Project Thread/New Construction/Photo du jour/Const. CAMs

[TNinVB]

On April 12, 2016 at 10:25 AM, markhollin said:

Taken from Spring Street Bridge on western side looking south:

Is it me or does the UBS tower look different? Has the exterior reclading started?

[FrankNash]

^^^ UBS tower has new green/blue glass. Also, you will be happy to hear the titans stadium light stanchions are being painted a bright red to match new signage. It looks so much better.

[bigeasy]

1 hour ago, FrankNash said:

^^^ UBS tower has new green/blue glass. Also, you will be happy to hear the titans stadium light stanchions are being painted a bright red to match new signage. It looks so much better.

Maybe they could paint the team also, because they need to look better. 

Edited April 13, 2016 by bigeasy

[markhollin]

TBT: Pinnacle construction, 2008:

 

[donNdonelson2]

Continuing with the theme of "Throwback Thursday," here is a photo of the skyline taken from the top of one of the Baptist Hospital (now St. Thomas Midtown) parking structures. January 2010.

Edited April 14, 2016 by donNdonelson2
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[Ingram]

On 4/13/2016 at 10:54 AM, FrankNash said:

^^^ UBS tower has new green/blue glass. Also, you will be happy to hear the titans stadium light stanchions are being painted a bright red to match new signage. It looks so much better.

 

They did an excellent job with the refurbishing. They turned it into a good looking tower.

[Ingram]

On 4/12/2016 at 3:53 PM, Philip said:

The Ascend is so freaking cool.

 

The Ascend Amphitheater, The Bridgestone Arena, and the Music City Convention Center are each the best looking of their respective building type.

[markhollin]

One of my favorite Nashville architectural sandwiches...


 

[MLBrumby]

You have quite "the eye".

[satalac]

Took this the other day when I was at St Thomas. I was amazed at all of the cranes. 

Edited April 15, 2016 by satalac

[rookzie]

34 minutes ago, satalac said:

Took this the other day when I was at St Thomas. I was amazed at all of the cranes. 

Now I know what that tiny glint of sparkle was, I saw from the alley behind Jason's Deli. (frog-eyed Gecko) -==-

[Tim29tn]

This would be awesome. The more green the city, the cleaner the air as we all know.  Add to that an observation tower and we're set. I definitely wouldn't mind Nashville taking a page or 2 from Seattle, it's a beautiful city. 

 

Edit: tried to quote the post on the previous page about Seattle, but wouldn't show up. 

Edited April 15, 2016 by Tim29tn

[Pyramid Scheme]

The world's fair needs to come to Nashville, then we'll get an observation tower.

[bhibbs]

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[titanhog]

^^Thing that sticks out to me in that photo is ALL of the land just west of Bridgestone Arena begging for office towers and hotels.

[markhollin]

Element density.  Just a few years ago this shot was dominated by a Shoney's, several surface lots, and an empty Babs Mandrell tourist shop. This is looking west from the corner of Music Circle East and Division:

 

[UTgrad09]

Some pictures.

Wires and cranes. THAT'S WHAT NASHVILLE DOES!

[titanhog]

^^Lot of room between those teeth on that bottom photo.  Need to fill in some of those gaps. 

[rookzie]

^^...and the only other "defect" is in the photo, third from the top:    that tacky rubber-tired "Nashville Trolley"-labeled whatever it is, which indeed is "whatever-ITIS", to an otherwise advancement in maturity. -==-

[UTgrad09]

12 hours ago, rookzie said:

^^...and the only other "defect" is in the photo, third from the top:    that tacky rubber-tired "Nashville Trolley"-labeled whatever it is, which indeed is "whatever-ITIS", to an otherwise advancement in maturity. -==-

I actually included the trolley intentionally....yes, I realize it is the beotch rubberized version....but imagine Demonbreun with a streetcar running through that urban scene.

[markhollin]

SoBro massing: 8 years ago, none of these structures existed, except for the church in the lower right (which was sitting empty and is now a thriving events center), and the two story brick building immediately in front of it (which is now a trendy office space).  

In the next several years, there will be the addition of 222 Second Avenue (24 stories just to the right of SoBro Tower), a five-story addition to the back of the Hampton Inn,  the southern edge of the Bridgestone Tower that will cover-up the Pinnacle/peek above the Omni from this angle, and the possible twin 40-story towers of the Northern Capitol development (on the Market Street Apt./parking block) that will be immediately behind the Encore and SoBro from this perspective and will be taller than the Pinnacle.  But, a lot of this will be obscured by the Marriott Tri-Brand (19 stories), The Joseph Hotel (20-stories), Holiday Inn (11-14 stories) and The Olmstead Apts. (7 stories) all in the foreground.  

If you had told me all this would be happening a decade ago, I would've said you were nuts.  

 

[rookzie]

23 hours ago, UTgrad09 said:

Posted 16 hours ago by rookzie

^^...and the only other "defect" is in the photo, third from the top:    that tacky rubber-tired "Nashville Trolley"-labeled whatever it is, which indeed is "whatever-ITIS", to an otherwise advancement in maturity. -==-

I actually included the trolley intentionally....yes, I realize it is the beotch rubberized version....but imagine Demonbreun with a streetcar running through that urban scene.

 ..In all honesty, though, that b!tched out, tacky-a$$ thing actually does help to fulfill a need quite well ─ far more than does the MTA's current anemic system.  I say this since I'd most like end up doing that very thing, if I were a non-Nashvillian, and wanted to get a guided sampling of the core.  The drivers do announce the approach to landmarks and generally most any points of common interest along the routes, as I used to hear them do from the sidewalk, as they stop and go while sauntering northward along 5th.

While it is not exactly a top priority or of any urgency that the MTA (or any other U.S. city transit agency) provide a seamless manner of cruising through the downtown or other core areas, it does a lousy job even for "natives" whom I seem likely are captive riders and need to transport very young dependents on the bus, to and from medical care, by transfer.  About a month ago, a bus driver, while remaining courteous throughout, simply was unable to provide much needed assistance to a lady trying to make out a route to a particular nursing home.  It was quite apparent that the lady was in dire need to reach the home, perhaps due to a work assignment, and she therefore appeared under a lot of stress.  Had I not overheard and butted into the dialog, then the rider, obviously insecure about how to negotiate the MTA network, likely would have ridden in circles.  I happened to know exactly where she needed to transfer before that point was passed, in order for her to continue the trip.  Now, I admit that in part, my ability to assist at all stemmed from my being half-way old (if not ALL way), since the place she sought was a rather obscure facility built during the mid-'60s in a distant site in the old part of North Nashville (shortly after consolidation).  No one else on the bus seemed to have heard of it.

My only point in attempting to qualify this at all is that, with all the above digression,  a real "trolley" anything ─ bus or car ─ would provide some assistance in the form of permanence to that most densely urbanized scene.  The Nashville Trolley vehicle itself makes it appear natural for any one to hop on something and get to and from somewhere else or locally, while sadly it's not as pretty as the photo makes it appear.  I know you know this, from having attended Hillsboro HS on the bus "many" years ago.  I shouldn't have to go to school to learn how to ride the bus.  Many of us here, even in the forum, might take it for granted that anyone should already know how to ride a bus and if not, they should know how to read the directions on the "can" (peeling the label first).

Edited April 18, 2016 by rookzie

[farm_boy]

[rookzie]

10 hours ago, UTgrad09 said:

I actually included the trolley intentionally....yes, I realize it is the beotch rubberized version....but imagine Demonbreun with a streetcar running through that urban scene.

..It has the potential (or COULD have the potential) of being an upscale edition of NOLA's Lee Circle, between Carondelét St. and St. Charles Ave. at Howard Ave., where New Orleans' NORTA St. Charles (Green) Line loops around a monument, where its run splits from a dedicated median into separate eastbound and westbound runs in mixed traffic, to and from downtown.  It's really fun to "squeal" and screech along the rails while lumbering around that old circle, even in old non-AC single cars.  A modern "artic" SC could really set Demonbreun St. and the roundabout "on fire" (no, not literally like the Memphis SC's of recent), with all that "canyonization" underway, and I'd bet it would end up in showcase brochures throughout the hemisphere.

Lee Circle - New Orleans

Edited April 18, 2016 by rookzie

[chris holman]

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