There’s no reason why Nashville’s East Bank doesn’t capture this aesthetic. We are the Athens of the South. The “Titans” and “Oracle” will be over there. We have an antebellum Greek revival architectural history as well as art deco/futurism.
Instead we have a Titans stadium that looks like a PlayStation when it should have been a coliseum.
@Oracle’s campus is just concrete and glass hidden by nice landscaping.
@tpac is some soulless Gehry like structure you could find in any other city in the world. Same with all the other renderings. Buildings you can find in Austin or any other boom town. None of it is inspiring. None of it will be remembered hundreds of years from now.
We have a generational opportunity to build a second downtown next to an existing one and so far it is utterly lacking in beauty, history, inspiration, or soul.
The U.S. government just unveiled the majestic Greco-Deco design for the new federal courthouse in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The building is at once monumental and welcoming, classical and original. The iris capitals are an inspired touch, drawing on Tennessee’s natural beauty and weaving it into the stone of a federal building.
The Chattanooga courthouse is precisely the kind of building that President Trump’s Executive Order on federal architecture—“Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again”—was designed to produce.
When the courthouse is completed, it will stand as the living proof that the Order represents wise and humane public policy—something all Americans, regardless of political party, can and should support. Beautiful public buildings are not a partisan matter; they belong to everyone.