The Glassification of Nashville
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- čas přidán 2. 11. 2022
- We joke a lot about the cranes which have filled downtown Nashville in recent years, but the glass skyscrapers that follow them have transformed the way our city looks. Our skyline, which for years was represented by the L&C tower - at one point the tallest structure between New York and Miami - is now covered in glass. What’s behind the evolution? And will it look the same in a century? We talked to a historian, an engineer and Tony Giarratana, the man who’s helped shape the way the city looks with his buildings, to examine the glassification of downtown Nashville.
My wife and I go to the L&C tower for our dentist. They’re on the ninth floor and the view is amazing.
It’s not lost on me that L&C building is Nashvilles First Skyscraper!!
Nashville is getting to look like Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Denver, Phoenix, and Los Angeles with all the glassy buildings one on top of another. A couple glassy buildings is great but this is definite overkill and out of hand.
Very well done, Nashville is becoming something else very quickly.
Tbh it’s nice that Nashville is growing and expanding becoming a real city all they need is a real public transit oh wait I forgot the people in Nashville shot them down
sadly I fear that many American cities will never have good public transportation bc of nimbys
@@wolfgangbakariburstnah, the government controls the narratives, the government is created the idea of nimby's to not be at fault for not passing legislation that promotes public transportation. The gov wants everyone in cars, which allows for them to control people more, financially and mentally (stuck in traffic, insurance, car accidents, drunk driving etc.) All the problems that come with cars drives the American economy. Even if everybody wanted to build high quality transit, the government would not allow it. So they tell people that the people who want the transportation options voted against it, yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Nobody would vote against quality transit.
What's a nimbys@@wolfgangbakariburst
@@Forza_Geek.
N.I.M.B.y means "Not In My Backyard". The idea that preexisting occupants/incumbents in cities vote for policies that limit future growth to benefit themselves in the near term, such as by voting against building new buildings in their "backyard" or neighborhood.
Thats common in every other US city except New York DC and Boston. Even Chicago is decreasing public transport usage.
So good to hear and see Demetria bring her true brand of journalism back to Nashville. Salute!
Pfft
😲 " WELL!.... In fairness to Nashville, it's joined the ' glassification ' wave transforming countless major North American skylines. In several of the largest, there are clusters and consecutive blocks of glass boxes whose only distinguishing features are height or unorthodox shape. It's hard to believe there once was a time in which high rises with glass curtain wall facades stood out. Not anymore. "
Fascinating story. Truly enjoyed it.
This is a wonderful video!
I'd love to see some art deco again.
Just subscribed. Pulling for you guys. This is a good start, I reckon. Call it "mediumform" - not longform, not short. Also: not hurried and thank God not a million cuts and effects.
Nashville has the “stubbiest” skyline of any mid size city. Almost all the new buildings are the same height (400-500 ft)..Instead of constructing 30 buildings that are 30 stories each they should build 15 that are 60 stories each…would be much more impressive. Too many projects have been downsized (i.e. 505) which originally was supposed to be 200 feet taller.
There was that proposed Signature Tower 10 years ago. It's shame it didn't get built that would have changed that problem.
This whole area has a weird earthquake problem. Unlike other parts of the country where plenty of earthquake research has taken place, this part of the country hasn't had the same level of research done. We know the rocks in this area are older, more brittle and prone allow the power of a quake to stay stronger even further from the epicenter unlike in California where the rocks absorb some of the power of the quake because they are comparatively soft. No one is seriously predicting a quake in the New Madrid area any time soon, but if one happens, there's not the hard data on what that would do to the limestone bedrock that Nashville sits on.
@@Odin029 I never have thought of Nashville as being earthquake country. That would be cities like LA San Fran and to a lesser extent Seattle. And all those cities have taller buildings.
@@dvferyance Those places have more frequent earthquakes, but look at a list of the most powerful earthquakes in US history. The first 8 all happened in Alaska. The one tied for the most powerful quake in the lower 48 happened about 150 miles from downtown Nashville as the crow flies.
It's not an accident that for a city that's been settled since the last quarter of the 18th century, the oldest buildings in Nashville are from the late 1810s... just after the last time the New Madrid fault decided to move a little bit. It's been just over 200 years since the fault was very active, but unlike the more well known(and well studied) San Andreas fault in California, the New Madrid fault seems to be a type that gives little to no warning before it moves.
@@Odin029 It's actaully Memphis that's near New Madrid.
"The dumbest of the 3 Little Pigs didn't build his house outta glass." LOL! 📠
Thanks Chuck
Well done, Nashville Banner!
Very thoughtful and balanced story that illustrates both sides of this new aesthetic.
Great job, Nashville Banner! Cheers from Ukraine!
This city is just sceptical of new curtain wall skyscrapers because they havnt been exposed to the structures in their cities before, almost every propsperous city in the modern era has many buildings like this.
Nashville's buidings are so short compared to Atlanta, Houston and Charlotte plus none of them have a stand-out look. Looks like a bunch of cereal boxes bunched up on a hill.
Still better than Memphis.
Atlanta and Houston are larger cities and larger cities typically have taller buildings. Downtown Charlotte isn't that much taller than downtown Nashville from what I've seen. Nashville is no slouch.
@@auaiao9 Nashville's current tallest building is only a hare higher than the tallest building in Milwaukee and beleive it or not is shorter than the tallest building in Des Moines. But Nashville has a much better skyline compared to Memphis.
@@dvferyance Hell no. Nashville will never be on Memphis' level. Smh
I could see the L & C building at band practice at Tennessee state university.
Less glass. More Art Deco.
For skyscraper enthusiasts in Nashville these must be exciting times to be alive with the city on steroids building skyscraper after skyscraper changing forever the image people have of Nashville.
These are NOT 'skyscrapers'?
High-rises, nashville only has one true skyscraper
Had no idea nashville was growing like this.
It's NOT growing. They're just buildings ugly phallics that will remain empty forever.
It's kinds funny this starts off talking about how important " Material Matters" & ends with developers justifying "pushing codes"
wow
We need buildings with soul. Glass buildings don’t have soul.
"Old man yells at clouds...and then screams, get off my lawn!"
nicee
J'aimerais vivre en haut d'un grand immeuble comme ça ❤
The same thing happened in Phoenix. Historic districts were all bulldozed and buildings have no style anymore but they are just glass laden structures. Glad I left that big city mess 30 years ago. Nashville will be in big trouble if a tornado comes thru and breaks all that glass and it will be like glass bullets flying everywhere slicing thru everything imaginable.
A tornado breaks down when obstructed by very large buildings, google it.
It seems to be a trend among cities in the South and West to fill the streets up with glass boxes.
@rumplestiltskin951 they're following Asia's lead. Almost all Asian cities are glass jungles.
I was living in California and for all new development there are common black mail fees for everything from Climate change to schools; parks and open space that is justified by the liberal agenda including climate change and recycling fees and I certainly hope Nashville does not make the same mistake and makes everything so expensive that most projects are dead before leaving the drawing boards.
Why don’t they built some up to 700 - 900 ft
They can't build up to 900 feet due the the height restriction for the airport and planes landing
lol most of the problems here been solve. Look at any large city, they ain”t complaining
Demetria, did you know one of those new buildings reflects the setting sunlight directly into the eyes of fans behind home plate at the Sounds ballpark? It's dreadful.
Detroit is still ancient lol. Super slow to start doing this
Huh?? There is no building in Nashville anywhere near 5MSQFT!! Plus Detroit is sprawling and has one of the worst Urban sprawl footprint in the US… if you travel an hour in any direction from Downtown you still are in Metropolitan Detroit and in suburban city scape.. you go 15-20mins outside of Downtown Nashville and you are in the sticks.
Detroit historical doesn’t build up and down, and is/was the first large metropolis that consisted mostly of single family homes. If you put all those City streets with houses and turned them into high-rises the skyline would look like Chicago or Miami
@@josephsierzengaIVno the Metro area is only this large because of the emptying of Detroit. Although I will say there is a BIG list of never built skyscrapers that would have at least quadrupled Detroit's downtown and easily make it top 10. Including a building that was supposed to be over 1,100 feet in the 20s!!
@@antonioguglielmetti2661 Book Tower II was supposed to be 1050FT tall.(tallest in USA at the time)
Fisher Building was suppose to have three towers instead of just the one. The middle tower would of been 880ft tall. But the depression stopped those projects from reaching full potential.
RenCen was to originally have 8 towers. One Detroit Center was suppose to have a twin tower that was to be 115ft taller(almost 800FT tall) and Comerica was planning a 750-800FT tall building for there national headquarters before they decided to relocate to Dallas.
Ancient architecture is much better than the actual
ratio nimby
I hate to see what they are doing to Nashville every thing they are building looks so temporary, and doesn’t complement the beautiful landscape. Are they trying to make it Las Vegas? Its like they are trying to coverup the history and the culture that was here. Trying to make it invitingly for new people but pushing out the natives. They are resetting Nashville.
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JFC... these first guys are so pissey.... the skyline overall... dismal... the jigsaw buildings say it even more. Fact is, what is going on is being done as cheaply as possible... that is why there is not stone, or even faux stone facades. This video was 'recommended'.
Glass buildings are unattractive and lazy.
Different strokes for different folks. I like them