PHILADELPHIA | THE LAUREL @ 1911 Walnut | 604 FT | 48 FLOORS - Page 136

TK2001 · #**2701** Posted **Mar 9, 2021, 10:17 PM**

This thing now pops out greatly from South Street Bridge, you can see the cladding as well

TK2001 · #**2702** Posted **Mar 10, 2021, 3:23 AM**

The Laurel Rittenhouse Square and Liberty Place from South Street Bridge by Philly SkyGuy, on Flickr

R5Ryder · #**2703** Posted **Mar 10, 2021, 4:14 PM**

Are the three horizontal lines on the building in front of Laurel balconies? They look awful. That whole building looks like it needs a serious cleaning.

Jayfar · #**2704** Posted **Mar 10, 2021, 5:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by R5Ryder

Are the three horizontal lines on the building in front of Laurel balconies? They look awful. That whole building looks like it needs a serious cleaning.

Yes, balconies. That's the tower of Wanamaker House and it looks perfectly cleasn to me: https://goo.gl/maps/D6H4JtKzhNrsx64P6

TK2001 · #**2705** Posted **Mar 10, 2021, 6:53 PM**

Philadelphia skyline from South Street Bridge by Philly SkyGuy, on Flickr

Philly Fan · #**2706** Posted **Mar 11, 2021, 2:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Philly Fan

Ahhhh, that explains it. I was wondering what they were up to with all the funky formwork and extra rebar. I thought maybe it was a load-transfer floor, and/or some kind of core expansion. But it's probably for the amenities, e.g., swimming pool, hot tub, etc.

FWIW, I now think that all the formwork and rebar being installed in the floor plate on the Walnut Street side of the core is simply load-transferring beams, transferring the load-bearing from the Walnut Street wall columns in the lower half of the tower to the columns to be constructed in the stepped-back Walnut Street wall for the upper half of the tower. For those fellow amateur engineers who also speculate about these things.

But if someone knows differently, please speak up.