Nashville Public Art

[markhollin]

The two guardian monkeys at Stay Alfred entrance on Peabody St., just east of 4th Ave. South:

 

[markhollin]

Holiday Inn Vanderbilt, West End Ave:
 

[markhollin]

Artarama, Main St:
 

[markhollin]

Santa's Pub, Bransford Ave.
 

[markhollin]

Hermitage Hotel veranda.

 

[markhollin]

Madewell, 2709 12th Ave. South:
 

[markhollin]

13 Lafayette St, Tito's Market:

[markhollin]

Thread & Needle is the title of the metal installations along the screens on either side of the 28th Ave./31st Ave. Connector.  Here are the pieces along the east side:

 

[MLBrumby]

Those are cool. Some higher walls/screens need to be put up along the sidewalks on the B'way, Demonbreun, Division, Church streets over I-40 . Last time I drove through there, it looked like the steel rail was around knee-height to the people walking across. 

[downtownresident]

1 hour ago, MLBrumby said:

Those are cool. Some higher walls/screens need to be put up along the sidewalks on the B'way, Demonbreun, Division, Church streets over I-40 . Last time I drove through there, it looked like the steel rail was around knee-height to the people walking across. 

They are about knee height. I see people riding scooters/bikes on the sidewalks on those bridges all of the time(I always ride in the road). One bad tumble in the wrong direction is all it would take for a potential disaster. 

[Bos2Nash]

I've noticed a lack of security fencing on many highway and high elevation bridges all around Nashville. Is this a TDOT thing to not have that type of fencing/guard?

[MLBrumby]

41 minutes ago, Bos2Nash said:

I've noticed a lack of security fencing on many highway and high elevation bridges all around Nashville. Is this a TDOT thing to not have that type of fencing/guard?

Yes. And TDOT is woefully inept at planning, design and maintenance. Oh, but they do a great job paving (once they figure out if they should do concrete or asphalt surfaces). 

Edited March 31, 2020 by MLBrumby

[PruneTracy]

54 minutes ago, Bos2Nash said:

Is this a TDOT thing to not have that type of fencing/guard?

Current TDOT standards require bridge rails where pedestrian traffic is present to be at least 42 inches high. This is consistent with the height recommended by AASHTO (though not for bicycle traffic, which was recently increased to 54 inches).

The higher fences you see on bridges are a requirement by CSX for aerial encroachments that carry pedestrian traffic. They must be a minimum of 8 feet high and can't have openings larger than two inches square. This is not so much an issue of pedestrian safety as it is to prevent foreign objects from falling (i.e., being thrown) onto CSX tracks or trains. (Although I suppose a falling pedestrian technically counts as a foreign object...)

It was not that long ago that this board was complaining about the fences on the Division Street overpass being too obtrusive.

[Bos2Nash]

Thanks. I am just used to seeing essentially catch fencing at EVERY highway overpass in the northeast, so it's still weird not seeing it here.

[markhollin]

Red Caboose Park, Bellevue:

 

[markhollin]

Pins Mechanical roof.  Looking south from Church Street Viaduct where it corses over 12th Ave. North:

 

[markhollin]

I know it's closed now due to the Stay In Place order, but here's a view from  Cheekwood's  Garden from last year:
 

[nashvylle]

[markhollin]

26th Ave. North and Clarksville Hwy:
 

[markhollin]

Holiday Inn Vanderbilt, West End Ave:
 

[markhollin]

Zeal Church, 5801 Charlotte Ave:
 

[markhollin]

13 Lafayette St., Tito's Market:


 

[markhollin]

Monroe and 3rd Ave. North:

 

[markhollin]

NES manhole cover:

[LA_TN]

16 hours ago, markhollin said:

NES manhole cover:

Wish those were everywhere!