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  1. Darwin
    The original (I think) is inside the mansion.
  2. Darwin
    I hope so!
  3. Darwin
    It's quite savvy for Vanderbilt to construct this. As rents increase in Nashville, housing near the campus will become (has become) unaffordable for graduate students who have to survive on the funding they receive from their programs. If you want to draw the best graduate students, you need to be able to offer adequate funding for the area. Alternatively if you can provide housing at a reduced price, and at a walkable distance, there is less need to pay as high a stipend, as housing and transport costs are lower for the students. It is yet to be seen if they will charge market rents or not however. The temptation to yield maximum proft will be great. On another note, I'm so glad this area will finally be getting a grocery store beyond CVS and Virginia's market.
  4. Darwin
    I see, I suppose I just don't like it. Oh well.
  5. Darwin
    Personally, I'm not sure why they went for that stone style facade. I think bricks in the usual Vanderbilt style would have been more fitting.
  6. Darwin
    I think it is quite unlikely they will look like the collegiate gothic dorms Vandy has been building actually. They tend to design hypermodern buildings, including in their work on even very old universities such as Cambridge (https://www.fosterandpartners.com/projects/). The projects that do involve traditional styles are ones where they add something modern to an already existing old building. As someone else pointed out, that area of campus is not in a very traditional style, and is full of medical buildings and sports venues. Not the most attractive part of campus. They may think that a traditional style building might look out of place there (although I think they should go traditional personally, transform the area!). The firm have designed some very famous buildings, especially in London. The 'gherkin' is a prime example, but also stuff like the bridge leading to St. Pauls cathedral, and the modern aspects of the British Museum. They design some great modern buildings, however, for me, modern buildings are hit or miss, so it will be interesting to see if we get something stunning. Vanderbilt seems to be interested in building beautiful places recently, so let's hope they carry that ethos over to the modern buildings too.
  7. Darwin
    There's quite an impressive view from up here.
  8. Darwin
    I wasn't sure where to put this picture, it has so many projects in. That's the new Vanderbilt graduate housing in the foreground. The Moore building is in the middle of the picture.
  9. Darwin
    Building complete
  10. Darwin
    Progress thus far:
  11. Darwin
    Fantastic. It's hard to visualise all of these new projects in my head, this area of Nashville is going to be really cool!
  12. Darwin
    This all looks really impressive. The last picture suggesting a change in rules so that alcohol can be served makes me wonder, what vibe should the city be aiming to create on 1st Avenue? It might be nice if 1st Ave was a little more sophisticated, or more family-oriented than Broadway. Although even if it were just more honky tonks it would be an improvement. I don't know what tools the city has available to shape that sort of thing. Either way, to activate that space in some manner would be fantastic, arguably the river is not made use of enough, and the idea of putting an area for programming right there is exciting.
  13. Darwin
    I hope these new bridges will be attractively designed. Infrastructure projects across the river will have a major visual impact. I like the bridges we have now, so hopefully we can see something similarly eye-catching. I am glad to see that the bridge will be multi-modal, there is little reason a bridge should ever be just for cars, as it places an enormous burden on the pedestrian to have to walk further afield to find a crossing point.
  14. Darwin
    https://www.wkrn.com/news/nashville-2021/plans-in-the-works-to-revitalize-nashvilles-bankers-alley/ Here's a video about this project, which includes an interview with one of the architects.
  15. Darwin
    https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?p=9421098 On this page.
  16. Darwin
    Ahh ok, good to know, thanks.
  17. Darwin
    Do you know if it is common for them not to take a vote, and what that usually signifies?
  18. Darwin
    Very exciting! Interested to see what the final product will look like. It's going to be a very dense area.
  19. Darwin
    I would love it if First Avenue were activated in this way. Let's not waste that river view!
  20. Darwin
    They kind of aren't, but that's not for much longer though!
  21. Darwin
    Why misleading?
  22. Darwin
    The developments along these train tracks makes me wish Union station was still a passenger station.
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  25. Darwin
    I'm glad that devlopment is happening, but the design is pretty unpleasant to me. It's not that it's boring, it's that it's actually visually disturbing, which is definitely not what you want on a building this tall!
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