805 Lea, 29 stories, 310', 356 residential units, 10,500 sq. ft. retail, 321 car garage

[markhollin]

Looking north from 9th Ave. South, 1/2 block north of Division St:

Looking south from north side of Music City Roundabout at 8th Ave. South:

Looking SW from Lea Ave., 1/4 block west of 8th Ave. South:




Looking east from Palmer Place, 1/4 block east of 10th Ave. South:

Looking NE from Cannery Row surface lot:

[markhollin]

Looking south from 9th Ave. South, 1/4 block north of Lea Ave:

Looking NW from 8th Ave. South at Palmer Place:

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

Looking SW from Lafayette St., just SE of Music City Roundabout:

[downtownresident]

They’ve been making good progress on the exterior of this one the last few weeks. 

[nashville born]

On 5/28/2021 at 7:41 AM, downtownresident said:

They’ve been making good progress on the exterior of this one the last few weeks. 

Thank goodness.

[steelkid247]

if they start leasing in September...my guess is we have a live website soon?

[downtownresident]

6 hours ago, steelkid247 said:

if they start leasing in September...my guess is we have a live website soon?

Hopefully. 

[markhollin]

Looking south from north side of Music City Roundabout at 8th Ave. South:

Looking west from Lea Ave., 1/2 block east of 8th Ave. South:

[titanhog]

They’ve gone through a lot of work to achieve that look.  Going to be nice when done.

[Native]

On 6/4/2021 at 9:20 AM, titanhog said:

They’ve gone through a lot of work to achieve that look.  Going to be nice when done.

You guys are too polite.  Looks like a mud fence to me.

[smeagolsfree]

Some people actually like Sticks too, but we overlook that!

[titanhog]

Y’all wait.  This will look nice when it’s done…unlike the Centric Hotel 

[MontanaGuy]

I was just downtown and drove by the building and I noticed that there's work crews on scaffolding who are working on those panels on the side of the building.  It seems like it's been taking a very long time but there's definitely progress being made now so eventually it's going to be completed.  Photos taken this afternoon.

[titanhog]

^^It IS going to look slightly like a pair of 70’s leisure suit pants. 

 

[nashville born]

IMO,  this one is not a plus add.  I will reserve judgement on the cladding until it's finished.  Yet it's not looking so hot.  Ultimately for me, this one lost pizazz as soon as it was shortened from the original render height.  My primitive brain thinks that perhaps the finish would look better if it had more vertical canvas to cover.  Hard to change one significant part of the plan without that change impacting other parts.  The best compliment I can give it right now is I like it better than the Westin.  

[titanhog]

5 hours ago, nashville born said:

IMO,  this one is not a plus add.  I will reserve judgement on the cladding until it's finished.  Yet it's not looking so hot.  Ultimately for me, this one lost pizazz as soon as it was shortened from the original render height.  My primitive brain thinks that perhaps the finish would look better if it had more vertical canvas to cover.  Hard to change one significant part of the plan without that change impacting other parts.  The best compliment I can give it right now is I like it better than the Westin.  

Between this one and Centric…I feel like architects / developers are trying too hard to come up with a way to spice-up the “boxes” they are building.  Street grids and hole-punch metal garage covers on Centric…when it would have looked better just being all-glass…sleek and well designed.  Same goes for this one.

At least with the windows on Embassy Suites, it’s just on a couple of sides and it seems to compliment the overall design.

[nashville born]

6 minutes ago, titanhog said:

Between this one and Centric…I feel like architects / developers are trying too hard to come up with a way to spice-up the “boxes” they are building.  Street grids and hole-punch metal garage covers on Centric…when it would have looked better just being all-glass…sleek and well designed.  Same goes for this one.

At least with the windows on Embassy Suites, it’s just on a couple of sides and it seems to compliment the overall design.

Early in the twentieth century we were building masterpieces like the Empire State Building.  Ninety years later, with all the technological advancements, all we can muster is a box.????

[MontanaGuy]

42 minutes ago, titanhog said:

Between this one and Centric…I feel like architects / developers are trying too hard to come up with a way to spice-up the “boxes” they are building.  Street grids and hole-punch metal garage covers on Centric…when it would have looked better just being all-glass…sleek and well designed.  Same goes for this one.

I feel exactly the same way and it seems like there's a danger of going overboard with something that's going to be trendy for awhile but could end up looking like an orange shag carpet in a few years.  It's interesting to take a fresh look at buildings that seem very dated when they're only twenty five years old and compare them with buildings such as the Chrysler Building which is much older but will always be a masterpiece of architecture and ask yourself what exactly is it that worked or didn't work with both buildings.

[titanhog]

2 hours ago, MontanaGuy said:

I feel exactly the same way and it seems like there's a danger of going overboard with something that's going to be trendy for awhile but could end up looking like an orange shag carpet in a few years.  It's interesting to take a fresh look at buildings that seem very dated when they're only twenty five years old and compare them with buildings such as the Chrysler Building which is much older but will always be a masterpiece of architecture and ask yourself what exactly is it that worked or didn't work with both buildings.

Yeah…as much as I appreciate them trying to think “outside the box” (no pun intended)…may as well go with sleek and timely rather than trying to come up with something trendy.  Look at the sleek glass of Asurion.  That building will still look nice 50 years from now.

[markhollin]

Looking SE from Demonbreun, 1/4 block east of 10th Ave. South:

Looking south from 9th Ave. South, 1/4 block north of Lea Ave:




Looking NW from 8th Ave. South at Palmer Place:

Looking SW from KVB, 1/2 block east of Music City Roundabout:

[markhollin]

Looking NW from Division Street Connector where it crosses over CSX tracks (and, no, that is NOT at UFO...just a bird). 




Looking south from 8th Ave. South at intersection with Music City Roundabout:

Looking SW from Lea Ave., just west of 8th Ave. South:

Looking NE from The Cannery parking lot:

Looking NE from Palmer Place, 1/2 block west of 8th Ave. South:

[titanhog]

3 hours ago, markhollin said:

Are you sure that’s not a flying carpet? 

[Brichar4]

Does anyone by chance have a diagramed height on this project or other resource? I can’t seem to find a consistent one to document.

[nashville born]

I'm not a betting man, yet I'm about ready to lay action at 3 to 1 odds Alcove, Prime, Pinnacle, and the first Beaman property development  all open before this one.  Good grief.

[downtownresident]

40 minutes ago, Brichar4 said:

Does anyone by chance have a diagramed height on this project or other resource? I can’t seem to find a consistent one to document.

I’ll check the E-Pav this evening and see what I can find. 

[bigeasy]

4 hours ago, markhollin said:

Looking NW from Division Street Connector where it crosses over CSX tracks (and, no, that is NOT at UFO...just a bird).

Yeah sure...just a bird..