Giant eyesore to go up at 24th & West End

[MrMemorial]

And will not match anything in the area.



https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/ ... 670798002/

[charlestonalum]

It ignores livability and will add heat with its apparent highly reflective surfaces. Too bad.

[FayetteDore]

So much for the view out of the north side of the new VU housing complex directly across the street.

[OldDude]

Architectural programs must have a course called "Shoveling BS, 101". The building looks like an ugly CGI image from a dystopian future movie. The architect describes it in terms that might best be reserved for works in the Louvre. While many architects consider impact on the area esthetic , a good number prefer to stroke their own ego.

[AuricGoldfinger]

That's grotesque. No wonder the university is buying up so much land on the periphery of campus.

[coachinwaiting]

Architectural programs must have a course called "Shoveling BS, 101". The building looks like an ugly CGI image from a dystopian future movie. The architect describes it in terms that might best be reserved for works in the Louvre. While many architects consider impact on the area esthetic , a good number prefer to stroke their own ego.

Welcome to the dystopian present.

[Versus75]

[MrMemorial]

Welcome to the dystopian present.

Can't say Asimov didn't predict it...

[Nashmann]

Horrible building design....

[Johnmn555]

After everything that Vandy put into the development across the street, I would think that the University would have fought against this building. It pretty much wrecks the aesthetic that the school was creating there.

[MrMemorial]

After everything that Vandy put into the development across the street, I would think that the University would have fought against this building. It pretty much wrecks the aesthetic that the school was creating there.

Maybe some of you legal scholars can opine on whether it's actionable to be stopped?

[vandy05]

After everything that Vandy put into the development across the street, I would think that the University would have fought against this building. It pretty much wrecks the aesthetic that the school was creating there.

Maybe some of you legal scholars can opine on whether it's actionable to be stopped?

And just because it wasn't stopped doesn't mean the university didn't fight it. You can fight and not win on these things sometimes. I also very much doubt that you can fight about architectural design, it smore about appropriateness of use.

[MrMemorial]

After everything that Vandy put into the development across the street, I would think that the University would have fought against this building. It pretty much wrecks the aesthetic that the school was creating there.

Maybe some of you legal scholars can opine on whether it's actionable to be stopped?

And just because it wasn't stopped doesn't mean the university didn't fight it. You can fight and not win on these things sometimes. I also very much doubt that you can fight about architectural design, it smore about appropriateness of use.

It's like a giant middle finger pointed at the school. There are plenty other spots in mid-town left to put up more big generic glass boxes. They should put one up in the middle of the 12 South District.... but you know that will never be approved. Or tear down the world's worst ghetto McDonalds on 8th and put it there.