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[Nashtitans]

Still looking for the moment it's taller than the pinnacle

[titanhog]

16 minutes ago, Nashtitans said:

Still looking for the moment it's taller than the pinnacle

From the Adventure Science Center cams...it looks as if it's the same height as Pinnacle right now.

[titanhog]

Just noticed on this Adventure Science Center cam that they've raised the 2nd Bridgestone crane...and a LOT!  With LA's photo showing they're up to 31 floors (which is 1 floor more than we expected)...is there a chance they decided to add 2 or 3 floors and we don't know about it?  Seems like both cranes have been raised considerably higher than I would expect if they're now only going to add the "fins" with no more floors.  (Yes...I'm sure this is just wishful thinking on my part)

 

[wmaddbb2018]

Well I talked with a foreman down there, who's wife was playing down at Legends on Broadway, who went around the bar passing out a tip jar, who ran into a drunk guy who proceeded to spill his beer on his wasted buddy who says they are not adding any more floors. 

Edited February 20, 2017 by wreynol4

[Nashtitans]

Did they put the fins on the top yet? Looking at the cam, bridgestone is right at the height of the pinnacle. Trying to see when the Bridgestone eclipses the pinnacle

Edited February 23, 2017 by Nashtitans

[Vrtigo]

5 minutes ago, Nashtitans said:

Did they put the fins on the top yet? Looking at the cam, bridgestone is right at the height of the pinnacle.

Not yet... Finishing up the roof deck first:

[titanhog]

^^Vrtigo...so...you just lost the Batman building...and soon, you'll lose Pinnacle and Bridgestone.  But...you'll have JWM to look at...so not too bad of a trade-off.

[markhollin]

Looking east along Demonbreun from intersection with 6th Ave. South:

 

Looking NE from intersection of Lafayette and 7th Ave. South:

[VSRJ]

From some angles, Pinnacle is nearly eclipsed.

Edited February 26, 2017 by VSRJ

[markhollin]

Bridgestone Tower looking up from Demonbreun Street:

 

Looking up from intersection of Demonbreun and Almond:

 

Looking up at "The Notch" from Hall of Fame Park near the corner of Demonbreun and 4th Ave. South:

 

Looking east along Demonbruen from the intersection with 6th Ave. South:

[Neigeville2]

I love the notch.

[titanhog]

1 hour ago, Neigeville2 said:

I love the notch.

That's what he sa....never mind.

Handsome building!  I can't wait to see the LED lighting on those side fins in action.

[ruraljuror]

3 hours ago, Neigeville2 said:

I love the notch.

Should've made two of them.

[Vrtigo]

19 hours ago, markhollin said:

Concrete is such an amazing thing... These pillars appear to be about the same diameter as those used to construct 5th & Main, yet this building has an additional two dozen floors over 5&M. The amount of weight placed on any one of them, especially near the bottom, must be simply enormous.

My hat is off to you engineers who figure out how to make this stuff work!

[arkitekte]

5 hours ago, Vrtigo said:

Concrete is such an amazing thing... These pillars appear to be about the same diameter as those used to construct 5th & Main, yet this building has an additional two dozen floors over 5&M. The amount of weight placed on any one of them, especially near the bottom, must be simply enormous.

My hat is off to you engineers who figure out how to make this stuff work!

It's all in the rebar strength and PSI of the concrete! 

[Vrtigo]

The shark fins are taking shape:

[MidTenn1]

38 minutes ago, Vrtigo said:

The shark fins are taking shape:

Shark fins? I'm thinking more like.....

 

..in a nice, gentle as a kitten way, though!

[NashvilleObserver]

1 hour ago, Vrtigo said:

The shark fins are taking shape:

And we'll soon have the answer to the question people seem to be obsessing and debating over.... "IS IS GONNA' BE TALLER THAN PINNACLE???!?!?!"

 

[henburg]

1 hour ago, NashvilleObserver said:

And we'll soon have the answer to the question people seem to be obsessing and debating over.... "IS IS GONNA' BE TALLER THAN PINNACLE???!?!?!"

 

Unfortunately I think that it's still going to be a pretty hotly debated topic around here due to the very small height difference and the different perspectives that this will be viewed from. I think people forget that these towers are slightly set back from each other, so perspective plays a large role in changing how we look at the height (i.e. looking from the west makes Bridgestone look much taller, while looking from the river makes the Pinnacle look much taller). In the end, Bridgestone should end up being marginally taller with the fins.

[Nashtitans]

21 minutes ago, henburg said:

Unfortunately I think that it's still going to be a pretty hotly debated topic around here due to the very small height difference and the different perspectives that this will be viewed from. I think people forget that these towers are slightly set back from each other, so perspective plays a large role in changing how we look at the height (i.e. looking from the west makes Bridgestone look much taller, while looking from the river makes the Pinnacle look much taller). In the end, Bridgestone should end up being marginally taller with the fins.

Just don't understand how the Bridgestone is 460 and the Pinnacle is like what, 420? It should be noticeably taller by now

[BnaBreaker]

2 hours ago, Nashtitans said:

Just don't understand how the Bridgestone is 460 and the Pinnacle is like what, 420? It should be noticeably taller by now

No offense at all intended, but I feel like this has been covered already.  Again, forty feet really isnt that much height, at least not when viewing things from a distance, and that height difference is concentrated pretty much entirely in the as-yet-to-be-constructed fins.  

Edited March 8, 2017 by BnaBreaker

[SoundScan]

I'm still of the opinion that either the Bridgestone tower is going to be shorter than the initially stated height of 460ft. AGL, or that the Pinnacle building's published height of 417ft. AGL is incorrect. This is purely speculative but partly based on having seen various aerial shots from what I've judged to be flat perspectives. Both buildings sit at the exact same ASL elevation from the GIS maps I've found.

[NashvilleObserver]

1 hour ago, BnaBreaker said:

No offense at all intended, but I feel like this has been covered already.  Again, forty feet really isnt that much height, at least not when viewing things from a distance, and that height difference is comprised pretty much entirely in the as-yet-to-be-constructed fins.  

 

[fieldmarshaldj]

23 hours ago, BnaBreaker said:

No offense at all intended, but I feel like this has been covered already.  Again, forty feet really isnt that much height, at least not when viewing things from a distance, and that height difference is concentrated pretty much entirely in the as-yet-to-be-constructed fins.  

If they hadn't been so scared to break 500', which is a bizarre psychological barrier in our fair city, this all wouldn't be an issue.

[TheRaglander]

Another dorsal fin shot