PHILADELPHIA | The Beacon | 197 FT | 14 FLOORS - Page 8

shadowbat2 · #**141** Posted **Apr 18, 2016, 11:36 PM**

The Beacon apartments 4/17/16 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr

The Beacon apartments from 4/17/16 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr

summersm343 · #**142** Posted **Apr 19, 2016, 3:24 AM**

4/18/16

summersm343 · #**143** Posted **Apr 25, 2016, 8:44 PM**

Update from Building Philly

https://www.facebook.com/BuildingPhilly

summersm343 · #**144** Posted **Apr 28, 2016, 5:41 PM**

Update from Building Philly

https://www.facebook.com/BuildingPhilly

MikeNigh · #**145** Posted **May 1, 2016, 3:15 AM**

I don't think I've noticed much change with this in the past week.

1487 · #**146** Posted **May 2, 2016, 12:10 PM**

this actually seems pretty tall at this particular corner. It really will have an impact when you are near this intersection.

MikeNigh · #**147** Posted **May 8, 2016, 8:03 PM**

summersm343 · #**148** Posted **May 14, 2016, 3:32 AM**

Update from Building Philly

More photos here:
https://www.facebook.com/BuildingPhilly/

jsbrook · #**149** Posted **May 14, 2016, 11:28 AM**

Cladding is starting to go up on the non-street side facing Brooks Brothers. Hard to tell how it looks at this point.

Arch+Eng · #**150** Posted **May 17, 2016, 7:50 PM**

They built this in like 4 days.

What did they hire one of those Chinese prefab structure teams with like 2000 construction workers?

City Wide · #**151** Posted **May 17, 2016, 10:24 PM**

As you noticed, steel work goes up FAST, and in this building theres no concrete core, so everything is steel. I'm guessing they still have to pour the concrete floor slabs, but maybe that will happen as the same time as the curtain wall.

I know when they were working on the lower half of the FMC tower it looked like 2 gangs of steel workers could blow thru about 4 floors a day. Just like me and my elector set many years ago.