Comments on: ADVENTURES IN BUFFALOLAND | Episode 5: Medical Campus: The Cure for Buffalo?

By: ink cartridges

ink cartridges — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:14:25 +0000

Just imagine I learn it twice. While I am not really expert about this subject, I tally with your closings because they make sense. Gives Thank you and goodluck to you.

By: dcdotcom

dcdotcom — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:22:43 +0000

Great Video….it’s mistakes like what you what Buffalo has allowed to happen with the medical campus, that lead me into architecture/urban planning. I’m a former resident Buffalo and can name every mistake as it relates to the built enviroment that has happened in Buffalo since 1958. That is when I begin to look at the built enviroment at the tender age of 9.

Please share the video with the Mayor and the powers that be. The is defintely need for Urban Design guidelines for the city. It seems every new building has to have a surface parking lot in the front of the structure, that should be a no-no.

By: AIM

AIM — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:47:22 +0000

Sorry, this is my pet peeve. Anti-social DOES NOT mean “against being social”. It is a characteristic of sociopathic or psychopathic disorders marked by a lack of remorse or guilt and a tendency to be manipulative towards others. So anti-social people actually tend to be fairly charming and seem outgoing…at first.
Also something I noticed in other videos, he seems to use forbidding where he should be using foreboding, these words do not have the same connotation
This man knows a lot about architecture but doesn’t know beans about English.
Love the program, keep up the good work.

By: PAC

PAC — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:59:09 +0000

Have you ever heard of the KISS SLAP KISS theory? I am sure there have to be some positive things going on in this neighborhood but you neglected to point even one out – your negativity only made me want to look for the good in these building and I am sure there are more sides to all of them than you showed – very narrow minded report!! Find something positive, then show the flaws and end on a high note – will make people more interested in what you have to say – sounds like sour grapes to me!!

By: jeff freier

jeff freier — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:52:26 +0000

how about an episode on eagle st. w/ dominique

By: :)

:) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:04:12 +0000

Can I look forward to your next video, in which you discuss the Trico Building and how they have to block off the sidewalk altogether due to it physically falling apart? Maybe then you can enlighten us as to why it hasn’t been fixed yet…

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:19:26 +0000

To say that the “front” looks okay, so we don’t need to worry about how the back looks is basically equating your architectual “design” to that of the mullet.

By: Britannica

Britannica — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:33:55 +0000

OK; first, I think we would all agree that wonderful work is done throughout the BNMC and its surrounding neighborhood. Nothing that Tim says about urban design here suggests otherwise.

Second, as I see it, Tim’s main point is that several of the private/public interfaces in this neighborhood are flawed from an urban design standpoint. But the comments above raise numerous irrelevant red herrings: that wonderful work is done here, that HWI has two entrances (though I wonder which gets more use), that HWI is not part of RPCI, that the HWI building is gorgeous and has won awards, that the HWI interior is nice, that HWI does not own the fence and parking lot, etc. So please, let us try to stay focused; does anyone actually think that these three buildings interface in a truly effective way with the public realm?

Finally, Eliz, I find it hard to believe that you and your Allentown neighbors “don’t give a damn where they put their dumpsters.” This must be rhetorical flourish, right? Or are you really satisfied if your neighbors want to keep dumpsters, say, permanently stored on their lawns? Even the City’s housing code requires that our garbage totes be stored in rear yards. Is such a law silly nonsense?

Again, we are ALL “very excited about what is happening there,” but this is irrelevant to the urban design of this district. Can we (as Tim suggests at the end of the episode) do both science and pedestrian-friendly urban design?

By: peter grine

peter grine — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:37:17 +0000

cmon tim, i love your enthusiasm but that was just plain wrong. what about the south side of virginia st? ullrichs, only 1 person can walk on that sidewalk at a time. you could have at least mentioned the “honky tube” over ellicott st.

By: Eliz

Eliz — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:20:41 +0000

I think HWI is a gorgeous building from every side. The dynamics of what is now BNMC have been in place for many, many years and to blame HWI for not being able to fix that is ridiculous. This area has been dominated by large institutional structures for years. You can’t reverse that; you can only try to add better buildings and do what you can to unify the disparate elements. I believe that is happening. All my Allentown neighbors are very excited about what is happening there and we don’t give a damn where they put their dumpsters.

Also, the will to finally develop Metzger and the others (and I know very well what it took to keep those buildings from being demolished) came at least partially from the activity on the BNMC.