I'm afraid that this will go down as the one modern-era ballpark where the architects missed the mark. Like the new Comiskey park in Chicago, instead of building in charm and uniqueness, the architects designed a stadium thatlooks disturbingly like the cookie-cuter stadium it replaced (in this case Riverfront. The outfield, while unique, is somewhat contrived (fake riverboat smokestacks, for example). The city of Cincinnati did a nice job of making the stadium (which is really an island unto itself - separated from downtown by a major interstate) seem less detached than Riverfront was by increasing the width of pedestrian bridges and doing extensive landscaping. All in all, though, this is not a very remarkable stadium.
