Tip-toeing to the tipping point of sustainable buildings and a solar future. That’s one way to describe current activity in local construction.
While most homes and commercial buildings constructed over the past few years rarely go above mandated codes for energy efficiency, some daring developers are pushing the envelope.
Taking risks. Using innovative building practices. Sketching the promise of near-Zero Energy construction for the Georgia coast.
“I’m a plant man.” That’s not only a definition of himself, it also defines Gregg Bayard’s philosophy. A burly former forester and horticulturist, comfortable under a fine patina of dust from a roadway under construction, he and his business partner Curry Wadsworth, with 20 years experience as a landscaper, are turning a heavily wooded, former fishing camp on Salt Creek into a housing development overlooking — and preserving — the marsh. (more…)
It looks as if Manuel Zeitlin Architects has nailed it again.
And the good people at the Tennessee Association of Realtors should be thrilled.
MZA, the Nashville-based architectural firm with the catchy name and an even more distinctive design style, seemingly has created a contemporary semi-masterpiece with the soon-to-be completed TAR headquarters building on the western fringe of Music Row.
If you’ve not yet done so, visit 901 19th Ave. S. and check out this baby.
Perhaps the highlight will be galvanized Zalmag metal shingles and panels (manufactured by Millennium Tiles LLC and rarely seen with Nashville-area construction) cladding portions of the building’s upper level.
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On a gritty block of West 19th Street sits a portal to another world. Well, at least another lifestyle. The disco ball hanging above the doorman gives it all away: This is the Jade, a converted residential building hiding 57 condos marketed to those who want to be Jade Jagger — or to live like her.
The who’s who of this building reads like a long list of movie credits, but it’s ultimately quite simple: This building is all about Ms. Jagger, who, in addition to being rock royalty, is now a brand. The central marketing idea is that this residence allows people to live her brand. Or as the promotional brochure urges in languid, curvaceous script: “Live Jade Jagger Style.” (more…)
