Tag: construction

Aronoff Center for Design and Art Facade Replacement Webcam

As you all know, I’ve been obsessed about Peter Eisenman’s Aronoff Center for Design and Art Facade replacement project, which has ballooned to a $10 million facade renovation. So it’s nice that I can cyberstalk the DAAP building via webcam to see how they are fixing the facade. I think after total cost of initial construction and renovation, the university should have committed to a better facade construction system in the beginning instead of renovating the building every five years.

They should keep the building the grey, as shown in the above webcam capture.

Photos of Peter Eisenman’s DAAP Building Renovation

We’ve written extensively about Peter Eisenman’s University of Cincinnati DAAP building skyrocketing renovation costs, which are now estimated to cost $10 million. An UC alumnus writes in with the following photos of the renovation in progress. You can see in the photos that the surface EIFS Dryvit material is being stripped away to the steel stud or concrete block structure. These photos makes me wonder what a translucent or transparent surface would look like – the structural gymnastics the metal studs are performing are amazing.