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pixelsand8 said:
Wonder if the Shanghai Tower would be interested in hiring these guys;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLDYtH1RH-U
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Holy sh*t! that's outrageous. the only thing I can compare it to is a video I saw once about the guys that climb those massive radio towers to change the light bulbs on top.

How did they possibly climb to the top AND get back down without getting caught, by the amount of sunlight it had to be sometime after 7am, and especially on a project that size, there is rarely an hour when someone isn't on site.
 
timsox6 said:
Yeah, that area of NYC is getting ready for (I think) five buildings, all real close by, all over 1000', with another two or three over 750'. Pretty crazy.
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It's going to get to the point where buildings that aren't at least 1,000 feet cannot really stand out.
 
bobthebuilder said:
Holy sh*t! that's outrageous. the only thing I can compare it to is a video I saw once about the guys that climb those massive radio towers to change the light bulbs on top.

How did they possibly climb to the top AND get back down without getting caught, by the amount of sunlight it had to be sometime after 7am, and especially on a project that size, there is rarely an hour when someone isn't on site.
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Lunar New Years. It's a week long break.
 
Didn't mean to hijack the Millennium Tower thread, I was responding to a crane inquiry and used the Shanghai Tower for context. I can see that when the Christian Science Center and Copley Place towers start rising during an overlapping time frame with the Millennium Tower, interest within this forum will skyrocket! Ha Ha
 
^ One year from now, pix from these angles are going to be epic. The tower will revolutionize the skyline.
 
Beeline -- WOW!!! and instant Classic

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Given the Krappy recent weather -- how/when did you find the holes in the weather to take those pix

very very envious -- haven't had a combination of good weather, camera with me, and time of day for light, to take any pix except for a few around Wentworth in the past few weeks
 
^^^ Thanks!!! 10AM to 2PM Thursday the 20th.
 
pixelsand8 said:
Wonder if the Shanghai Tower would be interested in hiring these guys;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLDYtH1RH-U
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SO I finally watched that PBS show on the Shanghai tower (BTW awesome show) Now, it's an awesome tower, in terms of height and the fact that they're doing the double curtain wall, what really caught me by surprise was the lack of basic PPE. There were guys working on the curtain wall in chuck taylors! And the guy that did the inspection on the welds for the brace of the crane, no fall protection that I could see. I couldn't believe it.
 
bobthebuilder said:
no waaaay. For their locations? Maybe. I for one can't wait to see 432 park (thats the same as 111 57th right?) That's the one that's supposed to be ultra skinny. I think it's going to look awesome.
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I misspoke. One57 is contextually good in both design and size. It's 432 Park and the newer one that are out-of-place, too tall and skinny. I would not want to live in either of those.
 
432 Park is about a mile from 157 west 57th. West 57th is turning into supertall land.
There is an Extel project starting that will rise 1500 feet and a block away is the JDS project rising 1300 feet. My favorite is the Robert Stern designed 220 Central Park South:

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For all the NYC supertall construction porn you want go to wired New York:
http://wirednewyork.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=27
 
timsox6 said:
Even if we've decided that all the windows are in line, do we know why the glazing/color changed between them?
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Timsox -- here's your answer -- go around the corner of Franklin & Washington and look at the top of the Burnham

The Burnham from Washington St. is a bit of a Chicago-ized Greek Temple -- There are columns in the form of pilasters and then there is an architrave created by changing the facade in a band near the top -- the rest of the Entablature is also there in a compressed form under the cornice -- only the Pediment has been replaced by a flat roof

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Handel and Co. decided to modernize further the same elements
The biggish mullions are sort of columns and the set back different glazing is the Entablature


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Looking for a good Washington St. view to illustrate the above point

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Note that this is Summer St., not the Washington St/ Facade -- although the details at the top are very similar

PS: when I was on a brief visit to the site today -- some workers responded to my question and said the concrete pumper would be on site within the month

SO the Crane is a veritable Haaaaaahbingah of Spring!!
 
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