Virgin Hotel on Music Row, 15 stories, 262 rooms, music club

[fieldmarshaldj]

How about a 19 story Victorian?

Hell, I'll take a 19-story Second Empire. Beats the hell out of the all-glass modernist claptrap.

[BnaBreaker]

How about a four story pill box made out of plywood and stucco called "The Victorian"  to make it sound far, FAR classier than the dumpster fire that it actually is. 

[UTgrad09]

Hell, I'll take a 19-story Second Empire. Beats the hell out of the all-glass modernist claptrap.

 

19 story Art Nouveau?

[fieldmarshaldj]

^Just as long as it isn't "Gaudí".

I kinda like this (Singer House in St. Petersburg, Russia):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_House#mediaviewer/File:Singer_House_SPB_01.jpg

Edited December 11, 2014 by fieldmarshaldj

[UTgrad09]

^Just as long as it isn't "Gaudí".

I kinda like this (Singer House in St. Petersburg, Russia):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_House#mediaviewer/File:Singer_House_SPB_01.jpg

 

lol, well Gaudi's dead, so I don't think you have to worry about that. Not that I mind his...unique style. But that's Barcelona.

 

I have always liked Art Nouveau's use of asymmetry and non-geometric shapes.

[titanhog]

How about a building slightly shaped like a cowboy boot? 

 

[nashvillwill]

How about a building slightly shaped like a cowboy boot?

New design for the Westin?

[Nashville Cliff]

How about a building slightly shaped like a cowboy boot? 

 

 

 

Just threw up in my mouth.

[Paramount747]

It is surprising after this was announced back in the spring there has been no hint of a rendering.

[titanhog]

Just threw up in my mouth.

Me too!  I laughed when I saw this design.  I think it's somewhere in China.

[Paramount747]

Just threw up in my mouth.

I guess the guitar shaped building would go great with this "boot" tower.

[titanhog]

I guess the guitar shaped building would go great with this "boot" tower.

Sandwich a Cowboy Hat shaped building in the middle and it's a go!

[NashRugger]

How about a building slightly shaped like a cowboy boot? 

 

Honestly, that isn't really THAT far off from the Rainier Square redevelopment in Seattle. 

[MLBrumby]

They both are heinous.

[NashvilleTaylor]

Maybe they will build the thing without ever releasing a render.  That would be unprecedented I think.  It would make this topic a lot more interesting.

[nashvillwill]

That would be fitting since they demolished what was there before telling anyone about it.

[Dale]

Love them both and really don't think "boot" when I see them.Maybe because I never wore boots.

[Paramount747]

How about a building slightly shaped like a cowboy boot? 

 

Looks like one of those things in department stores that model women's hosiery

[smeagolsfree]

I think that just might fit my foot. Only need one for the right foot now. Size gazillion 1000 x

[Cliffdweller]

Could Richard Branson please discover Bordeaux?

[titanhog]

I doubt we are going to get much information on the designs of the inner-workings of this hotel, based on what I just read about the Chicago hotel.

 

"Throughout the process, the Virgin team has done their very best to keep details of the interior design and layout under tight control, offering little pieces of information on the occasion via their promotional videos and guerilla marketing effort."

 

http://chicago.curbed.com/archives/2015/01/15/the-longawaited-virgin-hotel-officially-opens-today.php

[NashvilleTaylor]

Nevermind inner workings. I want to see outer workings!

[BnaBreaker]

Haha...my thoughts exactly!  They can keep the fabric they're using on the couches a secret.  I just want to know what the damn building is going to look like!  Surely we'll get some indication!

[volsfanwill]

Warning controversial statement coming!

ok you have been warned.

 

Friday night I was driving to meet some friends for dinner at Soulshine. while sitting at the light at division to take the weird turn to continue down Division, I had a thought. 

"man this is a nice view, maybe they should just turn this corner into a park and preserve this view."

 

wont happen obviously, and I hate that that house was lost. but there really is a great view of midtown right there.

 

ok commence the hate.

[MLBrumby]

I like the idea of pockets parks, even more when there is a view to be had... but personally not at major intersections. That intersection already is a cluster of streets coming together, and thus crying out for a landmark to define the corner there much better.  I agree about the house and have wondered if the inside had been preserved.  That would not have disqualified it for rehabbing in my mind because I remember when Margaret Mitchell's "Dump" was a true dump before it was restored.  Of course, now that it is gone the greatest tragedy would be if nothing is built there.