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NASCAR Hall of Fame
Stonewall and Brevard streets
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Unveiled in 2005, the hall’s initial design by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners in New York had a dramatic hook: a metal ribbon that flowed and twisted around the oval building, mimicking the look and feel of stock car racing’s great theater: the track.
Then the addition of the twenty-story NASCAR Plaza office tower blunted the impact. And the under-construction addition on Brevard containing a ballroom for the convention center seems surprisingly large -- and it interrupts the ribbon.
Still, the building has pizzazz. The power of the stainless-steel ribbon brings a gasp. At night it will be marked by running lights of different colors. Think of the mother ship in Close Encounters come to Earth on the edge of downtown.
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