"Change was a long time coming. The new Hotel Indigo, a 13-story tower on the northwest edge of downtown, joins a lineup of Asheville high-rises that hasn't changed much in the past 80 years. Nearly all the city's tall buildings — City Hall, Buncombe County Courthouse, Jackson Building, Battery Park Hotel — rose during the 1920s boom years.

The one modernist exception — the much-unloved BB&T Building, completed in 1965 — tends to be regarded as the looming death star of Asheville architecture.

Whether the Indigo is a new Jackson Building or a new BB&T is a matter of some dispute. . ."
Asheville Citizen-Times (12/8/2009)

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