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

[nashvylle]

2 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

Dude, how did you take that?!? 

I saw it on an IG account. Most likely a drone. Awesome shot. 

[markhollin]

Broadway during a snowstorm, late 1920s:

 

 

[nashvylle]

oh man that trolley

[archilove]

Great shot! (The nighttime shot).

Edited January 9, 2020 by archilove

[markhollin]

[markhollin]

Courtesy of Brad Pippin:

 

[Native]

One of Nashville's most unique structures is the James K. Polk state office building that is perched atop the Tennessee Performing Arts Center at Sixth and Deaderick Street.  To avoid columns in the TPAC they built a massive elevator shaft and hung the steel girders for the office building from the top of the central core, a dangerous and time-consuming method of construction.  The project was beset by misfortune.  Steel beams mysteriously slid off the site and struck state employees on their way to work and there was a fire in July of 1978, more than two years after the project began.  There was also a death inside the concrete shaft but I don't recall the cause.  Here are some photos from the early construction phase, including the fire.  Old-timers will recall that the huge excavation sat empty (except for water a la Palmer) while the state struggled to acquire funds for the building.  I think this had something to do with the transition from Gov. Dunn to Gov. Blanton, the latter not being a patron of the arts.

 

The beginning, September, 1976.

 

The core rises, May 1977, as seen from Legislative Plaza.

 

 

 

 

 

Steel is affixed to the top of the core.   June 1978

 

Workers ride in buckets to install the girders.

 

The fire and a bucket rescue.

Edited January 12, 2020 by Native

[markhollin]

Courtesy of Richard Byington:

 

[chris holman]

[titanhog]

[Native]

One more 1978 picture of the Polk Building.  This one from the median of I-65.

 

[OnePointEast]

4 hours ago, Native said:

One more 1978 picture of the Polk Building.  This one from the median of I-65.

 

It's so weird seeing so many trees from that perspective. Just can't seem to grasp where exactly this was taken at, though. 

Edited January 13, 2020 by OnePointEast

[Pyramid Scheme]

6 hours ago, OnePointEast said:

It's so weird seeing so many trees from that perspective. Just can't seem to grasp where exactly this was taken at, though. 

The sign says exit 87 Trinity Lane, so it's where I-24 and I-65 meet north of downtown.

[markhollin]

Looking NW from 5th & Broadway Office Tower (courtesy of Butch Worrell):

[markhollin]

[downtownresident]

On 1/13/2020 at 7:01 AM, markhollin said:

Looking NW from 5th & Broadway Office Tower (courtesy of Butch Worrell):

I love the cladding on the Library garage. 

[donNdonelson2]

5 minutes ago, downtownresident said:

I love the cladding on the Library garage. 

Yep! Looks like books.  

[markhollin]

Riverfront Park area from 12th floor of 222 2nd Ave. South Building:
 

[markhollin]

TBT: War Memorial Plaza, 1961

[Andrew_3289]

[markhollin]

Looking south from 5th & Broadway office tower:

 

[markhollin]

Courtesy of Jeff Schroeder:
 

[Native]

From the archives, we have this shot of construction workers taking a lunch break on the new Commerce Union Bank Building at the corner of Fifth and Union.  The concrete was poured into ribbed forms then the ribs were chiseled off to give a natural rock appearance.  September, 1976.

In May of 1977, when the new tower was completed, movers emptied the old bank building at Fourth and Union.  After the move the old structure was demolished and a Radisson Hotel was built on the site.

Commerce Union became Sovran, then NationsBank, then Bank of America.  Now the building bears the name Philips.  

[titanhog]

[donNdonelson2]

Saturday sunset over Gaylord Opryland from the talented Derek Bouza at Ninth Planet Media. (Note the city skyline on the distant horizon.)