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

[CenterHill]

Re the Hume Fogg gym, aside from the blank wall facing the rear parking lot, I'm fine with the overall design.    Yeah, it does look tacked on, but really there was no budget scenario that would accommodate an all-stone structure that resembled the 102 year old stone "castle" main building.   Gymnasiums typically are, by their nature, large windowless boxes and are not gracefully added onto any existing building. This could have easily ended up being one large ugly red brick box like so many other high school gyms, but I appreciate the efforts the Kline Swinney firm went to make the 8th Ave facade architecturally interesting, including incorporating the existing stone walls on both the exterior and interior.    Rookzie is correct about the new masonry detail on the tower, which was a nice touch.    

Cost absolutely was an issue and the final design had to be scaled back to accommodate Metro's budgeted $7.2M.      I'm actually a parent who's had 2 kids go through HFA and one more on the way, so I'm thrilled about this.    A gym has been in the MNPS funding queue for about 19 years.    HFA in the modern era has never had a functional gymnasium, possibly the only public high school in the state with no gymnasium.              

[Pyramid Scheme]

Does anyone have pictures of the Bridgestone Headquarters or an update on the site?

I second this query.

[NashRugger]

There's rebar and pillars for the garage starting and foundation work going on, but not much else down there in the pit. It's hard to see down in there from street level.

[Pyramid Scheme]

There's rebar and pillars for the garage starting and foundation work going on, but not much else down there in the pit. It's hard to see down in there from street level.

Ah. Well once they get going I'm sure it'll grow like a bamboo shoot, you know, with its 2 cranes and whathaveyou.

[chris holman]

last weekend nothing new I the building is still in the hole

[wmaddbb2018]

Was in the Country Music Hall of Fame over the weekend and got to look down into the hole for Bridgestone and it's starting to come together but I would guess still a few months from being ground level maybe by January 2016?

[titanhog]

last weekend nothing new I the building is still in the hole

^^^I wish someone else was building something similar to the Schemerhorn downtown *cough cough Federal Courthouse cough cough**.  I love that building.

[Nathan_in_DC]

Unfortunately, I don't see anything like that being built in a long, long time. Maybe the new state museum if they get their head out of their rear and build in a suitable Greek Revival style to go along with our capitol building.

It's sad, really. Gone are the days of the idea of lasting architecture.

[chris holman]

Sobro tower will be massive, yesterday pics

[Paramount747]

Should be topped out this time next year. Two floors per month I think is the current pace.

[dmillsphoto]

Edited September 13, 2015 by dmillsphoto

[chris holman]

 Westin Hotel todayHCA

[chris holman]

From this vantage point you can see the westin hotel  is built so far, about as high as  the Music City Center Roof

Edited September 13, 2015 by chris holman

[titanhog]

Our skyline won't look drastically different in the next 2-3 years, because there doesn't seem to be any super-talls on the horizon...but the infill with decent height in several parts of downtown, the gulch and midtown will really make us look like a more urban city.  If we could just cap I-40 by Music Row and improve the walkability between midtown and downtown, we'd truly start improving that area even more.

Edited September 13, 2015 by titanhog

[RonCamp]

If we could just cap I-40 by Music Row and improve the walkability between midtown and downtown, we'd truly start improving that area even more.

Totally agree.  I'd love to see at cap over I-40 between Division and Church... but unfortunately I don't think it's viable in the short term.

That being said I really wish some attention could be paid to the walkability of the area.  As mentioned in several places recently the pedestrian landscape between Midtown and the Gulch is just really... awful.  Crossing the bridges over 40 on Division, Demonbreun and Broadway alternates between feeling inhospitable and downright dangerous.  Low railings, very narrow sidewalks, interstate dust and heat flying up, no shoulder on the roads (except Demonbreun in the form of bike lanes).  This area really needs pedestrian improvements in the style of the 11th Ave. or (forthcoming) Division St complete streets.  

[chris holman]

from today

[titanhog]

Chris...thanks so much for always taking photos.  It's a HUGE addition to this site.

[chris holman]

Never a problem my friends I love it I Drive through downtown everyday to go home

sobro today

[chris holman]

1000 division

[smeagolsfree]

There are three construction cams at the Bridgestone site per one of the supers that work there. He said they were Oxblue, but I simply cannot find them. Could it be they are password protected?

[dmillsphoto]

There are three construction cams at the Bridgestone site per one of the supers that work there. He said they were Oxblue, but I simply cannot find them. Could it be they are password protected?

Possible. I've used Highwoods, Bridgestone, etc to search. No luck.

[BnaBreaker]

Thanks Chris!!  Hugely appreciate the updates.

[Hey_Hey]

Eakin's office tower is getting cladding/Windows. 

[Vrtigo]

Almost forgot about this one... Took it a while ago and have been meaning to share. From a friend's room on the back side of the Omni:

[chris holman]

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