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Getting to the University of Cincinatti:
Air Travel Information
The Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport is located in Northern Kentucky. As a Delta hub we are easily accessible from most cities in the United States. Take a cab to campus. The ride will normally take about 20-30 minutes depending on traffic and construction and should cost about $35. We are less than 2 hours away from a number of other regional airports including Louisville, Indianapolis, Columbus, Dayton, and Lexington. You might find airfares less expensive if you go through one of these locations but you will need a car to get you to campus.
Bus Travel Information
The Greyhound Bus Station is located about 3 miles from the main UC campus. You will need to take a cab to campus. Cabs are usually located directly out in front of the bus station. If there is a shortage they may ask you to share the cab with another passenger. The cost is approximately $6. to campus and takes about 10 minutes.
Rail Travel Information
The Cincinnati area has limited passenger rail service. Trains arrive around 4 am on Wednesday morning, Friday morning, Sunday morning from Chicago. Trains arrive around 2 am on Tuesday morning, Thursday morning, and Saturday morning from the Washington D.C. area. The trains disembark from the Union Terminal Museum Center located about 3 miles from campus. You will need to take a cab to campus but remember, you will be arriving very early! The cab ride will cost approximately $6 and take about 10 minutes.
The map below shows how to get to the university's main campuses from surrounding major highways.
The College-Conservatory of Music
Henry N. Cobb, architect, 1996-1999
The new Mary Emery Hall replaced an obsolete portion of the existing building to create an additional 184,000 square feet of new construction, designed by signature architect Henry Cobb, completion: December '99. The College-Conservatory of Music's new construction wraps around the existing building, creates a college quadrangle and reconstructs an underground garage. Earlier phases of construction rehabilitated the historically significant Memorial Hall and Schmidlapp Hall (now the Dieterle Vocal Arts Center) for CCM use.
Joseph A. Steger Student Life Center
See post 4
Gwathmey Siegel & Associates-Tangeman University Center
Responding to the University's desire for continuity, the student center incorporates key elements of the original 1935 building; a campus landmark. The Greek Revival facade facing the central commons, the original shed roof and its distinctive cupola are preserved and surrounded by a new glazed rotunda that offers three separate entries and views to the rest of the campus.
A friends firm, GBBN Architects of Cincinnati, was the Architect of record.
Joseph A. Steger Student Life Center
Project Team:
MRY-Buzz Yudell, Mario Violich and Adam Padua.
Glaserworks- Art Hupp, Steve Haber, Mike Moose, Paul Duffy, Mike Maltinsky, Rick Fohl, Evan Eagle, Len Harding, David Schmidt, Vicki Whitley, Scott Layman, Renea Whittle, Anthony Salvador, Phillip Buchy; Digital lllustrations by Lauren Walker.
Consultants:
Hargreaves Associates, ARUP, THP Limited, Heapy Engineering, Kolar Design with Marcia Shortt, Design Details, Inc., Brashear-Bolton, Cronenberg & Co.
The Student Life Center (SLC) and the renovated Swift Hall are part of MainStreet–a new spine of campus activity. MainStreet is anchored at the west by Tangeman University Center and at the east by a new student recreation center. As it links the two the Student Life Center traverses nearly 600 feet in length and drops 55 feet in height.
The most active day/night uses, such as cafés and computer labs, are located at (Main)street level. Key paths of campus movement are reinforced by perpendicular cuts through the building. A series of “found spaces” to the north (the mews) are shaped as social places between the new and existing buildings. A covered but open-to-the air atrium is formed between SLC and Swift Hall.
SLC is a single-loaded building. Social corridors along the south side reprise the movement of the arcade below and are animated by bays for informal gathering. Social stairs are daylighted and become focal points for orientation and movement. The building form and fenestration are animated by the activities within. Bays, galleries, and arcades speak of the dynamic academic and social energy of the place.
Engineering Research Center
1994 - 1995
Michael Graves, Architect
Made of stone stone and brick, the Engineering Research Center is part of the new East Campus at the University of Cincinnati. An upper level bridge connects the Center to the Schneider Engineering Quadrangle.The 167,000-square-foot state-of-the-art Engineering Research Center at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, provides flexible-use laboratories, a clean room, offices for faculty and graduate students, and an auditorium for general university use. Situated on the axis of University Place, the building acts as a gate to the campus. A major public stairway extends through the building to an upper level plaza and the university library
Morphosis left,
Bernard Tschumi Student Athletic Center, right.
Richard E. Lindner Varsity Village
New baseball stadium completed in May 2004
Other sports facilities and fields set for completion in December 2005
The $109 million Richard E. Lindner Varsity Village project, which broke ground in the spring of 2003, consists of a complex of athletic fields and sports facilities that includes a new 3,000-seat baseball stadium at the corner of Corry Blvd. and Scioto Street. The centerpiece for Varsity Village is the 236,000 square-foot Richard E. Lindner Athletic Center of eight levels (three below ground and five above) nestled between Shoemaker Center to the east and Nippert Stadium to the west. The new center will provide centralized administrative and coaching offices for all intercollegiate sports, reception and meeting spaces for visitors, ticket office, locker facilities for all sports, a training/sports medicine/rehabilitation suite, new strength-and-conditioning facilities, and a new practice gymnasium for men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball. The athletic center will also house a new faculty dining facility, the relocated student health center, a 330-seat auditorium, an Academic Services Center, and a university and sports museum.
In addition to the baseball stadium and athletic center, Varsity Village will include a new 150-space, underground parking garage, a six-court tennis center atop the garage, renovations to the existing Shoemaker Center and renovations to the existing Armory Fieldhouse. The project is designed by Bernard Tschumi Architects of New York City in partnership with the local firm, Glaserworks.
Morphosis
Student Recreation Center
The building occupies a central location on the University Campus and has, as it’s primary task, the goal of integrating contrasting existing buildings and site conditions. Surrounding the site is the Football Stadium, The Main Pedestrian thoroughfare, and a large campus green. The project extends the unresolved open edges and weaves them together across the facility.
A folded roof-scape picks up the artificial green of the stadium and establishes the main spaces of the recreation facility. The edge of the stadium is repeated in the undulated shape of the housing component. This element forms the urban edge of the complex along the Main Street of the campus leading toward the campus green. Continuing the line of one of the main axes on Campus, the existing Field House is given a new facade, which encompasses the cooling towers and the convenience store at grade.
On the ground level three public pedestrian walkways through the facility allow access and insight to the various programmatic elements on the levels below and above. Main Street develops into a passage through the building’s main entrance lobby, passing a climbing wall and juice bar and inviting views up to the open fitness areas or down over the pools and the basketball gymnasium. Along the east, a “Walk of Fame” establishes a new access to the existing Varsity Basketball arena to the south.
The covered exterior path overlooks the new basketball gymnasium on the west and the remodeled multipurpose courts in the Field House to the east. To the North side of the stadium a bridge passes a set of new bleachers which create outside seating space at the entrance to the food court overlooking the field.
Three levels of student housing, organized in four-bedroom apartments, are lifted off the ground on pilotis and look out over the folded roofscape, the stadium, campus green and the activities along Main Street.
The 350,000 square feet building, part of the UC Master Plan, includes a Recreation Center with two 2 pools, basketball gymnasium, racquetball courts, multipurpose rooms, fitness and weight lifting areas), a Food Court, Student Housing (224 beds), a convenience store and varsity gymnasium facilities.
The Vontz Center for Molecular Studies
Frank O. Gehry & Associates in association with BHDP Architecture 1997-1999
The Vontz Center consists of three occupied floors (containing offices and laboratories) and has walkable interstitial space above each floor. Oversized multistory windows protrude from the building's sculptural forms, giving the massive shapes a sense of permanence and rigidity, which plays well with the more whimsical and rotund shapes that dominate the building. It's these very windows, however, that proved to be a bit of a challenge for those working in the Vontz Center's office spaces. Within months of moving into the building, office workers used large pieces of paper, cloth and in some cases tarp to cover the sun from shining in through the large windows. Perhaps due to the aesthetic issues presented by such attempts at comfortable working conditions by the workers, or by their requests, the large windows are now fitted with large adjustable screens. These screens and are reminiscent of those that were used in Peter Eisenman's Wexner Center, in order to keep the harmful sun out of gallery spaces.
Well that didn't take long. I refused to take pics of the Aronoff. Too damn hideous. It isn't aging well. I was in it during construction and it was starting to look shabby even then.
The campus is getting to be a who's who of Architecture, all within a pretty small area. I'm not positive but I think only MIT has got such collection of architects.
Are there an UC grads at the forum?
I'll have to get my map out and fill these tonite. Pei, Graves, Eiseman, Gehry, Morphosis, Tsunami and a bunch of others all together in this Campus. It's like a Museum of Architecture.
Great place to stop if you have a chance.
http://www.horizons.uc.edu/0904/MainStreet.htm
*thanks for sharing those photos, still i have a lot to discover
I might rename this thread
Good Idea. The guessing game didn't last too long. Let's call it 'University of Cincinnati-Main Street photos'. How do I change the actual thread name?
Just noticed the the Steger Student Life Center in post 2 is featured in this months Architectural Record if you would like to see better pics.
jparchitectus
18-08-2005, 20:15
Nice series of images. You could also link each project with the architects website, or a site that references that project.
Cincy Site Regarding Main Street
http://www.horizons.uc.edu/0904/MainStreet.htm
Design Architects-Moore Ruble Yudell
This is a Flash site so you'll have to navigate on your own.
http://www.mryarchitects.com/index_centered.html
Associate Architects-Glaser Architects
http://www.glaserworks.com/www2/Current/index.cgi?mode=album&album=./Student%20Life%20Center
sigue2000
18-08-2005, 22:29
Good post. What an incrdible campus, its a bit like Vitra (http://www.vitra.de/architecture/default.asp?lang=us_us) except a lot bigger.
janelson
19-08-2005, 04:04
Jake
I came across your post. It is great, I wish the people making decisions about buildings at this campus could visit Cincinnati. Although I haven't been to the campus in many years on my next trip to Ohio I am going to make sure I take a detour south. I am not quite sure what this has to do with SketchUp and pushpull but I would love to get some high resolution images to share with my architecture students here at UNC Charlotte. Thanks
janelson,
It wasn't a very good day for photos, but I'd be happy to send you what I have. If you give me the sizes you prefer or how you plan on using them, I'll see what I could do for you.
Good place for a field trip for the students. I have a bunch of friends that are a UC grads and I'll bet if you are ever in the area one of them would be glad to give you the 50 cent tour of the campus.
what a gem of architecture... just sad to think I was driving through Cincinnati this last spring on my way up to cleveland for a wedding... didn't even really know about all this work... I knew Peter Eisenman had done the architecture school building but that was it... thanks for the post...
Scott M
Actually, the Eiseman building is the least likable of all the buildings. It's not aging well.
We just hired a UC grad for our Chicago office last Friday. She said there is a lot of grumblings about the Morphosis building now going up. Too many windows in the lab spaces. Oh well.
primocordara
07-11-2005, 00:07
Wow, great architecture showroom! Thanks for these ones jake!!
Here the kmz and some views...
primocordara
07-11-2005, 00:08
Aoronoff center by Peter Eisenman
primocordara
07-11-2005, 00:16
Morphosis Student recreation center
hmmm I actually heard some crits. on it in an article a while back (I think it was dated around when the bldg. was completed - I'm talking about the Eisenman one here)... There was concern about the form or the bldg. and how it messed with your perspective in space or something to that effect? anyhow, I saw a few images of it but wasn't too impressed... Is that Morphosis bldg. finished?
It would be cool to get a thread up of Architecture schools around the world... The school I went to (southern Poly, in Metro Atlanta) had a new bldg. done about 5-6 yeras ago. It was done by Heery... It isn't a bad building at all... nothing really ground breaking design wise but a good modern, high-tech-ish styled bldg. I fortunately was able to enjoy my last 1.5 years there... I will see about getting some photos taken of it and start a thread ... unless someone beats me to it :)
Scott M
hmmm I actually heard some crits. on it in an article a while back (I think it was dated around when the bldg. was completed - I'm talking about the Eisenman one here)... There was concern about the form or the bldg. and how it messed with your perspective in space or something to that effect? anyhow, I saw a few images of it but wasn't too impressed... Is that Morphosis bldg. finished?
Scott M
I actually walked through the Eisenman building during construction and it gave me the creeps. It didn't help that I was partying the night before, but there is a small enclosed stairway in the back of the building that made me physically ill because it messes with your perspective. It really induced vertigo.
The problem with the rest of the building is the material, mostly EFIS. The interior walls were pretty beat up before the thing was even open. I believe budget issues forced the use of poor materials.
I don't think the Morphosis building is done yet.
primocordara
07-11-2005, 10:33
Here a location map with google earth...
primocordara
07-11-2005, 10:35
A close up of the Morphosis building... Some cool use of the new GE pug in for SU: you can import this image from GE to SU in real scale and with the terrain in 3D just by clicking the camera button!
primocordara
24-11-2005, 17:30
Look Ryo-san! another Gehry landed here... ;)
It's a bit sad to see photos of such great buildings without people interacting with them? Where were all of the students?
I took these on Sunday during the summer. Not even the summer session was going at the time.
I'm going to be making a trip up to See the campus on the 13th of July... Hope to add to some of the pics here and will add to the kmz's also. It was this thread that really got me into visiting architecture that was just a days drive away... Thanks Jake (hope all is well where ever you are now days :)).
eaglesbecomevultures
05-07-2007, 17:02
The sad thing about all the recent development in the campus area is that the university is now buying up the surrounding historic neighborhoods and razeing the buidlings to build student apartments with retail space below them. There's a whole section of land between calhoun and west mcmillian that is just gone now. From taking a walk around you can get a good idea of the urban fabric of the place, and what it used to be like in that area. Where there once were some smaller independently owned restaurants and bars (and a few fast food joints) there is now ben and jerry's and panera in the same type of banal development I see around so many other campus areas lately. But I guess that's maybe a topic for another thread. That being said... I do think the university has an amazing campus! :)
I thought I had posted some of these... I took an architectural trip with a friend of mine last year. We got a private tour of the campus, which you can contact them and request, and had a great time. These following images are of the "Main street" area that is the main organizing spine that ties much of the newer buildings of the campus together.
This shot I was contacted about some months after shooting in Cincy and it was published in "Urban Land" magazine for an article on college campuses going to the mixed-use idea...
Images showing the beginning of the "Main street", which is anchored to the left by the Morphosis Student Center building (this building is just massive and is more than meets the eye)
And finally... looking from the opposite end of the "main street" back towards the Morphosis Student Center. Gwathmey Seagal's student activities Center is to the right, and the football stadium is just beyond that to the right, which the Mophosis building engages.
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