It was also the first modernist hotel project in the country, and the first hotel commission” for SOM. It was among the first high-rise buildings constructed after World War II in the United States. It “included two restaurants and a hotel tower and boasted a number of architectural and technological firsts. When it opened in 1948, the SOM-designed hotel was a “sensation,” as former AN editor Sidney Franklin wrote for the Cincinnati Enquirer. The structure has been vacant since 2008, and in 2020 it was included on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s annua l 11 Most Endangered Historic Places list.
A report on the building advocated for the idea that windows would need to be punched into the solid brick facade in order for the project to be attractive for developers. The commission voted 6-1 against declaring the 18-story hotel a local landmark, though the Cincinnati City Council will make the final decision on the building’s fate. H/t to 6sqft Cincy City planners say SOM’s Terrace Plaza Hotel shouldn’t be landmarkedĬincinnati’s National Register of Historic Places–listed modernist Terrace Plaza Hotel isn’t local landmark-worthy, according to a Friday decision from the city’s planning commission. This early gay rights action and the attendant publicity helped to raise awareness of widespread anti-LGBT discrimination and harassment.” With reporters and a photographer in tow, the activists announced they were homosexuals, asked to be served, and were refused. “On April 21, 1966, members of the Mattachine Society, a pioneering gay rights organization, challenged a regulation that prohibited bars from serving LGBT people by staging a ‘Sip-In’ at Julius’, a bar with a large gay clientele. The plaque that commemorates the event reads: (At the time it was illegal for bars to serve openly LGBT customers, per New York State Liquor Authority rules.) Julius’, a bar on West 10th Street and Waverly Place in the West Village, was the site of a “Sip-In,” a protest where gay rights activists descended on the bar en masse, announced their orientation, and asked to be served.
Village Preservation and the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project have dedicated a plaque to a historic New York City gay bar in recognition of its role in the LGBTQ rights movement. New York preservationists honor historic “Sip-In” at city’s oldest gay bar
Registration and more information can be found here. The message continued: “The Architecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC) 2022 Workshop will take place from July 18 to July 23 via Zoom as an open platform to discuss ideas, share resources and build a cohort interested in studio educational practices that better prepare architectural workers for activism and socio-economic relevance.”
The program launched last summer as “a platform for interrogating the structures and systems of power that have made change difficult within design professions and institutions, as well as from a belief that architecture schools do not teach what and how they could,” according to an email from organization. The planned virtual workshop will center on reimagining education in the studio. The Architecture Lobby announces Architecture Beyond Capitalism Summer School 2022Īrchitecture advocacy organization The Architecture Lobby has announced signups for this year’s edition of its Architecture Beyond Capitalism Summer School.