Archibum

Such strange proportions. I like brick residential, but this feels weird.

Looks like it's film that just hasn't been removed yet

This site cleans up nicely! I drive by it everyday and hardly even recognized her

As I read it, the developers lot size would be the same it's current lot. The parks property would be split with as shown in red such that the developer gets the red portion parks keeps the left over and adds it to their new lot they traded for. Though I could be misunderstanding it.

I would think the use case and design variability would be fairly limited. You can see that there doesn't see to be a lot of depth from the façade to the core face. As I can tell from a single picture, all slabs are cantilevered off the of the core with no columns at the perimeter so the floor depths you can achieve would be quite shallow.

I'm exciting to see this get finished. Is there any renderings of this? I'm curious about the part of the site at the very corner of the intersection. Its all big concrete lego blocks right now, but looks like maybe there is infrastructure in the ground for another building? The concrete blocks aren't permanent are they?

Ah thanks my bad. Not sure how I missed that. Exciting to see something happening there

Does anyone know the status of the development on this triangle lot? There is some site work going on. Moving around a lot of dirt and looks like they've added a curb cut and gravel drive

No I think your map is accurate. I was just saying that I drive past it all the time and it seems like nothing is happening. or if stuff is happening, it is going very slowly..

What about Emory Commons? Hasn't seemed to make much progress in the couple months I've driven by.

I for one absolutely hate the thin tube lighting such as the lighting on the Grand Hyatt and the 900 Church tower going up. Looks like a 24 hour liquor store window. But that just my lowly opinion and I can understand and respect why others like it. And I love a good building lighting scheme in general. The challenge now is creatively light buildings under the new dark sky ordinance. Uplighting, the standard go-to of building lighting, is much more difficult to achieve when you have to worry about light pollution.

As someone who has worked on a lot of buildings with crowns, particularly in the Middle East and China, I will echo the statements that it is hard to justify the cost. To make it worth it, you really want to couple the crown with a use, but what? Observations deck is a go-to, but you need to have a view worth observing. And this use requires dedicated elevator service and takes up space not only at the top, but in the core and at the ground level as well, not to mention the occupancy of such a use will probably require increased stair size for egress. I've done towers with executive clubs at the top. And some where the hotel lobby is actually at the top. Even had some proposals with rock climbing walls and crazy unique observation/amusement ride experiences. All that to say it takes a culmination of stars to align to make a crown worthwhile: developer, location, use, height, culture, tourism. Which is good, really, because you want crowns to be special and unique and few and far between. I bet we get get more towers with crowns in the future, especially as we continue to build up the core. Just wanted to throw my two cents in.

The plan actually shows a scissor stair, so two stair exits intertwined, like a DNA strand. I think its allowed by code in NY because of the constraints placed on many of the super slender towers. I haven't looked into whether the code adopted in Nashville allows for a scissor stair.

Pretty sure this is an actual real physical model, which would lead me to believe it is probably a little outdated. Looks like it was used as a sketch model to test ideas and easily swap things in an out. The renderings and plans in the publication would undoubtedly be the most up to date

Anyone know the number of levels or height of this? I'm assuming it probably wouldn't be more than 5 or 6, but with it being literally at the station, one would hope for some good density. Also, it says parking garage. Hoping the intent of the TOD designation isn't lost among the cars

I'm thinking if they wanted traditional like the current RCs, they wouldn't have picked Foster..

I think Rosa Parks is a great proof of concept that a major road in the core could support a dedicated bus lane and there would be no carmageddon. It had been pinched to one lane going north for months and months and now to one lane going south. I've driven it almost every day during rush hours and it hasn't been a problem. And when it has been backed up, more times than not it was a lovely transpotainment vehicle as the culprit.

Cladding may be an improvement over the existing hotel, but it is still terrible. Why the faux marble? And why aren't the panels modulated so that they at least break at the floor line or window? Its like they bought the material in the bargain bin and said just cut it in field to work.

The knowledge base on this forum is unmatched! Thanks for the information. Thanks! Good to know about the bus route. I'll have to look into this a bit more.

I'll be moving to Donelson and was excited to potentially commute via the train, but the last trip out seems just a little too early. Would be nice if they had one more later trip out of downtown for days I can't leave right at 5 (which is most of them in the architecture field). Have they ever had a later service in the past? or is this a cutback that still exists because of the pandemic?

Perhaps large trucks and the goods they haul don't utilize mass transit, but they would certainly benefit from it. In a similar way that building suburban highways would make more room for cars on the core highways by diverting truck traffic, mass transit would make more room for trucks on core highways by diverting commuter traffic. And in my opinion, spending money on mass transit would have a much better return on investment than more highways because of all the urban benefits it offers. And I think mass transit is better suited to adapt to big increases in density as opposed to highways.

Props to the architect for wrapping the parking podium with units. Speaking from experience, it's often a challenge to get that in considering the different typical floor heights for different uses. And too often times the liner is abandoned in the name of efficiency and more parking, so I'm happy to see some activation from the podium.

Plus there's the whole chicken and egg back and forth about bike lanes. "Why build bike lanes if nobody ever bikes?" "Well nobody ever bikes because we don't have any bike lanes." It's frustrating to see road construction and widening justified with a future capacity, like we need to build this road because more people will be driving here, but it seems like bike lanes are more often passed by because "no one is biking" instead of proactively building infrastructure because "people will be biking a lot here in the future"

My brother was a bartender at Paradise Park and is suddenly out of a job before one of the biggest paydays of the year. Sucks

Just riding down Lincoln you get the full experience. Nice comfortable intersections like the one above, and then intersections like Belmont where you pray you don't get hit by a car rushing to hit that left turn.