Project Thread/New Construction/Photo du jour/Const. CAMs

[UTgrad09]

On 2/12/2017 at 0:05 PM, MLBrumby said:

Thought I'd post this photo from NC5, as I don't recall seeing this. Striking photo... 

 

Wow...took me a second to see the subdued skyline in the background...

I'm pretty sure that's shot from La Vergne, near Rock Springs Rd.

https://goo.gl/maps/XUDg1u6Jkn72

[titanhog]

^^Hard to believe downtown looks that big from the sky above Lavergne / Smyrna.

[UTgrad09]

1 hour ago, titanhog said:

^^Hard to believe downtown looks that big from the sky above Lavergne / Smyrna.

It's the right angle. And probably a trick of the lense.

Here...the house to the immediate front-right of the water tower...

https://goo.gl/maps/4aDcAJ73wq92

It's the same house...

[markhollin]

Pinnacle invisible (Phillip Nelson):

 

[titanhog]

This morning...

 

Edited February 14, 2017 by titanhog

[Nashville Cliff]

Update shot I caught of the 505 construction from down the hill last Friday (just a few hours before the flu kicked my ass).

[markhollin]

TBT: Downtown from rooftop along 2nd Avenue looking NW around 1910 Can see some flooding in the Sulpher Dell area.

 

[titanhog]

^^Can't. Breathe.

[bhibbs]

[titanhog]

^^What are we looking at in this photo?  I'm holding my breath hoping those beautiful brick walls don't collapse! 

[donNdonelson2]

Newschannel 5 Skycam features one of my favorite shots from their  broadcast tower camera this morning. (I enhanced the photo a bit for clarity.)

[fieldmarshaldj]

20 hours ago, markhollin said:

TBT: Downtown from rooftop along 2nd Avenue looking NW around 1910 Can see some flooding in the Sulpher Dell area.

 

Ugh, all those lost 19th century beauties. Breaks my heart.

[markhollin]

Looking east from above the site for the Hyatt Regency (Music City Aerial):

[Andrew_3289]

[donNdonelson2]

SoBro "building  boom" pic from Newschannel 5 Skycam. Such a transformation since the Country Music Hall of Fame moved into the neighborhood. It looked so lonely and isolated for a few years...lots of good neighbors now!

[dmillsphoto]

[fieldmarshaldj]

14 hours ago, dmillsphoto said:

Looking at that photo really reminds me how terribly designed TPAC is. Built in the era when facilities or skyscrapers wished to hide from the street, it is so thoroughly ugly and brutalist on the exterior. It resembles a sarcophagus without the charm. Had it been built 30 years earlier (1940s), it likely would've been lovingly designed in Art Deco style. Despite attempts to spiffy it up at streetside and make it less foreboding, I think it could do with a complete exterior overhaul. Because of the shape of the structure, I think it could be creatively outfitted in a classic neo-Second Empire design with the top section boasting a mansard roof refit.

Something along these lines facing 6th (although this is a hotel):

Perhaps something along these lines along the Deaderick Street (or even Union) side underneath the Polk Tower:

[markhollin]

There are some unique sight lines and angles in the Opry House:

 

 

[arkitekte]

2 hours ago, fieldmarshaldj said:

Looking at that photo really reminds me how terribly designed TPAC is. Built in the era when facilities or skyscrapers wished to hide from the street, it is so thoroughly ugly and brutalist on the exterior. It resembles a sarcophagus without the charm.  I think it could do with a complete exterior overhaul. Because of the shape of the structure, I think it could be creatively outfitted in a classic neo-Second Empire design with the top section boasting a mansard roof refit.

I generally appreciate Brutalist structures for what they offer, at least in an architectural/historic sense. When a budget during that era wasn't stretched thin, the outcome for many wasn't bad. That obviously wasn't the case with TPAC, though. 

You redesign comment from Brutalism to something else is exactly the though process that produced the Post-Modern style (along with a dislike of the modern/international style). It made me laugh, especially after the 1940's, Art Deco comment. 

Edited February 19, 2017 by arkitekte

[markhollin]

23 hours ago, donNdonelson2 said:

SoBro "building  boom" pic from Newschannel 5 Skycam. Such a transformation since the Country Music Hall of Fame moved into the neighborhood. It looked so lonely and isolated for a few years...lots of good neighbors now!

Thanks for the pic, donNdonelson2. This shows the incredible changes in SoBro in the last 21 years. Not a single building the foreground existed before that. Including those in distance, there are 17 new structures. And, just within this view, there should be be about 15 more within the next three years. And....there are still 6 absolutely prime surface lots in this panorama that are just crying out for major developments.

[titanhog]

RUN!!!!! Nashville is being attacked!!!  

 

[rookzie]

1 hour ago, titanhog said:

RUN!!!!! Nashville is being attacked!!!  

That's what one try to do to Chicago's North Loop and Streeterville District a couple of summers ago, outside my room at the Carbide & Carbon Bldg (Hard Rock).  I slept good without one eye open. -==-

 

[dmillsphoto]

Welp.

 

Nothing we can do but burn it all down...  Gotta kill that spider somehow.

 

 

[chris holman]

[ruraljuror]

21 minutes ago, chris holman said:

 

Will the JWM block the batman building from that vantage point?