Wait, is there any retail on the the Jackson or Van Buren sides of this building? I though I remember seeing renderings of street-level retail because the park is rises up and is not at street level. I may be thinking of another building

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In early designs there was a small retail space facing Clinton. This went away as the realities of the garage were worked out.

In the final design there is a BMO bank branch at the corner of Canal and Van Buren, a restaurant on the west side of the core facing the park and a retail space on the north side of the park facing south. The building has no frontage on Jackson with the bus station remaining, on Van Buren, the park will slope down to street level. On Clinton there will be a park access on each corner of the site, loading dock and parking entrance will be at the north end, and pedway entrance at the south end. In the center there will be stepped planters coming down to the sidewalk.

Are they realigning the Canal/Van Buren intersection as a result of this project? Seems like that single southbound lane on Canal could be removed and help simplify that intersection.

The southbound lane on Canal only existed as a garage exit from the old Amtrak garage to the 290 onramp. The southbound lane didn't even extend up to Jackson, it abruptly turned into a striped standing zone north of the garage driveway: https://goo.gl/maps/etNCnMQmpVtFXnjU8

The new building will have garage entrances on Clinton only, so no need for the southbound lane on Canal. The development team already vacated the triangular "slip lane" that clipped the corner of the site.

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Top of the climbing crane


Middle


The Boom


Structural steel.

Excellent shots, Harry. I am still blown away by witnessing the construction of TWO internal climbing cranes in one week. It wasn’t long ago when we went without seeing two in one decade!

Tower Crane almost complete

https://app.oxblue.com/open/clarkcon...erconstruction

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The base

Via OxBlue

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What's the red building behind the bank of america tower

I wanna say that's 130 N. Franklin (CNA) the was completed 2 years ago.

Unfortunately, nothing has been completed there. It's a vacant lot. The original design for the new building:https://www.tishmanspeyer.com/proper...north-franklin

It's a preservation tragedy- The Chicago Mercantile Exchange used to be here:

https://chicago.curbed.com/maps/hist...buildings-lost

glad we're getting downtown investment but that corner of the loop/river does not need any more blue glass, no matter how nice the finish is

^Totally agree. Give us a 9 Dekalb finish PLEASE :yes:

Yup. 130 NF. All the red structures in my model are for proposals (or recently started sites)

What do the green, grey, and purple represent?

I'm going to guess green is under construction, grey is a topped out building, and purple is proposed?

Close.. red is meant to be the only color for proposed. Purple is for "if i had just one wish"...LOL!

There are probably a few sites that I haven't updated recently (like WPS/Salesforce), so sorry if any colors are throwing folks off.

Some other kinda silly things, I used a model of "The Conservatory" for One Chicago, the "Waterview Tower (111 W Wacker)" as WPE. etc... so please don't take this too seriously.

From Thursday. Site was very busy. Steel making progress -
https://i.ibb.co/T4X352N/20200920-195423.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/YXXFzg6/20200920-194220.jpg

Some additional photos I took from yesterday 9/21 with the "V" installation in progress:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...2ca81539_b.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...4bf08874_b.jpg

^ That's some big steel work! (Pales in comparison to NYC's HY towers, but still..)

I also like how the V bracing continues around the entire structure. Didn't expect that on the East side. Very Nice :cheers:

Yes^. Im looking forward to the V bracing on 300 Mich. As well.

https://chicagoconstructionnews.com/...tower-project/

"Elevators alone cost $22.14 million for $900 million BMO Tower project"

This one is getting really interesting.

It looks like with the V bracing they are going to have to have to put the steel for a floorplate below an already partially constructed floorplate.

NOW THOSE ARE SOME V's

I made it back over there for a couple minutes Thursday afternoon. The sun wasn't working in my favor, but the steel erection is flying on this one:

September 24th:
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Heavy Metal Noise

Taken this morning: Steel Galore

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...585713d6_b.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...4edc5d6e_b.jpg

Would have been cool if they had somehow had part of the canopy for the bus terminal come out from the new building carrying over the V shaped support theme.

The bus terminal and the tower were not really coordinated. Still, the little comfort station/shed for bus drivers at the SE corner will be torn down to open better sight lines into BMO's plaza and create a landscaped area.

BMO in turn will build a new comfort station for the bus drivers a little further west next to the "pass thru", connected to some retail space. Hopefully the retail space includes a 7-11 or some kind of convenience store, that will be a nice amenity for bus riders waiting for a connection.

From this morning:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...b4a1af11_b.jpg

It's a shame the diamond structural expression doesn't go all the way up; it would have made a far more interesting design.

What are the round-headed fasterners on the gusset plates?
 

On the photos above there look to be regular bolts but also some fasteners with rounded heads. They can't be rivets...anybody know what they are? Are they just pins to hold the rest of the gusset in place while they tighten the bolts?

^They are tension control bolts. That is the most common way to connect steel in modern steel design.

If you are referring to this

I believe what we are seeing is some form the head side, and some from the tail side.

^^ I see what you're saying. They definitely look like rivets. I thought they might be bolts with a square neck, to fit in square holes, but that can't be, judging by the holes to the right. Hmm.

OGs. Original Gangsters:
https://www.goebelfasteners.com/wp-c...ba93cb42ed.jpg
via "globalfasteners.com"

Made my first visit to the site on Saturday. I have a lot to edit, but wanted to share this sceengrab.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkJNWyzX...name=4096x4096

This tower is going to have an unbelievable skyline impact.

Only in New York and Chicago do you get to see steel porn like this.

This, One Chicago and Salesforce are going to be epic when looking from the West.

Too early to tell, but I'm wont to agree. Though this isn't a HUGE tower by Chicago's standards, its location will make it really stick out.

I agree, Chicago and New York do skyscrapers well, BMO is just another example of this.

October 10th
 

A bunch o' #SteelPorn from my first visit this past weekend.

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Its a form of a TC (Tension Control) Bolt. They were used at 150 N.

^ How are they tightened, if there's no square neck?


^^By the way, great pics as always, Nick!

^ Looking at those pics further up, I’m sure there are some really awesome load transfers going on here that involve cool as hell engineering and math.

Nothing that I’ll fully understand, but my 9 year old son says he wants to building skyscrapers so I’m showing him these pics