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[markhollin]

[titanhog]

^^Looks like a major city.

[Sean blackdog]

Today this morning from Facebook NewsChannel5. 

[chris holman]

21 hours ago, markhollin said:

Were looking the good these days. Not a bad  comparison to Los Angeles with their population being at around 7,000,000 and we are nowhere near done 

[BnaBreaker]

Well... to be fair, the LA shot is from further away and the LA skyline is about twice as tall across the board... for example the 777 Building (the white lit up skyscraper at center right) is about 200 feet taller than 505 in Nashville... BUT I do agree with you that from that angle the general spread of the skyline has an LA flavor to it, especially with that freeway winding through the foreground.

Edited December 17, 2019 by BnaBreaker

[chris holman]

2 hours ago, BnaBreaker said:

Well... to be fair, the LA shot is from further away and the LA skyline is about twice as tall across the board... for example the 777 Building (the white lit up skyscraper at center right) is about 200 feet taller than 505 in Nashville... BUT I do agree with you that from that angle the general spread of the skyline has an LA flavor to it, especially with that freeway winding through the foreground.

True we are just getting started, our skyline will be a dense one in a couple of years

[smeagolsfree]

Well, the square mileage is about the same as the LA city limits cover 489 Sq., miles, but with 3.8 million people.  I could not imagine if Davidson County was the size of LA County. We would not need any other counties in our MSA as LA County is just over 4,000 sq. miles

[markhollin]

Looking NE from The Gulch:

[donNdonelson2]

This photo from Elevated Lens Photography popped up on my page as a Facebook memory from 2012. So much has changed in seven years. 

[markhollin]

Courtesy of Brad Pippin:

 

[markhollin]

TBT: May 1, 1963.

 

[MLBrumby]

Looking at these old photos has become one of my favorite things on this forum. 

Looking at the one above, I noticed the building that once sat on the block bounded by Second/First and Church was very large. Does anyone here have any better pics and information on that?  Recently with the photos of the old Maxwell House, I've wondered if a replica of that building would fit on this site? 

[chris holman]

[MLBrumby]

Dude, those are amazing!!

The height of the 5&Broad office building is sooooooo disappointing. 

Even the woefully unattractive and underwhelming 222 building is more prominent.

[markhollin]

Several views from top of the Grand Hyatt last month looking northward:

 

[archilove]

On 12/17/2019 at 2:28 AM, chris holman said:

Were looking the good these days. Not a bad  comparison to Los Angeles with their population being at around 7,000,000 and we are nowhere near done 

Most major cities (other than New York, Chicago, etc.) have only a handful of supertalls, and they skew you're perception of the skyline as a whole. It would only take three or four supertalls added to that Nashville skyline to give the effect of a fairly large city. 505 may be 200 feet shorter than the Los Angeles building but appears taller than it actually is because it sits on a hill.

Edited December 20, 2019 by archilove

[dragonfly]

On 12/17/2019 at 2:28 AM, chris holman said:

Were looking the good these days. Not a bad  comparison to Los Angeles with their population being at around 7,000,000 and we are nowhere near done 

 

True and L.A. has a few  extra-CBD clusters of urban density in Westwood, Century City, and Wilshire BL, and whichever I don't know about. Also is the L.A. metro pop.  not north of 12 million?

Edited December 21, 2019 by dragonfly

[Native]

Merry Christmas from the Capitol Building.

 

[markhollin]

[Native]

10 minutes ago, markhollin said:

That may be my favorite angle for the skyline.  Impressive.

[markhollin]

[vinemp]

On 12/16/2019 at 5:56 AM, titanhog said:

^^Looks like a major city.

If only the hardheaded folk wouldn't get in the way of public transportation, we'd actually [be] a major city. (And people would be able to get around the mess of pikes, limited  actual thoroughfares, and highways-used-like-streets.)

[markhollin]

Courtesy of Jeff Schroeder:
 

[nashvylle]

From Bourbon Steak: 

 

[Native]

Not a building, but I could not resist showing you the sunset over Radnor Lake tonight.