Bugg Stories vol. 3

it's got a real sense of desperation in the way that other buildings like what we thought your tv to building over there because of those fans you know i mean there's a real in sensitive really sort of soaring opponents and even though it's not particularly tall white skies standard financial mr i think it really expresses what a skyscraper does better than the passivity evolution christie stands in front of the un seat now we're at the corner of church and thirty she's the architecture and urban planning writer for the nashville scene and an admirer of adamantly it was interesting because the fact that he worked at a lot of different styles which is traditional of older architect city still get international styles different usually people tended to do modern or historical and what is interesting about him is that he saw an international style of modernism reform listener what everyone a quality as just wanted to be part of that is part of the day he died in nineteen seventy nine after a career spanning five decades

is alan see tower built for the life and casualty insurance company may be the one structure that brought him the most acclaimed it wasn't just the first skyscraper in nashville but the southeast and its addition to the nashville skyline spoke of things to come at a downtown filled with tall buildings a time when energy would be a concern far before it was fashionable people design the office building to be solar passive the aluminum fears that run up the sides are set at an angle blocking out sunlight from nine thirty to five fifteen in the summertime in the winter sun's rays blood the building the black granite base wraps around the building but in the quarter inclined proper use it inside no columns breakup office space so officers can be easily arranged it was a building before its time a hint of urban life headed for nashville franco remembers well this prayer site of the rnc when we first initially their states were built and we drove in from the south pole rock and roll and you could say you live in power

does myself their own solar wrote at several points along the way it has an elegance and grace and presents that that very few called will internationally wear elsewhere break or was a young architect just beginning his career when people hired him what is the people's gift for ghana or watched as the older architect often pulled clients resistant to his ideas behind closed doors only to have them leave convert it to keep a vision born in nineteen oh five in montego he was supposed to be anything but it's an architect he grew up across the street from that about where his father served as dean of the law school is followed didn't get what it was all about l t bills nephew architect band again i graduated from everest of pennsylvania are variations who is eighty three by and they were notifying study in france that this normally would think about was my age twenty three he had two degrees one in engineering

from vanderbilt the other in architecture from ten plus he'd already studied design in italy and france were in paris he was a student and recorded those art back in nashville he quickly formed a partnership with an older architect francis wore failed and many say help people style in check the nineteen forty four at the age of forty one people went to war as a lieutenant in the navy he spent his time designing ships and used every year just as it was to experience stayed with him will notice in many of his bill ramadan sometimes windows like we're close it was home for the war people injured if not the most productive period of his life the most recognized it started with the wood not christian church on the corner would not in hillsboro the large white brick church sits in a hole people chose to counteract the landscape by giving it a decidedly distinct feature

the steeple on what my church as outrageous similar one of the staples of the house people no one of april is not all leaves the villagers down the whole say so it gets a presidents used to evade the thirty three the whole idea was given a bill in hindi presidents or respect it deserves in a situation like a big speech was watching today and even though i'm going to do it the first thing is that it does exist there's a church near natchez mississippi and it's it's a famous church because there's a guilt and on the top but thats pointing to the sky this sense that a lot of this is the steeple equivalent of that golden hand with a finger

pointing to the sky or spiderman you laugh because it was such an exaggerated form but it was clearly a self conscious again it's a staple but it's it's playing with the idea of the steeple just as well in stretching that out as far as he could probably go in i don't know enough to that to reinforce that much just to do with wind storms and things like that since people didn't and the consumption has a yard sale or a neighborhood because of the law his contemporaries doug tims steeple people and i didn't mean it as a glorifying turn the steeple at woodlawn rises two hundred twenty feet above the ground and sexually curious he wanted to design everything nephew dan again remembers the radio constructed with boy scout crystals slipped into a cigarette box with a little wire running up people's jacket too in your blood here is often seen keyboard a crowded room fiddling with the same pocket unknown to those around him he was actually tuning in stations plus there's a car bomb knowledge semi at

mpg and the storage compartments we're a service to accommodate bag sack of groceries meant to wales upset the second and to see a bill to ban flag and drove around money don't wear an accounts payable cb radio with intent on the thing said oh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha than leave fans seem satisfied to soak in all of the ways the bounces off the wood and the season on the walls and again raises people envisioned a stage life saving system university using a variety of ways when the time came dr you with the engineering professors a band of the same problems were needed to hold that it has a structure is a system of

diagonal girders that cross and support each other and sported on the course where that this meeting comes in the course of the court and then in the center of the back their bibles that go from mostly points although the structure is running across and it just it's a lot of steel it's a lot of complicated design calculations there was living is also of course the only major vision that people was unable to attain was also at vanderbilt he spent years trying to convince the university to form of school of architecture to no avail people didn't let disappointment get him down he continued design all the while he was looking for crowning features that would set his work apart frank or harkens back to the va hospital people design washington dc big wigs didn't want the flamboyant can be intense and telling her from people the book of the sun and the cost estimates for the government lydia

they did that have to do with controlling costs says this is too much he said well it's only one percent of the total bases well it's just too much insulin he said well let me ask you mr so and so what you find a suit you're wearing and he says the two hundred dollars he says some twenty five minute he says but to large number this was like in the late fifties early sixties and he said well and that goes to one of your outfit this county school coach one percent of the polish job so he says okay the sole point that way a nation frequently refer to sign up a lot of the jobs that we need to be willing to spend some time according to kimmel's daughter lucy the day he died at age seventy four he had sixteen projects on his desk he never apple even though people's architecture no longer dominates

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