Tennessee State Museum, SE corner of Rosa Parks Blvd. and Jefferson St.

[markhollin]

Lots of steel going up on the museum.

Looking south from intersection of 7th Ave. North and Jefferson Street:

 

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Looking NW from 7th Ave. North near Farmer's Market:

[markhollin]

Looking south from near the 7th Ave. North Carillon Roundabout:

 

Looking south from intersection of 7th Ave. North and Jefferson Street:

 

Looking NW from 7th Ave. North near the Farmers Market:

[markhollin]

 Looking SE from intersection of Rosa Parks Blvd. and Jefferson Street:

 

[markhollin]

The museum is now fully topped-out.

Looking north along Rosa Parks Blvd. near intersection with Locklayer Street:

 

Looking SE from intersection of Rosa Parks Blvd. and Jefferson Street:

 

Looking south from intersection of 7th Ave. North and Jefferson Street:

 

Looking NW from 7th Ave. North just south of Carillon Circle:

[markhollin]

Looking NW from 7th AVe. North:

 

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Looking north along Rosa Parks Blvd:

 

Looking SE from corner of Rosa Parks Blvd. and Jefferson St:

 

Looking SW from corner of Jefferson and 7th Ave. North:

 

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[markhollin]

From Nashville Post:

The team behind the Tennessee State Museum under construction at the Bicentennial Mall has landed a major permit, valued at $79 million.

Overseen by the Tennessee Department of General Services, the North Capitol project carries an approximately $162 million price tag. The building will sit at the southeast corner of the intersection of Jefferson Street and Rosa Parks Boulevard. A fall 2018 opening is eyed.

Nashville-based EOA Architects and Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, which is based in Minneapolis, are designing the limestone-bathed structure. The Nashville office of Turner Construction Co. is serving as general contractor.

The facility will be served by a surface parking lot that visitors to the adjacent Farmer's Market also can use. With the market next door, the museum will not offer an eatery.

[dmillsphoto]

Still hard to visualize how they're going to get the contents of 5 underground stories of museum in there...

[donNdonelson2]

The new facility, at 130,000 square feet, will be 10,000 square feet larger than their current space (based on Wikipedia info). 

[RonCamp]

Do we know what will go in the old museum space in the CBD once the new facility opens?

[wmaddbb2018]

Where is the old museum? 

[dmillsphoto]

6 minutes ago, wreynol4 said:

Where is the old museum? 

The basement of the TPAC building.

[smeagolsfree]

I think that is going to be expansion for T-Pac from my understanding.

[Nash_12South]

I think TPAC has been wanting to renovate that area (museum) for many years. Its awkward space and very dated. Opened up and done right, it could be really nice. TPAC has suffered since it opened as being very underwhelming, even after the last renovations.

Edited August 10, 2017 by Nash_12South

[markhollin]

Looking north along Rosa Parks Blvd. from near intersection with Locklayer St:

Looking SE from intersection with Rosa Parks Blvd. and Jefferson St:

 

Looking south from intersection of Jefferson St. and 7th Ave. North:

 

Looking SW from 7th Ave. North near Carillon Roundabout:

 

Looking NW from  7th Ave. North:

[Nathan_in_DC]

I am so excited about this and the library! Now, give us a Natural History Museum next door! 

[markhollin]

Looking north along Rosa Parks Blvd. near intersection with Locklayer St:

Looking SE from intersection of Rosa Parks Blvd. and Jefferson St:

 

Looking south from intersection of 7th Ave. North and Jefferson St:

 

Looking NW from 7th Ave. North near Farmers' Market:

[fieldmarshaldj]

^Is it just me, or does this seem awfully small for a State Museum ? It just looks like a modest sized warehouse.

[donNdonelson2]

Old museum-120,000 sq ft. New museum- 130,000 sq ft. Bigger than the old one. Big enough? Maybe. (Or not?)

[SoundScan]

Pictures don't really do it justice; it seems fairly imposing up close. I think the finished product will be nice though I wish the designers had paid more attention to it's surroundings, specifically Rosa L Parks Blvd and Jefferson street frontages.

[smeagolsfree]

You have to be next to it to appreciate the size of the project.

[Pdt2f]

1 hour ago, SoundScan said:

Pictures don't really do it justice; it seems fairly imposing up close. I think the finished product will be nice though I wish the designers had paid more attention to it's surroundings, specifically Rosa L Parks Blvd and Jefferson street frontages.

I don't think think there's much in the way of "frontages" where they're building this. It's mainly new apartments and parking lots, with a gas station across the street. Honestly paying more attention to the surroundings would have had the developers making the museum look like a refurbished Piggly Wiggly. 

[Neigeville2]

I just wish they had incorporated some more classical design elements, i.e. a base and a crown.  I kind of looks like a 1980s high school.  We'll see what it looks like when it's done but I'm prepared to be disappointed. 

[Nathan_in_DC]

45 minutes ago, Neigeville2 said:

I just wish they had incorporated some more classical design elements, i.e. a base and a crown.  I kind of looks like a 1980s high school.  We'll see what it looks like when it's done but I'm prepared to be disappointed. 

While I'm extremely excited by this project and the prospect of a sizeable museum in an appropriately central location to showcase our State's history, I also am disappointed at the architectural choices here. We have a truly unique gem and major piece of American architectural history in our Capitol building, and this museum should have at least attempted to pay homage, or even fully embraced, the style that made the Capitol so utterly timeless and impressive.

[SoundScan]

On 10/25/2017 at 10:15 AM, Pdt2f said:

I don't think think there's much in the way of "frontages" where they're building this. It's mainly new apartments and parking lots, with a gas station across the street. Honestly paying more attention to the surroundings would have had the developers making the museum look like a refurbished Piggly Wiggly. 

front·age

ˈfrən(t)ij/

noun

 

1. the facade of a building.

   • a strip or extent of land abutting on a street or water.

      

     My point is that the designers of this museum have essentially fronted a major intersection and gateway to Germantown with what amounts to the blank backside of a warehouse.  That the other structures that currently exist along the streets adjacent to this building are also sub-par is irrelevant--in 10 years it's likely most of them won't exist given the pace of redevelopment. My hope was that the designers would try to raise the bar. That you believe this would result in a museum that looks like an old grocery store is pretty odd.

[Pdt2f]

1 hour ago, SoundScan said:

front·age

ˈfrən(t)ij/

noun

 

1. the facade of a building.

   • a strip or extent of land abutting on a street or water.

      

     My point is that the designers of this museum have essentially fronted a major intersection and gateway to Germantown with what amounts to the blank backside of a warehouse.  That the other structures that currently exist along the streets adjacent to this building are also sub-par is irrelevant--in 10 years it's likely most of them won't exist given the pace of redevelopment. My hope was that the designers would try to raise the bar. That you believe this would result in a museum that looks like an old grocery store is pretty odd.

My apologies, I completely misunderstood what you were saying in the above post. I thought you were saying that the museum needed to fit in with the surrounding frontages, but you were making the very good point that the architects should have taken into account the frontage of this project. My bad.