As part of an interview for a Soapbox story last week, Jared Wayne of Bloomfield/Schon + Partners was nice enough to give me a tour of the American Can building in Northside.
The building is part of the Factory Square project, which will house 96 market-rate loft apartments and 27,000 square feet of retail/office space.
The windowless structure is fairly clean - if not watertight - an has an assortment of old machine tools that the developers plan to incorporate into the units as furniture and art.
As you can see, it has been hit pretty hard by taggers and there is evidence of some of the concrete remediation work that's being done.
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Previous reading on BC:
American Can applies for brownfields funds (10/10/07)
American Can named local landmark (8/8/07)
Scooped on the American Can story (7/19/07)
Northside: American Can Factory Square (5/16/07)
Northside: American Can Factory Square (3/17/07)
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Inside American Can
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8 comments:
Wow, this is the first I've heard of this project in Northside. Sounds like a great idea and I'm sure it will be great for the neighborhood.
Thanks for sharing the pics!
great pics kevin.
Danke.
I just drove by that on Saturday and was wondering how to get in and take pictures. And now I don't have to.
^ Well, as you can see from all of the tagging, there are obviously ways to get in.
LEGAL: Building Cincinnati does not endorse trespassing or other illegal behavior. :D
Well, I wouldn't really call us "taggers" per say, it was really our first go at it. I was pleased with the results. Thank you for capturing our art on film, after the building people covered it up, I thought that I'd never see any of it again, but you know what that means. We'll just need to go back and add some more.
: )
And for all of you wondering, it is incredibly easy to get in. I've even left you a giant hole somewhere in the fence to go through.
It is discouraging that taggers, graffiti artists, or whatever, feel that they need to use historic structures as their own personal canvas. Anyone who believes in themselves that much as an artist should find some way to go to school and make money with it rather than destroying the integrity of our most beloved buildings. Not everyone appreciates the look of graffiti, and in fact, it just makes these buildings look that much more neglected. Look what they've done to the Crosley Building, for example.
Amen.
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