On the Waterfront: The main currents in Perkins Eastman’s Waterfront Work – Nashville Waterfront Project

On the Waterfront: The main currents in Perkins Eastman’s Waterfront Work – Nashville Waterfront Project
It’s a crisp spring morning in Nashville when officials from Metro Nashville Planning Department join Perkins Eastman principals Vaughan Davies and Eric Fang on board one of Metro’s fireboats for their first tour of the Cumberland River. In silhouette against the pale early light, birds swoop in long arcs between water and sky, their sharp cries rising above the drone of the boat engine. Downriver to the right, the water laps against the steep shoreline. Trees and bushes scramble up the rocky hillsides to apartment
buildings and towers perched on the bluffs above. To the left, scattered along the low, flat plain, warehouses, gravel parking lots, concrete piers, and box trucks assemble and reassemble themselves like a game of Tetris. It is here, pulled forward by the river’s current, that path and purpose align.
ref: On the Waterfront: PE The Narrative Fall2021 Interactive – Nashville Waterfront Project