I went to Columbus in August 2017 for no especially good reason, the flights and the weather combined in such a fashion as to guarantee a cheerful few days. I walked quite a bit through the streets, coming across festivals or busy parks though much of the centre of the city was relatively quiet. I had printed a guide to modern architecture in the city and I managed to visit almost all the entries on the guide. The parks alongside the Scioto River were new and lovely, and the overall impression I had was of pleasantness.
Photo List (Total 313 Photos)
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Downtown Columbus (127 photos) - This gallery starts at the Ohio Statehouse, which is an odd, wedding-cake like affair in the middle of downtown. The gallery captures most of the tall buildings in the city, some nearby commercial streets, and then heads down to the Scioto River for views of the city. There was a Latino Festival on, which I wandered through, and oddly there was a sort of display of farm machinery right next to that (the Latino festival was more popular). This gallery ends at the Arena District, which is a neighbourhood built from scratch in the past two decades, and I thought they did a fine job of it.
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Arts District (73 photos) - This area, slightly to the east of the central city, includes the campus of the Columbus College of Art & Design, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the Topiary Park nearby. The photos include a leisurely visit to the CMA.
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Short North (53 photos) - High Street is the main commercial street of Columbus. After it passes north of the Convention Centre, it becomes the lively focus of a neighbourhood called the "Short North" (which is a fantastic name for a neighbourhood, in my opinion) which is clustered through with restaurants and galleries. The neighbourhood installed some 17 steel arches across the street, very similar to ones that were removed in 1916, and which give the neighbourhood a strong identity. I walked the length of the Short North, and visited a beautiful public library at the north end of the neighbourhood, and I also had tacos here. These photos show the commercial street, Goodale Park, lots of the murals that adorn the street, the library and Condado restaurant.
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Ohio State University (37 photos) - The architectural guide I had consulted had five modern buildings of note up at Ohio State University, which has quite a large campus north of the Short North neighbourhood. This series includes the Thompson Library, the Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture (which sadly, I could not enter), the Bill and Mae McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion, the Student Academic Services Building, and the Wexner Centre for the Arts, alongside other buildings and views.
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Brewery District (16 photos) - This area just south of downtown, also along High Street, had a bakery which was on my list of places to see, so I wandered there before going to the art gallery on Sunday. I bought a lovely treat, and wandered some of the brick streets of this neighbourhood.
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Airplane and Plane photos (7 photos) - Two photos of the John Glenn Columbus International Airport, and five shots from the plane, mostly of central Columbus, but one of Pelee Island.
