Elkmont Elementary School

Forty-eight classrooms on Alabama Highway 127, by Chapman Sisson for Limestone County Schools. A practical building, and one a small community is proud of.

Chapman Sisson Architects Lee Building Group Elkmont Huntsville, AL Architecture Interior Educational 2025

• IIDA Alabama — IDIE, Best in K-12 Education

Taylor Place in Germantown, Nashville

Fourteen acres between Germantown and Salemtown, master-planned by Smith Gee Studio since 2011. Three buildings, two of them kept rather than cleared.

Smith Gee Studio Germantown Nashville, TN Exteriors Interiors Historic 2024

• 2024 Werthan Warehouse — AIA Tennessee Award of Merit
• 2024 Hamilton & Hume House — Best in American Living, Finalist
• 2023 602 Taylor Street — Metro Historical Commission Preservation Award, Infill

The Emory at Nashville Yards

Thirty-five stories and 420 feet at 930 Commerce Street, by Solomon Cordwell Buenz for Clark Construction. Nashville's tenth-tallest building.

Clark Construction Solomon Cordwell Buenz Architects Southwest Value Partners Nashville, Tennessee Architecture Interior Residential 2024

Boyle Investment Company

Thirty-two acres at Capitol View, with Boyle Investment Company as master developer. Cooper Carry drew the plan; Gresham Smith the 1100 Charlotte tower.

Nashville and Cool Springs, Tennessee Architecture Retail Drone 2024

Monday Night Brewing

Monday Night Brewing came out of an Atlanta garage in 2006. This is their Nashville taproom.

Smith Gee Studio Germantown Nashville, Tennessee Architecture Hospitality Drone 2024

Justin Timberlake’s Twelve Thirty Club

Three floors at Fifth + Broadway that don't look like each other on purpose. Interiors by AvroKO; Gresham Smith the architect.

Author & Edit Hospitality Downtown Nashville, Tennessee Architecture Hospitality 2024

Tennessee Titans House Fan Experience

A preview center in the Werthan Building, built by Polk & Associates and designed by Elevate — a room built to sell seats in a stadium that didn't exist yet.

Elevate Tennessee Titans Germantown Nashville, Tennessee Architecture Hospitality 2024

The Neuhoff District

A meat-packing plant on the Cumberland, rebuilt as offices, apartments and a food hall. Smith Gee Studio master-planned it; S9 Architecture drew the new blocks.

S9 Architecture Smith Gee Studio Nashville, TN Exteriors Interiors Twilight Aerial 2024

• 2026 ArchDaily — Building of the Year
• 2025 Chicago Athenaeum — American Architecture Award
• 2025 Metro Nashville Historic Preservation Award

Journey Middle School

A North Alabama middle school by Nola | VanPeursem Architects that opened with almost seven hundred students and now carries over nine hundred.

Nola | VanPeursem Architects Madison, Alabama Architecture Educational 2023

Nashville Airport Retail

Retail and concessions inside BNA's expansion — two building programs that people merge into one name. Photographed between the crowds.

Nashville International Airport Nashville, Tennessee Architecture Retail 2023

Tennessee State Museum

HGA and EOA's museum at Bicentennial Mall. I photographed it twice, for two different clients — the second time with the building closed.

HGA EOA Architects Nashville, TN Exteriors Interiors Civic 2021

• 2021 AIA Middle Tennessee — Merit Award
• 2020 ULI Nashville — Excellence in Development
• 2020 ASHRAE Technology Award — First Place

Gaylord Hotels Holiday Refresh

One commission, three resorts, three states — Opryland, the Gaylord Texan and Gaylord Palms, in the 2021 Elf season. No ice that year.

Marriott International Nashville, TN Grapevine, TX Orlando, FL Architecture Hospitality 2021