JW Marriott - 385' - 34 Floors

[East Side Urbanite]

A little self-promotion: I have a blog post slated to go live in the morning regarding this project. A few little tidbits worth checking.

 

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[troyboytn]

Impressive for sure, I had a feeling a few months ago that this would be "the one" The one with the best chance of being built and the one with the most wow (in an incredibly good way) factor....

[mirydi]

Hard to believe that Westin and others would cancel just because they felt outclassed by the architecture of this project.

I was thinking more along the lines of over-saturation. That's three major hotels proposed right next door to each other. I'm sure the developers of the Westin and Hyatt were expecting a medium sized hotel, maybe around 300-400 rooms. Not a 500-600 room behemoth that towers above their hotels and leaves them in it's shadow. I'm just saying, that's a lot of hotels to come on-line all at once. I'm sure this announcement is leaving an uneasy feeling in the pit of the stomach of the developers of the Westin and Hyatt. I don't see how it wouldn't. It wouldn't surprise me to see at least one of the developers abandon their plans.

 

As far as design goes...Which one would you rather stay at? Turnberry's JW Marriott, if built as is, will be THE hotel in Nashville. No question...Knowing that thing is fixing to be built right next door is definitely discouraging, is it not? 

Edited November 11, 2014 by mirydi

[Guest]

I completely agree with MIRYDI ... this design will run off one or the other of the big hotels ... I think it will be the Hyatt since the Westin seem much father along and has already acquired TIF.

[titanhog]

I was thinking more along the lines of over-saturation. That's three major hotels proposed right next door to each other. I'm sure the developers of the Westin and Hyatt were expecting a medium sized hotel, maybe around 300-400 rooms. Not a 500-600 room behemoth that towers above their hotels and leaves them in it's shadow. I'm just saying, that's a lot of hotels to come on-line all at once. I'm sure this announcement is leaving an uneasy feeling in the pit of the stomach of the developers of the Westin and Hyatt. I don't see how it wouldn't. It would not surprise me to see at least one of the developers to abandon their plans.

 

As far as design goes...Which one would you rather stay at? Turnberry's JW Marriott, if built as is, will be THE hotel in Nashville. No question...Knowing that thing is fixing to be built right next door to your hotel your fixing to build is definitely discouraging, is it not? 

Well...if you had a design like Westin, that would be worth "re-visiting."  I think they'll get a lot of business, just being next to the MCC...but yes, they won't be the first choice unless you are a Westin regular.

[CenterHill]

Well...if you had a design like Westin, that would be worth "re-visiting."  I think they'll get a lot of business, just being next to the MCC...but yes, they won't be the first choice unless you are a Westin regular.

Or you must have the 27th floor sky pool...

[titanhog]

Or you must have the 27th floor sky pool...

Talking about the waterfall pool that falls over the edge and onto the street below? 

[smeagolsfree]

A couple more articles from the Nashville Post.

https://www.nashvillepost.com/blogs/postbusiness/2014/11/10/a_look_at_the_architect_for_the_sobro_planned_jw_marriott

https://www.nashvillepost.com/blogs/postbusiness/2014/11/11/more_on_the_jw_marriott

[Vrtigo]

I remember thinking a few years ago about how visually interesting the MCC rooftop is, but yet nobody would ever see it. The guitar motif, for example, is most evident from above.

 

I'm glad that's changing now!

Edited November 11, 2014 by Vrtigo

[CenterHill]

Talking about the waterfall pool that falls over the edge and onto the street below? 

 

Yeah, I was referring to what some were speculating from the rendering might be a glass walled indoor pool overlooking downtown.      

 

Edited November 11, 2014 by CenterHill

[bhibbs]

Apparently not everyone in the print media is a fan:

http://m.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2014/11/11/the-place-happiness-goes-to-die-is-being-replaced-by-a-stick-of-deodorant

[arkitekte]

Apparently not everyone in the print media is a fan:

http://m.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2014/11/11/the-place-happiness-goes-to-die-is-being-replaced-by-a-stick-of-deodorant

 

Haters. 

[MidTenn1]

Haters. 

 

Its the Nashville Scene and that's their job. To hate, that is. It gets more readers I was told, after I had been ripped once in their paper.

[Vrtigo]

[bhibbs]

haha, didnt know I was going to bring on a Scene lynch mob, I was just pointing out someone else's opinion.
I happen to enjoy keeping up with what's going in the city and the Scene helps with that, their opinion pieces don't do much for me though.

[L'burgnative]

I know someone brought this up, but as I count floors in the rendering the floor that extrudes out is floor 39 and there appears to be two more occupied floors above that with a tall brim I'm guessing are for utilities that looks to be the height of 2-3 floors.  With 12'-9"  slab to slab I'm guessing 560' to 570'

Edited November 11, 2014 by L'burgnative

[MLBrumby]

Shhhhh... don't say that out loud.  Someone might hear you... and we all know Nashville is scared of height.

[chris holman]

This project is a game changer for Sure!Stunning architecture,dominant presents, in the area that's what I've always hope nashville would have built,

I just hope that there no restriction or height reduction or architecture redesign

I pray this doesn't happen, Nashville has lost a lot of opportunities and great projects that shot down because of this,and I just hope everything gets approved with the Current design with no problems!!

[UTgrad09]

I think it's obvious that no matter the building, there will be lovers and haters of pretty much every style of architecture. Just look at this board.

[L'burgnative]

Shhhhh... don't say that out loud.  Someone might here you... and we all know Nashville is scared of height.

 

 

Oh yeah; I mean 35 floors at 10' per should be 350'.

 

 

Btw; since this site is not letting you quote, copy/paste or attaching links or images this post took up a lot of my time, and it's still not right.

Edited November 12, 2014 by L'burgnative

[chris holman]

https://www.nashvillepost.com/blogs/postbusiness/2014/11/11/ncvcs_spyridon_weighs_in_on_jw_marriott from the post

[ariesjow]

Apparently not everyone in the print media is a fan:

http://m.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2014/11/11/the-place-happiness-goes-to-die-is-being-replaced-by-a-stick-of-deodorant

 

I respect Betsy's written opinion on a lot of subjects, but she's not exactly someone we should be looking to for design opinions. Besides, I think the taller tower is more reminiscent of a cigarette lighter than a deodorant stick...a really, bad-ass cigarette lighter.

Edited November 11, 2014 by ariesjow

[BnaBreaker]

To me it looks like a duck with a mohawk wearing Levar Burton's Star Trek Visor...and I mean that in the best way possible!! 

[titanhog]

I respect Betsy's written opinion on a lot of subjects, but she's not exactly someone we should be looking to for design opinions. Besides, I think the taller tower is more reminiscent of a cigarette lighter than a deodorant stick...a really, bad-ass cigarette lighter.

I think it looks reminiscent of something from the Jetsons' cartoons...which is awesome!

[L'burgnative]

^BnaBreaker  In other words; Howard the Duck?  I do see what you're saying in a good way though.

Edited November 11, 2014 by L'burgnative