Millennium Tower (Filene's) | 426 Washington Street | Downtown

[617]

Sorry, no steel to be seen. It is a 100% cast-in-place concrete tower.

Interesting...it seems every other development around here is a giant elevator shaft with steel around it...not sure I even know what CIP looks like rising.

Why does this development have CIP? Is it because of its size?

 

[KentXie]

All their US locations are in the most suburban of locations

All? I didn't know 5th Avenue is considered suburban.

 

[whighlander]

Interesting...it seems every other development around here is a giant elevator shaft with steel around it...not sure I even know what CIP looks like rising.

Why does this development have CIP? Is it because of its size?

617 -- Cast in Place is what you see when you are talking about the "elevator shaft"

Look around at most any tall building currently under construction in Boston Pier 4 in the Seaport / Innovation District:



later:

[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/beelinebos/10768424386/]


or at Northpoint in Cambridge core is complete:



What you see first rising out of the ground after the foundation work is complete is a tall concrete column with several large holes at each floor. This column is the structural core of the building where the elevator shafts, cables, pipes, emergency stairs, etc. are all located. This column is almost always constructed by casting concrete in place with appropriate steel reinforcement rods.

Typically, the rest of the building's structure is then composed of steel girders and columns of varying dimensions to completely enclose the perimeter of the building at each floor and to support the external skin. On top of the floor support girders are laid the reinforced concrete floor.

In earlier times -- Pru, Hancock era -- the entire structure was steel with only some concrete for the floors and sometimes for fire safety around the exit stairs -- note that the lack of concrete to protect the emergency egress was one of the major design flaws of the World Trade Towers in NYC

In a fully cast in place concrete structure -- the whole building is constructed similarly to the core and the floors. All the structure is there -- just no big steel columns and girders.

One of the first of these types of buildings in Boston was the "Admin Tower" of the Christian Science Church -- here the concrete is obvious as at the the end walls the concrete structure was left exposed without almost any glass

 

[617]

617 -- Cast in Place is what you see when you are talking about the "elevator shaft"

Look around at most any tall building currently under construction in Boston Pier 4 in the Seaport / Innovation District:



later:

[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/beelinebos/10768424386/]


or at Northpoint in Cambridge core is complete:



What you see first rising out of the ground after the foundation work is complete is a tall concrete column with several large holes at each floor. This column is the structural core of the building where the elevator shafts, cables, pipes, emergency stairs, etc. are all located. This column is almost always constructed by casting concrete in place with appropriate steel reinforcement rods.

Typically, the rest of the building's structure is then composed of steel girders and columns of varying dimensions to completely enclose the perimeter of the building at each floor and to support the external skin. On top of the floor support girders are laid the reinforced concrete floor.

In earlier times -- Pru, Hancock era -- the entire structure was steel with only some concrete for the floors and sometimes for fire safety around the exit stairs -- note that the lack of concrete to protect the emergency egress was one of the major design flaws of the World Trade Towers in NYC

In a fully cast in place concrete structure -- the whole building is constructed similarly to the core and the floors. All the structure is there -- just no big steel columns and girders.

One of the first of these types of buildings in Boston was the "Admin Tower" of the Christian Science Church -- here the concrete is obvious as at the the end walls the concrete structure was left exposed without almost any glass

Great explanation...looking forward to see this thing start rising.

 

[Jahvon09]

The old Filene's building has begun receiving its glass facade on the north side of the building.

Took a pic of it during the first snowstorm of the winter, but can't post attachments yet.

 

[joebos]

The old Filene's building has begun receiving its glass facade on the north side of the building.

Took a pic of it during the first snowstorm of the winter, but can't post attachments yet.

Didn't someone post images of the glass already?

 

[datadyne007]

The old Filene's building has begun receiving its glass facade on the north side of the building.

Took a pic of it during the first snowstorm of the winter, but can't post attachments yet.

Use photobucket or tinypic.com to upload photos. Wrap the direct image link with [IMG][/IMG] tags in your post.

Didn't someone post images of the glass already?

I and many others have. I'm guessing he just didn't flip back through the pages to see.

 

[HenryAlan]

Interesting...it seems every other development around here is a giant elevator shaft with steel around it...not sure I even know what CIP looks like rising.

Why does this development have CIP? Is it because of its size?

The Clarendon was built using this technique, if you go to that thread, starting around page 10 or so, you'll begin to see pictures of it rising. In that particular version, the concrete looked like the same sort of skeleton you'd see with steel.

 

[whighlander]

The Clarendon was built using this technique, if you go to that thread, starting around page 10 or so, you'll begin to see pictures of it rising. In that particular version, the concrete looked like the same sort of skeleton you'd see with steel.

Henry -- Good post -- this forum has not just a lot of very well informed posters [ones who post ?] it also is a tremendous repository of images and data provided by such

One of the best forums with which I've ever been involved

 

[kz1000ps]

Ah yes, I remember those massive wood panels blocking views of all the fun going on behind them. I wonder if this project will have some advanced system like that or if it'll be a bit more traditional and low-key like 315 on A was:

 

[JeffDowntown]

^ Sliding forms, as used on the Claredon, are pretty much the norm for cast-on-place concrete for taller buildings.

 

[Jahvon09]

Use photobucket or tinypic.com to upload photos. Wrap the direct image link with [IMG][/IMG] tags in your post.



I and many others have. I'm guessing he just didn't flip back through the pages to see.

Those freaking photo websites just don't work for me!

Doing it all to the letter, but they all just seem to be too problematic!

I'm too used to uploading pics directly from my computer.

 

[George_Apley]

use imgur.

 

[Mongo]

use imgur.

imgur for everything. I honestly don't know why anyone uses anything else

 

[BeeLine]

Filene's 1/12/14 (Curtain wall)


Filene's 1/12/14 (Curtain wall)


Filene's Tower 1/12/14 (Excavation continues)


Filene's 1/12/14 (Items being hoisted to the roof)


Filene's 1/12/14 (Beams with springs being hoisted to the roof)

 

[whighlander]

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Filene's Tower 1/12/14 (Excavation continues)

Beeline -- spectacular vantage point -- keep on shooting

 

[datadyne007]

Beeline -- spectacular vantage point -- keep on shooting

It's from the Garage at 33 Arch St.

 

[Mongo]

Datadyne, you and Beeline should take over the @fileneshole account on twitter.

 

[kz1000ps]

Today:

Check out the stink eye I got ----------vv

I got yelled at and had to move on...to a whole 15 feet over.

Then I took BeeLine's lead and went up...

And I probably would've taken a billion more pics but at that point I got escorted out of the garage by a friendly security guy. I guess my stealth mode wasn't working today.

So back on terra firma...

 

[datadyne007]

Amazing set of pix kz and great eye catching that new window that has been installed!

It is worth noting that the security at the 33 Arch Garage is very tight. They monitor the cameras like a hawk for people taking pictures up there. Glad you had a pleasant security experience.