Projects

Peabody Union

Location

Nashville, TN

Architect

Hastings Architects

General Contractor

Turner Construction

Industry

Workplace, Tech & Mission Critical


The Peabody Union development is a 4.5 acre mixed-use community neighborhood in Nashville Tennessee’s South Bank District. Peabody Union is comprised of several newly constructed buildings including 50,000 square feet of retail space, 250,000 square feet of office space, and 455,000 square feet of residential space in a luxury high-rise tower overlooking the Cumberland River. An additional 132,000 square feet of space has also been added in between the four prominent buildings with greenways, leisure seating, and walking paths. Drawing inspiration from the adjacent historic Trolley Barns, Hastings Architecture designed the Peabody Union sight to be a contemporary interpretation of the historic area with similar open-air geographical pedestrian spaces, urban streetscapes, and industrial-inspired modern materials like steel and dark copper anodized aluminum.


Our team worked with Turner Construction to fabricate and install the enclosure systems on each of the buildings for the Peabody Union Development. The main residential tower, retail storefronts, and office spaces feature nearly 175,000 square feet of Fairview’s Vitrabond aluminum composite metal rainscreen panels in custom matched Focus Black finish and a maroon-colored finish called Almandine Garnet. Vitrabond panels were also installed on one of the inside staircase canopies in an anodized Brilliant Mirror finish. Our team fabricated and installed metal from Pure + Freeform including 5,000 square feet of box ribbed corrugated panels in their Hollywood finish, and an additional 4,000 square feet of our own S-Slip panel system in their Frozen Titanium finish for the paneling on the canopy roof. The rooftop mechanical areas are clad in 12,000 square feet of screens are made from Metal Sales T-10B metal wall panels in a Focus Black finish. The last bit of metal work our team completed was for the tower’s interior lobby area desk which is clad with 1,000 square feet of perforated steel plate panel system in a custom Peabody finish created specifically for the owner.

McGrath didn’t just show us what the next steps were, they took them with us. The project came out better than we imagined because they were involved.

Steve Berg Principal, BWBR Architects