The hole for the elevator mat (the hole with the wood lagging on the left in the last pic) is gonna go down a bit more but the general hole itself isn't gonna go down more

Does anyone have access to the basement floorplans to see if the WPE garage and the current garage will have access to each other? Or are they going to stay seperate?

Jan 5



The wet looking area is the base coat put down before the mat is assembled.


The ends of the re-bar are fitted with bolts so that they can be extended

As long as the image hosting sites stay up/people's accounts stay open. Looking through old threads is often a link graveyard. I'm also not sure if the Wayback Machine would capture any of the embedded content, haven't checked.

I think in 30 years most of the pictures will be lost because people did not back up their files. Atleast back the the "old" days you had to use up the film and throw it in a box and store it in a closet. Now hosting sites and old computers and cameras erase everything for you unless you remember to back them up.

This is and will end up being a real problem in a few years when people start to realize they have lost most of their memories.

^ You could lose old negatives too, not like things were iron clad back then either. It all comes down to personal organizational skills.

Either you are the type of person who backs things up (be it film or digital files), or you aren't.

Not really. With film you had hardcopies no matter if you wanted to or not. No hard copies for digital unless you save them. My parents and grand parents used to find old photos all the time they forgot about, but they still had them. People load their baby photos up onto websites and for some reason they think those websites will be here in 30 years.

Couple hundred bucks for a 6-10 TB Raid backup drive. Problem solved.

January 4, 2018

A 3 excavator line to get dirt out..nice. Makes we wonder what acrobatics they will need to pull for tower 3.

Right? With limited staging I assume they'll bring in barges.

Can't wait to hang on the new stretch of riverwalk and watch this rise this summer.

No need to wait

Jan 8

Frames for assembling the rebar cages ?


Spread em ! - these long bars are being fed in by the big crane, 4 at a time, some co-ordination required to get each into the right spot before they are lowered in.



Jan 9

Bigfoot in disguise?

Steel toed galoshes

Got its tower crane stub earlier this afternoon

And I think those frames in the first picture are for a facade mock up

I know this going a long way back but did they ever release lobby interior pictures? And how many entrances will there be?

This article has some renderings of the lobby from the outside. Its from 2016 however

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2016...t-year#slide-6

Yellow tower crane base is in place.

I work for the interior designer of the project and would gladly share them, but I believe there are some confidentiality issues. You might see them later on once the developer releases them to build up excitement and interest.

01/10/18

https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/ng/ser...649272/enhance

https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/ng/ser...649382/enhance

https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/ng/ser...649332/enhance

https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/ng/ser...649325/enhance

https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/ng/ser...648979/enhance

Boom baby! Lets get ready to rock. and. or. roll. A warm 55 degrees would be a great day to pour today, but I'm not sure if their ready for that yet.

Nice! About time for it to join its older yet shorter brother

edit: double post

Mat(?) pour happening today:

Sounds very presidential to me ;-)

Mocking up
 

Jan 12

Whoa the white frames look great. I wasn't expecting that and it'll be a really nice contrast to WPW.

Jan 12

First mat pour




at the controls


at the business end




Sleepers - designed to take strain so lots of steel.

That's because if you pay attention you'd see that you are looking at the interior of the building. The white will not be on the outside.

That is the interior side but it looks like there is a white fin sticking out from the exterior side on the right

Maybe, but the renderings make it pretty clear that it's basically a glass curtain wall

Harry, in your last picture. I was just wondering if those side beams running along the piles are an indication of where the low level floors will be, or are they just there to support the crossbar support beams running across?

The beams running horizontally along the sheet piles (whalers) appear to be placed for maximum efficiency in supporting the wall. On other projects they have not had any relation to eventual floors.

Thank you sir. Please keep the photo's coming.

Walsh's website says that theirs gonna be a 6 story below grade parking garage but that hole looks like it could barely fit 4. I guess grade in this sense is wolf point plaza, or orleans street.

Garage ceiling heights tend to be quite low.

I get that, but if one level of the parking garage were to be under the bottom of the lowest level of bracing (hypothetically, that seems like it would be the lowest height a floor could be) then you would still only be able to fit 4 in, not including slab thicknesses/any other foundations they construct (the pile caps seem to be dug in though and the elevator mat should be going in that big hole in the center). Although upon further reflection, you're probably right though because if I recall the sheet piles were 55 feet and assuming they extend 5 feet below the final depth of the excavation (which they usually do) that's still around 8 feet for each level which seems 'bout right for a floor height in a garage. We'll have to wait and see though.

Are you considering the above grade but below upper level streets space? The garage may be partially "buried" under the Riverwalk and upper level streets.

I'm thinking it'll be like wolf point west's parking except wolf point east will be built on top its parking. "Flush" with the upper street levels

Also looks like the tower crane is going up today

^^

January 16, 2018

Yessss, finally. are the same workers in the hole going to ride this to the top? i hope so. they deserve it.

January 17, 2018

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTxqVn3W0AI1UYj.jpg:large
https://twitter.com/thebiggreenw/sta...54143654629376

The beast rises! :cheers:

Can I get a walsh, walsh.

Jan 16



Divine Guidance for the rigging




The windows - from the outside.


Jan 17