time i mentioned forest preceding. carry on

(12-08-2018 12:35 PM)Bruce Monnin Wrote:  

(12-08-2018 11:44 AM)doss2 Wrote:  

(12-06-2018 10:55 AM)Def Berkkat Wrote:  Good thing they didn't do this survey in the mid 80's.

I don't think they'd have been too impressed by the big hole in front of the field house, walking past the lovely physical plant and feeling some sort of mystery substance dropping on you or taking in a baseball game on portable aluminum bleachers that were just thrown in there at cockeyed angles.

It only cost a billion to redo the campus. I wish UC could buy the rest of Burnet Woods. Today, Burnet is about 90 acres, but it was 170 acres when first established in the 1870s by two wealthy landowners, William Groesbeck and Robert Burnet, and leased to the city as parkland. Cincinnati bought a lot of it, but so did the University of Cincinnati, which develop it into its college campus.

Put in a 9 hole golf course, etc.

Me too, but Cincinnati people are old Germans with long memories. Someone said way back (when well to do people lived around the woods) that no more should be sold to the University, so that's how it must always be.

Many of those old Germans won't admit that UC is a great asset to Cincinnati and Hamilton County.

(12-08-2018 01:13 PM)Lush Wrote:  unfortunately if you touch burnout woods, i'll cry. i'll understand, but i'll cry. i've said it before, the only thing burnett woods needs is a forest biergarten. well actually that's the first time i mentioned forest preceding. carry on

Put the biergarten next to the existing band stand. Love your thinking!

UC's campus has improved by leaps and bounds, but I'll never understand putting trailers at our front door where Wilson Auditorium stood. The east side of 5/3 with the decaying remains of Sawyer and whatever dorm that is desolate and ugly - certainly not worthy of nation's most beautiful campus.

Still work to be done.

I also wonder about long-term planning. They bulldozed the huge parking lot, hired a big name like Hargreaves (?) and paid them a lot of money to landscape design the green area...then bulldoze about a third of it for a brand new business building.

(12-08-2018 01:13 PM)Lush Wrote:  unfortunately if you touch burnout woods, i'll cry. i'll understand, but i'll cry. i've said it before, the only thing burnett woods needs is a forest biergarten. well actually that's the first time i mentioned forest preceding. carry on

Amen.

Improve on what's there, but don't bulldoze it. I like the biergarten idea.

(12-08-2018 01:13 PM)Lush Wrote:  unfortunately if you touch burnout woods, i'll cry. i'll understand, but i'll cry. i've said it before, the only thing burnett woods needs is a forest biergarten. well actually that's the first time i mentioned forest preceding. carry on

so did they clean that up? When I was a student it always seemed like that was where you went if you wanted to get raped, mugged, drugs, etc.

i never really knew burnett to be an eyesore

I drive through Burnett occasionally these days. Doesn't seem to get used for much of anything, as far as parks go.

(12-21-2018 03:26 PM)Bruce Monnin Wrote:  I drive through Burnett occasionally these days. Doesn't seem to get used for much of anything, as far as parks go.

A Biergarten might change that. Hofbrau probably should have been built there.