CITY VIEWS: Form Intervention in City Buildings I

Great American Tower - Cincinnati. The building is most often photographed showing the full height of the tower including the crowning tiara, but I wanted to give the viewer a different experience. I decided to photograph the prominent rotunda entrance at Fourth & Sycamore, and from a somewhat disorienting perspective, using the flagpole in the center of the frame to give the image an uncertain, fractured appearance. My idea was to play with the viewer’s expectations and preconceptions about architecture and landscape photography. I think of the flagpole as an intervention between the viewer and the subject to further amplify the visual discontinuity. Great American Tower at Queen City Square is a state-of-the-art 41-story office tower located in the heart of downtown Cincinnati's business district. Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum architect designed he tower, and construction was completed in 2011. This building surpassed the Carew Tower to become the city's new tallest building.The tiara (not shown here, but in many images online) was inspired by Cincinnati's nickname, Queen City, and by a photograph of a tiara worn by Diana, Princess of Wales. The tiara is made of steel tubes, weighs 400 tons.130 feet tall and measures 159 feet from east to west and 93 feet from north to south.
Form Intervention in City Buildings I

Great American Tower - Cincinnati. The building is most often photographed showing the full height of the tower including the crowning tiara, but I wanted to give the viewer a different experience. I decided to photograph the prominent rotunda entrance at Fourth & Sycamore, and from a somewhat disorienting perspective, using the flagpole in the center of the frame to give the image an uncertain, fractured appearance. My idea was to play with the viewer’s expectations and preconceptions about architecture and landscape photography. I think of the flagpole as an intervention between the viewer and the subject to further amplify the visual discontinuity.  

 

Great American Tower at Queen City Square is a state-of-the-art 41-story office tower located in the heart of downtown Cincinnati's business district. Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum architect designed he tower, and construction was completed in 2011. This building surpassed the Carew Tower to become the city's new tallest building. 

 

The tiara (not shown here, but in many images online) was inspired by Cincinnati's nickname, Queen City, and by a photograph of a tiara worn by Diana, Princess of Wales. The tiara is made of steel tubes, weighs 400 tons.130 feet tall and measures 159 feet from east to west and 93 feet from north to south.