Comments on: When Columbus Discovered Modern Architecture

By: matth

matth — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:11:32 +0000

Not bad. Not as good as your pictures from New Orleans, but not bad.

By: robertl

robertl — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:52:48 +0000

Visited Columbus back in 1970 as part of an architectural history class (Miami U., Oxford, OH). Amazing what the prosperity of a small town (and Cummins Deisel) can do when they set their minds to it….

By: MattH

MattH — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:56:00 +0000

These are nice pics, but I too am not a fan of the architecture. Many of these buildings look like prisons. It’s not as bad as the awful “brutalist” style, but not nearly as good as what Americans were building in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:03:48 +0000

I like the bridge. The rest is crap.

By: Ratko

Ratko — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:42:37 +0000

Just add a couple minarets and Muslims would travel from around the globe to Colombus, IN just to get arrested so they can become jailed in what must be the world’s only jail house that looks like a mosque.

That was the jail in the image wasn’t it? I’m going by the description in your article, which by the way was interesting.

Although I had been to Colombus, IN, and have used numerous Cummins engines, I was clueless of any connection involving the architecture and the engine.

This type of funding of art is completely acceptable as opposed to government, which has no business paying for art of any kind.

By: Matt I.

Matt I. — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:05:11 +0000

It’s not just Xanax Radley. Lorazepam, Temazepam and a host of blood pressure meds are always on my desk before I browse this site.

By: BoredGreg

BoredGreg — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:11:17 +0000

Dammit Radley,

I come here to be outraged not to be linked to something that’s interesting and enjoyable to read.

I’m still smoking some weed after just not to calm down.

By: KBCraig

KBCraig — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:35:34 +0000

Meh. Most of it leaves me cold.

I appreciate the art, but I have always believed the goal of architecture is to create a space that suits the building’s purpose, and then surround that space. Useless gewgaws tacked onto the outside (often not even attached to the building) just annoy me.

By: Tokin42

Tokin42 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:05:14 +0000

I read this piece earlier, good stuff. I used to get to spend quite a bit of time in Columbus, now I pass through just a couple times of year, it’s always a treat.