David Greusel

Architect, writer, speaker, former radio comedian, designer of PNC Park and Daikin Park

[David Greusel @lesuerg]

If only... The trendoids hate brick.

[Trevor Acorn 🔰🌹🇺🇸🌎 @trevoracorn]

Whatever we want to call this style, it’s a style we’re going to see a lot of in the coming decade.

[David Greusel @lesuerg]

I want the Exposition Building back (and the roller coaster).

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

Great capture of the old park and what Pittsburgh's Point used to look like

[David Greusel @lesuerg]

Can confirm.

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

It's quite difficult to explain how good it is without sounding preachy or insane

Good marriage is a shared consciousness that verges on a shared madness. Intensely pleasant. How can you hope to convey?

[Nancy Franson @nancyfranson]

Moon over the most beautiful ballpark on the planet!

[Platinum Key @PlatinumKey13]

I swear Apple TV schedules so many games at PNC Park just for the drone shots

What a sunset

[David Greusel @lesuerg]

@NancyRPearcey Because it doesn't implicate the Founders.

[TodayInSports @TodayInSportsCo]

Do you agree? ⚾️

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

the measure of an economy's success is the degree of human flourishing it facilitates.

[David Greusel @lesuerg]

@BallparkHunter @MetroSaints Shaun White, spiritual director LLC

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

PNC is highly recommended. A great ballpark!

[Pittsburgh Pirates @Pirates]

BVIB (best view in baseball)

[David Greusel @lesuerg]

Wouldn't even have to change the name. Trailblazers is very on brand for KC.

[Blake Miller @ImBlake]

Kansas City has always been a trailblazing town.

[createstreets @createstreets]

Place not date. Every single time.

[Marilyn Moedinger @mwmoedinger]

A "rendering" is not a "design."

You can make a rendering before you have a design, but it will have very little basis in reality.

If you're planning a real building, and want to see an accurate rendering of that building, you do have to design it first 🤷🏼‍♀️

[David Greusel @lesuerg]

Hill and flagpole, not light tower. Please. I'm not a barbarian.

[Kent Murphy @KentMurphy]

Remember when the Astros had an actual hill AND LIGHT TOWER in center field?

[David Greusel @lesuerg]

"It is not quite enough to know how to escape restrictions; sooner or later one also has to think of arriving somewhere." --Arthur Miller, in @Harpers March, 1999

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

My most socialist position is that all NFL, NBA, and MLB playoff games should be on network TV - kids whose parents can’t afford or don’t have streaming services should still be able to watch

[John Loeber 🎢 @johnloeber]

Just Let Me Pay You

I'm on a flight. I want Wifi. There's a portal. It requires me to make an account. I don't want to make an account. Alternatively, I can "log in" with my booking reference code and my last name.

I open the Delta App on my phone to get the booking reference. But the Delta App -- for some reason -- doesn't store my session, but rather wants to authenticate me *every single time* using Face ID. But I don't have internet connectivity so Face ID fails? And it's not using my passcode as a backup? Sigh. All I want to do is pay for the Wifi. I try three or four times, but there seems to be no way to open the app without Wifi. I hate this.

I luckily find the booking reference somewhere in my phone's cached emails. I select the Wifi Plan and proceed to pay. The browser interface has disabled the system's automated credit-card filling. Thrillingly secure. There's an Apple Pay option. I select the right card. Apple Pay wants to jump from my Laptop and verify on my phone. Face ID doesn't work again, presumably because there's no network connection at all on my phone. Back to entering the credit card manually. Fine. I have to open my phone and go into my Apple Wallet and find the credit card information. Finally I am able to pay.

This was a horrible process and deeply irritating. At multiple points I thought "screw this, I'm going to sleep". Or I can just do offline work for a few hours. No big deal. It is demeaning to crawl through this finicky process to get Wifi. I feel physically repulsed by this customer experience: I am ready to close my laptop and to move on with my life.

This is a multi-billion-dollar airline. And it's not just them. All the time I run into extremely hostile user experiences in the flow of paying the company. Whether it's Target, CVS, Square, Delta, you name it: I'm trying to give them money and they have bugs or glaring UX issues that make me want to drop off the purchasing flow and curse them for wasting my time and raising my heart rate. All I am trying to do is give them money -- profits! amazing! -- and they are making it hard. If you want people to pay you for stuff, you should make it easy for them to pay you. This is so exasperating.

[Scott Chamberlain @TheBuccosFan]

The Best Ballpark on Earth!
#LetsGoBucs

[Ethereal Cities @ForeverPhotos88]

Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Cricket stadium do you ever visit this?