Interesting engineering. So the ramp slabs will be built above and under the support beams before they take them out in sections or will they take them out full size before the ramps are put in?

There will be no ramps, the WPW ramps are going to serve this garage as well.

the deck adjacent to Orleans was poured today; we'll possibly some see bracing coming out next week. this one should move pretty fast if they don't have to do ramps

so we know where the gravel barge was going

Some of the bracing came out today

March 20





March 26



Pulling out the first set of rakers






and a ramp

I thought someone said no ramps. That looks like a ramp to me in the last picture

My guess would be that the lower level or 2 are below the neighboring garage.

What are they doing in front of the Mart? Just some repairs?

Repairing the "riverwalk" there - stripped off the old deck - replaced and rewelded the supports -new deck is on - railing (slabs) lined up and ready.

March 28





Removing the whaler now that the floor has set.




Well grounded.

Not that i really like the new paint job on the Holiday Inn anyways...but if they do not paint the very top part of it the same color that is really going to annoy me even more!

The grey really helps the building imo, but damn that part at the top looks so stupid.

The old saying about lipstick on a pig comes to mind.......

Dude the grey looks absolutely awful. Honest to god.

No color change was going to save that building from its design. The only thing I can see someone arguing in favor of drab grey over drab brown is that grey doesn't stick out as much. I just wish they could take a wrecking ball to the whole damn thing

The bronze windows over the gray concrete isn’t working. I’m picking my battles here. Painting it off-white might have helped if paint was the only fix. A reclad in glass would have been the best option

The real solution is to build three giant glass towers in front of it so it will reduced to merely lurking in the shadow of superior designs. This grey color will actually help make it disappear into the background once WPE and WPS are done.

I dunno, I like the gray. For a rectilinear and grid-patterned building like that, having a 'natural' color like the tan concrete conflicted with what the structure and form are saying. The grey looks crisp and offsets the dark windows wonderfully and makes their patterns pop.

^Agreed it looks better in grey,but please paint the very top it looks stupid. It doesn't really matter though because in roughly 5 years the building would be lost.

Omg you guys it does not look better grey. They should never have modified the original design, which was pretty good imo.

Grey looks good, now paint the other building a neon blue or red like a Nintendo Switch!

Wut

All this is a non issue. The Apparel Center will be relegated to visual background noise once Wolf Point is built to completion. After that, they can paint a giant mural of a horse's ass on there for all I care. :)

Part of the iconic Merchandise Mart (Southwest slanted wall) will be obscured by this bland blue glass tower as well.

:shrug:

:happybirthday:I think it'll be far from bland. It'll have nice texture and articulation, besides... the southern face, which is it's most prominent is about 3-acres.

April 5, 2018

Great shot. 150, River Point and WPW were all not there not so long ago...

Imagine being some guy (or gal) who moved out of the city 20 years ago and visiting today. And thinking to yourself, where the fuck am I at?

I agree. It's a perfectly fine piece of infrastructure. And if you squint, it actually has some nice visual density.

The Mart has almost 600 horizontal feet of river frontage that will be fully uncovered and visible in perpetuity. I think we'll be fine :tup:

It's a lot better than the tan was!

April 11, 2018

Really amazing to see how much work goes into these sub levels. Thanks for all the pics guys!

Lot of rain these past two days. I hope they’re braced against rising river levels.

April 10



Leaving a hole to remove the supports.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/798/2...5763b24d_h.jpg

April 11





April 13



Pushing the limits of my Sigma 18-300

Morning Muster
 

April 10

When can we expect to see the construction above the circle drive level? 3-4 weeks I'm guessing?

It's moving pretty fast, so yeah, I'd say sometime in May. If not above at least level with...

April 17





April 20

April 20







Premade holes - putting in holes after the floor is poured is a lot of work.
Not sure what the boxes are for.


Green / Brown / METRA


Truing up the form stands

^^ That 4 in 1 train shot is superb. True diligence

5 - that's 2 different METRA trains.

I stand corrected. Awesome :cheers:

Rise! Rise, I say! And cast yon shadows on NIMBY households!

Unless they keep that temporary construction bridge/driveway its gonna be a bitch to get equipment and materials to WPS. Barge it. I wonder what area they will use for staging and storage? It would be convienant if they could block off part of that street north of it like they are doing with upper wacker for Vista but I dont think thats gonna happen. I know its far in the future, just fun to think about.

April 24, 2018

Is the brick stair/elevator entrance that says "luxury rentals" being replaced by an entrance within either this or the south tower? Seems a big hit to street presence to have new glass towers with that dumpy little hut left there.

They are pouring the east half of the deck Solar shot and posted last night, this morning.
Shouldn't be long before we see the floor plates rise above the river.

that will be something to finally see. it seems like they've been in the ground forever on this one.